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My Knee Replacement Surgery Experience

Posted by ajaymehta10 @ajaymehta10, Nov 16, 2018

Hey friends, I am posting first time on this forum. Actually, I am recovering from a knee replacement surgery and get very good results. Now, I am able to do exercise as well.
My knee cap has some problems and I am a continuous feeling pain in the knee from a long time. My family doctor advised me to get knee replacement surgery and I plan my surgery under the supervision of an experienced doctor. While consultation, the doctor gives me a trust that your knee is able to work again.
On the surgery day, the surgeon gives me analysis and replace my knee joint with an artificial joint. After some medicines and ortho exercises I am able to stand or walking and with the time now I am completely recovering from this surgery. To get safe treatment and desired results you must need to follow the instructions provided by the surgeon.

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weten2 | @weten2 | Nov 6, 2025

I’m 76 and 3 weeks postOp with bilateral TKR. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and glad to be here. I talked to a woman who was 15 years younger and an active tennis player who also did the bilateral. Fortunately for me I work regularly since wrestling days and was able to cope with getting out of bed and chairs. I can’t imagine doing the bilateral overweight and not strong.
I waited 10 years to do this and didn’t want to think about it anymore with doing the knees separately.

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nacho | @nacho | Dec 2, 2025
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My recent X-ray shows no cushion and just bone on bone on the inside of my right knee. I am 65 and very active. Yesterday in fact I placed second in a 5k race finishing in 30 minutes. Be that as it may the knee problem all started 48 years ago with a high school football injury having cartledge removed from the inside of my right knee. The chickens have now come home to roost. I am scheduled to go to Chicago next week and meet with a surgeon who performs minimum invasive knee replacement surgery sparing the quad muscle.
Recovery time is cut in half. I am optimistic that my consultation next goes wee and that I move forward with the surgery.

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@santi
I just had partial knee replacement on medial side. I had the procedure exactly 2 weeks ago. Very little swelling, can walk 2 times a day for 1 mile each walk. I do have pain under knee cap and at times the joint feels weak . But overall I’m coping well.

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steveinarizona | @steveinarizona | Dec 3, 2025
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I am 83 yrs. old. I had a left knee replacement about 10 years ago. I developed neuropathy about 15 years ago. My sugar range from 100-125. I am told I need to have a knee replacement on the right knee now. I am scheduled to have this done in one month. Is this safe for me at my age and the fact that I have neuropathy. I do have back pain but the Doctor feels that it is coming from the bad knee. I need opinions because I do not want to be a wheel chair survivor. Please send me something that would help this decision.

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@valko194
I am 80 years old. I was misdiagnosed with neuropathy but it turned out to be restless leg syndrome. I had right knee pain from my no longer functional right knee and some severe pain when I stepped the wrong way because of a nerve impingement likely caused by my severe misalignment. The treatment and symptoms of the two are very similar.

My incredible surgeon went in with a minimally invasive approach (mini midvastus), gave me a bicruciate retaining implant (that means I still have my real ACL and PCL). did not use a tourniquet, used a CORI robot and did a Functional alignment. I went home that night and I have had no post surgery pain (the same surgeon replaced my left hip three years ago and I had no post surgery pain then either). My surgeon's recovery protocol was to commence PT in the third week. I followed his instructions and that week my PT measured my ROM at 122. On the 27th day post surgery I was on the golf course.

So my advice: find a great surgeon and follow her instructions. It is worth doing but do keep your neurologist informed and involved.

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genie15 | @genie15 | Dec 4, 2025

Wow, what an encouraging message! Thanks for sharing the specifics of the surgical techniques. I will keep this post for the future.

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lindielulu | @lindielulu | Dec 13, 2025
In reply to @steveinarizona "@valko194 I am 80 years old. I was misdiagnosed with neuropathy but it turned out to..." + (show)
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@valko194
I am 80 years old. I was misdiagnosed with neuropathy but it turned out to be restless leg syndrome. I had right knee pain from my no longer functional right knee and some severe pain when I stepped the wrong way because of a nerve impingement likely caused by my severe misalignment. The treatment and symptoms of the two are very similar.

My incredible surgeon went in with a minimally invasive approach (mini midvastus), gave me a bicruciate retaining implant (that means I still have my real ACL and PCL). did not use a tourniquet, used a CORI robot and did a Functional alignment. I went home that night and I have had no post surgery pain (the same surgeon replaced my left hip three years ago and I had no post surgery pain then either). My surgeon's recovery protocol was to commence PT in the third week. I followed his instructions and that week my PT measured my ROM at 122. On the 27th day post surgery I was on the golf course.

So my advice: find a great surgeon and follow her instructions. It is worth doing but do keep your neurologist informed and involved.

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@steveinarizona I had TKR and have had RLS all my life. I can't tell from your post if the surgery did anything to help the RLS for you. For me, after the TKR, my RLS got way worse, unbearable even, could not sleep at all due to the pain (and of course movement) It is gradually getting better but just wondering how your surgery affected your RLS

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steveinarizona | @steveinarizona | Dec 13, 2025
In reply to @lindielulu "@steveinarizona I had TKR and have had RLS all my life. I can't tell from your..." + (show)
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@steveinarizona I had TKR and have had RLS all my life. I can't tell from your post if the surgery did anything to help the RLS for you. For me, after the TKR, my RLS got way worse, unbearable even, could not sleep at all due to the pain (and of course movement) It is gradually getting better but just wondering how your surgery affected your RLS

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I had my RLS under control with a combination of Horizant and the NIDRA machine. I did take a couple of weeks off on the NIDRA right after my surgery as I didn't want to compress the area. Even with medication and the machine, occasionally I would wake up during the night with pain in my legs and have to get up and walk it off. That is very rare and did not happen during my two week hiatus from the NIDRA machine.

I have an appointment late next month with my neurologist and we will talk about tapering off on the medication.

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lindielulu | @lindielulu | Dec 14, 2025
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@lindielulu

I had my RLS under control with a combination of Horizant and the NIDRA machine. I did take a couple of weeks off on the NIDRA right after my surgery as I didn't want to compress the area. Even with medication and the machine, occasionally I would wake up during the night with pain in my legs and have to get up and walk it off. That is very rare and did not happen during my two week hiatus from the NIDRA machine.

I have an appointment late next month with my neurologist and we will talk about tapering off on the medication.

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@steveinarizona Thanks for the response. I have never heard of the NIDRA machine but I am to see my neurologist in January and I will sure mention this to him. He has never suggested anything like that, just med after med, nothing works well and now is much worse

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