LDB63
new member
Hi All,
My desperation has caused me to turn to you. LOL my Doctor offers no answers! So at 9 weeks I was the poster child of a successful knee replacement ... I'm walking trail, feeling great! then I went on a short walk only 8 blocks or so and went right to PT after (I had forgotten all about it! would not have intentionally done both!) My physical therapy was an aggressive one but I did great! Until... 6 hours later. I had my very first MASSIVE swell event. All the sudden while making dinner I feel my knee begin to swell... ok... 30 minutes later I can't move it ...for the rest of the night! I iced and finally went to bed to thankfully wake up being able to walk.
Since that first swell event I have been plagued by these random swellings - The worst one had me hysterical about a week ago... and two days ago soon after waking up... that event lasted all day till 4!!! I had to use my walker again... haven't pulled that out since week 3!
I was scheduled to go back to work today... I lasted half a day... just sitting at the desk it began it's swelling... had my cane with me... and was able to get to the car. It's crazy!
I've been home for 3 hours now. I have my ice machine going... leg elevated and still significantly swollen. But not as bad a some previous swell events where I couldn't move the limb at all!
all this since week 9! No longer feeling like a rock star!
anyone else with this weird extreme form of swelling???
I Ice
take Meloxicam 15 mg
Tylenol Arthritis 8 hr
Tumeric
and stopped eating carbs!!!
My desperation has caused me to turn to you. LOL my Doctor offers no answers! So at 9 weeks I was the poster child of a successful knee replacement ... I'm walking trail, feeling great! then I went on a short walk only 8 blocks or so and went right to PT after (I had forgotten all about it! would not have intentionally done both!) My physical therapy was an aggressive one but I did great! Until... 6 hours later. I had my very first MASSIVE swell event. All the sudden while making dinner I feel my knee begin to swell... ok... 30 minutes later I can't move it ...for the rest of the night! I iced and finally went to bed to thankfully wake up being able to walk.
Since that first swell event I have been plagued by these random swellings - The worst one had me hysterical about a week ago... and two days ago soon after waking up... that event lasted all day till 4!!! I had to use my walker again... haven't pulled that out since week 3!
I was scheduled to go back to work today... I lasted half a day... just sitting at the desk it began it's swelling... had my cane with me... and was able to get to the car. It's crazy!
I've been home for 3 hours now. I have my ice machine going... leg elevated and still significantly swollen. But not as bad a some previous swell events where I couldn't move the limb at all!
all this since week 9! No longer feeling like a rock star!
anyone else with this weird extreme form of swelling???
I Ice
take Meloxicam 15 mg
Tylenol Arthritis 8 hr
Tumeric
and stopped eating carbs!!!
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