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Knee Replacement Issues-Help Please!
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Mar 14, 2023 | Replies (44)Comment receiving replies
I am 73 and was in similar situation as you. No pain, but instability and knee bowing out. Surgery was on Jan 3, 2023. 10 days after surgery i swore i would NEVER do surgery again. Knee was very very stiff and swollen and it hurt. Hard to go from No pain to pain and stiffness. And the surgery was hard on my whole body. And I am healthy and take no medications etc.
Now 23 days after surgery my range of motion is 120 degrees, pain is when i am stretching and strengthening. I am walking without a cane and can go up and down steps.
I am thinking i may do second knee but waiting to see how my total outcome is on first. Hope this helps.
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Sounds like you are progressing normally except for the bowing out of the knee. Don’t understand why if the surgeon used a make, or similar, assist-guided technical
procedure to guide him through the alignment.
I just had my second done on the 19th of this month.
Have been without a cane nor walker after 4 days but yes, the swelling, pain etc…. Will stay with you for quite some time. Atleast 6-months on swelling. Overall a year and you will never think about it again. But the havoc it wreaks on the body for atleast a month it difficult, couldn’t agree more.
I’m 75 in two months so be glad you are getting it done now, gets so much more difficult the older you get. Good luck.
Vince