Jennifer
new member
Hello everyone, I have been reading all posts for the past few weeks, and haven't seen any other post with my problems. I was supposed to have both knees done sep 9 hopefully only partial replacements, but instead I ended up with total knee replacement in my left knee, and because the drill bit broke in my bone, was under for 3 hours and only one knee done.
My problem has been non stop pain and surgeon cutting back my meds. Was on tramadol 50mg 2 every 6 hours and codeine 30mg 2 every 6hr, but he cut that back at 3 weeks to just tramadol 1 every 6 hrs. I luckily had some codeine left and have that down to 1 every 6hr as well as the tramadol, but still pain. I do have full extension but no bend or very little.
Being completely honest, I just can't take any more pain, so needless to say the exercises are very half hearted, but still have so much swelling. I ice all the time, can walk without crutches, can put weight on new knee etc. Just can't get the bend going. I find I have lost any sense of humor, seem down a lot, and quite cranky. I am sleeping 3 hoursat a time at night, wake up take pain pill and go back to sleep for another 3 hrs.
I'm wondering how much the drill breaking in my bone, is affecting the pain. I normally have a very high pain tolerance, but not this time.
After reading your posts, I'm wondering if being undermedicated is my problem. Any help at all will be much appreciated at this point. Thank goodness I found this site!
My problem has been non stop pain and surgeon cutting back my meds. Was on tramadol 50mg 2 every 6 hours and codeine 30mg 2 every 6hr, but he cut that back at 3 weeks to just tramadol 1 every 6 hrs. I luckily had some codeine left and have that down to 1 every 6hr as well as the tramadol, but still pain. I do have full extension but no bend or very little.
Being completely honest, I just can't take any more pain, so needless to say the exercises are very half hearted, but still have so much swelling. I ice all the time, can walk without crutches, can put weight on new knee etc. Just can't get the bend going. I find I have lost any sense of humor, seem down a lot, and quite cranky. I am sleeping 3 hoursat a time at night, wake up take pain pill and go back to sleep for another 3 hrs.
I'm wondering how much the drill breaking in my bone, is affecting the pain. I normally have a very high pain tolerance, but not this time.
After reading your posts, I'm wondering if being undermedicated is my problem. Any help at all will be much appreciated at this point. Thank goodness I found this site!