Re: Re:recent knee replacement surgery issues

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In a message dated 5/11/2008 10:28:03 P.M. Central Standard Time,

chiodo_keller@... writes:

Are you waking up because you are in pain? I really

hope not. I am scheduled to have total knee

replacement surgery on June 17th and reading your

message makes me worry. I am in constant pain now and

I'm taking Darvocet just to get through the day and

night. I really hope that I'll be able to get off of

this pain med. right after surgery, but I'm not sure.

I hope that you are feeling better soon.

You will have pain after the surgery, but it's a good kind of pain, if that

makes any sense. It's so much better than the pain you have before. I'm

very glad that I had both of mine done, otherwise I would probably be in a

wheelchair. If you've been on Darvocet for a while you may have to take

something

stronger to get you through. I really can't remember how long that I took

it, isn't that weird, it was only 2 years ago, but it may have been a couple

of months. They had me on Percocet and I gradually cut back.

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You won't be off pain meds right after surgery but I know I didn't need

anything but Tylenol after about 10 weeks after surgery and really after 4

weeks, I was taking very little pain meds.

What's amazing after TKR is that you are in pain but you can tell it's not

the same unrelenting pain of a bone-on-bone knee that you had before. I had

a little trouble sleeping after surgery but slept on the couch for two

months (maybe a little less) on my back with my feet propped up a tiny bit.

That helped and eventually I was sleeping in a bed.

It's not so much the pain that interrupted my sleep but just a general

fidgety uncomfortable thing because I didn't quite have my mobility back.

I'm now 16 months from surgery and my knee is as good as the natural one. I

can do pretty much anything except kneel and I did little of that before.

Re:recent knee replacement surgery

issues

Are you waking up because you are in pain? I really

hope not. I am scheduled to have total knee

replacement surgery on June 17th and reading your

message makes me worry. I am in constant pain now and

I'm taking Darvocet just to get through the day and

night. I really hope that I'll be able to get off of

this pain med. right after surgery, but I'm not sure.

I hope that you are feeling better soon.

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I remember now, that I did sleep in the recliner a lot when I couldn't get

comfortable in bed. It's been 2 years and it's funny, and good, how you can't

remember pain.

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