TKR left knee replacement recovery

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@willow ##!, I have moved your latest post into your own thread where it properly belongs since it is about your recovery. Posts in other members' threads should be directly related to their recovery, their issues, and their questions.

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[willow ##!]

I don't use my cane anymore. But I certainly used it up until 3.5 months when I went anywhere. I felt confident enough last week at 4 months to leave it in the car and walk through the mall without it. As llong as I didn't carry any packages. So you're still too early to go out without the dancing partner.take it with you and be safe you don't want to fall'

 

[willow ##!]

Saw my surgeon for 4 month follow up. I wanted to address the raised lumps over the incision line. The incision line is well approximated and fading , but the lumps are bothersome and rub against my slacks causing irritation..it appears to be rope-like.He feels that it is not a suture granuloma as diagnosed by my family physician but an allergic reaction to the type of suture that as used. Otherwise ,I am supposedly well on my way to recovery. He did give me a script for cortizone ointment and advised me to take as vitamin E capsule ,prick the capsule and rub it into the incision.