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    TKR Just over a week out

    Do not worry about you range of motion, your leg is really swollen, when the swelling goes down your range will go up. Rest, ice, n elevate. I could only sleep on my back for the longest time.
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Havent been on here for a while...back working the first 2 weeks back i was really tired. Today was my last day in PT.....a lot of progress made in ROM today measured 115 degress, PT pushed it back to 117 :) about 2 weeks ago i learned how to walk up n down stairs without stopping on each step...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Ice cleats, what a great ideal!!!! Right now I take baby steps when going out and there is always small mounds of snow I have to step on which makes me sink and wobble and scares the hell out of me. Not to mention when I have to go to a store or gas station the floors are always so wet. Will go...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    I have been taken it easy....not doing too much. I am continuing with the laser treatments and do think they have helped a lot. ROM is now 108 and I am not in as much pain but I still have pain and some shooting pain in my leg when I'm resting. When I do have to go outside I'm so scared because...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Oh i have so slowed down on everything since my trip to the ER.... Had my first laser treatment onTuesday....didntfeel much relief in pain, but did notice i could go up the syairs leading with my surgical leg, although that leg is veryvwry weak, had to do it slow n hold on to both rails. Today...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Oops chiropractor
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    So i went to see a chirocause my back has been all stiff and acky, long story stort he told me about super pulsed laser therapy, which his office offers, will tell me more about it tomorrow. He says it can reduce scar tissue. I cannot receive that treatment till im discarged from pt, which will...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    TY Netballknees.....your words r always so kind....alot of my pain is below my knee on the on the side of my surgical knee, its a costant pain, even some slight movement can cause pain. I also have sharp pain on the inside of my lnee, and of course the sharp pain on the back of my knee, it feels...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    OS didnt recommend manipulation. I have to return to work on the 20th. When OS asked me was i better than before tge surgery i said no, he said what was the surgery for..so i wouldnt be in pain n could walk without pain, he says to remove the arthritis, which was done. Says bending at...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Well tomorrow i go see my OS, my PT thinks hemay rrecommend the manipulation as im bending under 100 degrees, she says i have an extreamly lot of scate tissue built up. She says thats why my knee feels so stiff n tight. A couple of days ago the doctors office called me to tell me to only take...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    I promise I am done with over doing it as I sit in this wheelchair in the ER waiting for the results of all my test. So today I was couponing, (1 store and I was in an electric scooter). Well my 4th hour of shopping, I was in extreme pain, like the day after surgery. I couldn't even lift my leg...
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Norhing like waking up in the wee hours in the morning from shooting sharp pains in your knee. :gaah: :groan:
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    TKR Starting to wish I'd never had a knee replacement

    Messured 104 degrees today, but im not impressed. My knee has been hurting everyday, there is still a lack of bend, im suppose to go back to work in 4 weeks, it hurts when i sit for more than an hour, it hurts when i walk a lil ways, i just want my knee to feel normal again n do what i could do...
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    TKR Second TKR Done, but still not very patient

    U will get there, u will when its time. Remember we r under the control of our knee. The knee rules us, and not us ruling our knee. Please please do not over dp it at the gym, i now your excited to go, but please take it easy on yourself and dont do too much. its sooo nice your x is helping...
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    TKR STILL not doing good....

    Omg...i am sry what they did to you....it really is upsetting to know that they will not manage your pain. A tnr is not a joke, its a painful recovery, and everyone has different pain thresholds. I feel so bad for you. Please stay strong, things will get better, they will. I heard a saying that...
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