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    2015 October Feisties - Are you having knee surgery in October?

    nomore ski and crappy knees it sounds like we will all be bionic by this time next week. My surgery is on Monday. Don't know how quicklly I will be back on here. How many days are they telling you folks you will be in the hospital?
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    2015 October Feisties - Are you having knee surgery in October?

    shellyglaze.19543/ I am 1 day ahead of you, and am on my second replacement as well. It has been 8 years since my first was done. Good luck on Tuesday! I will be cheering you on with my new knee! I know they say that no 2 kknees are alike, but I have to belief that going in with...
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    Annie11's Pre-Op Thread

    my left TKR wasx done 8 years ago and I had arterial damage to that leg dued to the original injury and so they worried about the OS was worried about the tourniquet and the circulation returning to my leg after due to the repair they had done years earlier, but the tourniquet was basically a...
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    Novocaine femoral pump

    I guess you are right it probably is the femoral nerve that gets the novocaine pump. They say that you are basically pain free and hardly need any narcotics while you have the n0ovocain pump in. I am just looking for patient exp[erience versus what the doc says.
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    2015 October Feisties - Are you having knee surgery in October?

    thanks!
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    Novocaine femoral pump

    Hi - does anyone here have experience using the pain pump inserted into the femoral artery in recovery that has Novocaine in it? My surgeon plans to use this Mondya and this is new since my last tkr, and I am hoping it significantly reduces the amount of narcotics I will have to take. Any...
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    2015 October Feisties - Are you having knee surgery in October?

    So today is my second to last day at work before surgery Monday. Totally stressing out about getting everything done here and ready to be working from home the following couple weeks. Seems like it was wait, wait, wait and now it's here. I called the hospital today and discussed the spinal...
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    Advice on BTKR anesthesia and pain management

    I was back in the office (mostly a sitting job) two weeks after my first TKR 8 years ago, and am planning on working from home the second and third weeka fter this TKR and being back in the office at least part time the fourth week. a wheelchair sounds like a good idea.
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    Not in October surgery thread

    I thought I registered in the October Feistys, but I don't see myself on the list - I am scheduled in less than a week. Ot 5th. I am not nervous, just busy getting house and life ready to be out of commission for a couple weeks. Although due to failed previous spinal blocks am worried...
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    October 5

    I will be having my right knee replaced on October 5th. This will be my second knee replacement - my first was done in 2007 on my left knee. That knee had been severly injured in 1993 and was a very complicated replacement due to all the damage - It was completely successful, and I am still...
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