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    TKR mrschooch in recovery

    UPDATE: I am now 4 weeks and some change out. I am walking with one crutch...as I work from home and sit on my butt for a living, I went back to work PT at week 2 1/2 and FT by week 3 1/2. In home PT forgot about me and never came, even though I called twice. I had my TRKR done 10 and 12...
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    TKR Help, weird loose feeling...

    Hello All, I do not post much here, but lurk quite a bit. Anyhow...a little about what is going on. July 2010 TKR right knee. Had this weird pain that turned out to be cement stuck in the back of my knee, July 2012 TKR revision. Fine until now, painful, swollen...admittedly I am doing too...
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    Revision TKR My dog "hip checked" me...

    I have 3 large babies, that are really gentle giants...Molly (English Mastiff), Bella (St. Bernard), and Lili (Great Dane). They have all been great around me. Sunday afternoon, Lili got herself wedged in between some boxes that are in my office right now. As I got up out of my office chair...
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    TKR 4 weeks post surgery?

    So tomorrow will be 4 weeks. I will be going back to work PT tomorrow. I have been very good this time around, babying, taking it easy, elevating...my question as I get more active... When I am on my feet walking around, sitting on edge of bed, or sitting at desk for extended periods of time...
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    TKR Made it to the other side!

    Surgery was Monday, 7/23 at 10am. Uneventful. Woke up to more pain than the last time. Room mate was a pain in the neck, not as bad as last one, but bad enough that I kept curtains closed the entire time. Tuesday i spent most of the day crying...pain, weepy, and no sleep from the room mate...
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    Tomorrow at 8:30 AM

    Tomorrow is the day...I leave at 8:30 AM and will be in surgery by 10:30 AM. I am a lot calmer this time around, lol! A few of you may recall my rant about not being able to find slippers 12 hours before surgery. I am just ready for this knee to be fixed and be on the mend! Anyone that has...
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    UGH...another surgery!

    I don't even know what to say right now. Had my RTKR done in July of 2010. Had problems with pain along the bone line. My other surgeon said they saw something on the X-ray. I went in in March of 2011 and had arthroscopic surgery with the original surgeon who did the replacement. He fixed...
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    Post Op Visit today

    Had the knee scope on 3/8, stitches out on 3/14, headed to WDW on 3/16, and post-op visit today. He told me that he removed a lot of scar tissue and bits of cement and some other stuff, I have since forgotten. He told me scars looked great...then asked about pain. I told him I was still having a...
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    Going back in today...

    I am leaving in a few minutes to have whatever has come loose or left behind fixed!:what: Booked myself a busy morning of teaching a class and then off to see two clients in an effort to keep busy before being at the hospital at 12:30. I am getting nervous now. I keep trying to think...only 8...
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    Going in to have TKR fixed in 13 days...

    Still not sure what the surgeon is seeing and going into fix. A piece of something?? I do know that I thought I would be in for surgery on 3/8 and back to work on 3/10. :pzld:Today I received my family leave papers from the doctor, I want to cover myself just in case. I opened them up to make...
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    Weight loss surgery and TKR question

    I have heard about others losing some weight on here and no real problems. I have a question about weight loss though. If someone lost a lot of wieght, 100-150 pounds--would that affect their knee replacement? My mom had her TKR 5 years ago and is scheduled for gastric bypass this summer and I...
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    Six month check up--not great

    I went to see OS for 6 month check up and while it is tight and feels great he has been watching something on the Xrays (wish he had told me that before). Apparently, that clunking popping catching thing I am experiencing is due to some bone fragments and a piece of cement. :th_sigh: He is...
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    Pain and clunking

    I think I was doing normal and status quo up until a few months ago...then I began to wonder. :pzld: I have had trouble going from sitting to standing and then walking without pain--in fact this has never happened. I find that once I stand if I lift my leg up and down like marching, I can walk...
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    21 weeks out and pain

    Hello my friends...work has been so hectic and busy I find myself doing more lurking than actually writing. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this. More and more lately I have been getting a lot of pain in the "joint line" of my new knee. It is very similar to some of the pain I used...
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    Question about pain meds

    Yes Jo, I have read the library. :blush: I am wondering though about a few things. I had my TRKR on 7/19 and went home on 7/21 and I recieved 80 Percocet. I had 5 left when I went back to the doctor's for my 2 week on 8/4 and received 60 more Percocet--lower doseage. On 8/30 I called the...
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    Question about stiffness

    Hello All...I read the thread about pain and when does it go away and felt better knowing pain down the shin and tibia can be normal. However what about stiffness?:pzld: I am big, well no I am fat, and I know the more weight I have on my body the worse it is for my knee. When I get up from...
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    PT vent

    I go to PT last week and ask them to please ice me when I leave on Wednesday's from now on. Tell them all I am doing during the week and weekend and explain that I have noticed by Wednesday I am ready to keel over in pain and am having trouble working a whole day. She tells me it is because of...
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    Is this normal?

    My new knee has felt hot to the touch since I first felt it. Some days it is hotter than others. Today after being on it quite a bit, I came home to ice and elevate, my daughter--who wants to be a Dr.--put her hand over my knee and got all kinds of excited when she felt how hot it was compared...
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    I think I may be having a setback

    Sigh...I am coming here for a reality check...I think I am overdoing it, but want to make sure I am not babying my knee and just having meself a good old pity party:hehe:! The week after I had the surgery done I began working at home. The director of my agency was good enough to let me help...
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    Went to 1st OP PT today...

    and I am not a PT flunk out/failure. PT lady was nice and kind. She did not make me feel bad. She did say the two weeks OS had me stay in an immobilizer and the in home PT was too aggressive and did some damage. She felt better after we had worked together some. I can't even remember the numbers...

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