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MUA Tigz's Lessons in Patience

@KarriB ...how did you do that? What's your secret, please tell!! I dread going to bed for I know my eyes won't close till after 4am..
 
I always sleep through the night, @tigz slept through the night and a few days after an MUA.
 
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[Bonesmart.org] Tigz's Lessons in Patience


I've decided heat feels better on the quads than ice now. Very old heating pad on the thigh in the picture. Shirt's more cranberry than red if you want get picky.

It's a strange feeling having the ice on the knee and the heating pad on the thigh!

Day #3 post MUA began with dangling off the bed again to get the bend, just letting gravity pull the leg down, then a little stretch with the help of the right foot pushing the left leg back just a bit further.

Again, the gentler gravity based exercises are more quad friendly. I get a really good stretch against the wall:



Quads are feeling better than yesterday! I've been using the foam roller on my leg over the sore muscles...that feels very good!

Last night I was trying to watch the Orioles, but a nap on the couch won out. Woke up and went to bed.

It's a drizzly rainy day in Maryland.

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KarriB said:
I always sleep through the night, @tigz slept through the night and a few days after an MUA.
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Last night I was so tired from my nap I didn't even take anything and slept through the night! That amazed me!

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So back on June 19th I started doing this...

Jamie said:
...pre-stair exercise. Stand with both feet on one stair tread and hold onto the railing facing down the stairs. Gently lower your good knee and bend your TKR knee like you're going to take a step, but don't touch the lower stair tread. Just bend until you feel slight discomfort, then move your foot back up beside your stationary foot. Do this no more than 10 times in a day....less if you feel pain. Work up to the 10. Once you can do this bend fairly well, then do the exercise but allow yourself to toe-touch the lower tread, then go back up. Once you get to where you can toe touch the lower tread 10 times without pain and swelling following the exercise, you are ready to slowly work on the foot over foot stair descent.

Taking it slowly and progressing through these movements will be a lot easier on your knee and you should not have as much pain and swelling as if you immediately try to do stairs normally. Your knee just is not ready for that yet.
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...even though I couldn't even rest my foot on the lower step because of the lack of bend. Yesterday I realized I could put the weight of my good leg on the bottom step, no pain in knee, annoying pain in thigh. Today I decided to try, where I had railing to support me on both sides to go 'up' and to go 'down' in the normal fashion... WOW! Someday I'll be able to do the entire flight of stairs, it may be a while down the road, but I really can do stairs again! :)
 
That's great!

I read that exercise and thought I don't need to do that, no stairs here. Just realized I do have a step over the sliding door threshold and I have only been going over and down on the patio on the non TKR leg. I should try this to get over not using the TKR on steps.
 
Yesterday was ten weeks since my surgery.

I knew my nights of good sleep wouldn't last. Last night was terrible, tossed and turned all night, dunno how I didn't wake up the gent next to me in the bed. Consequently I've had a headache all day.

A marathon PT session, but it was a good session. My quads are still having issues so started back on the e-stim today. The OS had me to 120 last week, I was 113 on my own, 117 with a little"help", so she started my on some step exercises.

PT is scheduled every day through the end of next week (less the weekend). I go back to the OS next Tuesday, maybe he'll say I'll be able to cut a session or two of the PT.

Feeling a bit down, but I guess with the headache and lack of sleep that's to be expected. Hearing from a co-worker about her neighbor's miraculous TKR recovery didn't help.

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But your ROM is good! That's a positive after the MUA. Hope you get some sleep tonight.
 
You are doing amazing! And I'll bet you sleep better tonight too. Last night was a rough sleep night for me too but I am pulling for both of us tonight!

Roxie
 
I am in the no sleep dept. I nap for few min. As far as sleeping haha not. Toss turn legs ache. Best luck. Xxx.


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Ack @Angel1978 lack of decent sleep is not fun. Hugs to you!

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The sleep fairy must be on vacation cause I didn't sleep at all last night, either!! Picked up some melatonin from CVS today... hope it works
 
@bluejuju (what is the origin of your user name? I see part of me - Julie - in there!) I am debating taking a Benadryl. I think there's some Melatonin in the house. That was hit or miss for me. Maybe I should try that instead.

I need to come up with another name for my thread. How 'bout

If patience is a virtue, tigz ain't too virtuous
?
LOL

Or maybe

Another lesson in Patience

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@tigz .... I slept 5 1/2 hrs straight, went to the bathroom, then slept another 3 hrs!!! Wooohooo !! I feel great, but my knees are both stiff as boards- hey I am used to that feeling. My user name is my favorite color combined with the nickname my family calls me..juju... any who, this stuff I bought is called midnite- comes in a blue box found at CVS in the sleep aid isle. It's all natural ingredients. Best thing I have ever found!! Hope you have a good day...it's ice and elevation day for me since I had PT yesterday...they had me kneeling!!
 
@bluejuju That's great! I slept much better, tossed and turned a bit but nothing like the night before. I've been having a tingling spot on the medial side of the knee that doesn't really bother me during the day, but more so the last two nights. I realized in the middle of the night that's what's been bothering me!

May have to look for that Midnite... thanks for the hint!

Kneeling? Really? No way I'm ready for that!
 
117 (me) 121 (her)

I don't mind PT since the MUA. Pre, I dreaded going and was a mental and physical mess when I left.

Only thing I mind is the daily visits. Hey I'm there more than the part timers!

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How is it going,@tigz? Are you glad to have done the MUA? I use to dread going to PT at first and would physically be nauseous. So glad my first PT left, now I have someone I trust, but she still is tough on me. Has me doing things I never thought I could do even pre tkr . Anyway, hope your knee is doing well today.
 
@bluejuju I am very glad I did the MUA. I was seeing next to no progress with my flexion. Barely home from PT with the crockpot smelling amazing and hubby wants me to go running some errands with him and I said yes. Per-MUA that would have been a definite no go!

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Wow, @bluejuju -- kneeling! I am impressed. Pretty sure I couldn't do that yet. Tigz, I have that tingling spot on the medial side of my knee too. When I asked my OS about it, he said it was the location of a major inner cut and the soft tissue inside would take a bit to heal. It annoys me mostly at night too! It's not really painful but it is weird.

Roxie
 
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