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Having knee replacement: how to prepare and questions about PT
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Jun 17, 2021 | Replies (170)Comment receiving replies
Wow @anncgrl - sounds like a textbook recovery except for that blood clot. It must have been so discouraging to get that news. I just had a knee replacement it January and like you, I didn't have any serious recovery problems, but that is scary about the blood clot developing one year post op. I'm curious about what caused you to have the doctor look at it and discover the bloodclot. Was it the swelling? Were there any outside factors like a long plane trip or anything?
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I did not have any indication. I worked from home and did a lot of sitting but I don't know if that mattered. I stood up to take a break one day and my leg hurt as if I had stepped in a small hole and twisted it badly. I thought it would pass but ended up going the doc who sent me immediately to the ER for tests. There were actually two clots. One ran from. My ankle to just under my butt and the other from the back of my knee up further. I was in the hospital for week. I am on a blood thinner all the time