I am at long last going in for surgery Monday for this procedure! that's if my blood sugars come back at an acceptable level?
has anyone out there undergone this procedure?
i would welcome any feedback on how it went, recovery timescales etc!
Hi , I'm also a Mandy, and I had pkr four weeks ago tomorrow, am coming on nicely apparently, first couple of weeks was the worst, still get pain and am still on co codamol, make sure you use ice packs a lot, and massage it a lot as well, I can now walk for about 300 steps 3 times daily, and your physio will change every time you see them, I would love to be able to do my own housework and cooking, but it's impossible, you just have to be happy with doing little bits, in the first 2 weeks don't push yourself, I did, and went backwards, I still try to now, I did yesterday and today am HAVING to take it slower. I'm waiting to get the other one done now, I'm not quite ready , but hopefully another 4 weeks and I will be. Good luck, hope your blood sugars are ok, let us no how your doing😀👍
Thank you it's been a long haul and because of my age (52 this year) despite my initial consultant agreeing there was nothing more that could be done short of surgery my new consultant was doing everything in his power to prevent this happening so very reluctantly I've had to use private medical ins and have this done at a private hospital!!
The recovery time is bothering me slightly as I've used up virtually all my sickness allocation at work due to the length of time I had to take off last year!!
hope you continue to get better
I'm 54 just, I don't no why they insist on dragging it out so long before they give us surgery, I no its because we're young in comparison to some others, and the chances are we will need a full knee latter,but I waited one and half years trying every thing else available, by the time I had the op, I could no longer walk more than 10 metres unaided, talk about depressing, and now the other knee is screaming at me. I'm very grateful to get it done , but would have been better a bit sooner. I sound like a right moaning mini, I'm not usually, it s just all come back, reading what you say,😀
I really feel for you! Sounds the same as me? I've had every treatment going and nothing has worked! Hate to say it but I've been faffing about on the NHS for 18 months getting nowhere yet from seeing my surgeon privately it took three weeks to get booked in for surgery? He said my inner joint is virtually bone on bone! He agreed I need quality of life now not twenty years time!!!
Exactly, I was bone on bone, and the bone had crumbled, the surgeon said it was worse than he thought, and believe it or not they did the better of my knees first, only because it was giving me more pain. Unbelievable what we manage to just about put up with, I do find I get very weepy, I don't see many people, every body phones, but it's not the same as a visit, and I get so board. I like to be out and about walking, can't wait for that day,😀
All our holidays were walking holidays so that's come to a grinding halt!! I miss getting out and about too it's the most miserable existence like you were I can only walk so far without being in tremendous pain and I'm not sleeping as my leg must naturally fall flat and it wakes me up where I'm in agony!!!
I'm starting to thing we might be the same person, we also do walking holidays , usually camping, with our 2 dogs.
Lol we used to when our boys were younger! Spend a lot of time at the Lake District and visited isle of skye a few years ago? Wouldn't be able to do any of that at the moment though 😔 I just want to be mobile again
Join the club, we spent a lot of time in Cornwall we live in Sussex, . I don't think I could actually lift my leg up with my walking boot on it at the moment, it's bad enough just lifting the leg. When you first have it done, it's really worrying because you literally can't lif your leg, it feels like they filled it up with lead. We have 2 daughters.😃