Week 3 post TKR

128 degrees of flexion at week 2 is outstanding! Good for you. If Tylenol isn't working and NSAIDs are out and you can't tolerate Celebrex, the oxygen will work but is overkill. You can ice more but that's just hard to do, don't know why. Just be careful with oxy, please. Congrats on a great recovery!

Joe

I am 3-1/2 weeks post op. Pain is definitely decreasing, am mostly just taking acetaminophen occasionally a Tramadol. My intestines don’t like the narcotics. Walking relatively slowly without a cane. Still sleeping on a wedge to elevate my legs and wearing compression hose during the day and frequently icing to try and control swelling. ROM 0-123 during PT after stretching and mobilization but more like 115-118 on my own at home. Can pedal an exercise bike, backwards first then forward with no resistance. But, after I sit in one position for >20 minutes feel so stiff and have to March in place so I don’t peg leg walk. Counting the days until I can get in the water and take advantage of the gravity free environment and let the water work it’s magic.
I think so much influences rate of progress: physical conditioning and any movement contractions prior to surgery, whether your patella needed to be resurfaced, correction of a varus or valgus deformity. and pain tolerance in general. Listen to your body, your PT and surgeon and hope your rehab goes well.

I am on day 2 of week 3. Of all pain meds. Walking with a cane although I don’t really need it. I still have problems with sleep. My appetite is improving. I have been doing in home PT since day 1 and can flex at 100. I still can’t fully straighten my knee. Although due to the arthritis, I haven’t been able to in 3 years. I am almost there. I will return to work next week on a modified schedule. Overall, doing better than I expected.

That is good news. I hope you continue to improve.

I am at 3 wk TKR my left knee, the first two we egg is were rough. I stopped all narcotics at 3 days. Too much constipation. I take extra strength Tylenol and turmeric for pain. My flexion is 103. They need to come up with a better way to treat knee arthritis

I understand the struggle to stay positive, this is such a long recovery it’s hard to believe you will get back to normal. I am 3 weeks out and wanting this to be over

Sounds like you are way ahead of schedule!!

I’m slightly past my third week post surgery. Surgery was beautiful and afterwards 2nd day I went home and basically took care of myself, which was very difficult the first week. After the first week each day, there is much improvement. For the past week or so I’ve been just using the cane to ambulate and really don’t even need a cane at this point. I couldn’t wait to be off all medication. I am now only on Aspirin 81 mg twice daily for a total of the first month and Celebrex, the surgeon wanted me on it twice a day, but I could not tolerate that so I’m only on it once a day no later than 12 noon or it will keep me awake at night. Took pain med for the first week as needed now only taking the Oxycodone 5 mg before physical therapy. I am doing outpatient therapy three times a week and after the third week I’m going to be doing aqua therapy which im very much looking forward to.

It is truly nice to hear good tkr story …let’s face on this site most of us have our issues …. But that is awesome I am so happy going well keep up the good work ….

I had a great experience too. Knee surgery has been my least problematic issue: just positive results. I have other severe pain issues with non-operative arthritis of the lower back. So I am so thankful I got that knee surgery. At least I can stay mobile. My doctor did robotic surgery and I have a bed that remotely raises and lowers head and feet. That helped a whole lot, but if you don’t have one just keep your feet elevated till the swelling is gone. Also really, really helpful was a continuous flow ice machine that can be purchased online.