Revised PKR to TKR Sore shoulder

[Jaycey]

@This is not fun
You might want to check to make sure your walker is adjusted correctly. You should be standing up straight when using your walker. If you are leaning over it you will put pressure on a number of areas.

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[Jockette]

I’m so sorry about your shoulder. I had a shoulder issue, also, my second week post op. One week, to the day, after my surgery, my PT pushed my bend for the first time, causing me extreme pain, I thought my knee was going to burst! (Enter PTSD reason number 1) As the pain got more intense I gripped the sides of the table really tightly. I went home in tears, took a nap, and woke up with excruciating pain in my left shoulder, and the dilaudud I was taking for the knee didn’t touch it. Back to my surgeon several days later for a shoulder xray and the call was acute tendonitis.

 

[beesknee]

@pdlinda My experience in the hospital this week suggests NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY! The covid cases are out of control here in central Indiana, and far worse in other parts of the country. I don't know when this will ever be over, but the last thing that anyone any of us needs is a breakthrough case of covid in addition to our bad joints. There was one nurse per floor in my hospital, and I rarely saw her. The rest of the staff were med students--very young med students--but it still took a good 45 minutes to get anyone to answer the call button. I got the last bed available, thanks to the covid cases, and when I woke up, I felt like I was in The Walking Dead, abandoned in a hospital while zombies were surrounding me...

I waited a year for covid to die down. I got surgery a few months ago when things looked to be normalizing. Anyway, staying in a hospital overnight was not an option for me. Chop chop and off you go home!

 

[This is not fun]

@beesknee I, too, waited a year for covid to calm down, but when I tried to schedule my surgery in March, the soonest slot available was July 26, because everyone else had waited too! I expected to be far more recovered by now, which I would have been had my device not broken. And now the hospitals are filling up with covid patients again, and even emergency surgeries, which my repair was, are lucky to get a bed. It's a bad time to be old in America...

 

[This is not fun]

I adjusted my walker as you suggested, and I'm sure that was my problem. Hopefully my shoulder will improve if I pay more attention to not straining it!

 

[Jockette]

I noticed my shoulders starting to have a problem when I used my walker and I realized I was gripping it really tightly with my hands, which also made my shoulders tense. I made an effort to relax more while holding on to it and that helped me. I really didn’t need to hold onto it so tightly.

 

[This is not fun]

That's what I've been doing with my walker too, especially when the dogs come running up to me. I've been gripping that walker as if it's my last lifeline, and I've just got to get over that!

 

[Gingerbread]

I've noticed a tingling in my right forearm/elbow; a dull ache. I realize it's from laying/sitting mostly to the right these past 4 weeks. I'm trying to adjust but that also means asking my right leg to position itself where it's not ready to go.
Can't wait for this to be over.