GZGirl22
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Week 2
Finding I can easily walk for ten minutes. I use the cane but am not really placing weight on the cane. I do not want a limp, so the cane is there for stability and in case I step wrong, but the weight is being carried on the leg for the most part. I am making a conscious effort to walk heel to toe. The walking around often lessens the knee pain I get from being stationary too long. I am learning that if I wake up in pain, my first move is to get up and make a bathroom run whether I need it or not because the movement makes an immediate difference in my pain level. I am guessing it may mean less stiffness in the AM as well.
I am continuing to cut back on the Oxy during the day but have had a couple nights where I still need 5mg to get to sleep. I am not toughing it out---when I need them, I still take them. It is worth the good night’s sleep, even if it is only 4 hours.
Odd things I am noticing…
Having pains in new places, like every day and sometimes even every hour. Not necessarily excruciating pains, just pings and throbs coming out of nowhere. This seems to be ebbing as the week goes on. Fingers crossed that trend continues. As the week passed a lot of these pains have lessened. I find putting BOTH legs up also helps reduce the hip strain I have been feling. Towards the end of the week the pain was better, but I am noticing more swelling. I have been on my feet more and thinking maybe I need to ease off a bit.
Sometimes after I do my PT exercises, I get a series of electrical jolts on my skin surface around the knee joint. It’s likely the nerve tissue trying to come back. Feels like being zapped with one of those mosquito zapper badminton racquets that were popular a few years back. It makes you jump and is unpleasant. Usually goes away within a few minutes and tapping the spot or applying pressure helps it to cease, but a very odd sensation. This also seems to be lessening, though I still get a few zaps here and there.
Appetite still down – not complaining. I have lost 4 pounds since the surgery. It’s not that I am not eating, I am consuming the same calories I was gaining with prior to surgery but I read somewhere your metabolism boosts temporarily after surgery so you burn more calories.
At PT this week, I still have full extension and flexion is up to 108 in spite of the feeling of being stiffer and a bit more sore on the day it was measured. Pain has diminished during the day. Today I took 2.5 mg Oxycodone at 6:30 this morning and did not need any all day. I did take half a tablet before bedtime as that seems to be my worst time of day. Still, happy to be weaning off so quickly and easily. Tomorrow marks 2 weeks out!
Finding I can easily walk for ten minutes. I use the cane but am not really placing weight on the cane. I do not want a limp, so the cane is there for stability and in case I step wrong, but the weight is being carried on the leg for the most part. I am making a conscious effort to walk heel to toe. The walking around often lessens the knee pain I get from being stationary too long. I am learning that if I wake up in pain, my first move is to get up and make a bathroom run whether I need it or not because the movement makes an immediate difference in my pain level. I am guessing it may mean less stiffness in the AM as well.
I am continuing to cut back on the Oxy during the day but have had a couple nights where I still need 5mg to get to sleep. I am not toughing it out---when I need them, I still take them. It is worth the good night’s sleep, even if it is only 4 hours.
Odd things I am noticing…
Having pains in new places, like every day and sometimes even every hour. Not necessarily excruciating pains, just pings and throbs coming out of nowhere. This seems to be ebbing as the week goes on. Fingers crossed that trend continues. As the week passed a lot of these pains have lessened. I find putting BOTH legs up also helps reduce the hip strain I have been feling. Towards the end of the week the pain was better, but I am noticing more swelling. I have been on my feet more and thinking maybe I need to ease off a bit.
Sometimes after I do my PT exercises, I get a series of electrical jolts on my skin surface around the knee joint. It’s likely the nerve tissue trying to come back. Feels like being zapped with one of those mosquito zapper badminton racquets that were popular a few years back. It makes you jump and is unpleasant. Usually goes away within a few minutes and tapping the spot or applying pressure helps it to cease, but a very odd sensation. This also seems to be lessening, though I still get a few zaps here and there.
Appetite still down – not complaining. I have lost 4 pounds since the surgery. It’s not that I am not eating, I am consuming the same calories I was gaining with prior to surgery but I read somewhere your metabolism boosts temporarily after surgery so you burn more calories.
At PT this week, I still have full extension and flexion is up to 108 in spite of the feeling of being stiffer and a bit more sore on the day it was measured. Pain has diminished during the day. Today I took 2.5 mg Oxycodone at 6:30 this morning and did not need any all day. I did take half a tablet before bedtime as that seems to be my worst time of day. Still, happy to be weaning off so quickly and easily. Tomorrow marks 2 weeks out!