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Foot neuropathy (numbness and pain) after total knee replacement (TKR)
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Still have it after 2 1/2 years and it is constant and worse at night. But my surgeon says it's not a result of his surgery. He did prescribe gabapentin from the get-go, as part of my go home medications, and the only medication I was to take on a three times a day schedule...but of course he still proclaimed that he saw not indication of nerve involvement with his work! I researched gabapentin and thought the side effects to be very risky and since my surgeon said there was no nerve involvement, I could not see why I should take it. He said...then don't!
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Do an ABI test (pressure test for your legs) that is what I had done that found the knee surgeon pinched off the popliteal artery behind my knee and that the numbness was from no blood flow from my knee down. I am 2.5 years out and still have some tingling and numbness in my foot and it gets cold easily and hurts. But since I went almost 60 days before the artery was surgically opened I have some permanent damage to cells and tissue. When I told my knee surgeon what he did and asked why he keep saying it was normal he said and I'll never forget "Why did you wait so long to get it fixed you could of lost your leg" It was my primary that said it was not normal and ordered the ABI which showed little pressure in that leg.