Quote Originally Posted by crappiewisdom View Post
Well, I went in for my knee replacement this past Tuesday and came home Wednesday morning. The surgeon said that my old knee was "complete junk". Surgery took about an hour. Had my first therapy session this morning and it wasn't too bad. In fact, I am having less pain now, than I had with my old worn out knee. Can't bend it much or support all my weight on it yet, but the therapist said that will come in time and therapy. I put off doing this for a long time because of fear etc. But I was at the point of not being able to do much of anything because of the constant pain. I can tell already that this will be a game changer for me. If any of you need a knee replacement, but are putting it off, my advice would be to "git 'er done".
Glad your surgery went well.

My Dr. is saying both of mine are shot, especially my left but my right is more painful. 27 years of multi-level stairways in chemical plants and working on concrete while carrying too much weight did mine in. I'm in the process of dropping a considerable amount of weight before I'll have mine done.

I was pretty pumped up to have mine done until I lost a friend over the weekend after he had both his done at the same time in mid-April. He never took another step after the surgery. Complications took him.

My surgeon won't do both at once. Right now it's injections every 3 months that last about 2 weeks before it's back to Aleve and Lortab.