After doing little to push the bend as the physio instructed, for a couple of weeks, the pain at the back of the knee settled (also I'm sure the heat helped and anti inflammatory gel) and while I'd gone backwards from 115 to 110 an 112 for a little while, husband measured it just now and it's 118! Five weeks and two days post op today. VERY happy!
I'm hoping none of us on here waiting for knees to be done will be hit by the NHS deciding to concentrate more on those with more urgent issues. It's worrying me a little bit - will be so pleased to get the second one booked in!
Fantastic for you Chris!! I'm at 9 weeks post bilateral knees and at 110 in left knee with not much trouble but with lots and lots of pain and more pain by my PT 110 in right knee. I'm sort of down about it. Today my PT said I've got to push my right knee to the point of pain every day! What does the forum think of that? I trust my PT but I'm crying when she does it and she wants me to do the same! Or am I just a wimp?? Thank you for any input.
Well done Chris, just goes to show that sometimes - just sometimes - less is more. Bet you're really pleased with your results! I'm exactly 5 weeks today, and I'm at 85ish....but mine was a Revision so I'm actually really pleased as I didn't think I'd be this far along. Had my first proper supermarket trip today so I'm feeling pretty accomplished myself 😊. Have a great weekend and keep up the good work xx
Good new keep at it.
Yes I was a bit perturbed by that news . Have started a second knee fund as hoping the second one will last to I semib retire in 2 ton3 years. Have worked for the NHS for 37 years this does not surprise me.
Happy weekend!
Jan
Oh ouch! I'm so sorry you're getting such pain Eizie! I've heard others on here say the same as you though!!! Clive had great success with hot baths and exercise and I found when I was getting a lot of pain at the back of the knee that hot wet flannels helped. I did that a few times and it seemed to release it all. I think the worst thing I was doing was icing before pushing the bend, because it was just tightening everything up. Now I ice AFTER. I so hope you can find an easier answer, but I truly don't know if there is one. My achievement has been through sitting watching tv on the recliner and gradually pulling the knee up towards my chest, leaving it there for about 10 minutes at a time, but it's all been very gradual.
Terri, that's really good - I know a revision can be so hard. And lovely that you've been able to go to the supermarket:-))))) Milestones like this mean so much, don't they:-)))) It's all a step towards normality!:-))))) You have a good weekend too:-)))
Thanks Jan. Yes, it is worrying about the knee and hip ops. YOu don't really know if the intention is to lengthen waiting lists or put them off totally for a period!!!! There are going to be a lot of anxious people!
My pt forced me and it took forever and I was is severe pain for at least 4 days after. I stopped going and got bend and straight on my own. Second TKR scheduled for April 11. This time if it hurts to much I will tell pt to stop it hurts and that's it. Good job Eizie it took me almost 5 months and I still have a lot of pain.
Thank you Mary. I'm going to do the push bend exercise but I'm going to do it at my pace and see what happens.
Thank you Chris. I'm going to try that!
Health is more important than wealth,so we should go ahead and pay whatever it takes to enable the health service to be run efficiently.
Hi Mike,
Don't get me on this one. The problem is those that are able have not wanted to do that. The amount of tax in the pot is not enough with an aging population and advances in medicine.
I read today that there will be a cap on new medicines and bartering with the greedy drug companies.
The NHS is not a bottomless pit.
Jan
Hi Chris
Good luck with that one!!! I can't get an appt to get signed off & back on list for no2 until October!!
Goodness alone knows what is going to happen! I wish now I'd gone against the surgeons advice & gone for a bilateral!
We are living in worrying times!
I hope everyone else has better luck.
Marilyn
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That is wonderful news! Although I have been discharged from PT, I continue to do stretching exercises which helps with stiffness. I never thought much about weather effecting my joints. However, it has been cold and damp in Washington DC and I sure am hurting. Summer can't come soon enough. I hope your physician understands that a TKR can be an urgency. Anyway you can speed them up? I am sure that Chico Marx, if persuaded, will happily make them an offer, they can't turn down.
Ps good to hear your bend is improving again. All the best
Marilyn
You are so right Jan, the drug companies have held the NHS is sway for far too long. Someone in procurement has not been doing a very good job FOR the NHS
Marilyn
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That is great Chris! I am only at 110 and 18 weeks out 
Originally, just before Christmas, I saw the GP and was referred for both knees. My appointment came through to see the surgeon in January and my op was booked for 1st March - that was all much faster than I imagined. When I saw him he said they'd do the knees about 4 months apart. The physio told me to book to see the surgeon for the next knee when I go back for the sign off at six weeks but the hospital said I had to rebook the surgeon and team at that point, so that would put it off another few weeks probably. On their site they're still saying 8 - 12 week wait for the knee ops from booking in, so I am desperately hoping that will be the case. It will all take it more than four months apart, but I can live with that - at least there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm HOPING, because it's an orthapaedic hospital it won't be too affected by the NHS pushing through more urgent problems such as cancer because it would just leave surgeons there doing nothing and theatres empty.
But while I agree with Jan, that if you can afford to pay for it, then do, I also feel that most of us needing this sort of surgery have paid in all our lives for this service and it riles me that money is being sent to other countries for trivia like football teams etc. when our own country should be first priority, with the NHS up there as top. But that really is all I'm going to say about that!
Hi Chris, your ROM is very good.
At 5 weeks post TKR my physio managed to get my ROM to 103 and I almost cried with the pain in fact I didn't know whether to kick him or be sick! I came away feeling very gloomy and dispondant and thought I'd never get it to 125 comfortably. I had my last physio Wednesday at 8 weeks post op and I was very happy to get a 125 ROM without any forcing from my physio and no tears from me. He was so pleased that he discharged me!
I guess all the fretting about my ROM was unnecessary but I think we all feel the pressure to get to the 'magic' 125.
My consultant said my knee is capable of getting to 135 so that's what I'm going to be aiming for over the next few weeks but without unnecessary painful pushing, just feeling the pull, holding for 30 seconds and repeating.
I think we all put way too much pressure on ourselves ... I know I did and now I realise it comes in its own good time with healing.
Patience and time is the key.
Best wishes for a stress free recovery x
That sounds good Ellen! I'm finding my new knee isn't nearly as stiff as the unoperated one. I can leap out of bed with it, without a thought. That actually amazed me! It is the other one that's restricting everything! I'm getting to the point of forgetting about the operated one now, which I thought would be months and months down the line. This morning I found myself in bed with both knees up. The operated one a fraction lower than the other, but still up enough to be comfortable and not sliding down. Looking back, I think I probably could have coped with bilateral fairly well, but then who knows! I did want my first one video'd so I could do the second one myself:-) I'm just willing the days to pass now to get that appointment to get the second one booked in!!!!!