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Revision TKR Complicated RTKR revision 2015, considering LTKR
Randi - just stumbled upon your post. My R TKR was 9/15 - my night pain is so worrying. Shouldn't I be further along? Is something not healing? Twice a week P/T too aggressive, or, hard to believe, not enough? My biggest psychological block - well, I didn't have these issues 2 yrs ago with my L...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
5 wk update. Slow, but steady recovery. P/T 2 X wk. Cane, icing, Tramodol twice thru night. Energy picking up, constipation finally controlled. Since my 5 wk old knee will be my "good" knee (2 yr old LTKR only minimally successful), I've been impatient with my progress. It'll come. I've...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Wings, my surgery twin, so glad you're so mobile. Especially considering another knee is awaiting you on a shelf somewhere. I feel My recovery, every, motion, balance, scar is exactly where I am - 2 wks behind what might be "normal". Will probably be able to trade walker for cane by the...- Matching knees
- Post #76
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
I continue moving slowing toward recovery. For the week and-a-half I was prone with my bottom obsession (I refuse to say poop one more time), I cancelled P/T, 2 wk OS's check up and didn't exercise. I continue to scoot around on walker, but wonder, since I'm behind, if I should graduate to cane...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
A new woman today!!!!! Life is good, excepting a little thing like recovering from TKR, which I can now concentrate on. All because of a bowel movement....that's right, such a horrible week-and-half obstruction & pain, I will never take for granted this vital function again. Sounds ridiculous...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Enemas!!??!? There goes my typical 2-3 hrs of sleep tonight. But, you're probably right, I've tried everything else.- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
2 wks after RTKR and I'm obsessed. Obsessed with poop. All thoughts of P/T, what to eat, how to find a comfortable position, and how to manage the pain of bulging, bleeding hemrrhoids. Clearly, not normal in recovery. Not only had I experienced a previous TKR, I prepared for constipation as...- Matching knees
- Post #64
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
You "every 4 hrs on the dot" people, are you also "out of focus people"? Words on a page have to be read 3 times to verify they really do string together as a sentence. Ok, I've got time now to stare at a page 20 min, but not sure any texts I'm sending are coherent. Two things at once like...- Matching knees
- Post #61
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Thanks, Bridget, for your concern. After a day and a half of feeling badly, and feeling sorry for myself "Nobody called, nobody cares," I woke feeling recovery might just be possible. You're right, I'm waking with the drugs. 4 hrs on the dot! I've had considerable P/T for my 2yr old LTKR, and...- Matching knees
- Post #57
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
1st P/T today. It was gentle, smooth, no fancy moves. You 're waiting for the other shoe to drop, right? Well, I'm flattened to my mattress, huge pain radiating throughout, and that while on Hydrocodone. Ohhhhhhh, this is gonna be a long recovery. This too shall pass this too shall pass this...- Matching knees
- Post #55
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
4:15 AM, staring at iPad screen, day's about to start early. Not pain-related, just awake. It's Day 5 post-RTKR, more good hours than bad. I've had time to read a few recovery articles here & checked the Internet a bit there. On impulse, searched "knee replacement" in Pinterest, large numbers of...- Matching knees
- Post #52
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Last night, first home from the hospital, was very bad: fever, dizzy, pain & incontinence. Yes, admitting here though denying later, my bladder failed me. By noon today fever ceased, reduced pain, several loads of pajama bottoms laundered, and vommitting stopped. Ate a small meal, my 1st since...- Matching knees
- Post #48
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Ahhhhhhhh doubled up on Vicodin. World so much pleasanter on drugs. This from someone who maybe takes 4 Advil in a year. Filled with gratitude for proactive nurses.- Matching knees
- Post #45
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Some hours of sleep since last posting. Pain making me think about taking it home with me later today. Not going to like it! This, too, will pass, though. I've come far and still have "miles to go before I sleep". Right on, Robert Frost. Hope all Bonesmarties doing well & handling pain better...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Ouch ouchie miserable boo boo big hurt owey big hurt catastrophic ahhhhh ....... Did I miss anything? Late in Day 2, impressive (apparently only to me) pain. What good is all that staff kissing up I did since arrival, dripping please and thank yous.....not one measley Vicodin for your kindest...- Matching knees
- Post #39
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Good morning from Room 109 - sleepless, painless, fitful night. Anti-clot foot pumps click & feel much like someone in the dark, grabbing your foot hard, every 3 minutes! Warned pain/swelling will hit today. 1st knee replacement, Day 2 1/2, without warning hit like a jet plane. Only thing that...- Matching knees
- Post #36
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Greetings from Room 109. Survived surgery, family visit, hall walk, chatted up former co-worker in Room 106 (hip replacement, same surgeon who does 4 replacements every Tues, population of 40,000. Amazes me, is everyone rusting?) Co-worker (now a county judge, so I'll kiss up more than usual -...- Matching knees
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Oh so close now.....less than 20 hrs until my knee scars match. Emotions zapping around this morning like I imagine an exotic drug trip. Part of feeling down is caused by my reunion with my walker. Decided I'd best practice around the house before my anticipated discharge in 3 days. It all came...- Matching knees
- Post #28
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TKR Matching Knees RecoveryThread
Okay, gulp, less than 2 days! Have already added this forum to my self-prescribed recovery plan: comedy videos, pain pills, fiber bars, family slaves, I mean helpers. Wish I'd known about this supportive forum after 1st TKR. I often felt very alone and had to talk myself off the ledge on...- Matching knees
- Post #26
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