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Peripheral Neuropathy after total knee replacement
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Hi, I would just like to add my personal experience in regard to your post surgery Neuropathy. I had bilateral knee replacement nine years ago. (both knees replaced at the same time) I only started to experience Neuropathy about two years ago. Only slightly at first, but in the past year it has progressed rapidly. I am among the fortunate ones, I guess, who experience no pain with my neuropathy. Numbness only.
So, to your concern that Post operative surgery, knee replacements, contribute to Neuropathy, I would have to interject that that may not be the case. At least for me, considering eight years pasted post knee replacement surgery before I experience neuropathy. That said, everyone is different. Many factors come to play. I am now 74 years old and that may or may not play a factor. Just wanted to put my two cents in.
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I have had some form of ideopathic neuropathy in both feet/legs for the past 25 years. No pain, but numness, heaviness and loss of balance. I had both knees replaced ( one 12 years ago, the latter 10 years ago) . I am not certain they are related for that reason. My pain, if you call it pain is the restlessness of legs due to the numbness interfering with my sleep. Now my hands are involved in the numbness causing me to drop things constantly. I am 85, so I just figure its age related as well. Neurologists have no answers. I am trying the "earth" shoes that allow toes to spread as well as being lighter and they seem to at least accomodate the swelling I get in the late afternoons. I have tried all sorts of useless light therapy, vibration therapy, drugs (gabapentin) that made balance issues worse, There are my 2 cents as well.
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Yeah, I know everyone is different. I just commented that my worsening (numbness only) neuropathy was contemporaneous with knee replacement, and that is factual. I was not intending to imply causation of any kind. I still have lots of swelling and I hope both conditions improve soon.