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So glad you are doing better this time around. I'm a week out and I honestly don't remember this pain. I'm struggling. This time around done robotically using the Rosa and Cori system, glue not staples. I honestly want to feel like I did with the nerve block when I came home lol.....therapy scares me and getting out of my car is so excruciating. Im 64 and already suffer from chronic pain and inflammation. Can't do pain meds and honestly I don't feel they help that much anyway.
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So sorry you are suffering. Therapy may scare you but you really, really need physical therapy following a TKR. I have several different persons working on me at my PT facility. One of them and I have discussed what it was like for him to be an acolyte of the Marquis de Sade. He worked me really hard and it hurt. The others, not so much. I feel I got the most benefit from the one who hurt me massaging my quads trying to get them to release.
As for pain meds, I was one of the fortunate ones who didn't need any but some here have been using that new non opiod drug Journavx. Maybe that could work for you.
BTW -- ROSA and CORI are competing robotic systems and I have never heard of a surgeon using both for the same procedure on the same patient.