I have been on here before and i am at the end i am three months into my new knee and i feel worse now than i did a month ago i still have a lot of swelling and when i walk i can feel the knee and it is so tight the surgents dont seem to listern to me i go to rhe hospital gym twice a week and feel as if i can bend it a bit more ots just the feeling of the knee that is bothering me it has me down on the bottom and in years now i am thinking if its the worse thing i have done xx
the feeling that you are going backwards is not uncommon, and hopefully in your case it is just part of the natural process and not anything more sinister. if the surgeon doesn't seem to think there is anything wrong, let us hope that he is right! it is still fairly early . .Even at eight months, I still feel the tightness occasionally and wonder if it is going to be something permanent. Swelling, i think I had seen the back of by three months. Have you taken anti inflammatories? I hope that the pain is less now than it was before the operation? sometimes it's easy to forget just how bad it was before! For a very long time, i regretted having had it done. . probably until about 218 weeks. . .but now, I am glad. . . If it were not for my ankle problems I would be able to walk normally with my new knee . . and that is a great improvement!
Dorothy I feel for you. I was posting similar things 9 months ago. My GP got involved, he pushed for apointments, & then a series of examinations, ultrasound & various x-rays proved it was in wrong. I felt & heard it (& still do) all the time. I am just over 4 weeks away from the revision now. I'm terrified, as I know it may well not be any better - on the other hand, it could be tons better! I have a new surgeon who I trust, & am on the countdown now.
You may well be fine, & it's just a slow recovery, but always push for a reason, we are humans, the operation is brutal, & we need re-assurance one way or the other. Good luck.
Dorothy41374
Sorry your having such a bad time. Only being 3 wks PO myself, I have still to reach your stage. When I walk on the spot at home I can hear and feel an internal click. Like somethings too tight and each click is painful. I will tell my surgeon at the 6 wks appt.
I don't have access to a gym as such, just the Physio showing me a few moves once a week. I too am regretting the surgery, but then I was walking none on bone, and found myself going out and about less and less. It was ruining my quality of life and I was sure than any surgical pain I would end up with couldn't be as bad. How wrong I was.
I'm trying to keep hopeful but it just gets me down every day
Hope things ease up soon.
Margaret
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Good luck with the revision! Mine still clicks and grinds, but no pain . .so I'm not complaining!
You'll look back in about four or five weeks, and I'm fairly sure you will have changed your mind! yes, it is a matter of it getting worse in order to get better, but in the end it's worth it in 90 per cent of cases. i still get the click at eight months. . sometimes it happens, and apparently it isn't a problem . (well, not for the surgeons. . it is a bit of a nuisance to walk around clicking . . . . )
Oh Dorothy, I just posted for the first time last nite ..I have the exact same issue. I have been using a stationary bike as best I can nearly every day and outpatient PT twice a week. I have been doing ok but last week my PT therapist blended my knee really too far I think coz now it hurts worse than ever. It's been a about 5 days and the pain is not going away . I feel a lot if regret now too. Before my surgery I spoke to so many people who said by three months they felt great some even said by two months. Well my heart goes out to you. I'll tell you one thing about the stiffness. I noticed that if I didn't do all the exercises and use my stationary bike every day I was stiff.
Yes that damn clunking... it is really annoying. I was told that not everyone gets that.
No, we are obviously the lucky ones!
I am 2 days shy of 6 weeks post op and feeling very frustrated, too. Went back to work yesterday and it feels as if my knee is stiffer than ever! The swelling seems to not decrease, although it doesn't feel quite as hot as before. I keep icing, although unable to do much ice at work. Trying to keep doing the stationary bike and push through the pain. I am also wondering if I should have just continued as I had been with bone on bone!
You and I are almost at the same point time wise. The big diference this is the 5th complete rehab, 3rd different prosthesis and 11th surgery on the leg. This is by far the best and quicker ROM I've had but the leg strength is extremely poor. M h therapy sessions have been devoted to weight bearing not so much motion. I started out setting a 90 day time table but within 45 days realized I was somewhere between delusional and completely nuts. I have now decided on my own, Christmas, which will be 6 months to the day will be my next next bechmark date. At that time I hope to be completely strong enough to manuever without a cane. I do pretty good during the day then evening sets in and the horrific pain kicks in and I fight it till midnight or after. By morning, up and going again. As I've mentioned all to many times, my wife has advanced Parkinson's so I'm up fixing breakfast and starting the days running. I've slowed down all the the movement's. No hurry or rush to anything and making sure all movement's are meaningful towards the ultimate recovery. Just remember, as so many have said, this is a years trip. Just keep doing the excercises, continuing to work on ROM and letting the healing come to you and don't try to make it forced.
Hi OFG Hope you reach your Christmas target! It's not that far away . . Looks as if the golf will have to wait a little longer! they are doing Datscan and SPECT scan on my husband this week, and it looks as if they suspect parkinsons, based mainly, I think, on the sudden change in his walking . . No tremors though, so have to wait for the results of the tests. . . Always something new to keep us on our toes!
I certainly hope not. With my wife the tremors were later on. The walk we 1st then the voice softening. The acid test was a hand writhing specimen. They had her write the same phrase 5 times. By the time she finished the 5th try was about 1/4 56th size of the 1st. She has beautiful hand writting and the stroke was the same but the size diminished so badly you could barely read it and now she can hardly write cursive at all. She was one that wrote thank you notes for everything. Now, much to her chagrin, she has to write them on the computer.
They have done a lot of verbal tests, and I was completely surprised to find that simple maths is impossible for him . .e.g. take 4 away from 19 . . . so I'm worried it may be Alzheimer . . .not sure which to hope for, Parkinson or Alzeimer! It's definitely more than just normal aging . . .
Lets hope they get you some answers soon. We can always work better with the known as opposed as the unknown
that is so true! At the moment, the rheumatologist, neurologist and orthopaedic surgeon can't agree what is wrong with my ankles, and so far not one of them has read the MRI properly, which clearly says its osteochondritis! Of course, I suppose he could be wrong (I wish!) but it's annoying to be told to take Lyrica by the rhematologist, take anti inflammatories by the neurologist, , and the orthopaedic surgeon is on holiday until mid \october . . . At the moment, we seem to spend life going to hospitals for consultations or tests!
Did you really have to go back to work so soon? It's really hard to keep up with the icing, rest, exercise routine while working as well. i couldn't even have contemplated it at six weeks. . . No, honestly you should discover that it was worth having done, but being back at work so soon is obviously going to make your progress slower, and more difficult, than for those of us who are able to stay home and concentrate on the knee, wich I admit can become a bit of an obsession! Don't know what your work is, but make sure that where you work they understand your need to get up and exercise every hour or so, and that you are not superwoman!
Yes, unfortunately I did have to return. It wasn't the job, but the doctor. I am mostly at my desk on the computer, and luckily there is no problem with getting up and moving around. Freezer space is limited and there isn't an easy way to elevate my leg. I would have liked at least a couple more weeks, but it wasn't to be. I will be continuing my PT, and I am hoping the exhaustion will help me sleep! That is another whole issue.
Thank you for the encouragement!
Will be really hoping you achieve your target OFG. You've been an inspiration on this forum and you deserve to achieve your goal. Keep your spirits up and your wife too. Xxxx
You have a very unsympathetic doctor! I wish him a bilateral TKR soon!