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I'm having a total knee replacement in 2 days.
Not looking foreward to the op. but cant wait to get rid of the pain!!
I'm sure some of you will have had this op.
How was it for you???
Pete
Im seven weeks after mine, and the pain is still worse than what I had before. However there are some at my hip and knee class that are pain free after 1 month. It still feels a bit clunky and unnatural and gets swollen and very stiff.
My best advice is do the exercises little and often. Its painful and the beginning but you want to get as much movement in it so you have to work through it.
Make sure you get the pain relief sorted out earlier enough.
I might seem a little negotitive, but that might be that I had bad treatment in hospital and had cellulitis which nearly turned into septcemia, so I think some of the infection went a bit deep, so that slowed me down a few weeks.
My Missus had both knees totally replace over 6 months.
First one was very good (RN Hospital, Haslar), second one a complete shambles at a BUPA hospital.
Three years on both knees are ok, but if she hadn't had the ops she would be confined to a wheelchair by now.
Its important to realise that post-op you will experience a lot of pain.
Its important,too, to carry out the recommended exercises even though they are painful.
I'm afraid I was a bit of a bully to her but now she can walk very well and has got rid of the walking stick and even started to ride a bike for short distances.
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Thats what I tried to get over in my message, that the most important thing is to do the exercises and physio.
If you come out of hospital and you only get the basic two or three exercises and dont get the physio sorted out, I will pm you what I did in my hip and knee classes.
I hope it goes well and you end up being pain free with good mobility.
HI My wife had a replacement some years ago, was reluctant to do the phsyio but now wishes she had done more we shall see when she has the other one done but was told the waiting time is 12 months but she's getting impatient with the wait.
I haven't had a new knee but I have been to a knee class so understand the issues. I'm having a new cornea in a few weeks though so i feel for anyone who is about to go under the knife.
I had a new knee (complete) fitted almost 2 years ago.
I was back at work after 6 weeks and completely pain free after 8 weeks. (the pain I had wasn't as bad as prior to the op).
You must do the exercise prescribed.
It was very successful and I recommend it to anyone who has the same condition.
I still have numbness in certain areas and I don't have the bend I used to (Now about 110 Degrees)
I have no regrets.
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I had a new knee (complete) fitted almost 2 years ago.
I was back at work after 6 weeks and completely pain free after 8 weeks. (the pain I had wasn't as bad as prior to the op).
You must do the exercise prescribed.
It was very successful and I recommend it to anyone who has the same condition.
I still have numbness in certain areas and I don't have the bend I used to (Now about 110 Degrees)
I have no regrets.
That is just about exactly word for word what I was going to write.
Mine was done in May - I was in the theatre first thing Monday morning and could have walked out of the hospital on the Thursday without crutches if they'd have let me - but don't try it, you must let it bed in whilst using crutches for support or the new joints may set wrongly.
I had brilliant after surgery support and then physio but another chap who was in the hospital with me had virtually none and he lives less than 20 miles away. So if you don't think you are getting good post op/physio support kick up a stink.
Apparently 110 degrees is about the best articulation that can be hoped for as it is just about the maximum the current joints can manage.
The surgeons are happy with anything over 90degrees whereas the physios want 180degrees - well mine did
Mine is still stiff and "heavy" at times buit way way better thaty when the bones used to grate on each other
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