Yeah, I love biking. It was nice here for a couple weeks, today it looks like rain so I'll do the stationary bike which is so very boring.
You don't notice a mechanical feel compared to your non-opped knee? How strange, because we both have the gender knee. Mine pops quite a bit, doesn't hurt, but I miss that fluid motion of a real knee especially when, say, circling the knee around. Maybe your prosthesis is better than mine?
I had a lot of pain in the first 12 days, bone ache from the cuts. Had to keep my foot elevated to prevent swelling, and then the incision is steri-stripped, and all that icing. This time I just have to find a way to protect my back from pain, all that laying down icing really got to me last time. Maybe I'll have a more pain free recovery this time, some do.
But hopefully I will lose weight again. It's worth it just for that. I wouldn't be rushing in so fast for surgery but for the pain in my knee and I do want to be able to walk well and be mostly recovered by summer. I'm also planning a face and neck lift for one month after the knee surgery...so vain.
My husband was having so many panic attacks and generalized anxiety...and depression, I got him on Lexapro, 10 mg. What a difference, anxiety is mostly gone and he is cheerful all the time now instead of "waiting for his turn in the barrel". It seemed to have anti-anxiety effects in the first few days, but really kicks in in about one month. I don't think our relationship has ever been better, he's become the perfect husband, I should have had him on this stuff years ago (he was always prone to anxiety).
I can't take these SSRIs myself, too many side effects for me. But he hasn't had any. It's been great.
Thanks for the good vibes Dig, I'm not nervous or anything. I had been wondering (my rheummy too) if I might have some inflammatory arthritis like Psoriatic arthritis, but got the path report on my synovial tissue and it doesn't say a thing about arthritis, so that is great. Remember I had both hips resurfaced in the last two years also, so I thought there must be a problem. I'm seeing the rheummy tomorrow, but I've already chalked this up to my hypermobility, standing with knees extended backwards most of my life, and God knows how else I was moving as I constantly did ballet, jazz dance, yoga, skiing, probably moving all wrong for my life.
So please follow my next recovery thread when I start complaining and remind me that it will soon be over.
Hollie