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Joint Replacements | Last Active: May 26, 2023 | Replies (72)
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At 6 weeks and 130 ROM, you’re a rock star! I’m exactly a year out and still having some difficulty. I was told because of my age(53) , it may be a result of being on the younger side that my body keeps trying to repair itself by rapidly forming scar tissue. Sleep and PM nerve pain was one of the biggest difficulties for me. It got better after 3 months. I literally went that long before I slept more than 2-3 hours per night. I actually began to hallucinate a couple times with the lack of sleep.
Using a heavy duty massager every night seems to help, as well as taking a nightly bath. I also was prescribed gabapentin for nerve pain which helped a little...
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@golfshrink - I’m 54 and 8.5 months out and have been told the same regarding age, difficulty in recovery and scar tissue. Although counterintuitive, the younger you are the harder a TKR recovery seems to be.
In the course of the docs trying to figure out why I still have so much pain, a revision was also briefly considered. But again - due to age- was “ruled out”. I was told by a professor that teaches revisions to find a way to deal with the pain for 10 years before he would consider a revision due to my young age