OT knee update

Well, Folks, one month into this left knee total replacement. Compared to the one done last July this one is a real BEARCAT. The pain, swelling, soreness will just not back down. Was back to the Doc yesterday, he says it will get better I am just expecting too much. He may be right but it is sure behind where the progress was one month into the first one. One big problem is sleeping. Every time I move pain in the knee wakes me up. Hoping for better days and nights. Swede
 
I had a good friend get me through the really tough times. His name was Jack Daniels sometimes he would send his buddy Johnny Walker. Seriously my brother suffered for several months with one of his like that but like your doc said it gradually got better.
 
Swede, I've had both knees done, and was working in surgery as a circulator R.N. at the time, so I had a pretty good idea what I was getting in to. That said, every person is different, and every knee is different. I was up walking down the street as soon as I got home with both mine (home health physical therapist was aghast), but I have friends who had results like your latest one. All I would say is to keep using it, don't let it lose range of motion (straighten and flex it all the way and then apply pressure to it - physical therapy should be covering that) and you'll get past it. If you do call on Jack & Johnny, skip the pain pills - bad things can happen, and I don't mean unplanned pregnancies!
Regards, and best wishes,
George Jacoby
Sumter, SC
 
Swede,

I fear you might not take this seriously enough because it isn't commonly know but here goes.

I just got over a total hip replacement and one of my discoveries in the process and I double checked with my surgeon and other doctors is this . . . the most INCREDIBLE natural antibiotic that outdoes even the ibuprofin school or approach, because it is not more a pain masker than an actual anti inflammatory is good vitamin C. I'm talking Calcium Ascorbate powder.

I have taken inflammation down overnight with 6 to 10,000 mg of C. Vitamin C will tell you exactly when you have taken more than you need for the anti inflammatory demands, by making bowel movements looser.

I can guarantee you that if you take 8,000 mg of quality vitamin c (buffered with Calcium) you will feel relief in your knee.

If nothing changes with bowel movement then every mg of C that you took went straight to the job of being an anti-inflammatory.

Look it up . . . it;s kind of a little known secret like so many things . . . like how much vitamin D we really need. Forget the FDA guidelines.

There . . . take that with a grain of salt but at your own peril, because it is true.

While my hip (broke the ball shaft clean through on my left leg) was in full recovery mode, I could take 10,00 mg of C and there would be no change in bowel movement. i.e., not too loose . . . BECAUSE the body says thanks, and uses all that C as not only an anti inflammatory but a HEALING anti inflammatory.

T
 
Correction, in the second paragraph I said, "antibiotic" but I meant anti inflammatory.
 

Also if you aren't doing this already, slide a pillow under your covers and when you turn on your side put it between your knees. I just got over not having to do that but I'm still doing it.
 

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