A knee replacement and restarting afterwards

Started 17 April 2025 · 21 replies · 233 hearts · read 2.5k times

OsmanAnkara, TR · 17 April 2025

1.3 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: A knee replacement and restarting afterwards

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

OttilieCheshire, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

PietPretoria, ZA

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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OllyReading, UK

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

BertrandToulouse, FR

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

LucasSão Paulo, BR

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

BrimHalifax, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

OsmanAnkara, TR

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

OttilieCheshire, UK

#10

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

PietPretoria, ZA

#11

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

OllyReading, UK

#12

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

NikoTbilisi, GE

#13

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

BertrandToulouse, FR

#14

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

EdwynNewcastle, UK

#15

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR

#16

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

BrimHalifax, UK

#17

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

OsmanAnkara, TR

#18

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

OttilieCheshire, UK

#19

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#20

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OllyReading, UK

#21

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.