Three months out, still stiff & need sleep

[Lbee]

PT range is great 130! I need to go back to work soon and have tried to sit and work on my computer. However, after awhile 30-60 min. I get stiff and can hardly get up? I still take pain pills...sad to say, and really get that knee stiffness and pain at night. Anyone have and good remedies?? that is-other than Jack Daniels and hot sauce in boiled peanuts? Is this just how it is? I thought at age 51 I would bounce back...wrong.
California Lady Bear-aka: Lbee

 

[1jt@atime]

Hi Lady Bear. I am 3 months and 11 months out with my two knee replacements. As I recall with the first, it took between 4 and 5 months before my new knee was not the main topic of my thoughts. Now, at 3 months with the second, I'm noticing I'm getting there but not quite to that point of, Oh, I forgot I have metal knees! Give it just another month or two and I think you will notice the difference.

I have been back to work since July 30th and sit at a desk most of the day. I keep a box under my desk to prop up the leg. If I go too long without propping it up, it still gets really painful and I start getting kind of jittery. I keep some ice packs at work that came with a wrap-around cover that velcros around the leg. I get the ice out whenever I start getting that feeling and wrap it around the knee under my pants. I even walk around with it on. The ice is my lifesaver at work. Karen

 

[carolinagirl]

Hi Ladybear,
I too sit at a computer for 10 hours a day. I have one of those floor
pedal cycles that I use while at my desk. It helps to keep my knee from getting so stiff. I am 10 weeks out from my RTKR.
I try to get up every 45 minutes or so, but sometimes I get so involved in what I am working on that before I know it and hour and a half has passed.
The cycle really helps.

 

[Josephine]

Three months is still early days, y'know. You have a lot of huffin' and puffin' time at your PT to go yet. And keep taking the pills as long as you need them!

 

[beachcomber]

Someone back last winter had a unique solution to the "returning to desk work/knee stiffening" problem. She kept a child-size skate board under her desk and put her TKR foot on it and slid it back and forth to keep her knee moving and keep it from getting stiff. It worked for her!

PT range is great 130! I need to go back to work soon and have tried to sit and work on my computer. However, after awhile 30-60 min. I get stiff and can hardly get up? I still take pain pills...sad to say, and really get that knee stiffness and pain at night. Anyone have and good remedies?? that is-other than Jack Daniels and hot sauce in boiled peanuts? Is this just how it is? I thought at age 51 I would bounce back...wrong.
California Lady Bear-aka: Lbee

 

[ship4]

Another solution is one I learned from my Total Knee Replacement & Rehabilitation Book (bible). They recommend a Brasilian Futebol to roll under your foot, squeeze between your knees and other exercises that could be done at a desk. If you tell them you are a TKR patient you get a discount. I e-mailed them and purchased one. I love it!
file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Crystal/LOCALS~1/Temp/brasilianfutebol.vcffile:///C:/DOCUME~1/Crystal/LOCALS~1/Temp/brasilianfutebol.vcfBest,
Crystal

 

[Lbee]

Two knees??? Oh my.... I keep saying never again. The doctor told me that I would need another in my life, or at least some kind of tune-up. Upon hearing him say that, I just melted into the exam table and thought to myself what did I do?
You are my hero, wow...what a strong person to undergo such a difficult surgery. I never knew the recovery process would be so difficult. It really amazes me what people have gone through for years and I never even gave it a second thought.