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    TKR Review after 1 year

    The biggest thing I have learned from all of this is that virtually every individual case is unique. The material on here is very helpful and the empathy really re-assuring. Nevertheless it will be difficult to find someone exactly like you! The examples above are I imagine supposed to give me...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    So I'm back again! So how did it all pan out. Well after one year pretty good. Not much pain ever from joint but a few bad days sometimes from collateral damage (Literally collateral lateral ligament!) Bend got slightly better and I am happy with the 95 degrees I can get most of the time...
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    TKR Walking Post Op

    I think you have a good attitude and you will soon be travelling the world again. Always look forward, I try to but can be a bit of a pessimist at times! Good luck with the second one :)
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    TKR Walking Post Op

    Hi Pam, as you had yours on the same day as me I was wondering how you are? Mine is ok from some aspects and not so great from others. So the good first:- Walking well and quite long distances with no pain in the knee itself. Legs nice and straight and the chronic bowing and bent legs gone. I am...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    6 weeks further on. More or less given up on it now. No matter what i do the "new" one is stuck at 95 deg. My overall opinion is that I am better off than I was before the replacements but a fair bit of disappointment. The pain is much less, especially when walking. I'm not bandy any more and...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    It must be nice to see progress however slow. Both of mine seem to have taken the path - little pain, average swelling 90 deg ROM after day 1 and never changes more than a few degrees thereafter!
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    I am a bit obsessed with ROM it is true and you can tell from above. But I keep getting encouraging comments but my last TKR (2 years ago) was successful except for that. It was about 80 deg before and I got it to 90. I didn't push it because people kept telling me it would come. Well it hasn't...
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    TKR I Feel Like the Tin Man these Days

    My second knee has behaved a bit differently. My overall conclusion is that every knee is different, every hospital is different (in every Country), every surgeon has a different skill level (and it requires a lot) and lots of after care suggestions are different. I wouldn't go as far as to say...
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    TKR I Feel Like the Tin Man these Days

    You can't beat the classics:- "The Count of Monte Cristo" Very long but totally gripping. I thought it would be heavy going (free on Kindle) but it was a wonderful uplifting altruistic story. Of course it depends on what genre you like. Ken Follet "Pillars of the Earth" if you like historical...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    Well I am now at three months in my recovery. It has gone more or less as I thought it would/should. (I had another 2 years ago so have some sort of bench mark) After the first three weeks of higher than before pain levels the pain more or less subsided into various dull aches and twinges...
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    MUA 9 weeks post-op right TKR

    I am 9 weeks in . I think you are doing too much as well. I came here from another forum that advocates much more exercise early. A lot of it didn't make sense to me so I guess I am in between. I do some exercises everyday but nothing painful. I am probably sitting at the computer and walking a...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    I suspect I will never really get to the bottom of why I have difficulty bending the knees. I've read lots of accounts which include lots of horror stories. I enjoyed reading Josephine's account as well. Taking everything into account it would appear that on balance I have suffered less pain and...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    Thanks to everyone and the useful replies so far which I agree with. I am basing this to some extent on my first knee which was a very gradual degradation from having cartilages removed at age 30. SO a long osteoarthritic de-generation of almost 40 years ending in bone spurs, extreme bandiness...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    Indeed. Only certain individuals on another well known forum although generally empathy is quite good there as well! Also, perhaps it is no coincidence with my last TKR after I had to spend 8 days in hospital at 10 weeks post op with a nasty gall bladder issue, it felt looser and a bit more...
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    TKR Review after 1 year

    Had my second TKR on May 8th and I think recovery going reasonably well. On here and elsewhere I get conflicting comments regarding ROM. There seem to be some almost "boasting" about their achievements and telling others they will get there and implying they may not be doing the exercises. My...
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