Going on Seven Months

To Nancy, I'm Marield65, I feel a click in my knee and I have a hard part of the knee LkR on the left side of the knee that makes the knee replacement look larger than my right knee. Neither is painful, even though the weather makes my knee very sensitive. I am 3 1/2 months post op.

@contentandwell, @cheris, @cobweb, @niazumbanut, and @beatricefay- did any of you experience crunching or clicking after your knee replacement?

Have you brought this up with your surgeon? How do your X-rays look?

I'm 11 years post-op and just had an X-ray. My knee is in great shape, still in place, but I brought up that I occasionally feel a clicking sensation from time to time. I joke with my wife that my knee feels, "awfully clicky today."

I've been assured that it has nothing to do structurally with my knee. It could be scar tissue, or a weird sensation. This isn't to say that it's the same for you, that's why I was curious if your surgeon says the knee looks good and in place. If it isn't painful, I'd stick with PT exercises as directed! My knee, when bent, looks nothing like my normal knee, it is far more round looking.

Hi Justin,

The surgeon looked at the post op x-rays and said everything was good. The PA who is the person you get to talk to after that, just says everything is normal. It clicks if you put your hand there and bend the knee, in the morning there are spots that are sucken in. There is still pain. Somethings a sharp poke, others more of a sore sensation. I suppose it could have to do with the complicated popliteal cyst structure that formed post op. Maybe it is putting pressure all over in there.

As for exercises they left me with three. Leg lifts, lying on my side, bent knees doing like a bent leg lift, and going up and down stairs. Maybe i am just getting tired of it.

Thanks for the response.

i had the sharp pain when i did my exercises. When i did water aerobics my knee swelled up. Could never figure that out. Frustrating thing was i was i strong shape when i had my tkr but the therapy never seemed to work. Three -four years later i still have pain but i tend to ignore it.

thanks cobweb i kind a figured it was a no win situation. just frightening--the knee is like a shape changer

Marield65 here. Funny you said that your replacement knee looks rounder than your real knee when bent. Mine does also. And clicks. I guess that is common for some people because I have asked anyone I know that had a knee replacement and some do have the clicking. I just ignore it now. Thanks for putting me in the normal category. I am 4 months post op and doing great.

@jamienolson Hi Jamie, I am not sure what you are referring when you ask if any of us experienced that after knee replacement. If you are referring to the clicking that was mentioned, no I did not. I had a manager in my last job that had a clicking hip and it turned out to be defective and they wanted to redo it but he said no, he would rather just put up with clicking.
JK

Hi! sorry- I should have been specific. I fixed my post. Thank you!! 🙂

ok, so maybe i'm partially normal. lol thanks for sharing