Knee replacement in a few days

Not much to tell an experienced soul like you. Tell yourself positive things, have positive expectations, and follow the team’s directions. You’ll do well!

I wish you all the best on your recovery

Hope all goes well. Please let us know how you are doing

positive outlook is very helpful. think how great it will be to have the appandage repaired, and in better condition. the power of positive thinking is immense. best to you.

I feel the anxiety before surgery can be put to good use … make meals , even freezing rice helps later on!

Clean everything you can comfortably .

The nesting I do before surgery helps lessen the load an hubby afterwards .

Blessings and I wish you peace and comfort . Keep us posted ! I’m 12 weeks double TKR … feeling tired but optimistic

I am hours away from mine. But while I know that there will be post surgical pain, there is so much discomfort and pain now that I am looking forward to it, albeit a bit anxiously.

The hardest thing for me, right now, is that they want me at the outpatient facility at 11:30 but nothing to eat or drink since midnight. Oh well.

@steveinarizona don’t worry soon they will offer you toast 🙂

The good thing about starving us is you don’t have to use the bathroom ! Take care . My knee pain vanished when they gave me new knees

Having had so much surgery, you probably are well-prepared. The one thing I wish someone had clued me in on, is how important it is to have a reclining chair! Not just a recliner, but a reclining chair, with two arms! I went to my daughter's house after my TKR, in part because she has the reclining sofa. I had recently moved across country to a 55+ community near her, and hadn't replaced my sofa yet, and didn't have a reclining chair. At my daughter's house I got impatient about waiting for help getting up off her sofa, and because it IS a sofa, I only had one arm to push off and I twisted my back. That set recovery back. I went online and quickly ordered a reclining chair for my house. I needed something that could be delivered within days, and there wasn't much to pick from. Before the chair arrived, I went home and twisted my back AGAIN, getting up from my old sofa/footrest combination. I guess I'm a bit too independent. I struggled with trying to relearn to walk with a walker, AND back pain. I did a lot of things right, but that one oversight made recovery difficult and longer than it needed to be -- and I had never had issues with my back before!

@july1955 I am not a medical man but I suggest that you be very very careful about spending significant time in a recliner. My health personnel warned me against that - it is ABSOLUTELY important to STRAIGHTEN that operative leg, they told me do not fall asleep in a recliner or even use one at all. The semi-flexed recliner leg is not a good thing, according to all of my health persons, including surgeon and PT! I was told to push, push, push on the upper thigh to help get that leg straight. It must have worked on me because both of my repaired knees recovered excellently!

Yes, but you also need to have your leg elevated during recovery, especially when you are icing it. My TKR was 16-months ago and I've healed well. When you first get home, it can be tough to stand without pushing off the chair arms -- a sofa won't do. A chair and ottoman can work, but it is more cumbersome. I'm not advocating a lifestyle, just mentioning a tool. NOT having the two arms to push off from a sitting position is what caused me to twist my back. I am quite able now to stand without using my hands at all. No one stands all the time, and a lot of older people have difficulty standing without having the chair arms to assist. Several of the medical sites list the reclining chair as something needed in recovery. In fact, when the occupational therapist came to my home it was one of the things she looked for when evaluating my ability to live independently during recovery.

@shark Yes, this is right. Keeping that leg as straight as possible is important!