Oh dear Britta I am so sorry things have not gone to plan for you. I hope with the new treatment you will be get on the road to recovery pretty quickly. I wish you well. Love from tucks
Hi ruby, so sorry you are suffering these problems the TNR is enough to for anyone to bear and you do not need other things going on. It will be sorted sooner or later. Best of luck will be thinking about you. Love tucks
Hi Tucks. How are you getting on? Thank you so much for your words of encouragement - it means a lot😘. This TKR lark is getting a bit silly now lol. Oh well I guess there are others worse off than me. At least I am keeping the tears at bay for a while lol. Hope all is ok with you Tucks. Love and best wishes xxx
Hi my freind I am doing well at the moment, touching wood, at 10weeks I am walking around 1/4mile a day. Sleeping better , feeling less weepy. It's a horrendous journey don't you think, I was totally unprepared for it. I feel as if I have been to hell and back, but I'm here to tell the tale and I can imagine you must feel the same, trouble is our legs are so important to us lol you will get there ruby , don't feel that you are feeling sorry for yourself have a good moan and have a good cry when you need to, it will sustain you in your darkest moments. I have cried for England . Bless you hope you turn that corner. Soon. Love from tucks x
Carol, well done you, what a role model you are. 5 weeks and driving all that way keep up the good work you are going to be fine, and how was that beautiful little boy.? You should be so proud of yourself. Love from tucks x
I too have had a good moan and a weep now and then ... This time yesterday I was going to ask my GP for anti-depressants ans then last night,moor the first time in a month, woke only three times and not four. Like a new baby sleeping through the night, I don't expect it will be like this enpvery night, but every hour of sleep is a bonus and today I actually did better with my physio and hot dressed!
So ... Have a weep, have a moan to all of us who get it ... But as Scarlett O'Hara said "tomorrow is another day".
thinking of you ... It sounds as if they will do ll they can gor you pain wise ... Hopefully you will be doped up enough to sleep off most of the aftermath .... May be it won't be as bad as you fear ....
Sorry gor all those spelling mistakes ... Blame it on the OxyCodone!
Oh Tucks, you are so right . It is horrendous but we will BOTH get there! I have not been so weepy this week - feeling less sorry for myself lol. I don't think any of us have been prepared for this journey through TKR torture! Well done you for doing lots of walking. It all helps. I too am sleeping better - maybe it's a 10 week thing! My husband is sleeping in the spare room as I was disturbing his sleep so much. He said it was fine but I thought it best for him to sleep there as he has to work and he can be a right pain when he is tired. But gues what? I have the whole bed to stretch out in. It is sheer bliss
and I can rest my operated knee without worrying if he is going to knock into it! Maybe that's why I'm sleeping better lol. Keep up the good work, Tucks.
I will let you know how the drainage thing goes yikes!! Love to you xxx
Yes Tucks/Ruby all! It is an extremely traumatic op. one is certainly not per pared for it and no one who hasn't had it understands. I used to get quietly mad when hip replacement people acted so surprised because their recovery was easy as if there was something wrong with me. Lol Now I just tell them all medicos say knees are far worse. Heh. However for those contemplating a second it is better because I was prepared. Not to say it is less painful and disturbing and uncomfortable etc. it is just very boring as well because I know I can't do much So just have to sit it out and wait for recovery. Sit tight all. I know it gets better as it did with my first and it will for the second and it will for all of you! So sayeth the voice of experience. But I am getting to watch a lot of DVDs 
Hi Gloria , oh how I wish I could concentrate o some DVD s or even TV. I can't seem to sit comfortably, I'm hitthering and ditheringl instead of relaxing. I wasn't like this before the op. I am less weepy until bedtime and then the tears come, for no obvious reason. I shall be so glad to see the back of it all. I am normally happy and full of fun, want my life back please lol. Love from tucks
Hi ya ruby ,me again thanks for your comments, because I am a widow I am used to being able to stretch out in bed and its a big plus. Nights are my weepiness times too. Whilst I have been in recovery I would have loved to have a cup of tea to wake up to. Silly I suppose but it does upset me. Even though my family have been so good looking at 4walls alone, day and night is a hard road to tread. I'm whingeing again, must stop it. So good to talk, love from tucks xxx
Oh Tucks. I am sorry for being so insensitive. I really admire people like yourself who have gone through this recovery living on their own. I would have gone to bits - in fact I'm not far off of that and I have both my husband and a daughter still living at home! How selfish am I? You are not whingeing at all. Everyone who has gone through this awful op is entitled to feel a bit sorry for themselves - I know I have quite often😊 I wish I lived near you, I'd bring you a cup of tea in bed. Just think, this time next year we will both be walking around with no pain. If next year goes a quickly as this one, it should fly! Stay positive love and scream and cry if it helps - it has helped me at times. Love and best wishes to you xxx
Aaww, Tucks, I feel for you too being on your own. Please keep talking on here when you're fed up. Even though I'm lucky to have my husband here it's still good to catch up and whinge when necessary on this site. Hope you get a good night's sleep. Take care, Jen x
Hi Britta,
i had my op on July 14th and cannot get any more than 55 degrees I'm currently waiting to find out if they can do anything or not, I hope all goes well for you
ruby! we are going in on the same day! november 4 ... let's make sure that everything goes well for both of us. it has to, we both need mobility.
i hear you ... my left knee also needs doing shortly, it was basically just a case of tossing a coin: left or right knee first? sometimes i think surgeons are not in touch with reality. by delaying it, your operated knee was in a much worse state (and the muscles and ligaments around it) and the pressure on your other knee much higher. seriously, what does age have to do with it? you are in pain and something needs doing.
as we have heard on here over and and over again, no two knees are the same. i am making sure the left knee is as healthy as it can be before i go into surgery again. i think that makes a huge difference.
will be thinking of you on november 4!
hahah! sayeth the voice of experience indeed! i was thinking along these lines as well as i know the second one is looming. if nothing else, i think we have got the medication sorted and one thing is for sure, they can give me lyrica from the get-go! amazing stuff and i am still only on a low dosage, building up daily. and i am holding on to the thought that every knee is different and surely i cannot have two difficult / uncooperative knees? enjoy watching your dvd's.
lyrica has been mentioned here many times and my doc prescribed it too. i started on saturday and will be gradually be building up the dose as it is supposedly great for nerve endings and - total bonus if you ask me - also acts as a bit of a happy pill according to the leaflet. as of today i take it twice a day and i am feeling quite groovy at the moment :-)
i have to keep telling myself that i want to fly to bali next year. with a 120 degree bend. "bali - bali - bali" is my new mantra :-)
hope your sleep keeps improving. sleep is sooo important! apparently the most healing gets done during the night when we sleep. perhaps some herbal sleep remedy?
hi lisa ... my heart goes out to you. it is so frustrating, isn't it, we go in with the hope that things will get better - making all the suffering worth it - and then this! what do you put the poor bend down to? did you get physio? one of the ladies on here really, really gave me food for thought. she said she did the exercises about 8 times a day. this would explain why she has an excellent bend. i did mine twice a day if all went well. put me to shame!! but then again, the pain was so bad, it was hard to motivate myself.
my surgeon tells me that the manual bend has to be done within 3 months of the operation, after that he considers it too risky. so my thoughts are with you and please update us on what your surgeon tells you.
i have definitely learned a lot for when i have my second one done, that's for sure! good luck, lisa!
hi gloria ... so day 3 on lyrica and i am noticing a huge difference despite being on a low dosage for the time being. we are upping it every 2nd day so i am super interested in seeing the outcome and how much it allows me to work through the pain. for my second knee, this will be on the menu from day one!
my surgeon is also of the opinion that meds - and lots of them - are the only way of working through the pain. so he gave me loads, but they weren't effective. now i regret not going back and insisting on reviewing what i was taking. i feel i have wasted about 3 weeks! ho hum. i have this teeny tiny hope that i improve so quickly that i won't need surgery. hope springs eternal!
Fantastic britta. So glad that it is working for you. And yes u may have been a bit slow off the mark this time but you will be up and running next time. Good on you!