Was it worth it?

Sorry to hear. Mine weren't either.

Absolutely ! Didn’t your surgeon remove the arthritis ? But you’re right the time it takes for the body to adjust to the trauma we agreed to cause 🙃feels too long !

I have no regrets but I was in horrible pain for 11 months , I listened to what everyone said , took the drugs , did the stretches , iced and elevated and went to physio every 14 days .

After double TKR ? I’ve had no real knee pain but lots of muscle /nerve pain and cramps …I do walk stiffly

Now at 10 weeks as the swelling goes down I have a bit of knee discomfort and weird feelings

This will never be the knees god gave us ! But I love that my surgeon heard my voice and helped me in my 50’s fix an injury

No regrets here 🥰🇨🇦

When I started to have knee problems, they crept up slowly. When I parked on a hill (daily), I had to plant my feet parallel to one another, 90 degrees to the car, to avoid twisting my knee, If I did that I had no knee pain and could walk just fine. I did that for years. Occasionally I'd have lingering pain, and twice I had cortisone shots. I had many good months in between. One day I got up from the sofa and my right knee just gave out. It wouldn't support me, and I was gripping furniture to stay upright. Fortunately, a friend had an extra cane to give me and 5 days later I no longer needed it. A few weeks went by before I found my right knee failing me when I went up the big front step to my house. Months later I went on a family outing and couldn't keep up. Soon I was clinging to a door frame to enter the house -- just that one tiny step up. Up until the family outing, I had been renovating my house, so I was fairly active. At some point I bought a new ladder with steps closer together than normal because the regular one was causing pain and felt unsafe. Still, it was a matter of slow deterioration. The family outing was the turning point. My daughter had an 18-month-old daughter, and I couldn't keep up. When I first walked into the surgeon's office I did it unassisted, without pain, no cane. I told him my quality of life had gone downhill. About 6-months later I had the TKR. Recovery was a shock. I wondered if I had done the right thing. People make it sound so easy -- "You'll be up and walking the same day," they tell you. It was hard to remember how bad my condition was before surgery, when I was now needing a walker, using an assist device to lift my leg, a portable commode and a shower chair. Then I graduated to a cane and could drive my car again. There were set-backs and struggles, but after 10-months I was using my stationary bike at home again. Things had clearly moved the other direction. I was now getting stronger, not weaker! I'm 15-months past surgery now. I don't know what my condition would have been without surgery, but I was clearly on a slow decline. Now things are getting better, day-by-day. Was it worth it -- I want to shout, YES!

Your story is so encouraging to me as I am only 8 weeks out from TKR. I had been getting cortisone injection before my surgery so I was pretty comfortable and could walk easily...but coming out of surgery and recovering I have asked myself " what did I do to myself?: Now it's the walker the cane, the shower help the furniture walking and another person to help transition and walk. It's getting all better . It's good to know it will get a whole lot better in the future and I hope I can say "yes it was worth it"!