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    Pain Meds when you can't take the usual stuff

    Well it seems the fun just never ends for me. Last week I went to the walk-in clinic for a UTI. Just can't get sick on schedule. Got antibiotics and that weird orange pills for the particular thrill of being a woman with a UTI. The next day I am back in the clinic with worse symptoms and lower...
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    TKR Can't sleep at night after knee replacement

    Knees are just plain weird I think. Some people have little pain with replacement it seems. But from this forum it seems that most of us take a long time to get past needing pain relief. I am six months out now and still in enough pain that I need something. For other health reasons I can't take...
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    TKR Can't sleep at night after knee replacement

    Hi Kauai. Sleep is elusive for weeks. But I did find a help for those stabbing pains that happened whenever I laid down and tried to sleep. With adequate pain meds this might help you too. I have a long tube sock thing (no foot) that I was given to wear under a leg brace I tried a few years ago...
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    TKR Different Color legs

    Hi, hope you are feeling better. Don't worry about the back healing faster than your knee. My husband had back surgery a year before I had my LTKR. Ten hours on the table for his surgery. They straightened his spine, put in spacers and took out 3/8 inch down the back of two vertebrae to relieve...
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    Pain

    I too struggled with that pain along the outside of my leg. It was my ileo tibial band. Felt like spike driven into the side of my knee and a rod shoved in from my hip to my knee. They gave me some stretches and exercises at therapy. Decided cure was worse than the pain. I found that I could do...
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    Pain

    My sister came to stay with me when I had my knee replacement. At eight weeks I switched from oxycodone to tramadol simply because my doctor would let me drive with it. I was so grateful for my sister's support but quite honestly I started doing more than I should because I felt like eight weeks...
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    We're sick of surgeries

    You two have certainly been through the wringer. Not fun. I can't offer much better advice than to read the articles in the library and ask questions both on this forum and of your doctors. I have cirrhosis in my liver pretty severe but got through my knee replacement fine. Your husband might...
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    Pain Meds when you can't take the usual stuff

    I know from personal experience how it goes when you don't follow the advice on this forum. Ice, elevate, rest and gentle stretching working toward strengthening in due time and controlling pain. When I was 21 (about a hundred years ago) I had an extensive reconstruction done on my knee. I had a...
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    Pain Meds when you can't take the usual stuff

    I feel like a celebrity.It is nice to be able to contribute something useful when I have gotten so much from everyone else. As so often noted in this forum you have to listen to you body and your instincts. Except for that one that says oh no don' t move it will hurt. Even knowing moving would...
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    Pain Meds when you can't take the usual stuff

    I have responded some times but not about me for a long time. I am five months out from my LTKR. I also have non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis and have struggles with medications. I know this is a common struggle for many of us so I thought I would share some of what worked for me. Not advice so...
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    People have no idea!!

    My grandkids were all terribly disapointed that they can't see my new knee. They were expecting , and hoping, for something along the lines of a transfomer knee that could shoot lasers. The four year old is impressed that I don't put a bandaid on my big 'scratch'.And the thirteen year old sings...
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    Considering RTHR - not if, but when and who (Seattle area)

    Hi there. I also live in western washington. At least you won't have a lot of snow but the rain and chilly weather bothers my knee, even post relpacement. I don't have doctor suggestions other than finding one who does your kind of surgery a lot. I do however have a suggestion for shoes. I know...
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    TKR UPDATE: Still trying to recover! 10 weeks post op...

    On a serious note, I can't take NSAIDs either. Be aware that this will slow your recovery somewhat. That is per both my doctor and my physical therapist. You just have to embrace the whole ice and elevation thing. I am nearly five months out and still need to ice and elevate in the evenings...
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    TKR UPDATE: Still trying to recover! 10 weeks post op...

    Knowing that your reactions are all normal is reassuring but doesn't make it feel that much better really. Please follow all the good advice you have been given. It does work. I have one more observation. You need and deserve to feel depressed and frustrated. You got thrown into a chipper and...
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    TKR Grrrrrrrrr

    You poor thing. I hope your recovery soon eases for you. When you are ready for an exercise class I suggest chair yoga. I just started it and it really is a good exercise program for knees. The chair gives you support and you gently stretch and focus on relaxing and breathing. I am four months...
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    Need a new knee and need some new friends to chat to about it

    The best prep you can do is take the time to try doing things you normally do but with a walker and then with crutches and pretend that you have a stiff sore leg. Do you have space in your bathroom to maneuver? Can you get around furniture? Not a lot of effort but worth the exploration. I found...
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    Advice..history of recurrent patellar dislocations need TKR

    PS After I pass on I intend to get an appointment with someone and find out who ordered my body. I want a refund. We should have gotten notice at twelve that our knees had been recalled. Good luck and keep pushing for quality of life. The right doctor has to be out there for you.
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    Advice..history of recurrent patellar dislocations need TKR

    I have the same issue as you but never a name for it . In my teens my left knee would pop out and bend 90° to the left. It would stick like that till I got to the doctor and they popped it back and stuck me in a cast for six weeks. I spent most of junior high in a cast. They rebuilt my knee at...
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    Bilateral TKR Michael Reed's Recovery

    I had the same issue as most with my ROM moving in spurts and usually not as fast as I wanted but I had the opposite issue with extension. My knee was a bit hyper-extended before surgery so they made sure I made it to about two degrees shy of flat and then let my knee work out the rest. so i...
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    THR Gloom and doom (possibly)

    I have had a few bone scans. They inject some dye in your arm and if I remember right you wait a bit for it to move around enough to get to your bones. Then you lay there while they film where the dye goes. Easy peasy. I believe the scans show blood flow to the bones. The last one I had a couple...
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