New type of knee surgery!!

[IXLR8]

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By the way you cannot safely break an Oxycodone pill in half and take it. They are all time release for 6-12 hours depending on the size. If you break a large one in half you can potentially get the entire dose in a few minutes resulting in major problems for your body. Google is a wonderful thing.

As a rule, if a pill is not scribed to be split, then it can NOT be safely split for the reason RSKY mentioned. The medicine may not be uniform throughout the pill.

 

[Dutch445]

Brave man right there! bilateral knees!
did you have them done at the same time?

i had bilateral hips replaced in 2012 , both same day,
back on ice skates after 6 weeks!
although not very successfully

 

[jerrybob]

Interesting procedure.......looking forward to the updates. I have had 3 surgeries on my right knee and 1 on the left. One of these days will probably need a replacement. Other than kneeling.......I can still do most things so I hope to postpone replacement for awhile.

 

[Garandman]

Brave man right there! bilateral knees!
did you have them done at the same time?
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Yes.

Gained back a 1/4" of height!

 

[RSKY]

In the nineties, over a six month period, I had to take many, many Valium and Lortabs due to an inner ear problem and surgery. When it came time to quit I had no problem putting them in a drawer and leaving them.

Cannot understand how anybody can get hooked on that stuff.

 

[k0ua]

In the nineties, over a six month period, I had to take many, many Valium and Lortabs due to an inner ear problem and surgery. When it came time to quit I had no problem putting them in a drawer and leaving them.

Cannot understand how anybody can get hooked on that stuff.

Well, the problem is that not everyone reacts to these drugs the same. Some, perhaps many people react just like you and have no problem weaning themselves off of these drugs. Yet others have a great difficulty doing so. Just like I become violently ill by a dose of peanut butter, and you may love the stuff. My wife sure does. Everyone is different.

 

[murphy1244]

And Oxycodone is far different than Valium. Much stronger. Valium is not prescribed for pain relief. Here Valium (diazepam) is a benzodiazepine (ben-zoe-dye-AZE-eh-peens). Diazepam affects chemicals in the brain that may be unbalanced in people with anxiety.

Valium is used to treat anxiety disorders, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, or muscle spasms

 

[Bird]

Be curious how it turns out. I'm tentatively scheduled for a knee replacement in mid February. Had the cortisone, rooster comb shots (total waste of time/money), and I'm down to replacement.

I did the same. The injections helped just a tiny bit for a short time.

So here I sit at 11:30 at night. Slept all day and apparently when not asleep I have spent my time putting inappropriate items on Facebook. Oxycodone will do that to you. Wife took my cellphone away for an hour or so until I "calmed the **** down".

I've never had any pain pills make me do, or say, things I shouldn't do or say, but I had some surgery on one eye last month and they gave me a hydrocodone/acetaminophen tablet to take before I left the hospital, and a prescription for 35 more of them, with instructions to take one every 4 hours as needed. So 4 hours later I took one, and another 4 hours another, for a total of 3 that day. I just plain forgot about the side effects that I had from that same medication when I had my knee replaced. It works great, as far a preventing, or stopping, pain, but I spent the entire night wide awake; laid back very comfortably in my recliner in front of the TV, even tried closing my eyes for awhile, but NO SLEEP all night. And I didn't feel any more tired or sleepy the next day than usual, but that night I slept GOOD for 10 hours.:laughing:

 

[bigtiller]

I've been putting off replacement for 1.5 years. I'm starting to believe the surgeon when he said it won't get better on it's own. But i have had surgeries before and they never told me the whole story until after it was over.

 

[jveretto]

Had one knee replaced 5 years ago. Greatest thing I ever done! Rehab was rough but it's like a new knee now!