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Bilateral TKR JustJeff 4/9/14

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Exercising? No. . Just keeping my knees from killing me staying in one position for so long. Think survival. :)

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Here's a video that my friend took of our kayak trip yesterday. I'm the guy in the red/yellow kayak with the large brimmed hat and blue life vest.


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My knees must have been relaxed when my dog and I went for a walk. They were happily clicking away at first and then got quiet later.

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Ok, do you mean our knees "click" when they are loose? My knee just tightened right up this afternoon and I swear it was while a weather system was moving through the area!
I have noticed the clicking more lately...
When was your surgery? I forgot...I need to get out and walk my dog and just haven't



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The clicking is the metal on flexion moving away from the plastic and then snapping back. At least that's what my OS told me. So I figured that when the muscles were relaxed that would happen more frequently. When I had been walking for a while, and the muscles were more taut, I figured that would refine the movements of the knee parts. Of course on this I may be way off base. Just a working theory.

Oh.. my surgery was 4/9, a week later than yours.

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Hi @JustJeff -

Mine is more of a clunking sound, rather than a clicking. I notice it when I'm sitting and doing assisted knee bends (one foot gently pushing the other one backwards). Same thing or different? Thanks for your OS' info!
 
Is probably the same thing. Click, clunk. . Let's dance! :)

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This morning, after I had woken up but before I left the bed, I decided to test the waters again to get rid of the wedge and sleep non-elevated so my legs get used to laying straight. Btw, I have very little if any swelling now.
So, I laid flat on my back. Weird.
Then I tried on my side [preferred position] and different pains came out to meet me. Pain from the outside knee. The incision burn, even a nerve pain down my calf.
I don't want to force poison but at the same time it would be nice to learn how to sleep normally.
The answer in everybody's mind right now go back to elevating until I can do it without the pain. Yeah I know. Still. ...
(Pardon me, taking both sides)


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Sounds just like my nite, back on the wedge. Will try again later, much later.


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Hi @JustJeff - only wanted to say how much I enjoyed your kayak video. It looked blissful. How did you get in the kayak (sorry if I have missed that bit, but I am fascinated) - did you use your arms to support you on the paddle and then in straight legged? Great achievement and must have felt so good.
BTW - with regard to noisy knees, I am at 4 months and still clunk from time to time!
As for comfortable sleeping, as you were 'blessed' with a bilateral (big respect here, I am in awe of all bilats) I guess you have no easy side to lay on? Have you tried sleeping on your front? I still do it from time to time and its nice just to get the knee straight but supported by the mattress and not 'hanging' as it seems to feel when you are the right way round. Interesting, I only have PT for massage behind the knee now - when I lay on my front for that, the PT always puts a pillow just under my feet, for comfort. Just a thought.

Take care - you are doing so well.
 
@dogwheels I'm glad you liked the video. It was a perfect day and the fact that I was out there at all doubled my enjoyment!
I was instructed how to enter/exit the kayak by an outdoor fitter instructor (from L.L. Bean.)
I straddle the narrow back of the boat, keeping my feet on the bottom until I'm over (past) the setback, carefully put one leg and sit, then put the other leg in with the paddle used as support.
Getting out is the opposite, using my upper body strength to lift my butt from the seat to the back deck, again straddling the boat, stand and pull it forward so it's now in front of me.
Sleeping on my front twists my head too much. I have been moderately successful sleeping on my side with both feet elevated on the edge though. It would probably work on my front of there was a hole in my bed a la massage table. :)

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Sometimes I feel really stupid not seeing what is right in front of me.
I solved the knee incision burning thing, even on the numb outer parts of my knees. It turns out although the skin nerves are currently out of play outside of the incisions, the sub dermal nerves were being excited by (duh) MY LEG HAIR!
Solution: Do something I've never done before: shave my legs! Well, the knees anyway. No hair, no pain! Of course until it heals, I'm going to have to do this for a while.

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@JustJeff I like that way of looking at this. We are all stuck with each other a looong time! :tada: I had to chuckle about rolling the pants up. Me too! It looks pretty goofy , but I do not mind. It is amazing how sensitive the scar is. Each day is different too.
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@JustJeff also, my OS said that numbness on the outside can last up to 18 mo.s. ( keep losing partial posts very frustrating) I am glad you have solved the burning part!
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Ha ha @hopefaith and @JustJeff - the numbness evidently differs from person to person. Have you yet experienced the joy of an itch in the numb bit?? Oh boy it is so annoying - itching like crazy but you get no relief from scratching, cos you cannot feel it.
Wow @JustJeff - that was great getting into the kayak, I see how you managed it - but a huge achievement in itself. A long while ago I used to paddle about in an old tub (oops canoe) while my husband did the clever white water stuff in a canoe that was so narrow and streamlined that when I tried, I was unable to keep the **** thing upright. I used to put the paddle on the bank like a bridge to the back of the tub 'cockpit', shuffle across and go in straightlegged. I would add that was long before I had the accident that 'did it' for my knee.
Too bad about your neck when sleeping on your front - but understandable. BTW - I hate massage couches with those cut out holes ..... as I have said on here ad infinitum - everyone is different!
 
Josephine just posted in the library that her numbness is finally gone after 5 years. I was happy to read that healing continues to occur even when we thing we are all done.
Patience and hope is so important, healing can occur, just not at our desired pace.
 
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