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    Thank you all I am so very fortunate to have found you - |I ofen look back to my darkest days - and there you all were - i cannot imagine getting through this without you all, I remember waking in the morning and I I wanted to do was read all about your lives and you ups and downs with this...
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    Hi everyone - haven't posted for a while. Just updating. Nearly 6 months now. Everything fine, still doese not feel like an ordinary knee but I guess it won't. Still some pain but walking and driving so much easier. Only problem is getting out of car because of the bend but that will come. I...
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    Two steps forward - only one back - pain is bad sometimes nearly 18 weeks cant cope sometimes with this feeling that I have a big steel brace around my leg and my foot still getting hot if down for too long -
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    Thank you liam2015 and polkadot for replies, I think thee are duifferent colds we have a very damp wet cold here a dry cold wouldnt be so bad I guess - well thats what hubby says. Tried sneaking out and walking Milo last night got aay with it but paid for it with "he could have excaped you and...
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    Back from Spain it was beautiful knee was okay but had tummy bug second day laid up for 36 hrs then back went I had taken my tens machine so used until it broke weather was lovely 25 deg which my knee liked very much since I got home I have had a cold and the knee certainly feels the cold was...
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    Been using a tens machine last couple of days and am more confident about our trip, it doesn't seem to work, my o oh worry is climbing up airplane steps as its our local airport we have to walk to plane it's only a 2 hr flight but should I wear stockings still worried it's too early to fly read...
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    Havent posted for awhile but thought I would update - I am sleeping better getting at least 6 hrs sleep which is about the same as before tkr, also felt a diference 12 wseeks post tkr had a gret day, but the following day felt doiwn as pain was back wsorse than before still icing but managing to...
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    TKR Pain on walking

    So sorry about you cat I can't imagine how you must have felt on top of all the pain of the op. I am 10 weeks post op and although I do not need AIDS for walking still get pain but because of this forum I came to understand that it is completely natural and different for each and every one of...
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    TKR Milosnanna's Recovery Thread<

    @Pheebs52 - thank you - you are an amazing person xxx
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    TKR Milosnanna's Recovery Thread<

    Hard to tell what's too much and what's too little - pain is the same whatever I do?
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    TKR Milosnanna's Recovery Thread<

    Just thought I would add, if it was not for this site I would be in a panic now, with the pain and swelling still very much there, I was under the impression from the start it would be 6 weeks to recovery, but then I found this site which helped me through my darkest days, all the wonderful...
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    TKR Milosnanna's Recovery Thread<

    @Pheebs52 I can actually see me going to Boston sometime now, I feel a progression every day, still painful but I took a sleeping pill last night (an old one of my late mums) and even though it was 3 yrs old in desperation for some sleep I took it it was a nitrazepan and WOW I slept from 11.30...
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    @liam2015 I should have done that - sent him to training boarding school but he Is very very needy don't like the thought of someone else with him he is do adorable I know the problem lies with me oh well ... Took my sister out in the car I am definitely visiting the Odic tonight.
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    Walked the dog to the end of the street - only about 200 yards but he is a puller couldn't do any more hubby took over I walked downhill a bit but got a bit sore so came back home, every little helps. I can now see improvements every day. Drove down a quiet road to my sisters this morning too.
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    TKR Milosnanna's Recovery Thread<

    Sleep stil sporadic but I guess I just be getting quite a bit - trying not to nap in the day. I find that I now feel well yes maybe I was right to have this done, instead of I wish I could turn the clock back and not have this done. I hate the tight feeli like my leg is in a brace anyone know...
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