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So glad that you slept as well @becticu!! I am not expecting to do as well during the week, but I will take what I can get when I can get it! This whole Spence is the boss thing has really gone to his head! :groan: Need to find a way to trick him into still thinking he's in charge without letting him go crazy! :bignono: I need him to understand that if he settles down now and takes it easy for a bit longer that there will be lots of fun adventures down the road which we can both enjoy pain free!:yes: Since I will have his undivided attention tomorrow on commute to work, after stopping for gas first, perhaps we shall have a nice little chat about this!
 
Hmmm, sounds like Spence needs a good kick in the keister! Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine is just the girl to do it; hah! It also sounds like you may have grown some raviolis; ugh! If so, just know that mine took about a week to disappear, with or without marinara.
 
Actually @Pheebs52, my ravioli has been there since before surgery. I asked OS about draining it, but he said there would be no point as the fluid would just return. It is often soft and squishy, but has been much harder the past few days, and slightly larger. Gee, can't imagine why that could possibly be!:scratch: :censored: Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine is more than welcome to give a good kick in the keister to Spence! :thumb: He's going to drive me to drink one of these days! :hairpulling:
 
I am going to see about scheduling a massage this week to try to help with the IT band stuff (because I haven't convinced Spence to switch to a string quartet or orchestra instead of the band yet), as well as to help with some of the tightness, stiffness, and aching. Thigh has been very achy past few days. Maybe some pampering will get Spence to chillax! :fingersx:
 
Good idea on booking a massage. The IT Band can really be a bear! UGH!

Wow, that's a long time to have the ravioli! What exactly does your OS say it's from? Mine was definitely small, popped adhesions, but as I said, they flattened out and stopped hurting after a week. Yours sounds like something different?
 
@Pheebs52, OS has said that it is just an area of swelling where fluid is building up. At least that's what it was, so guessing it is the same
 
At this point I think I have more the equivalent of a well stuffed pierogi than a ravioli!!:rotfl:
 
Oh nooo, that's BIG then! I had a Baker's Cyst well before TKR, actually from November through May, and for a few weeks post-TKR, so have an idea what yours must be like. I really didn't think that thing would diminish in size, but it did; phew! In my case, TKR was the *answer* but that doesn't seem to be so for yours?
 
I am hoping that time is the answer for mine. Not a Baker's cyst as it is on the front lateral side of knee. Pretty sure it is just an area of swelling. That is what OS said prior to tkr, so I am guessing that is an area where fluid likes to gather for me. Like a gathering on the front porch, just not as much fun! :snork: It is normally smaller and squishier, but got slightly larger and more firm by end of last week and into the weekend. My guess is that Spence doesn't like his activity level, and was crying about it :bawl: hence the increase in fluid. I have had an increase in pain today as well, but I am not overly concerned. I will give it some Tylenol, ice, elevation, and as much rest as I can given the fact that I have to go to work. If not better in a month, will contact OS.:)
 
Well, for as much as I am trying not to think about the lateral lump o' swelling, and the medial side pain I have been having, I am thinking too much, which is increasing my anxiety about both issues. I want to stay with the rational side of my brain that says it's normal and that everything will be fine in a few days (for pain) and weeks (for swelling), but that little voice of worry keeps creeping in. Perhaps I was right, @kmak81230, and the light at the end of my tunnel is a train barreling down the tracks!:yikes: Maybe a slight overreaction, but still. This is such new territory in some ways, while in other ways it seems like more of the old same old same old that I have dealt with over the past years. I don't do so well with uncertainty. But I will try not to panic and just wait. Ice on, leg up, Tylenol in. I guess that's the best I can do for now. :sad:
 
@Fire wolf, deep breaths. You ARE doing everything you can and the rest is, unfortunately, out of your control. I read another post here today from someone who had a similar lump, so you are not alone! If your OS was really concerned, I'm sure he'd have done something about it, so it's good that he was rather dismissive about it. I suspect Spence is not thrilled with his return to work, but of course, I could be wrong. Regardless, just try to chill, inwardly and externally.
 
Thanks, @Pheebs52. I know that when I get into my own head things can get, well, let's just say not good. It is a crazy and strange place in there. I do ok when I have things to occupy my mind, but when quiet settles in, look out! I know Spence is not happy about the whole work thing. Typical youngin wants to goof off and play, so he does those random things that have a price to pay, for me anyway. We had a nice chat on way to and from work today, and I think that I convinced him to cool it at least for a week. If course, I did threaten him with Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, so hopefully that works. Was going to stop at some outlet shops on the way home from where I was today, but decided against it. I figured Spence didn't need the additional aimless walking. Not sure what else I can do to help him out this week. Lots of crunchy sounds in knee as well, but the crunchies don't hurt. Some clicking as well. Maybe things are just settling in more? :shrug: Very strange. :sigh:
 
Is the lateral side on the upper/lateral part of the knee? I get swelling there and my OS said there isn't a muscle or anything there to cover/hold it in, so fluid pops out there. That pain in the medial lower side will get better. It was probably one of the last bone healing pain to leave me.
 
@jaschembra, swelling is on lower lateral side, pain is on upper medial side and feels like soft tissue pain, but I am certainly not a dr. Does make sense about there being nothing to contain swelling though.
 
Spence's overall swelling has decreased, so maybe that explains the crunchy sound and feeling. I believe that I read something about that in another thread and that it should go away on it's own. Perhaps this is why OS doesn't want me in again until Spence's birthday...so I don't drive him crazy! :snork: Fortunately he and PA are great about getting back to me if I email questions or concerns, but I will hold off on that yet too. Time. Patience. Pffft.:headbang:
 
Ha...I think it was my thread just the other day. I have a new crunchy and Josephine said it will go away and to "not fret". :) glad your swelling has gotten better
 
Hey, Bob. I suggest you think twice about telling Bionic Spence how to act when you, yourself, haven't been so good the past few days! You naughty little knee. How about if you both shape up?:beg:
 
I think the lateral swelling is just one of the knee's bursae. That's where my knee swelled the worst, but it did eventually go down.
 
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