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Restarting at 58 after a knee replacement

Started 16 June 2025 · 19 replies · 187 hearts · read 3.9k times

NikolaiSofia, BG · 16 June 2025
about a year ago

Restarting at 58 after a knee replacement Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

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.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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NerysRhyl, UK
#1

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.

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InêsPorto, PT
#2

Reading the opening post, 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.

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BobbieRochdale, UK
#3

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#5

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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MableBolton, UK
#6

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#7

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#8

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

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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NikolaiSofia, BG
#9

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

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NerysRhyl, UK
#10

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.

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InêsPorto, PT
#11

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.

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BobbieRochdale, UK
#12

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

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

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AurelBucharest, RO
#13

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

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ZoraSarajevo, BA
#14

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

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MableBolton, UK
#15

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

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

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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK
#16

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

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OttilieCheshire, UK
#17

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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BenediktFacilitatorVienna, Austria
#18

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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NerysRhyl, UK
#19

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

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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