Total leg skin pain still 21 days after left knee replacement

Great news! Yeah the staff didn't tell me about the tourniquet. My inner thigh turned black and blue three days after surgery and was painful to the touch. It makes sense that they used a tourniquet, I just wish they had told me.

I am 5 weeks and 3 days out from my left knee replacement and I had less outwardly showing bruises. MY Skin is still hurting like crazy and overly sensitive to the touch. My neuropathy is crazy, from foot to top of thigh- it's ridiculous! I need my other knee done in a few months, please tell me it will get better.

@frosty1115 I don’t have an answer although I found that switching to pants with softer fabric helped me recently.
I’m also at 5 weeks.
It’s cold here now in the north so long pants are needed.
Also since my incision is healed my pt give me instructions for massaging the area.

@zoobird1

This is hard to understand. Your surgeon knows that the tourniquet causes pain but he still uses it. Is he not current with the literature:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8094224/.

@loll OH I ve had to wear softer fabric, dresses and shorts. My skin on my knee stings and around it, it hurts to touch. My neuropathy is up & down that leg way worse, but moving to the other, my arm and hand & elsewhere. I'm still praying, my gabapentin is increased, which makes me weird- talk too much. I'm getting an MRI today on a bulging discussion and telling my doctor nerve blocks sound better to me all the time.