total knee replacement

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Hi Jim

My surgeon took hold of my knee and showed me it was supposed to click; it has four joints in it. Clicking is okay.

To ease the knee for sleeping, try a pillow under it. I have a contour bed and sometimes the only way I can get through the night is to raise the bottom a bit. Be sure if you lie on your side to keep a pillow between your knees, too.

Yeah, flexing is still stretching scar tissue and muscles. It should go away soon. How much flex have you achieved?

Marge

I am a new member, 61 years old and had my knee replaced 4 weeks ago. I have been exercizing 45 minutes in the morning and at night and have been walking without a cane for two weeks. My joint seems to make a clicking feeling sometimes and my pain is just about gone except for a little at night which causes me not to sleep well. I would like to hear from others as to if this is normal or do I have problems. It also hurts when I try to improve my flex during exercize.Thanks,Jim

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Marge,

Thanks for the reply, I had 110 flex a week ago at my last therapy,

it might be a little better now, but after the flex exercizes it is

sore for a while. It also gets sore when I sit in a chair for a

while. You said you had four joints, I think I have titanium on top

and bottom with plastic attached to bottom, would you consider that

two joints? Also thanks for the suggestions, it seems I wake up

about every hour and have to move.

Jim

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> Hi Jim

> My surgeon took hold of my knee and showed me it was supposed to

click; it has four joints in it. Clicking is okay.

> To ease the knee for sleeping, try a pillow under it. I have a

contour bed and sometimes the only way I can get through the night

is to raise the bottom a bit. Be sure if you lie on your side to

keep a pillow between your knees, too.

> Yeah, flexing is still stretching scar tissue and muscles. It

should go away soon. How much flex have you achieved?

> Marge

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> I am a new member, 61 years old and had my knee replaced 4 weeks

ago. I have been exercizing 45 minutes in the morning and at night

and have been walking without a cane for two weeks. My joint seems

to make a clicking feeling sometimes and my pain is just about gone

except for a little at night which causes me not to sleep well. I

would like to hear from others as to if this is normal or do I have

> problems. It also hurts when I try to improve my flex during

exercize.

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Marilyn,

Thanks a lot for the advice.

Jim

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> > Hi Jim

> > My surgeon took hold of my knee and showed me it was supposed to

> > click; it has four joints in it. Clicking is okay.

> > To ease the knee for sleeping, try a pillow under it. I have a

> > contour bed and sometimes the only way I can get through the

night is

> > to raise the bottom a bit. Be sure if you lie on your side to

keep a

> > pillow between your knees, too.

> > Yeah, flexing is still stretching scar tissue and muscles. It

should

> > go away soon. How much flex have you achieved?

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> > I am a new member, 61 years old and had my knee replaced 4 weeks

ago.

> > I have been exercizing 45 minutes in the morning and at night

and have

> > been walking without a cane for two weeks. My joint seems to

make a

> > clicking feeling sometimes and my pain is just about gone except

for a

> > little at night which causes me not to sleep well. I would like

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> > hear from others as to if this is normal or do I have

> > problems. It also hurts when I try to improve my flex during

exercize.

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> > Thanks,

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> > Jim

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Marilyn,

Thanks again, I stopped taking pain pills about two weeks after

surgery, will look for something OTC, any suggestions?

Jim

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> > I am a new member, 61 years old and had my knee replaced 4 weeks

> > ago. I have been exercizing 45 minutes in the morning and at

night

> > and have been walking without a cane for two weeks. My joint

seems

> > to make a clicking feeling sometimes and my pain is just about

gone

> > except for a little at night which causes me not to sleep well. I

> > would like to hear from others as to if this is normal or do I

have

> > problems. It also hurts when I try to improve my flex during

> > exercize.

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> > Thanks,

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Hi Jim,

I agree with Marilyn that it sounds as though you're doing great for

four weeks postop. I live in Canada and up here the doctors often

give people Gravol to help them sleep at night. In the US, it goes

by the name of Dramamine and it's used for motion sickness. Here,

we use it a lot for nausea and it makes people very drowsy. I found

that it helped me both before and after my hip replacement when I

couldn't sleep.

Good luck!

Sigrid

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> > I am a new member, 61 years old and had my knee replaced 4 weeks

> > ago. I have been exercizing 45 minutes in the morning and at

night

> > and have been walking without a cane for two weeks. My joint

seems

> > to make a clicking feeling sometimes and my pain is just about

gone

> > except for a little at night which causes me not to sleep well. I

> > would like to hear from others as to if this is normal or do I

have

> > problems. It also hurts when I try to improve my flex during

> > exercize.

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> > Thanks,

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Marge,Thanks for the reply, I had 110 flex a week ago at my last therapy, it might be a little better now, but after the flex exercizes it is sore for a while.

Hey Jim, How well I remember!

You said you had four joints, I think I have titanium on top and bottom with plastic attached to bottom, would you consider that two joints?

Well. I do not know. I just know that a knee moves out and in and swivels left and right, and it has to be built for those motions. To me, that sounds like four joints. I am sure if you were to view some of the links that others have put on here, you would understand it more fully. It is enough for me that my leg works!

Also thanks for the suggestions, it seems I wake up about every hour and have to move.It does get easier. I have been blessed with a contour bed and can lie there and just push a button which eases muscles, then I can drop right back to sleep. It is my opinion that we should all rent a hospital bed until we can sleep easy.

MargeJim

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YES! please get good home pt. & then when it's time try in get a real good pt. that's outpatient pt. ok. good luck to you & your mom & make sure you're with her so that they want be mean to her or make her do something her dr. told her not to do ok. good luck my prayers or with you both . & tell you mom i hope everything goes alright with her ok. & i don't know if all are in fl. pensacola, fl. because there is a good pt. for out patient pt. up at baspisist medical park on nine mile rd. & ask for scot up there . ok. they're all very good ok. & for home pt . try in get intrem health care ok. from centry. they're will good ok. & good luck but i'm looking for a knee replacesment too. but my say i'm to young in i have to wait until i'm aleast 60 years old for 1. susposedly they don't last .by the way how old's your mother? if you don't mineing me asking. good luck ok. but if she goes to the 1 i meation for out patient you want

have to watch them at all but you can go in their in watch what they do with the patient ok.bye now. get back with me a.s.a.p. ok.lahinote <LAHINOTE@...> wrote:

Hi! My name is Leigh Ann. My mother had TKR yesterday. She is awake and alert. She knows that she has a long road ahead of her. I was wondering if there are any tips or advice to help her through the next few months. Thanks!Leigh Ann

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Sharon,

Thanks for the advice. We live in Las Vegas. So far her hospital

stay has been hard. She developed a fever and has needed 2 units of

blood post-op. Her pt's have been great!! They has pushed her a bit

and she has done well. My mom is 68. She has a great doctor.

Because of the fever, the hospital brought in their infectious

disease doctors. They recommened going back to the OR and asperating

her knee. Her ortho doc wasn't too quick to jump on that band

wagon. I said that she should refuse to do it. The next day her

fever broke and the infectious disease docs backed off the

asperation. She has walked to the wall outside of her room. Today

she is going to try to walk to the nurse's station. It is hard work

but it makes her feel like she has accomplished something huge.

Anyhow, thanks for your response and we are trying very hard to get

into a rehab center that will be the best for her.

Leigh Ann

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> My name is Leigh Ann. My mother had TKR yesterday. She is awake

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you're welcome.i hope everything goes alright for her & you too. my prayers or with you both. get well soon ok.bye now & good luck again on every thing with your mom.lahinote <LAHINOTE@...> wrote:

Sharon,Thanks for the advice. We live in Las Vegas. So far her hospital stay has been hard. She developed a fever and has needed 2 units of blood post-op. Her pt's have been great!! They has pushed her a bit and she has done well. My mom is 68. She has a great doctor. Because of the fever, the hospital brought in their infectious disease doctors. They recommened going back to the OR and asperating her knee. Her ortho doc wasn't too quick to jump on that band wagon. I said that she should refuse to do it. The next day her fever broke and the infectious disease docs backed off the asperation. She has walked to the wall outside of her room. Today she is going to try to walk to the nurse's station. It is hard work but it makes her feel like she has

accomplished something huge. Anyhow, thanks for your response and we are trying very hard to get into a rehab center that will be the best for her.Leigh AnnHi! > My name is Leigh Ann. My mother had TKR yesterday. She is awake and > alert. She knows that she has a long road ahead of her. I was > wondering if there are any tips or advice to help her through the next > few months. Thanks!> > Leigh Ann> > > > > > >

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Hi Leigh Ann,

I think its great that you asking how to help your Mom ,I have a daughter and a son and they don't understand about arthritis I had my Hip replacement done five years ago and a Knee replacement done three years ago they could not understand way I was still in pain and I still couldn't walked good well I had a spine x ray and found out I have bad arthritis in my spine and thats way I can't walked good or move fast . All I can say is be Patience and help her but let her do stuff for herself if she feels up to it . Don't put her in a Nurses Home I was put in one after both operations and thats the worst place to be put in and I was in a wheel chair in both places for two weeks and thats not good .Well you have a nice day.

Susie

-------------- Original message -------------- Hi! My name is Leigh Ann. My mother had TKR yesterday. She is awake and alert. She knows that she has a long road ahead of her. I was wondering if there are any tips or advice to help her through the next few months. Thanks!Leigh Ann

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i have been suffering with knee pain for over a year now i have been

thru all the routine procedures from shots to arthroscopy i am

contemplating replacement may be i just need a little reassurance from

other people with the same problem

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LOL LOL LOL That's good Bob.

Related to the cement issue. My doctor does not us cement at all.

He said that it is just another thing that has a potential of a

negative reacting. The way I understand it is that the bone is

prepared so that the metal fits on tightly. Kind of a press fit.

The back side of the metal is honeycombed or something and that over

time the bone grows into the spaces. I am not sure about the lower

metal piece the pictures I have seen shows a piece that fits into the

marrow cavity. Anyway would like to hear the pro's and con's of

cement or not.

Don

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> replacement is that the cement breaks down. I had thought it was

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> the implant parts wore out. You'd think they'd invent a better

> cement. Can't be that hard. My uncle used to be an adhesives

> developer for 3M and then Avery. Look at all the other things

they've

> invented. Why not a better bone cement?

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Hi let me know what the dr says if you do it ,this sounds crazy to me LOL LOL SusieEleanor <trkmom1@...> wrote: Dang, why didn't I think of that??? Perfect and I'll put in a hinge so it will bend when I walk ..How

cool is that?? Now if only my hubby were home, he could do it before next week so I could wear it to my 3 month ckup! AND DON'T THINK I WOULDN'T!!! Wouldn't the Dr. stroke! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..I'll tell him I got a 2nd opinion and that is what the Arkansas OS prescribed!! Eleanor>> just duct-tape a piece of 1/2" plywood to the short leg>

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, Before my daughter's wedding, I got cortisone in both knees. That got me through the parties, the rehearsal dinner, the reception line and even the dancing. I don't think I could have pulled if off two or even three months after surgery unless I doubled up on my pain pills. And that would mean no champagne. ;-( Everyone is different when it comes to recovery. But I think you would be gambling. Get some cortisone, have a blast and then have surgery when she gets back from the honeymoon so all the hullabaloo is over and she can help take care of mom. Donna Deb <garagesale1999@...> wrote: I had my pkr done in Nov I took about 9 weeks for me slow down on my pt. It would depend on the event and what your pain is now. At 10 weeks I wouldn't be dancing or running, If your pain is not bad now and your knee is stable I would wait. deb in michigansusan schreiber <ascribesbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote: i am planning to have tkr soon. Have heard rehab is painful. Have an important event in about ten weeks and am wondering if I should wail until after that.any advice ? Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check.Try the Beta.

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