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  1. loneshark64

    TKR Loneshark64’s recovery

    It's been just over 3 months now. Knee is still knocking when I walk but otherwise I am doing everything. This knee is now my good knee. Some stiffness but I am doing all the stairs, walking as much as I want, and going fishing. Fishing is allowed here in Maine despite the lockdown if you do it...
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    TKR Loneshark64’s recovery

    You will! It can be done. Last week I thought I might never. Same experience as me.
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    TKR Loneshark64’s recovery

    Yes it is and that has been my ultimate yardstick. I need to be able to get down there pretty much daily by May. So getting there and back was good. The fear of not being able to get back to doing what I want to do has lingered. But time heals and we get better.
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    TKR Loneshark64’s recovery

    9 weeks since TKR. I am getting around fine, going on walks, and the original pain is gone. I still get fluid from overuse. I am done with PT and have good range of motion, but less when it swells a bit. It gets achy from overuse. I was doing elliptical machine and exercise bike at home but...
  5. loneshark64

    Knee Infection* Revision

    My dr is closed for at least 3 weeks probably longer. The silver lining is you have a chance to do it on your own for a bit. I did better after stopping PT but still do not have the balance of activity/recovery quite right. I have been doing great but this week is a setback and I have to lighten...
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    TKR My TKR 12/16/19: Easier Than I Thought - THEN AGAIN!

    Thanks for your updates, they are encouraging to me. I’m going through a cycle of feeling like I’m doing great and then having a setback and then getting frustrated. I have the same mechanical clunking that you have. It’s been 8 1/2 weeks and I became concerned that I have a spacer problem or...
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    Knee Infection* My L T K R Diary 2020

    You are getting good advice on here. I am 8 weeks out and doing well. I would just reinforce the feedback you have received that (1) it won’t bend if there is a lot of fluid/swelling in there (2) activity, while necessary, can cause swelling, (3) ice reduces swelling, (4) days off reduces...
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    TKR Feel so alone

    Do you put it directly on you skin or use a cloth in between? Directly on the skin may be too cold, but the medical experts on here know more.
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    TKR Feel so alone

    It sounds like you have had a very normal recovery experience so far. The first few weeks are difficult and depressing. I was reading your posts thinking “wow I think I wrote all those same words!” I am 8 weeks out now and I am doing pretty much whatever I want. The knee still stiffens up after...
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    Bilateral TKR Bikinglynn's Recovery Thread

    Always cold. The icing makes me colder. I wear more layers than I ever did before.
  11. loneshark64

    Knee Infection* Revision

    It is still early. Ice it around the clock.
  12. loneshark64

    TKR Good morning! I’m new here.

    I am at 5 weeks too, and have a lot of the same things. I do not have the horrible therapist. Working full time is impressive, I would have a hard time with that, I am doing part time from home. I have the same worries about the “sickening” movement in my knee, side to side and clunking. But...
  13. loneshark64

    Knee Infection* Revision

    You are right where a lot of us have been. You are not to two weeks yet. Things will improve!!!!
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    Bilateral PKR A hiker's new knees

    I was the same but it was good to get home and the pain was manageable as long as I set a schedule and took the meds according to that and did not skip any. After 2 days in I skipped a dose because I am such a tough guy and that was a mistake. I took the oxy for 8 days and then tapered off. I...
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    MUA Done in Time for the Carolina Basketball Game!

    Yay! Have been rooting for you all along and I am glad you have turned the corner. During your struggles you have posted more positive messages for other people than just about anybody. You deserved a good turn. If you want snow we have a bunch here in Maine and you can have it!
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    TKR February 6 2020 RTKR

    Glad you are feeling better. Opioids are tough On the body no matter how you come off them. My first two weeks they were hard on my body and I cried a lot too, and not because of pain. my mantra after surgery was “2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months” (hoping I hat after two months I would be basically up...
  17. loneshark64

    Hinged Joint TKR 3 revisions in 2 years

    Wow you have really been through it, Steve Austin. Sorry about the flare up and the anxiety. Hope you can get some answers ASAP
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    TKR Had Mako TKR

    I have been reading along. You are getting great advice from other posters. I just really wish you the best. I do hope you take a complete sabbatical from activity and PT for a while. I know that when I overdo it I go backward, and then it takes time doing nothing to regroup. If I had done all...
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    TKR Loneshark64’s recovery

    You are right. They do try to do what they can when they know something is off. Good to have them around. Not fully reformed but he is turning into a very good boy. He came from an Amish farm in upstate NY and I have to say he did not learn anything about pacifism from being Amish. He likes to...
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    TKR Arizona2003's TKR Feb. 17, 2020 Recovery Thread

    That sounds like I felt. Lost ROM as soon as I got home once the swelling kicked in. It gets better

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