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    TKR Questions 8 months from surgery

    Hi there, It takes a year to be back to your normal self. I am at about 8 months and I socialize and am tired at end of the day. The tightness may be your quads, keep doing rehab for that. Also maybe your rehab place can do a massage in that area or accupressure, both helped me. Use the...
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    TKR Feeling sorry for myself and frustrated. LTKR ten days ago.

    I had to go out to do my pt one day after my surgery. I think it is better to go out as there is more therapy tools for you at their offices. No one really tells you it takes a full year to feel better it really does.
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    TKR Feeling sorry for myself and frustrated. LTKR ten days ago.

    Oh my, two weeks is so soon. If you knee is warm it is still healing. I used my walker for at least a month and I am strong. Dont push yourself and do any damage. Your hubby will have to be more patient and eat simply. I started making simple meals within a few weeks with my walker by my side if...
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    TKR Feeling sorry for myself and frustrated. LTKR ten days ago.

    Hello, You are being hard on yourself, you are only a few weeks out. It will take weeks and weeks of rehab to get your range of motion and it will come and go. If your current PT is not helpful or giving you good excercises then switch PT...I switched an am much better off. I had my surgery in...
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    TKR 7.5 months out of total knee replacement

    7 1/2 months out of total knee replacement. There is a spot along the outside of my knee that is raised a bit and very tender. Its hard to describe but when i walk I almost feel like a vein is getting stuck or something like that. I never had vein problems or them showing as much as I do now...
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    TKR LTKR nearly 6 weeks out- Questions and concerns about PT

    Hello, you are being super hard on yourself. My advice would be to get another physical therapist soon. I am at six months and did lose a little progress when I just got so tired and let it rest. Quad muscles have a lot to do with pain and healing. Keep working on quads. I massage where my scar...
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    TKR 7.5 months out of total knee replacement

    I am 62 and at end of six months. My quad is super tight so I am doing another round of physical therapy and it’s helping. I was on meds for about 5-6 weeks but you have to stop soon. Put your mind to it and do rehab and sleep and be patient. I also use a cbd oil for pain and it helps. I still...
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    TKR I’m cold!

    I am 62 and at end of six months. My quad is super tight so I am doing another round of physical therapy and it’s helping. I was on meds for about 5-6 weeks but you have to stop soon. Put your mind to it and do rehab and sleep and be patient. I also use a cbd oil for pain and it helps. I still...
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    TKR 7.5 months out of total knee replacement

    Hello, I am six months. Still pain and life not back to normsl. I just started rehab again, my quad muscle super tight so hence the pain. Please the cortisone shots eat all and any bone and just makes thing worse. I use ache away oil with cbd made by a herbalist here in Maine. That does help. It...
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    TKR Accuracy of 3-part bone scan and CT Spect 2.5 years post TKA?

    Hello, I am six months. Still pain and life not back to normsl. I just started rehab again, my quad muscle super tight so hence the pain. Please the cortisone shots eat all and any bone and just makes thing worse. I use ache away oil with cbd made by a herbalist here in Maine. That does help. It...
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    TKR 7.5 months out of total knee replacement

    Hello everyone…I at 4.5 months post surgery. I was doing well but now I feel like I have gone back 2 months. Leg still swollen, exhausted, hurts when I walk. Hurts when sit or lay down. Feels so heavy. At my post op Dr said everything looked good and suddenly I went backwards. I had two long car...
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