Greetings Bonesmart’ers.
As seems case for many on the site, I found this amazing resource after I went under the knife. My decision to proceed would be the same, timing / surgeon the same - eyes would have been much more open!
My right knee journey includes…
* youth/high school soccer in the “just tape it up” days
* meniscus tear clean out 2015
* ACL in 2016
* Oops I did it again ACL revision in 2018, after a bent knee full force “landing” took out 1”+ chunks of cartilage on femur/tibia
* toughed it out til 2023… tried injections w no success
Surgery on 10/4/2023 late pm, home by noon following day.
I’ve found that TKR is a giant machine, with very defined pre-op processes and polished pre-op messaging (email campaign, basically). What I’m experiencing after, not so polished with dubious protocols, tone-deaf PT and a tremendous of pain/discomfort.
Don’t get me wrong… I understood how brutal the procedure is (barbaric may be too strong) and expected pain. However, these new fangled pain management protocols that are ill-informed and full of opioid fear basically throw patients to the pain wolves - Tylenol and Advil are enough, trust us.
All that intra-surgery pain medicine that was going to make the first 3 days a breeze? Lasted 48 hours.
So, starting day 6 in the trough of disillusionment. On 3 hours of sleep. To the pain!
As seems case for many on the site, I found this amazing resource after I went under the knife. My decision to proceed would be the same, timing / surgeon the same - eyes would have been much more open!
My right knee journey includes…
* youth/high school soccer in the “just tape it up” days
* meniscus tear clean out 2015
* ACL in 2016
* Oops I did it again ACL revision in 2018, after a bent knee full force “landing” took out 1”+ chunks of cartilage on femur/tibia
* toughed it out til 2023… tried injections w no success
Surgery on 10/4/2023 late pm, home by noon following day.
I’ve found that TKR is a giant machine, with very defined pre-op processes and polished pre-op messaging (email campaign, basically). What I’m experiencing after, not so polished with dubious protocols, tone-deaf PT and a tremendous of pain/discomfort.
Don’t get me wrong… I understood how brutal the procedure is (barbaric may be too strong) and expected pain. However, these new fangled pain management protocols that are ill-informed and full of opioid fear basically throw patients to the pain wolves - Tylenol and Advil are enough, trust us.
All that intra-surgery pain medicine that was going to make the first 3 days a breeze? Lasted 48 hours.
So, starting day 6 in the trough of disillusionment. On 3 hours of sleep. To the pain!