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Aceisback said:
Oh I’ve been having that. Got my first shots in ’07 and been on anti inflammatories and pain meds since. It’s been bone on bone for a while but chunks of cartilage are cutting things up in there. Good ol VA care…
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Good luck hopefully good as new when you’re done. Several friends have had knee replacement and are better off afterwards.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
My mom just got a knee replacement and she is not able to walk at all anymore. Hopefully the situation will improve. 😞
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Have to be committed post replacement to doing the flex and straightening exercises, it's critical, if it's not done regularly or more (gotta push thru the pain), the scar tissue will make it worse.

If only 1 knee got done and the other was just as bad, the people I spoke to about their surgery (dr referrals) I got the impression that doing one knee at a time was a more difficult recovery as the "good" knee was to weak and painful to put all the pressure on it to help the replacement knee heal; this made me decide to do both at once and glad I did.

My neighbor's wife saw me outside hobbling around 5 days post-surgery and was shocked to see me walking (I wouldn't quite call it that lol), told me her husband laid around, complained about the pain and didn't do the exercises because it hurt... now he can barely walk and because he still won't do the work to break up the scar tissue, he's getting less mobile.

Good luck to your mom, hope she improves
 
jeeeep said:
Have to be committed post replacement to doing the flex and straightening exercises, it's critical, if it's not done regularly or more (gotta push thru the pain), the scar tissue will make it worse.

If only 1 knee got done and the other was just as bad, the people I spoke to about their surgery (dr referrals) I got the impression that doing one knee at a time was a more difficult recovery as the "good" knee was to weak and painful to put all the pressure on it to help the replacement knee heal; this made me decide to do both at once and glad I did.

My neighbor's wife saw me outside hobbling around 5 days post-surgery and was shocked to see me walking (I wouldn't quite call it that lol), told me her husband laid around, complained about the pain and didn't do the exercises because it hurt... now he can barely walk and because he still won't do the work to break up the scar tissue, he's getting less mobile.

Good luck to your mom, hope she improves
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My mom is 87. She has been in severe pain for a long time since already falling down and breaking her femer. She has a strong spirit and still insisted on going to the grocery store, and church, even with her knee popping out to the side.

After 9 days in the hospital, I do hope that she sticks with it and gets the exercise that she needs in order to recover.
 
JT@623 said:
How’s the knee doing
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Kind of hard to tell at this point but I definitely don’t feel the crunching and grinding going on that I did before.
I haven’t taken the Hydrocodon they gave me yet because whatever I got during the surgery is still keeping the pain at bay. I can tell this because the bone on bone and crunching and grinding in my neck isn’t the intense pain I always deal with.
Waiting on a call back from a nurse because I’m curios about the squishing noise I’m hearing in my knee when I do the flexing I was told to do. Weird hearing liquid moving around in your body.
Wife keeps telling me to sit down and rest. Hard because I haven’t been able to move pain free for sometime.
Seems to be going well at this point.
 
Aceisback said:
Kind of hard to tell at this point but I definitely don’t feel the crunching and grinding going on that I did before.
I haven’t taken the Hydrocodon they gave me yet because whatever I got during the surgery is still keeping the pain at bay. I can tell this because the bone on bone and crunching and grinding in my neck isn’t the intense pain I always deal with.
Waiting on a call back from a nurse because I’m curios about the squishing noise I’m hearing in my knee when I do the flexing I was told to do. Weird hearing liquid moving around in your body.
Wife keeps telling me to sit down and rest. Hard because I haven’t been able to move pain free for sometime.
Seems to be going well at this point.
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Pain free, is the first thing I noticed in my knees as well. Surgery pain after that crunchy knee pain you described is a piece of cake.
When they take you on the walk assessment, Don't Walk too far and too easily as it will affect the type of PT you get.
It was such a relief to walk without knee pain I was up and down the hallway like a giddy 14 year old hitting puberty... I didn't get the cadillac version of PT that I could have but of course they didn't tell me this till afterwards
 
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