bertschb
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I had my LTKR done in October 2016 and it took a VERY long time for ROM to return. Because of that experience, I’m prepared for another slow recovery for my right knee. I’m an avid mountain bike rider and it took six months before I could ride my bike after my LTKR.
Here’s my experience so far with my RTKR-
Surgery was yesterday morning and completed as outpatient. It took a long time to get the pain under control after surgery so check-out was later in the day.
So far I’m seeing two big differences from my last experience. When I had my left knee done, it felt like it was going to explode when I stood up. Thankfully I haven’t experienced that with my right knee. The other big difference is I’m feeling slightly nauseous all day long. I’ve never experienced that after any of my surgeries. When I get up to walk around, it gets worse. I can only walk around for a couple minutes and I need to lay back down. I’m going to see if cutting back on my meds helps. I usually have Hydrocodone after surgeries but this time I was prescribed Oxycodone. I’ve been taking two 5mg tabs every 5-6 hours.
I purchased the Lounge Doctor pillow recommended here and it seems to work really well. It makes it easy to get my knee elevated without messing with multiple pillows.
I got very little sleep last night so I’m hoping tonight gets better! I’ll start logging my ROM like I did last time just for kicks. My goal is to be back riding my mountain bike at six months. Anything sooner than that will be gravy.
Here’s a drone video I shot last month of my winter mountain bike trail. It was the first time I tried using the active track mode on the drone and I had to ride really slow so it followed me properly. Even then it “lost” me a couple times and stopped right before hitting the ground.
Here’s my experience so far with my RTKR-
Surgery was yesterday morning and completed as outpatient. It took a long time to get the pain under control after surgery so check-out was later in the day.
So far I’m seeing two big differences from my last experience. When I had my left knee done, it felt like it was going to explode when I stood up. Thankfully I haven’t experienced that with my right knee. The other big difference is I’m feeling slightly nauseous all day long. I’ve never experienced that after any of my surgeries. When I get up to walk around, it gets worse. I can only walk around for a couple minutes and I need to lay back down. I’m going to see if cutting back on my meds helps. I usually have Hydrocodone after surgeries but this time I was prescribed Oxycodone. I’ve been taking two 5mg tabs every 5-6 hours.
I purchased the Lounge Doctor pillow recommended here and it seems to work really well. It makes it easy to get my knee elevated without messing with multiple pillows.
I got very little sleep last night so I’m hoping tonight gets better! I’ll start logging my ROM like I did last time just for kicks. My goal is to be back riding my mountain bike at six months. Anything sooner than that will be gravy.
Here’s a drone video I shot last month of my winter mountain bike trail. It was the first time I tried using the active track mode on the drone and I had to ride really slow so it followed me properly. Even then it “lost” me a couple times and stopped right before hitting the ground.