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Perhaps this is the third part of the stress test?

I was diagnosed with RBB a few years ago.All good with medication.

Whoop!!! New knee on Monday! Just yearly monitoring of heart for now. No obvious signs of heart disease. Now I can get nervous about the knee surgery!

Yahoo!!! Great news.

Now to get your new knee.

Thank you! So wonderful the support here. I will always be grateful for the wonderful, compassionate people I have found.

MOJO cant!!!!

All good thoughts and special SI MOJO for the new knee, Can. Definitely time for you to get rid of that painful joint and get on with life.

So glad the heart can just be monitored for now. Good luck with the surgery and recovery.

Thank you all. In hospital, in pain. Surgery went well bUT pain is really bad. Having oxy by mouth tylenol iv and dialudud by iv. Something didn't work with aneathesia. Too out of it to explain tonig by. The bone in shin hurts so much, incision does not.

Glad the surgery was a success and hope they get the pain under control soon. Take care of yourself and your brand new knee :-)

So sorry for the pain and anesthesia issue. Hope they get it under control asap.

Sounds like the nerve block didn't work.

Good news it will get better, bad news it you are hurting now unlike most folks that get the benefit of the block.

Hang in there, take the meds, and don't go home until you feel like the pain is under control with just pills. No matter what they tell you, stay until you are convinced your pain is managed.

I'm late to the party - good news on the heart and a (mostly) successful surgery.

As for the pain, what I found that helped the most (ACL reconstruction) is using a "recirculating ice bath for knee" (google it). They are a usually <$200; might be able to rent one from a medical supply house (what I did).

It keeps constant cold to the joint area helping with inflammation, which is what pain really is. Those I've advised to get it have had same results - little need for the opioids.

Good luck with rehab!

Can - Check in darling, wondering how you are.

Mojo on its way.

Good morning! Thank you for checking n me. Made me feel so good.

It's been a rough week starting on the up swing! Only stayed in hospital one night. Daytime staff was wonderful. Night staff was awful. Understaffed but just not good. Slow to respond and when they did poor practices. Accidentally disconnected iv, got soaked by fluids, blamed me for spilling water pitcher. I was drinking directly from it because they kept forgetting a cup. It wasn't the water though. I was starting to get cold so maneuvered wet bedding onto floor. Nurse came in upset that no one had been in to clean me up and the proceeds to pick up iv off floor, quick wipe off and re attaches it. I had to tell aids to give me hand sanitizer after using potty. Just not good. So happy to see morning staff and get out of there. It is a new ortho surgery center but obviously not quite running smoothly yet.

I have a great PT and a not so great visiting nurse. Nurse frightened me on first day home saying that I would not get any more pain meds and to make them last. I was trying to go as long as possible not taking them. Pain never really got under control. PT was concerned about pain, asked about how much I was taking and got it straightened out and a refill. 3 days now of 1 pill every 4 hours during the day and I have had 2 nights of sleeping!!!

Now that pain is under control I am able to actually do PT. Slow going, it hurts but I am making progress. What a relief to not have the constant throbbing pain!

That's the end of my complaining! The hospital was not all bad. After that awful night, someone??? no idea who, came in very early and put lip balm on me so gently. If I knew who I would thank them. It was such a much needed kindness at that moment.

This is hard! Trying to stay focused on the long term benefits. Being able to walk pain free! Having 2 good legs! Hard to imagine what it will be like.

Thanks again for the kind thoughts.

Thanks for the update, Can, and glad your PT got pain control fixed.

What an awful middle-of-the-night experience. I hope they offer you a survey/evaluation of your experience there to tell them all about it. Remember that kind person and the lip balm, too. That person wiping the IV and re-attaching sounds like something from a horror film, on top of everything else. I'm so sorry your night was so terrible.

Your PT person sounds like just the antidote for that experience. Glad you got such a caring person. With the pain controlled, PT should be easier, and will make all the difference.

Trying to stay focused on the long term benefits. Being able to walk pain free! Having 2 good legs! Hard to imagine what it will be like.

Mojo to get you there SOON, Can! I know it's been a long time.

When I hear stories like this it makes me cringe, and embarrassed to be a nurse.

And WTH w/ the HHC RN. She had no business telling you that about the pain meds. If you need them you need them.

Honestly someone your age, and level of independence, I would tell you to skip the home care, and get to the outpatient PT clinic where they can do so much more for you than you can in the home, not just therapy wise, but comfort/healing stuff after, including massage, ultrasound, and icing.

Don't forget that Ice is your best friend right now. The more you can keep the swelling down the less pain you will have.

It will continue to slowly improve now everyday.

A friend told me she bought an ice bath machine when she had her first knee surgery, so had it for the second. A family member must have had a doctor who ordered it, because it was installed at the facility and already working when she came home. I don't know why it isn't automatic since it is recognized as being so beneficial. Can you rent one or purchase it?

Most insurance companies will cover a portion of the cost of the continuous ice machines, Medicare does not.

You can order one off of Amazon w/ the needed pad for about $100.00 and it is well worth it.