@artscaping
I just typed up an answer and lost it, so I will try to get all info here again.
My medication started out with tylenol and oxycodone for pain and Celebrex for swelling.
I ended up in the ER 3 days after surgery for back pain (sciatica like) and got a shot of dilauted and a prescription for a few pills. That helped the pain immensely for a few days. I called my surgeons office and explained what was going on, they took me off dilauted and replaced it with a steroid pack which helped for the first day, but the second hadn't felt like it did anything (that is the day of original post).
I elevate quite a bit and also have the machine (cpm, or cpt ?) that moves my leg from straight to bent and do that as the PT said, 45 to 60 minutes 3x daily, or more if possible. I even sleep using it because otherwise pain is worse yet! I did tell PT about the burning and he did some pressure point thing that helped for most of that day, but did come back later.
I am not great with pain, and then I get in my head about falling behind with PT and hindering my progress, ugh!
My last TKR was a hot mess, the pain was bad then and the pain pills irritated my ulcers, which turned into H Pylori, but didn't figure that out for over 2 months, (and 40 pounds).
I said then I wouldn't do the second one, and after this is resolved I'll be glad I did it, but atm I am almost regretting even doing the second surgery. But cant dwell on that, I need to figure out what I need, to move forward and get past all this.
Thank you for your help!