I had TKR in September 2024 & an MUA in November 2024. My knee pain and nerve pain never went away. My extension was -20 and my extension was 85 after a full year of PT 3 times weekly and home exercises that I never missed.

My surgeon didn’t want to do a scope and wanted me to wait 18 months before a revision. The nerve pain was so bad at night that I couldn’t sleep even with 600 mg of Gabapentin at night (total of 1200 daily) and Tramadol.

My GP finally agreed I shouldn’t live like this and referred me to another orthopedic surgeon at a different clinic. They immediately said my original TKR had completely failed and I needed a full revision.

I had my revision on October 15, 2025. Surgery was expected to be 2-2.5 hour, but it took them 5 hours, but it worked!

At my 12 week mark I had full extension and my flexion is 115 degrees. I still have some nerve damage along the outer part of my knee, and because they had to shave off a lot of bone on the femur and tibia I have to wear an insert in my one shoe.

They had to drill further into both the tibia and femur to insert posts and then cement on the other parts of the replacement.

But after 12 weeks I’m doing great and the pain has pretty much subsided. I’m still on Gabapentin due to the nerve damage and it has really helped. I hope it helps with your pain.