Thank you everyone for your input - I’m 4½ weeks into recovery at this point - and only 1½ weeks to go on the TEDs and I’m determined they won’t get me to cry uncle.
I have been removing them a bit more for sleeping - not every night but before I never took them off except for showers as my husband really struggled getting them on. The numbness down the shin has subsided for the most part. I’m really off the cane, I just carry it just in case.
My outside walks are getting longer 6000-8000 steps per day
I do wake with stiff right knee though I sleep with ice on hip/butt and knee/shin almost all night
@Josephine maybe you can help. I’m still doing stairs one at a time. Yesterday asked at P/T when I can start doing them by alternating legs and he said we could try it. I did one stair, down with the bad then down with the good and there was a stabbing knife like pain in the knee of my operated leg. I practically buckled. It wasn’t when the operated leg was weight bearing but when I put the good leg on the next step. That was the end of that!
Tried then going up the one step and the same thing happened but not quite as bad. Went up with the good and when I then went to next step with the bad, sharp pain in knee almost brought me down
Any ideas? Is it normal P/T fellow thought it a vestige of poor pre-surgical gait, and indeed I had a severe limp but this was different. Or so it seemed
Still sleeping on my back with the abduction pillow and it’s causing a bit of lower back pain. Something I’ve never had before. But hoping when I get back to side sleeping it’ll resolve.
Still on 325mg aspirin per day for blood thinning. That’s prescribed till my 3rd month anniversary of the surger.
I’m so happy, though knock wood, no more hip pain and able to WALK!!!!!
Hope that knee issue is temporary