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Sitting after surgery has been uncomfortable. I wouldn't go out to eat because of all the waiting time sitting. I'd say just the last 3 weeks has seen an improvement where I can sit without becoming quickly uncomfortable. Same problem at night sleeping on my side with my knees bent. I think it's a circulation thing when the knees are bent, too much impingement. Or it could be impingement on nerves. There is an article on it, but I don't remember which it attributes it to. As internal swelling decreases, my legs are becoming more comfortable. At 12 weeks, it's less of a problem.
 
Yes Nyland I noticed that we have our teeth troubles in common. I am wondering if I will end up with those implants if they would interfere with the Knee replacements, like cause infections or rejections, just thinking out lout here...

So the sitting it to be watched and be careful for a while. Glad your swelling is going down. Still your recovery has been great Janet. And Jackie too. Its so helpful to read about the recoveries. I must admit I am battling a bad attitude and anxiety a lot lately. I am doing less and less and know I should be doing more exercises and pool therapy. Can't get motivated. Being in so much pain doesn't help I guess. Like Scarlet would say, I'll think about that tomorrow!
 
I am wondering if I am getting an upset stomach from all the meds I've been taking, the 2 Ibuprofen and 2 tylenol 4 x day. But if I skip one time a day it really starts hurting bad again. The last week I feel like I have the flu but no throwing up, my stomach hurts so bad, jabs of pain. So now, knees hurting, teeth hurting and stomach ache. Food doesn't seem to help or hurt. My dentist offered Vicoden but that just leaves me numb. Wonder what else I could try?
 
I'm thinking it's possible--especially with the Ibuprofren.
 
Yay! I've had 2 full days in a row where I'm not hurting! My flu bug went away and my knees are cooperating. We had a break in the hot humid weather overnight and it seemed like maybe that helped, don't know. But I'm enjoying every minute of it, met our daughter at a music festival out of town, gardened all afternoon, shopped all night, went visiting. Wow. This is how life used to be. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but going to enjoy it while I can.
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Part of my back yard garden, I've got plenty more to do too.
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Nice!
 
Thanks, that was last years picture. It breaks my heart that I can't get out in it regularly but my husband is doing a great job! The previous owner put the garden in, all we do is weed, endlessly weed. ha ha. I do artwork of it, I like that part.

Third day in a row of feeling good, no knee pain! Don't know why...
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Well the no pain streak ended today. Actually it got hot and humid again today. Don't know if that has anything to do with it or not.
 
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Gosh, what a bummer! Maybe the weather will cool again and the pain will go away with the heat.
 
We had a cool streak over the weekend with rain! Then it returned to hot and humid. My knees don't react to weather changes, because usually all they know is hot! :rotfl:
 
I would love warm weather year round. This is so odd to maybe be reacting to heat. But it should change again in a day or so and I'll note how the pain is.

On another related note, I have become lax in exercising because that seems to bring on a LOTof pain. My PT said it shouldn't be the cause of the pain, so I have tried exercising through it but...then I finally quit and it was really better until the last few days, which I attributed to the heat. Doing the quad tightening makes the kneecap hurt. I did find out that it is the knee caps that are deteriorating more than anything else. I want to have good muscle tone before any operation so I have been working on it. I don't really do anything I don't absolutely have to, sitting most of the day so I do the exercises. I've really noticed how much of my life is lived from my chair.

Has anyone else noticed pre op exercises hurting the knees?
 
My hubby is having both knees replaced in a couple of weeks--he went to rehab for 3 months (May, June & July)--his leg muscles are great---but his knees got much worse--so now his only exercise is getting up and down and what little walking he is able to do. I suspect that lots of folks find exercising difficult if not impossible before surgery.
 
Thanks! That is interesting to hear. I thought I was just imagining the connection between the exercise and my knees hurting. I'm sorry your hubby is in pain too, hope all goes well for his operation, I will be reading.
 
KayeKaye, quite honestly I could not have exercised before the knee replacements! I was doing good to get to my 7th graders, teach and get home. I hurt so bad by the end of the day that I was exhausted. Every step that I took was bad with the bone spur that had lodged in my thigh muscle. I honestly thought I ha torn it!:yikes:
 
I just finished my pre-op excercises a few minutes ago. I can stretch my hamstrings to the point where my nose just about touches my knee - I can feel it stretching but it doesn't hurt. However, just an "innocent" heel slide hurts both my knee on top and something underneath and my heel doesn't even get close to the finish line.
 
Wow, good to know Sonja and Tracey. I too can touch the floor with my palms and stretch all over but those heel glides are getting harder and further away everyday. The quad tightening is what is really hurting my knees. Why don't PT's understand this stuff? Ok so it hurts, but is it damaging anything? Are we supposed to work through the pain? From what I've read here the answer is no to post op, but what about pre op?
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Well, I have had experience on both sides of the fence so to speak. If you are able to, work on stretching the quad muscles and doing leg lifts. Stand and pull your leg up behind you as far as it will go. All gentle stuff, because there is no reason to hurt. I have found out that the stronger the muscles in my case, the better the recovery. This last one has been brutal, with the lateral release on the side of the knee though. I had over strengthened :heehee: the muscle so there was no balance. I had also, stretched out the quad and the hamstring, but that was over a 16 month period. A few months of light work would be ok I think. It made me feel better anyway.
 
Hmm, STAND? :whistle:
Pull leg behind? :shocked:

You were/are indeed in better shape than I am! Wish I could see a drawing of how to do that. Was it bad to have stretched out the hamstring and quad? Or good? What quad exercise were you doing? I'm doing just the flexing, and just having done 10 right now the knee is screaming out. :boohoo:

I've had my PT tell me I am very limber, and a doctor tell me I should get my hamstring loosed, which I don't understand at all since I can touch the floor no problem.

Your last operation has not been very cooperative for you –yet! I am sure you will get this figured out and be off and running in no time.
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It was bad to stretch them out. He tightened them back up and it was painful to get them stretched back out. When I am talking about standing, I am saying hold onto a chair back or something and bend your knee as far as it will go. Mine goes up to my butt now. If "Capsie" would behave without the knee brace, everything would be great!!!! :happydance:
 
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