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@Celle,

I was trying to get back to my own thread but I could not find it. Please advise. Thank you!
 
2helpme said:
Hey Everyone,
I certainly hope someone will tell me these pins and needles I feel around my new knee with the tingling in my feet (sometimes)is all a part of the healing process! It is the third day now and it is becoming really annoying.
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Haven't felt the pins and needles in quite a while. My main sensations are the stretchy tight band feeling still and after a busy and long day, my knee feels blocky. I suppose it swells internally so it feels really mechanical. I feel like robocop walking. Lol. There are moments although brief that the knee feels normal.
 
Celle said:
It may be a bit too soon for golf. That's because golfing imposes twisting movements on your knees when you swing - and you new knee isn't ready for that yet.
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OS visit tomorrow. Stay tuned. I'm hoping he green lights me for golf.
 
2helpme said:
@ferddword
Funny, we had our surgery on the same date and we are even visiting our Dr's on the same dates. This will be my second visit since my surgery.

I know what you mean about wanting to wait until this knee feels like it belongs to you before you get the other one done. At the rate I am going I am going to have to wait st least a year. My left was done this time and it has weakened my right one a good it. I want to have it done but honey, it will have to wait a while.

I was also advised to stop using my walker when I started to going to my outside therapy. I now realize that was a huge mistake.

The cortisone shots helped me for about six to nine weeks. You might want to consider trying the hyaluronic gel shots people are getting made from the combs of roosters. They say it lasts a lot longer and is better if you are already bone on bone.

Check back in after your visit Wed. And let me know how it went. I will try to do the same. My Dr doesn't talk much and seems to always be in a hurray. I have printed out all the questions I need him to answer this time. If he can't answer them in person perhaps he can in an email. LOL

Good luck to you on Wed!
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I do think sometimes I should've got both done. It would have been rough of course at 1st, but based on how I'm feeling now with this one 3 months out, I think I could've done it. Definitely cut down on recovery times. In the meantime, I've been wearing a soft knee brace on the old knee and seems to be helping.
 
And I still haven't done any formal PT sessions. Just daily living, working, walking the dog, etc. Not sure if I should even tell the doc that.
 
@ferddword

I know what you mean about informing the Dr about what you have been doing or better yet, not doing. I see my OS on tomorrow as well. I am still having the band feeling as well. I also wear a soft brace on my other knee as well. Good luck tomorrow!
 
You don't have to tell your OS anything. If he asks how pt is going, just tell him, "Good." That's what I do. PT doesn't report to him, and I'm sure yours doesn't either. Your OS's job is done and he wants to make sure his hardware is doing good. It is up to us to get the soft tissues, muscles, tendons, etc. working! None of my surgeons asked for a pt report except to ask me how I was doing.
 
2helpme said:
@ferddword

I know what you mean about informing the Dr about what you have been doing or better yet, not doing. I see my OS on tomorrow as well. I am still having the band feeling as well. I also wear a soft brace on my other knee as well. Good luck tomorrow!
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OS visit yesterday went well, practically uneventful. He said the rubberband feeling tightness will slowly go away. I still have a bit of swelling, which he said is unexpected since my knee was in "terrible shape" due to my valgus deformity. He thinks around the 6 month range is when the swelling will disappear. I asked if I can do anything to help it, he basically said no. He wants me to continue to strengthen my quads and said I can start doing leg presses. And before I can ask him if I can play golf, he says "so have you been playing?" I told him I was hoping he would release me...he said I'm free to do what I want except to wait on running or jumping. I said can't even imagine that right now. ROM is 0/125 without him even pushing. Talked about gel shots in old knee at some point. Then he said see you in 9 months. How did your visit go?
 
@ferddword

Hello I meant to write to you in yesterday. I am glad your appointment was pretty much uneventful. My visit went well. I waited an hour and 45 mins to see him after my appt time and I really didn't get a lot of time with him. My OS says I need to see a plastic surgeon because my scar,which was fine until I started PT, now has a hypertrophic scar. It is like a keloid but not as high and the area is red not dark brown. That was surprising because my skin doesn't keloid. I am going to have to ask my argent if this could be a result of my auto immune disorder.

My OS suggested I go back to PT and I said I would. I tried the PT clinic associated with their office and I was very pleased with the conversation and the exercises provided.

I also have some swelling in both knees and my "good" knee is in worse shape now. I will probably need to have it done soon but I can not image doing it until my new knee feels like it is mine. (My family hears me say "until I get this one out of law-a-way.) I am having a hard time now because I now need to switch my cane from my right hand to my left and I am really having a hard time.

The PT is concerned about some of the things we discussed because a lot of it sounds like nerve damage. I can not really fell my toes on the leg that was operated on. Sometimes when I am doing exercises I pull my toes down toward the ball of my foot so I will know they are there. I guess this will get better wth time as well. I was thinking about asking for some meds for it but I am going to give it a few more weeks. I can now rely on the PT to take some things back to my OS as well since they are in the same office. The Dr's even walk through sometimes and chat as well.

I know you went back to work some time ago. I am still off for two more weeks. I am going to see how this PT will come out. Hopefully, I will be better. Oh yeah, I go back in 3 months.

Happy Healing!
 
@2helpme
Please put this update on your progress in your own thread. I see you haven't posted any updates on it since I showed you how to find it.

Your thread is a diary of your progress.
If you want to let ferddword know how you are doing, just put a summary on his thread, not the full story, because his thread is supposed to be about his knee's progress.
If you put everything here about your progress, you are hijacking his thread.
 
2helpme said:
@ferddword

Hello I meant to write to you in yesterday. I am glad your appointment was pretty much uneventful. My visit went well. I waited an hour and 45 mins to see him after my appt time and I really didn't get a lot of time with him. My OS says I need to see a plastic surgeon because my scar,which was fine until I started PT, now has a hypertrophic scar. It is like a keloid but not as high and the area is red not dark brown. That was surprising because my skin doesn't keloid. I am going to have to ask my argent if this could be a result of my auto immune disorder.

My OS suggested I go back to PT and I said I would. I tried the PT clinic associated with their office and I was very pleased with the conversation and the exercises provided.

I also have some swelling in both knees and my "good" knee is in worse shape now. I will probably need to have it done soon but I can not image doing it until my new knee feels like it is mine. (My family hears me say "until I get this one out of law-a-way.) I am having a hard time now because I now need to switch my cane from my right hand to my left and I am really having a hard time.

The PT is concerned about some of the things we discussed because a lot of it sounds like nerve damage. I can not really fell my toes on the leg that was operated on. Sometimes when I am doing exercises I pull my toes down toward the ball of my foot so I will know they are there. I guess this will get better wth time as well. I was thinking about asking for some meds for it but I am going to give it a few more weeks. I can now rely on the PT to take some things back to my OS as well since they are in the same office. The Dr's even walk through sometimes and chat as well.

I know you went back to work some time ago. I am still off for two more weeks. I am going to see how this PT will come out. Hopefully, I will be better. Oh yeah, I go back in 3 months.

Happy Healing!
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Hey there. Sorry to hear you're having a bit of difficulties. My scar isn't the prettiest, its not quite keloid, but close. My mom says it runs in the family. OS didn't seem to have an issue with it. He mentioned an OTC cream, but I can't remember.

Yeah, my old knee is a bit worse too, but hasn't been hurting since putting the soft knee brace and once I get shots, I'll get a few more years out of it. I still think I should've got both done so wouldn't have to worry about it and my recovery would/could have been all in 1 year.

I took OS advice and played golf yesterday. Knee still has tightness but was a good outing. I was just exhausted afterwards.
 
@Celle

Got it! Thank you! I was responding to a conversation I was having with Ferddword. Is there any way to have a conversation with someone other than in the threads?
 
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You can do private message them.
 
2helpme said:
@Celle

Got it! Thank you! I was responding to a conversation I was having with Ferddword. Is there any way to have a conversation with someone other than in the threads?
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You can either PM (send a Personal Message) or, if you want to keep it in the open threads you can say something like "I'm doing OK. I've posted a fuller update on my own thread."
To do a PM, you select Inbox - top right of the page, next to your name - then start a new message.
 
ferddword said:
My scar isn't the prettiest, its not quite keloid, but close.
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It can take many months for the scar to flatten out. Mine was slow compared to some others.
 
@ferddword I had shots in both my knees for almost 2 years before I had my first surgery. The dr. sprayed a numbing on the knee and then there was a sting and hard push into the area under the kneecap. Most lasted for 3 months, especially at the beginning. It was amazing that I could walk better (was almost peg-leg like walking before ) and that nasty grinding, crunching or whatever you feel was not as prominent. However, toward the end of the last year, shot lasted maybe 6 weeks - or less. That meant pain! Dr won't give shots sooner than 3 months. Also no shots prior to surgery - I think my Dr said at least 6-8 weeks.
Good luck. Ask Dr how they deal with shots if you need another surgery.
 
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