These really suck; no great way to prepare for this. I had mine 1/20 and now i'm most likely off work four to six weeks to torture myself...aka...recover
Anybody whose had it's done feel free to drop some advice.
Brett
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These really suck; no great way to prepare for this. I had mine 1/20 and now i'm most likely off work four to six weeks to torture myself...aka...recover
Anybody whose had it's done feel free to drop some advice.
Brett
Do your range of motion exercises. Do them extra even. It's huge to recovery. Do everything the doctors say. I had mine done, and got lazy. Took way longer to recover than it should have.
One knee equals two feet
Yeah, don’t skip the physical therapy, like zool said. It’s probably the most important thing at this point
Pay attention to your body, I had an uncle whose body rejected the new knee
Replacement surgery is not for the meek or weak. You should only have that procedure if you really kneed it.
We have had a lot of athletes do their prehab strength training for their hamstrings and quads. It has sped up recovery by months.
I know you have had surgery since you posted this thread, for now the rehab is really important. Did you have a total knee replacement?
FOUR weeks ago today right now I was in surgery
Knee is feeling pretty good; ton of progress over the past week. Doctor and Therapist suggest taking two more weeks off as it will progress fast; unsure I want to.
Anybody have experiences returning to work after knee replacement....good or bad from the start ??
I have a knee replacement horror story B. Happened to a former coworker. He was about 38, in good health but had a fucked up knee that he hurt long before. He finally had the surg, was off work for about 5 weeks but it was still hurting a lot. He went to his MD who told him it was normal and would heal. He delayed coming back and about a week later was having trouble breathing one night. He went to the ER, they checked him out, said he was OK and he went home. Woke up in the night and couldn't breath for shit, went to ER again. This time the sorry assholes actually did some work and found out he had blood clots in his lungs. Turned out he had gotten a blood infection from the knee.
Sadly that is not the end of this story. To treat the clots they gave him blood thinners. Within hours a clot from his leg came loose, hit the big highway and went to his brain. Instant stroke, brain bleeding, too much pressure, leaving him paralyzed on half his body. It was so bad they had to open his head to remove the clot. He went a few weeks with part of his skull missing because they worried they might have to get in there again. He was in the hospital ICU for months. Once release he was only able to move one side of his entire body and not very good at that. Stuck in a electric chair that he moves with his one arm/hand that still has function. Not long after his bitch wife left him and was very vengeful about it. He lost his house, cars and everything pretty much. Only his Mama who became his caretaker and his teen daughters stood by him. He remains in that condition to this day.
Later it came out that the company making the surgical kits for these type of operations had put out contaminated ones that year. I think I even saw a news article about it. Several folks had gotten similar infections. The mistake this guy made was taking the pain for so long. Had he gotten a 2nd opinion he would have dealt with the infection before it was too late. This was 8 years or so ago. He ended up suing the MD and the company and won a large settlement. Of course then the wife showed up again, he kicked her to the curb. To this day he gets around in a electric chair and uses an mounted ipad to communicate by typing what he wants to say on the screen with a stylus that he can hold. He has money but what good does it do him because he will need it to take care of himself for whatever remains of his time on Earth. I doubt he lives to be an old man. He was always kinda arrogant and cocky so he took the fall very hard. He had a nice life and it was all gone like that.
I am glad you are doing better B. I had been meaning to post this for you but I have kept track of your post about this to make sure you didn't say the same as this guy did. Don't ignore pain and tell any medical staff who says different to go fuck themselves and report them to their ethics committee.
Wow. Even Job wouldn’t complain around that guy.
You must be a fucking medical hack also!
Is every mofo that works on your car an expert? How about the food you eat? Same shit with those fucks. Someone had to finish worst in class.
But in this instance they are right. B should take the time off. He is probably worried a different rooster is rounding up his chickens at work.
Someone needs to start a "Medical Horror Stories" thread.
Our youngest has been hospitalized several times.
Moral of the story: Question, question, question. Advocate, advocate, advocate. Fight, fight, fight.
Nurses are usually great. There's a few doctors alive only because of my love of my family.
I am four weeks out and recovery has went well. I think I"ll probably return back to work in a week and a half. I don't think there is a good time to return. When I set without any elevation the knee gets pretty sore within a few hours. So for the first four to six weeks I'll probably just need to deal with the pain. It seems that my flexibility is plenty good enough to get back to work. Just have to figure out how to sleep and then work through the pain/stiffness issues at work.
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Glad you’re doing well, Bretsky. Hope you fully recover.
I’ll trade you my burger flipping job for your office job. Feel a clicking in my left hip when high kicking due to an enlarged ball or socket or something. Pain is not so bad that I can’t work, although I did quit the second job. Some days are better than others. Doc I saw (not a hip specialist) doesn’t think it’s arthritis, but condition probably won’t go away without arthroscopic surgery.
Reading some of the unfortunate stuff here is scaring me a bit regarding surgery, maybe even moreso than the enormous surgical and rehabilitation expenses I’ll incur if I go the surgery route.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but anyone has experience with hip surgery or arthroscopic surgery? Football players have arthroscopic surgeries all the time without problems, right?
Not sure Tank. I have hip pain, I run two or three times a week and it kills me sometimes. I haven't hit up the orthopedist yet. For what it's worth in my later 50's. Hurts but it hasn't killed me.
You need to see an ortho.
There are horror stories, but I've had both shoulders and a knee worked on. No probs, but the best knee and shoulder guy in the Central Valley.
I had some left hip pain, too much commute time. Strengthening the glutei medius really helped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLTBIaHU5iw
Good luck.
Get well, and hopefully your hip is nothing serious. I tired to jog on the treadmill a few weeks after the hip problem started, assuming it was just a groin strain. Painful afterward, and haven't jogged since. Consequently, I'm getting fat, although working out only 2 days a week and eating shit might also be causing the weight gain.
I did meet with an orthopedist that my PCP referred. Put me back 300 or 400 frogskins. Suggested 3-6 weeks of physical therapy. Had a session of PT with a therapist, then got billed $400, and decided to do therapy on my own, with a little help from the experts on YouTube. Just got referred to another ortho.
Will check out your clip. Thanks.