Hi Judy,
I have walked in your shoes. I feel terrible for you that you are in such pain! I had a TKR five years ago, and my knee has never been the same. I told this to my surgeon and his answer to me was “You no longer have the knee that God gave you”! What kind of an answer is that??? After my surgery, while recouperating at home, I became extremely depressed and I couldn’t eat. I had never had depression in my life but now I sympathize with people who have it! I lost 18 pounds in a short time, I couldn’t sleep, the pain meds made me nauseous and I couldn’t only take Tylenol Extra Strength. I have had several surgeries and two babies over my lifetime but I truly *never* had pain like that TNS! Along with depression, I also developed anxiety that I wasn’t getting better. My surgeon did not give me any help………It was my primary care who came to my rescue and listened to me and prescribed some medication for anxiety and sleep. Thank God for her! My TRK is still not great and my left knee is bone on bone, but I have decided to live with that left knee pain. I could never go through another surgery like that ever again! MaryAnn from Boston