Revision TKR Revision Completed...Ready to get back to my life...<

[KneeAware]

Call your surgeons office, he is back from vacation?

I agree with Chris (Pumpkln).

I have an appointment Monday morning with my OS but I am hoping this will have disappeared long before then!

 

[Pumpkin]

Glad to hear you have an appointment so soon. I thought you had to wait until December, good to be wrong.

 

[KneeAware]

I thought you had to wait until December, good to be wrong.

LOL, yeah sometimes it is!

This is my 6 week check-up....so the knee will get the works!

 

[KneeAware]

@Celle Does the weirdness with tkr recovery never end?

Each time I bend me knee it's like something is passing over the prosthesis like an elastic band, it's very uncomfortable and hurts more the longer I am on my walking.

 

[Celle]

It's probably a tendon moving over the prosthesis.
I remember that I used to experience that with my first knee replacement - it was the lower part of my ilio-tibial band. As your soft tissues adjust, it should happen less frequently, and then stop.

If it's starting to hurt, cut back the walking a bit.

 

[KneeAware]

@Celle That's the thing though, I am not doing much walking because of the injury to the MCL

 

[Celle]

OK. I guess everything in your knee is a bit upset. Time passing, rest, ice and elevation and appropriate medicaton could all help.

 

[KneeAware]

@Celle I guess it just enjoys driving me crazy with all this weirdness!

 

[Celle]

Maybe.
It's just reminding you that The Knee is the boss.

 

[PolarBear60]

Definitely. The Knee Shall Be Obeyed. Hang in there. You will get through this.


Jean

LTKR (Stryker Triathlon): 21 April 2015
Right Knee Arthroscopy: 25 July 2006
Left Knee Arthroscopy: 10 February 2005

 

[KneeAware]

Celle & PolarBear60, Then it's safe to say, I don't care for the boss very much!

Jean, hanging in there is getting tougher and tougher it's been that kind of month!

 

[Celle]

You've had such a lot to deal with! We understand. ((((((((((JustmeT)))))))))) Hugs for you.

 

[KneeAware]

@Celle It's actually one month today! Thank you for understanding....!

 

[PolarBear60]

I know your knee has, in many ways, been the least of your concerns this month. You have been amazing (I'm sure it doesn't feel that way, though). Hugs to you.


Jean

LTKR (Stryker Triathlon): 21 April 2015
Right Knee Arthroscopy: 25 July 2006
Left Knee Arthroscopy: 10 February 2005

 

[KneeAware]

@PolarBear60 Thank you! It's been very hard focusing on my knee for this recovery like it really needed but I really am doing the best I can for it.

It doesn't help that I just got up and twisted it, sigh*, I just do not make it easy!

 

[KneeAware]

It sure would be nice to have a day without aching or pain in or around "the knee"! Today, along with the all the rest the tibia decided it needed a voice of its own. Holy ache in the tibia Batman!!! I am not overdoing it, if anything I an underdoing it. All I know is the weirdness with this revision keeps piling up!!!

 

[Pumpkin]

JustmeT,
It is probably the post in your tibia, mine is 175mm. You had a revision of a partial you may or may not have a post.
I also think it may be the cold weather adding to your recent surgery recovery.

 

[KneeAware]

@Pumpkln I will find out on Monday what the set up is of the, however I seem to recall the he did say there is a post. We haven't had any what you would call cold weather yet, just a day or two there last week. I am just whining because I am so done with it...!

 

[Pumpkin]

Here is a little wine for you.
Recovery is never fast enough, the then all of a sudden you are there.

 

[Slainte]

I know about the aching in the tibia. And the ankles. You are a week behind me, and I have made progress this last week. Vacuumed for the first time today. I do lead an exciting life. Hope the next week brings healing improvements for you!