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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    @mendogal sorry you have residual issues but at least they’re minor! @sistersinhim, how are you? I found an exercise where you lie on your side and straight leg raise but I can’t do it at all no matter how hard I try. Will look again as there has to be something easier .
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Hello @mendogal , I hope you’re well! Yes, he was very pleased with my knee movement, mumbling about 130 degrees but Somehow I didn’t think it was the knee causing the limp as time went on. I am cycling for half an hour a day with no pain…I have absolutely zero knee pain now… that should cheer...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    It’s been a while since I posted here. Hope everyone is well! It’s been 7 months since my second tkr and I wanted to tell people the reason I am still limping badly despite having no knee pain at all now. I saw my surgeon yesterday and my knees and hips are perfect but I have gluteal...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Thanks @EalingGran and @sistersinhim . I agree my dicey foot doesn’t help. There’s not much I can do about it. Even though my foot is uncomfortable and full of pins, screws and plates at least I can walk and haven’t ended up in a wheelchair as one foot surgeon predicted. I do try to walk heel...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Hi. 15 weeks out and really no improvement at all from last time I wrote. Still limping badly, still need the walker when walking for long distances and although I can manage any toilet seat during the day now, at night as we enter midwinter I am once again having difficulty. The cold certainly...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    I have been icing today and trying to rest. I probably shouldn’t have kept going after the whack on the knee but after being cooped up for so long it was such fun to be exercising again (and our team won!) People offered to pick up the balls from the ground for me but I refused as I really...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    On Thursday my husband was getting the walker out of the car and it fell. The handle whacked into my new knee, just below it and really winded me. I continued on with the day and spent a lovely few hours playing bocce with our probus group. Really enjoyed the game on a lovely autumn day but have...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Thanks @Layla. To sum up: I am nowhere near as good as I was with my first tkr, but will get there eventually. Progress has been very slow this time around and although I am doing almost everything I need to do (driving, shopping, housework etc) I am still limping and have some pain at 3 months...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Had a very nice holiday at the beach, great autumn weather. Did plenty of walking with the walker. Nothing has changed at 3 months out. Still limping. I’m not using the walker inside any more and am trying very hard not to limp by doing the heel-toe thing. It’s fine when you really concentrate...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Whip kicks? Really?
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Oops sorry @mendogal it was @Layla who was interested in the rhus tox, not you. Layla, did you look it up?
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    @Peterfox I haven’t been in the pool so I don’t know what it feels like but don’t overdo things. Easy to do in water. Enjoy it! @EalingGran , you’re good, being able to kneel! I can’t and I don’t want to try; too scared! You’re lucky your grandson is a toddler. I miss that stage and my...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    Don’t worry about me, @EalingGran , I haven’t suffered from my housework yesterday. Today: pouring rain and cold, stayed indoors and the only exercise I did was 5 minutes on the pedals. Unlike you, I don’t like long walks because of my deformed feet. Mine aren’t made for walking, according to my...
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    TKR Kiwicurls TKR 27 Feb 2024

    @EalingGran, it’s not much, really. I felt a real sense of achievement doing the beds for the first time since tkr and dusting isn’t very strenuous. I only mopped the kitchen and bathroom. Husband hung the washing out and brought it in, all I did was put it on and later, fold and put it all...
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    TKR Terrified

    I had tapentadol. No nausea, no vomiting, no constipation. An excellent pain med. I can’t tolerate other opioids.
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