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Total Knee Replacement-3/23/26
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Talk to your surgeon about pain management. My TKR was 3/3. Still have pain while walking and sometimes at night while lying in bed. Still hurts walking down stairs, getting up from toilet. Soft tissue is still agitated and healing I’m told. Doc gave me a script for a Voltarin and it seems to be working better than OTC Ibuprofen. I’m still having to ice a few times a day as well. Everyone heals differently. This requires a LOT of patience!
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I had my second TKR on 4/13/26. Initial recovery was great, walking with little pain ten days post- then nerve issues flared up, which I had before the surgery in that leg. For a few days after that, on and off, I was in a lot of nerve pain and was very worried that that was going to be it for the long haul. However, after several days it slowly eased. .Then I foolishly allowed an over aggressive PT to push too hard for extension and quadriceps strength, and then did the same thing again, a week later, which irritated my quad tendon above the knee. I’m still dealing with that, but it’s slowly getting better. Most of us get there in the end, with some problems in between. You just have to keep the faith and keep working at strength and flexibility at your own pace, not someone else’s.