Has Anyone Had A Knee Replacement Op.

[emmie]

If so was it successful, how long did it take for your recovery, and any info you can give me, as i may well be having it done later this year.

[emmie]

thanks guys, very informative Bednobs,
PP i wasn't going to turn it down, i am in all kinds of pain
and have been since last year.

[jennyjoan]

neighbour had it done about 2 years ago - she got out of hospital within I think 2 days - I called over and she was in bed and in front of me started to do the exercises. I was wilting. But she kept going, in fact she left me to the door. According to her you must start the exercises right away.

[emmie]

that is what everyone seems to be saying JJ, daunting prospect to have it done, but needs must.

[Buenchico]

We need you to get fit a.s.a.p, Emmie. Watching those can-can girls in that Soho nightclub just isn't the same without you in the line-up ;-)

This video is from the website of a private hospital in Maidstone. Although it's clearly intended, in part at least, as an ad for their services, the guy does seem to be very genuine in describing his experience of knee replacement surgery:

[Buenchico]

This video is from the website of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (which is an NHS one):

[Giggsie]

I have had my right knee replaced best thing I did no problems. But you must do the exercises it has a lot to do with your recovery keep the knee moving. I am now waiting for my left to be replaced hope it’s soon as pain been lots worse than the right one was. I was walking without a stick long before they said I could. I was back to normal well within the 6 weeks. Certainly never kept me in. Hope my second goes as well as first. My husband has had both replaced and only 12 weeks between them great success he has a different quality of life now massive difference it made to him.

[Giggsie]

Sorry mistake in my last post I was back to my normal well within the 6 months not weeks.

[Scarlett]

My physio has EDS and went ahead with both knee replacements- she lives alone and managed getting up and down stairs just fine! I need both doing but am put off by the non weight bearing for 2 weeks and plaster for 6; but that’s cos I live alone on the 2nd floor and have no clue how I could function without putting my foot on the floor on my own, but I have a lot of other joint problems too.

[jennyjoan]

as a last resort - it does pay to lose a lot of weight as my neighbour lost 2 stone for hers

[jno]

about 5 months for my sister, lots of working out on an exercycle and some of it painful, she said. (She was in her late 50s, I think.) She said a hip replacement was much simpler, but she hasn't actually had one, I think she was just talking to doctors.