Knee Replacement, Nine Months Out - What NOT To Do

[Maxify55]

I played football both collegiate and a walk-on for an unnamed pro team.
So, here I am at 67 with more spare parts than I care to mention but I'll tell you this.
If you don't work your appliances they'll fail you in far less time than if you "judiciously" use them.
My knees are Stryker Triathlons {The largest they make, as I'm told}
My right hip is also Stryker but I wasn't told anything further than, again, it's the largest Stryker makes.
4 certvical vertebrae are fused and the bottom 5 vertebrae are also one.
A few years ago I happened to mention to my GP at my annual physical about my right hand tightening and sore.
The next thing I know, I'm on the table again for a right middle finger base joint replacement.

Now? The Mrs. and I built a horse farm in north Florida some years ago for our daughter.
Yep, I'm still the only mule on the farm and I love it.
If you retire to a rocking chair, you'll die in 6 months.

Find something you love to do and do it till you can't anymore.

 

[dmccarty]

Ice is my friend!!
/QUOTE]

Aint that the truth! It is simply amazing to me what a bit of ice/cold pack can do to ease pain. :thumbsup:

The first time I hurt my back, the wife wanted me to go to a Bone Cracker but I went to a regular doctor who put me on steroids, pain killers, and muscle relaxers. The pills worked but left me a sleepy, lazy, drooling slug on the couch for a week. When my manager called me up and started talking about short term disability I figured I would have to try something different if I hurt my back again.

Unfortunately, I did not have long to wait to try the Bone Cracker. :shocked: To be fair, my back had not fully healed and I had to get some work done. Yeah, Yeah, how many of us have said that, done that, and then hurt that. I knew I had done it again as I could feel the pain building every day. What I eventually learned was that pain from these kind of injuries are from inflammation. The injury inflames, the pain starts which leads to more inflammation which means more pain, etc. Not fun.

Anywho, The pain was building and I went to the wife's Bone Cracker on a Friday. He sees me, does an exam, takes X-Rays and tells me to come back on Monday after he has the X-Ray results! :shocked: Does this man know how much pain I am in and how much worse it will be by Monday, I think to myself. I suspect my face said what I was thinking as well. He told me to take Ibuprofen and to put an ice back on the injury for 7 minutes each hour for as many hours as I could each day. :shocked:

I thought the man was nuts. :laughing::laughing::laughing: But I did as I was told and it WORKED! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: The ice and Ibuprofen broke the inflammation cycle and my pain leveled off and got a bit better. Without the ice and Ibuprofen I would have been in some serious pain by that Monday.

The wife has had several shoulder surgeries and a big part of the recovery was using the ice machines to manage the pain. Amazing how that works. Cheap and no side affects from some simple cold/ice. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

 

[jerrybob]

Sorry to hear RSKY......hope your recovery goes well. Had my right knee replaced on 2/22/17. Back to doing a lot but I do stay off ladders for now. Spent some time on the tractor today.....moving dirt and leveling some ground. Got on and off many times......did some raking and shoveling......now I sit with ice on my knee and some pain. I am finding my hip hurts.....probably from limping for so long. Oh well......old age is not for sissy's. I tell people now that I am actually getting younger when I average all my parts together. Good luck.......hang in there.

 

[steveja]

Ice is my friend!!

RSKY

Hmm well - an icy stone patio spill onto my b*tt while shovelling snow was not my friend.

Doc says I'm due for a new pair of knees and a new pair of eye lenses in a few years, so I appreciate all the comments.

 

[RSKY]

Ice is my friend when I have the nice cold icepack wrapped around my hurting knee. Haven't taken a pain pill in a month. Well, haven't had to ice it in a couple weeks. Guess I'm back to where I was before I got stupid.