Hey Bonnie !, Just checking in on you. Its been alittle while. Im sorry to hear about Molly. Its sad to lose a beloved pet. I had no idea your flexion was decreasing. Did I read that you might get a MRI. ???? Could it be internal swelling ?? You are a fighter , you will get to the bottom of this . You have gone too far to cave in . You sound down , but I think its very understandable, considering you had a revision. Ill be following your progress abit more closely to help , lift you up and support you . You have alot of people on bonesmart that wish you the best . I think yoga is great and someday I may even try it. For flexibility. Should be quite a sight . 6ft3 and 250 lbs. And tight as a drum . But my bone on bone pain is gone , however im early in my recovery , maybe ill try January 1 of next year.
What level is your pain ? When is it most painful ? Are you taking meds. I see you have a great setup at your house. Looks like a gym ! I have faith you will turn this situation around and we will be pulling for you all the way through. Congratulations on the pool. I cant wait for our community pool to open up . Im hoping may 1st. Well Bonnie , got to stay positive , even though you may not feel like being positive . The blues are tough. We will pray that things work out for you. Best wishes Iceman.
@icep707 Ahh thank you so much Iceman for checking up on me. I have been around here for so long I am pretty much old news to everyone with so many new Bonesmarties coming onboard.
Molly died the morning of my first TRK just before leaving for the hospital. That with the TKR and my Dad dying 4 months before my first surgery it was a horrible time in my life. In less than a years time after my TKR my husband was very near death as well, hospitalized for two months in ICU. He is here with me now though and got me though my revision. Yes, I am a fighter or I never would have gotten though all of that.
My flexion is not necessarily decreasing, it is just not going anywhere. At 4 weeks I reached 115 degrees for the first time, and now today at 19 weeks I am still at 115 degrees albeit if I am having a good day. I'd say I have 110 degrees functional and anything beyond that is hard work pushing to 115, or trying to pedal a bike, which still I cannot just hop on and do. First I have to heat my leg, stretch it and work up to being able to make a rotation. I have trouble bending my leg to get it under the sheets when I go to sleep at night, I CANNOT go down stairs. When I saw my OS at 3 months post op, they said you are doing great, come back in 8 years! Yes, he said 8 years.
At 3 1/2 months I emailed and asked if I could have some pain pills for Physical Therapy, and they let me have them although they usually don't prescribe them that far out. I was hoping that this would do the trick, but they don't. I might as well just never take one again because it hurts anyway. I've not mentioned having an MRI, must have been someone else since I've not talked to my OS about my non-gaining of ROM since I asked for pain pills. Maybe I should email them??? But everyone tells me to be patient. How long do I have to be patient before I've been patient so long and lost my window of opportunity for any kind of intervention? When I do bend my knee to a point, I get a SHARP pain in the side of my calf, this has been going on for months. My Physical Therapist wonders if it has something to do with the long stem down my tibia and the bone maybe not being completely healed yet. So each visit, we warm up my knee/leg do soft tissue work, sometimes acupuncture, wall slides until I have enough ROM to pedal the bike. I pedal for 10 minutes but not without raising my hip or pointing the foot, I can't do it normally yet. Then do some strengthening exercises. Next time I return I am never at a starting point where I left off. If I gain 5 degrees in Physical Therapy the next visit I still start at 110. No gains that are being kept. I am quite sure that my visit today will be the same.
My first TKR had scar tissue growing in every section of my knee and wrapping around tendons. That had to be removed surgically and truly I don't think that anyone can blame me for worrying about that again. Everyone tells me I must be doing too much. I tell you, I am not. Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing more, maybe its my fault...My first TKR I achieved 135 ROM at 6.5 months, I am 5 weeks away from that and have 110 degrees. Yes it was a different knee, but my therapy is the same with the same person. I know the routine, I've not been overdoing it and he stresses that we don't over do and push to hard. I've been to Yoga only 4 times. The first 3 times were good, although I could not do everything because of the lack of ROM, the 4th time I went I did a lot of sitting or standing doing nothing because the routine that day involved much more ROM and it was impossible for me to do. I've not been back since.
Am I discouraged? Yes I am. I'd be lying if I said I was not, but at the same time I am a very positive person and I tell myself that I will achieve more ROM, but I just don't know 'how' or 'when' at this point.
Good luck to my sister today who is running her 6th Boston Marathon. She is 5 years older than me and obviously still has good knees!
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