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    TKR Still some knee pain after 17 months TKR

    Hi @Annelie! Sounds like, overall, you are doing very well. Before my surgeries, I couldn't even think about doing four flights of stairs--that would have been like climbing Mt. Everest. And thank you for coming back from time to time to give updates--it's helpful for the rest of us to get...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Thanks, @Jewlz1 and @Coker. It's good to get sensible advice. If it was my left knee, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned. Luckily, I don't have to rush with the driving.
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Thank you @BBCG! Since I read your thread avidly, I knew that you had begun driving pretty quickly in your recovery. When I think about driving (as I sit here in my recliner), it is the ability to lift my leg/knee and to extend and push my foot that seems crucial. I can do both. But I love...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Here is a question for the seasoned veterans on this forum--is a ROM of 90 on my right knee enough to drive? Has anyone here driven with a ROM of 90? I will be at six weeks next Friday and that's when I started driving after my first TKR, though my ROM was about 115 and it was my non-driving...
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    TKR Reader's Left TKR Spacer Exchange

    I would talk to the PT first. I had a rough patch with my PT and talking things out made the whole difference. If the PT refuses to listen, I would switch PTs.
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    TKR Reader's Left TKR Spacer Exchange

    Welcome @Reader525! You certainly came to the right place. That PT session sounds like torture, not healing. You shouldn't have to live in fear of physio...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Day 35 - Clarity. I had my first PT visit since starting on Cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxant) a couple of days ago. I'm not sure it has made a lot of difference, but I'll only be on it for five days. During the PT session I had a moment of enlightenment (and so did my therapist). When I try...
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    TKR I thought it was going swimmingly....

    Hello @rowsee. I am so happy I found a group of swimmers here. Here was my experience. I belong to a Masters swim club, though we haven't swum together since March 2020. After my first TKR, I started swimming at six weeks and was very pleased that I hadn't lost all of my fitness. I took it...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Thanks @Susie-Q. My first TKR (last September) went so well that I had forgotten what a long slog it is. I seem much more impatient this time around. Part of what makes it seem interminable is that I am not seeing any progress on my ROM. The first ten days seemed weirdly easy. There is that...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Day 31. Went for in-person PT on Tuesday. Very interesting development--my PT thinks I am suffering from muscle spasms and that when I try to bend my knee, my quads and hamstrings all fire in the wrong direction and prevent my knee from bending. (The Praetorian Guard!) We did a few bends with...
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    Bilateral TKR BTKR Recovery - on the way to my new life!

    Thanks, @London Trainer. It's so wonderful when someone comes back after a long time and gives a positive update. After my first TKR (around the time of your surgery), I, like so many people, just disappeared after six weeks when I had gotten on with my life and was no longer thinking about my...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Thanks, Atkinson8. My wonky hamstring really keeps me in line. It's like the Praetorian guard of my knee--if I overdo anything, it sounds the first alarm.
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    TKR NEW KNEE!

    Hello Reece! I'm four days ahead of you and experiencing exactly the same thing. I can't find a comfortable position for my knee. This is my second rodeo so I should know this by now. I had two nights without any sleep and then finally last night, I was so exhausted that I slept well. This is...
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    TKR Second knee replacement June 11, 2021

    Day 30 -- The long slog of recovery continues. I went for in-person PT on Friday--I was dreading it. I had rehabbed my first TKR with online physio and loved the convenience (and not having anyone touch my knee). But I have to say that it was a terrific, very positive experience. I have a...
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    TKR Almost two years with tkr

    Hello Newkneemelodee! I am a fellow Ontarian so I know what you mean about the isolation of the lockdowns. I'm so excited that we are finally moving to Stage 3 opening on Friday. Part of my recovery with my first knee was going food shopping. It was a good way to build up my strength in...
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