I totally agree! My surgeon in Boston suggested patients attend a two hour class about knee replacement surgery and what to expect after surgery. My husband and I attended but the info given in that class was not even *close* to the pain after surgery!!! I did all that I could to strengthen my quads before surgery but that did not help me. I was allergic to three pain meds that were given to me, so I was told to “take Extra Strength Tylenol” which did *nothing* for the excruciating pain. When home therapy came in, I couldn’t do the exercises very well because of the pain. The home therapy set me back, for that reason. When I *finally* was able to get to PT on the outside, I began to improve. I had PT twice a week for six months to finally feel recovered! I was fortunate to have a wonderful PT who understood the pain that I was going through. After the surgery, I could not sleep for six weeks, had no appetite and lost weight, and for the first time in my life, I think that I felt what depression was like!!!! I will *never* have my other knee done (and it needs to be done). I will live with it and continue to get cortisone shots every three months. I have had two babies and five surgeries during my lifetime, and *none* of them were as painful, physically, emotionally and mentally, as the knee replacement. When I told my surgeon about all that I felt about it, he said “Well, a TKR surgery is the roughest surgery that you can go through”. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

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