RubyWhitesocks
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- Jul 4, 2021
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Hello, everyone. I appreciate having a place to vent and document how my TKR recovery is going.
I am 58 yrs old male, and had left knee replaced two days ago, and I have had two rough nights filled with bouts of frequent urination. It was bad enough that I decided to go to Urgent Care to check on whether or not I have a UTI following my surgery, but the doctor there said that the "quick test" didn't show a UTI and gave me a med to help relieve the burning pain while he is sending the sample to the Lab for further analysis. He thinks that I am just having irritation from the catheter used during surgery, but I don't even really know if they used a catheter on me, as they had me put on a Depends prior to surgery and the nurse said that people usually leaked during surgery.
But I have a plastic urinal beside my bed that I have to continually hop out of bed to pee in and it will happen several times an hour. Since I have to hook up to a CPAP at night, it really is unhandy to try to make it to the toilet, and sometimes I will have a large stream and amount of urine and other times just a little trickle. Almost as soon as I lay back down, I get the urge to pee again regardless of whether or not it was a decent stream or a trickle, and every time I wake up I feel the urge. But part of my joy at having a CPAP was that I wasn't being woken up multiple times a night to pee, and now that appears that I've lost that for the time being. At least this med is keeping it from burning like it was doing, so the Urgent Care visit was worthwhile.
I am drinking a lot of water to stay hydrated to help speed my recovery, but this just seems ridiculous. I am scheduled for TKR on the right knee in August and hope that I won't go through this particular problem with that one also.
I am a little worried about having to wear Depends underwear to my PT appointments, as I have never had this problem in the past. Just wonder how many of you have had similar problems with this and how long that aspect lasted.
As far as the knee and left leg are doing at this point, they are swollen pretty tight, and swinging in and out of the right side of the bed is a little hard on my surgery leg, but I just have to grimace and bear it. I have to hope things will improve soon.
I am 58 yrs old male, and had left knee replaced two days ago, and I have had two rough nights filled with bouts of frequent urination. It was bad enough that I decided to go to Urgent Care to check on whether or not I have a UTI following my surgery, but the doctor there said that the "quick test" didn't show a UTI and gave me a med to help relieve the burning pain while he is sending the sample to the Lab for further analysis. He thinks that I am just having irritation from the catheter used during surgery, but I don't even really know if they used a catheter on me, as they had me put on a Depends prior to surgery and the nurse said that people usually leaked during surgery.
But I have a plastic urinal beside my bed that I have to continually hop out of bed to pee in and it will happen several times an hour. Since I have to hook up to a CPAP at night, it really is unhandy to try to make it to the toilet, and sometimes I will have a large stream and amount of urine and other times just a little trickle. Almost as soon as I lay back down, I get the urge to pee again regardless of whether or not it was a decent stream or a trickle, and every time I wake up I feel the urge. But part of my joy at having a CPAP was that I wasn't being woken up multiple times a night to pee, and now that appears that I've lost that for the time being. At least this med is keeping it from burning like it was doing, so the Urgent Care visit was worthwhile.
I am drinking a lot of water to stay hydrated to help speed my recovery, but this just seems ridiculous. I am scheduled for TKR on the right knee in August and hope that I won't go through this particular problem with that one also.
I am a little worried about having to wear Depends underwear to my PT appointments, as I have never had this problem in the past. Just wonder how many of you have had similar problems with this and how long that aspect lasted.
As far as the knee and left leg are doing at this point, they are swollen pretty tight, and swinging in and out of the right side of the bed is a little hard on my surgery leg, but I just have to grimace and bear it. I have to hope things will improve soon.