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TKR CRPS
@Jamie Thanks so much for tagging JennyI & adding the hashtags to my post! I want to add that my SCS is a St. Jude Medical (now Abbott) Proclaim & is programmed to have one minute of pulsing then one minute off 24/7. Sometimes I can feel the fake pain signals during the one minute off time...- Widget1
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- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR CRPS
JennyI... I'm sorry that you've had to endure the nerve pain for so many years. :( This is my first time back on the forum in 4 yrs. I had a left TKR in May of 2015. The surgeon had to cut off more of my femur than normal because of extensive damage. He adjusted the hardware so that my...- Widget1
- Post #8
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
I've been MIA for a couple of months while trying to deal with this CRPS and the overwhelming fatigue each and every day. Will be going to the airport in a little while to travel to cold country to see my Mom for the holidays - I'm really not looking forward to traveling, even though I'll have...- Widget1
- Post #159
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Sarah Jane's Summer Journey and Fall Frolic
SarahJane, May everything be bright and wonderful for you in the next couple of weeks, and continuing into 2016 and far beyond! Let's hope that we will never have another year like 2015 has been :)- Widget1
- Post #425
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Pescara's Recovery Thread
Katie - Blessed sleep, Starbucks and treats and a fun visit with your little Madison - all really good steps forward! The weekend will be here soon, and you'll be in much better condition to cope with your continuing recovery at home. Please do not even think about cleaning!!! I'd be happy to...- Widget1
- Post #657
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
The lumbar block helped a tiny bit. However, PT today just about did me in. I'm calling my OS office in the morning and telling them that I won't be continuing with PT. He ordered another round of PT mainly so that I could have the cortisone/ultrasound treatment on my knee. The urgent care...- Widget1
- Post #150
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
@Thesoutherncook - the tech part of it just got easier, because tonight Amazon gave us the option to clone listings (after I already spent weeks individually entering 986 items). I'm moving all of my one-of-a-kind pieces from another site in which I had over 1,400 items active as of last week...- Widget1
- Post #148
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
Hmm.. I wrote this last night and thought I'd posted, but obviously I didn't. @SarahJane, I go back and see him on the 19th (this is yet another month flying by). I think he told me that if I had any relief he would do another block - which means another block the last week in October. I'll...- Widget1
- Post #145
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Pescara's Recovery Thread
Katie, I'm so glad that you're feeling better today and getting the care (and rest) that you need. Was your hubby able to bring Madison to see you today? In just a few days you'll be able to go back home and continue your recovery. At least you weren't out driving your new vehicle this...- Widget1
- Post #647
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Pescara's Recovery Thread
Katie, I hope that this evening is better than last night, and that you get rid of the bronchitis. You've certainly had more than your share of issues since your knee started getting better. Did you get a spirometer before your TKR? I was given one when I went for pre-op at the hospital, and...- Widget1
- Post #639
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
@Pescara - I noticed the last time I was at PT (it resumes Monday) that so many people were coughing. Take care of your wheezing, and I hope something will help you, because I can't imagine having to cough and not being able to because my back had been sliced open and tinkered with. Yikes...- Widget1
- Post #142
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Pescara's Recovery Thread
Katie, About 12 hours ago I was zipping down 75 and trying to send positive thoughts to you - I said out loud that Katie is around here somewhere in Bradenton, and may her day be full of peace and restful energy and nothing but good things. Unfortunately I was only chanting that for a minute...- Widget1
- Post #622
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Pescara's Recovery Thread
Oh Katie, I'm so glad that your knee is behaving! The back is a really tough one, but you've made it through two grueling back surgeries and so much pain for the last couple of weeks. I'm so glad that your staples were removed, and that your life is slowly improving. Today is week 19 for me...- Widget1
- Post #611
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
@SarahJane - The OS was okay, but I almost laughed when he told me the most important part is to keep doing exercises so I can keep my flexion and extension where they are supposed to be. Yes, he was part of the design team for the new knee I have and is truly an expert for the device itself...- Widget1
- Post #139
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
Didn't feel any relief today, actually more irritated after sitting in uncomfortable chair in the overcrowded OS office waiting room for close to three hours before I was seen. After a couple of hours they walked around with bottles of cold water and snack crackers for everyone there. The OS...- Widget1
- Post #137
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Slainte's Big Adventure
I hope your news tomorrow is that the bump is history. You're so brave to face two TKRs in such a short period of time - something I certainly would not have been capable of doing.- Widget1
- Post #313
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
Home from the procedure and just taking it easy, including icing my lower back for the next couple of days. There's already pain in my lower back, but I know that will go away. As any knee nerve pain relief I will hopefully achieve with this lumbar block won't start for 2-3 days, nothing has...- Widget1
- Post #134
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
The right knee still has swelling and hurts (but not as strongly as last week). I had to get on the floor to get some things a couple of days ago, and then had a big uh-oh flash. One of the things I had the home therapist show me in June was how to get up off the floor, and I was able to do it...- Widget1
- Post #132
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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TKR Widget1's recovery thread
SarahJane, Thank you! I hope I have some relief after the lumbar sympathetic block injection tomorrow as well! He told me there was a 50% chance it would work, and if it does work, no guarantee how long that relief will last. The cost is $2,993 for this treatment with a 50/50 success rate...- Widget1
- Post #131
- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
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PKR JennyLynne- On the other side!
@JennyLynne - last year I was fitted for the unloader brace the day before traveling. Early the next morning I stopped at the ortho center before going to the airport because my leg had a rash from everywhere the inside of the brace had touched. They gave me a sleeve to wear, and I went on my...- Widget1
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- Forum: Knee Surgery Recovery Area
