daustin97222
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Hello all,
(hopefully I get all of the acronyms right)
I enjoyed looking through this forum for snippets of encouragement.
Mom had her right TKR done 4/29. She is 78 years old, very healthy but she could hardly walk on that knee (osteoarthritis). So she went in to have the TKR after fretting about it for most of a year.
Now, her pain is even worse than ever! Her ROM is 110 and she walks without a cane or walker. But she can just be sitting or standing and in intense pain. She can take a painkiller (oxycontin, I think) and that helps. But how long does this go on? She says that when she lays down it feels a little better.
I found a couple of threads here about lethargy - Mom has that too. Since she feels better laying down, she does that all of the time! This isn't like her. She was active, shopping, exercising, all of that before the TKR.
So I guess that my question is: will she slowly get better from here, or is this as good as it gets? Does anyone here know of a similar outcome, but where things improved over time?
thanks for any info.
-concerned son
(hopefully I get all of the acronyms right)
I enjoyed looking through this forum for snippets of encouragement.
Mom had her right TKR done 4/29. She is 78 years old, very healthy but she could hardly walk on that knee (osteoarthritis). So she went in to have the TKR after fretting about it for most of a year.
Now, her pain is even worse than ever! Her ROM is 110 and she walks without a cane or walker. But she can just be sitting or standing and in intense pain. She can take a painkiller (oxycontin, I think) and that helps. But how long does this go on? She says that when she lays down it feels a little better.
I found a couple of threads here about lethargy - Mom has that too. Since she feels better laying down, she does that all of the time! This isn't like her. She was active, shopping, exercising, all of that before the TKR.
So I guess that my question is: will she slowly get better from here, or is this as good as it gets? Does anyone here know of a similar outcome, but where things improved over time?
thanks for any info.
-concerned son