RE: Re: Hi Everyone!/Lucinda

[Guest guest]

Hi Lucinda,

What exactly is a " still knee " ? I can't sleep without it propped up on

a pillow. It's too painful otherwise. Maybe I need one of those body

pillows they sell in the store. I can't sleep for more than 3-4 hours a

t a time because it gets uncomfortable and starts to throb. I wasn't

told anything about the pillow at night so i didn't think it was bad. I

will ask my doc today when I see him. I have to see him about the

infection. I just got back from PT so I feel a little sore. I am taking

ibuprofen for the inflammation and it helps.

Louise

From: savannahbreezes <savannahbreezes@...>

Subject: Re: Hi Everyone!

Joint Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

I know doctors don't like you sleeping on a pillow but I just couldn't do

without it and ultimately, it didn't harm me at all. My knee works

fantastically. I used an extremely flat pillow under my TKR leg, just enough

to cradle it and feel soft as I slept on the couch. I do still sleep with a

pillow between my knees now in bed 20 months later to cushion what are now

bony knees instead of swollen knees.

And I can't take ibuprofen because I have ulcers so I only could take

Tylenol.

Re: Hi Everyone!

Joint Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

, how are you basically feeling 20 mths later, i went to boston

ortho..boston celtics doc i have...Its 6 mths post0op for me still have pain and

swelling gait promblems..he's not to happy with the progress ..he ordered

intense physical therapy for me for another 6 mths..My case is a promblem

case..alot went wrong....Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! lol lol tigs

From: savannahbreezes <savannahbreezes>

Subject: [Total_Joint_ Replacement] Re: Hi Everyone!

Total_Joint_ Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

Hi lucinda ...I feel for you....i use to sleep when using the cpm machine..i

would put ice and cpm and sleep for awhile and a pain pill ofcoarse....I'm still

having pain and discomfort 6 mths post-op but exercise did help my progress ask

for pool therapy...get well hugs...your way Tigs

From: savannahbreezes <savannahbreezes>

Subject: [Total_Joint_ Replacement] Re: Hi Everyone!

Total_Joint_ Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

Well, I was 43 when I had the surgery, 45 now. I still wish I could lose

more weight (climbed up when I was in pain) but I have very little pain or

stiffness. Every once in a while, I guess I overdo some movement or another

and find myself with a little soreness in the surrounding tendons/ligaments.

Sometimes I'm stiff but it only takes two steps to work it out. I still have

OA in lots of other joints so some days I move slowly because of that but at

Christmas we went to Disney World and walked almost non-stop for 10 hours a

day, six days so my knee clearly works. I can get down on the floor, I can

sit cross-legged on the floor (though not forever, have to straighten my leg

some times)

Overall, I've been really pleased. I have the Zimmer gender knee and had the

less-invasive surgery.

[Total_Joint_ Replacement] Re: Hi Everyone!

Total_Joint_ Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

good morning , having a cup of coffee, im 44 yrs, f mass...I went for a

long walk last night along the waterfront..my knee did ok ..have to wear a knee

brace though...go for my reval wens..to start more intense therapy again..to

strengthen the quads..did you have to do any of that ? how long was your therapy

??? He says ill be better in a yr????i dont know about that, i feel from

chatting in this group i should be feelen better than i am!!! What's your

imput?/ Tigs

From: savannahbreezes <savannahbreezes>

Subject: [Total_Joint_ Replacement] Re: Hi Everyone!

Total_Joint_ Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda

[Guest guest]

Tigs,

You've already had a TKR? My quad on the TKR leg is still a little weak but

since I have no pain in the knee now, I am able to continue to strenghten

it. I know the six month point post-op was when I really started feeling

pretty normal and at a year, like I had a much better knee than before the

surgery. My PT probably lasted altogether just over two months post-op. At

first it was every weekday, then by the end was twice a week. Then I went

back to the gym I had been going to and used their machines to do much the

same thing and kept walking.

[Total_Joint_ Replacement] Re: Hi Everyone!

Total_Joint_ Replacement

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:08 AM

I had my TkR on 6/17 and I still have days when I am sore and my

knee

will not bend Like I need it too. I takes time and lots of PT to get

you back to where you want to be.

AS to the pillow under your knee, unless the pillow goes from your

heel to your hip, don't put one just under the knee. My doctor

warned me of this over and over as it will cause to have a still knee.

I found sleeping hard at first, but I took a king size pillow and put

it between my legs and turned on my un operative side and this worked

for me. At first I had to have my husband push a pillow under my

back to keep me from rolling off my side. Now I can do without the

second pillow.

We are all different and what works for me may not work for you, keep

trying and talk with your doctor or PT about sleeping

Hope things get better for you. I know they will as soon as you get

the infection cleared up.

Good luck

Lucinda