The healing time for my knee surgery is supposed to be 4-6 months, I have already been on this machine for nearly a month and yesterday I fell I am feeling so low.
Yeah, you should be really, really sad, and give up. (Heeeaart's on fiiire, strooong desiiiire, raaaages deeep wiiithiiiin!!!) *Enlisted runs up to top of mountain*
My Dad had knee surgery and went back the next day to work but everyone heals different and that is probably why is he going to have both his knees replaced. Just take your time and you will get there. Push yourself some but not too much.
Thanks all, feeling a bit better today, I go back to the doc tomorrow. Got to tell him I fell on the knee. Nasty rub on my shin. Hopefully the fall did not do too much damage. I sure started the pain cycle over again snd I am out of pain pills.
Dude, ya gotta be careful . . . My father-in-law had a knee replaced last November. First month or so he was miserable, thinking he'd never get back to like he was. Now he doesn't even use a cane or pain pills any more. You'll get there, just stick with the therapy.
Just hang in, the first several months post-transplant were a gold-plated pain in the ass too. It gets better.
You really kneed to be careful man.. how come you fell? Over-confident? Impatient? There's no reason to fall if you give yourself time (pa-dooh-doooh-doom, puh-puh-dooh-doom, time...)
Update. I went to the doc on Wednesday. Told him about the fall. He took some xrays and said it did not look like I did any real damage. He said it is time to start bearing weight. I have been using my knee with the crutch still for assistance and now doing different execises and going to physical therapy. He said in tow weeks I do away with the crutches. I am feeling a bit better but it is painful and I am very timid after not using the leg/foot at all for a month. Painful and slow. Oh, and why did I fall. I was using a walker and one leg got caught on something and it made me stumble forward. There is such a thing as a bad walker and that was one. It has a lower bar at the bottom that will not allow you to step through and this held my feet back from being able to step forward and catch myself. The good ones have two bars at the top and leave the bottom open with no crossbar.
I had a car accident in 1979 which broke both of my femurs. I spent nearly five months in the hospital and nearly seven months in physical therapy. I walk and run. You will too.
I stress fractured my femur 12 years ago and that only had me on crutches for like 6-8 weeks--no surgery--so I can only imagine what you feel like. I imagine the operation is still having physical and mental effects on you. I also have a bit of an idea about your approach to physical therapy and exercise from your posts here. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAN, LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTOR. If he says do something, DO it. Don't decide after two weeks you're going to work out or something. You've only got one body and if you break it, you're screwed--bionic joints and all.
I have been following the doctors orders. Once my knee gets healed enough so I can walk then they are gonna do my shoulder. This should give my knee extra time to heal before going back to work.
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Enlisted Person will be that man. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster.” So, EP, do you see yourself as the Steve Austin-type? Superhuman superspy, saving the world one episode at a time? Or are you more the Anakin Skywalker type, recruited into an evil secret brotherhood to harness the dark side of the Force and attempt to take over the universe and achieve absolute power? I guess my point is, once you get past this initial crappy stage of recovery, and your subsequent shoulder surgery, you're gonna have a big decision to make..... Are you gonna use your powers for good? or for evil?
A bit of an update for those who care. Tomorrow will make 6 weeks since I had my knee surgery and I am now walking with a cane. I can walk without it but its more painful. Doc says I am doing ok, so now I have shoulder surgery scheduled for the 12th. They need to remove a bone spur and repair the rotator cuff and do a bicep tendonesis(which means they cut it and reattach it somewhere else). I hope to get back to work some day. I have gained 27 pounds since Jan 15 and the meds and sitting around do not help.
Dude I know how you feel on the whole knee surgery thing. I mean, I haven't had it. But I'm supposed to, according to my doctor. And I'm only 19. My ortho told me two years ago(or was the three?) that I should have it. Because bad knees run in my family and I've played soccer since I was like 4 or 5 and I ran cross and track from 7th grade until I graduated. And he told me that I would have to have it and I wouldn't be able to do any sports well until after I graduated. But I didn't listen. And I should have. Now my knees hurt all the time and sometimes I feel like I can't walk. And if I'm standing still, I have to lean on something, otherwise I get all kinds of pain. As far as the recovery thing, my junior year I was tackled while playing a game and I had a class 1 sprain. It probably would have only been a 2 but the stupid trainer for the home team took of my damn shoe. But point is, I was in a boot and out of soccer and cross for a little over a month. I hated every stinking moment of it. Especially the physical training and having to wrap my ankle(to this day) every time I plan on playing soccer or running. It sucks.
