My lab results were fine, and the chap said that I have high expectations! I find that insulting, it is not a high expectation to be able to walk briskly or stand in a queue for half an hour, go up and down steps and stairs and get up from seated without nasty pain, and daily swelling. I have given myself three months off everything bar ADLs, both knees are slightly better, but not significantly. Have resumed gym and walking up hills, only slightly worse in the evening than when I did nothing.
So it’s going to be a trip to London to a revision specialist to try to find out what’s wrong.
Got two diving liveaboard holidays coming up soon, both rescheduled from the covid period, and paid for. I should be overjoyed to have the privilege of going, but I’m actually terrified of the pain that I know I will be in for, and swimming with one leg after the first ten minutes of every day.
So in conclusion, after 18 months, I have one tight knee that hurts with anything other than walking on flat ground, and one that is downright painful and swells daily. I don’t think that my implants are loose, they have felt stable right from the start. I don’t think that they are infected, no sign of that. I don’t think that I have a scar tissue problem, as my ROM is 100% on a good day before I get up the morning. I believe that my kneecaps are a problem, they were not resurfaced, and there may be a tracking problem with the bad one. As for the soft tissue, no idea!