New Knee Clicks Like Hell

elainebadknee

Hi

I am still seeing a physiotherapist and it will be a year on 25th of this month since I had my new knee. I went back because I still have pain and I didn't get told till the end of June this year by an arthroplasty woman that the surgeon did extra work cutting my ligaments at either side of my knee which had become slack at one side, tight at the other. This information was in an operation note and I requested a copy of this as I have a tribunal this month for the very competent ESA, I have only just got it on friday as they sent me the wrong information firstly.
So my physio at the hospital say my knee is very bendy but very unstable too. She has given me all sorts of exercise I now go to the gym at hospital and go on fitness ball, trampee, exercise bike and wobble board. She did try me going up and down steps and arm bike (that was too low to get up from) but my knee didn't respond and last week looked a right sight all swollen and not straight at all. I mentioned that my knee was also very clicky an crunchy, i thought when you got a new knee as they took away your original joint that there was nothing to click away, I must be wrong? I could feel it on the lateral side crunching away and locking again so she said its not a very happy knee. Does anyone else still have issues with their joints after such a time would be good to know?

Elainexx

nearlybionic

HI Elaine
I don`t have a new knee, as you probably know, but I do have new hips, and sometimes feel a clicking which I have been told is down to ligaments `snapping` or `pinging`. I wonder if this could be same for you, especially after the soft tissue removal and adjustment you had with your op?
Just a thought? Do you have a check up at 12 months post op like us hip people do? Maybe you could ask the doc if you do.
Take care
NB

stickywicket

Welcome back, Elaine. I'm sorry I can't help. My surgeon tied up some loose ligaments when I had my revision and the only outcome was that this revision is even better than my original TKR because, when that was put in, they couldn't/didn't do any ligament work so my knee remained at the wrong angle. Thanks to the ligament knotting the revision faces the right way, or would it the ankle did :roll:

stickywicket

Sorry. My mistake. If I remember rightly it was the ligaments that were shot before the TKR and the tendons that he re-arranged at the revision.

barbara12

Elaine like NB says are you not due for a 12 months checkup..if not I would ring them ,and see if you can get one..at least it would hopefully put your mind at rest x

elainebadknee

HI NB

Yes your hip is quite new isnt it, this summer? Im not sure you see what is snapping and pinging I thought when got a new joint it was all mechanical, guess I have no idea...I have an appointment one year on 21st of this month which is 4 days short of its anniversary..

Elainexx

elainebadknee

Hi SW

Well as I didnt know about this deformity as it is noted in my operation notes, Im quite in the dark about it...I just know it feels like the old knee which I didnt think it would...Seeing him later this mont for one year app..

Elainexx

elainebadknee

Barbara

Yes as I said above there later this month so will ask...Hopefully its last time before we move (sigh)..

Elainexx

nearlybionic

Hi
Yes my right hip is quite new, but my other is 4 years old. The new joints are prosthetic, but my pinging sensation comes from the ligaments around the new joints. It is not painful for me when I get this sensation. Not sure if it could be something similar? But I hope you get some answers at your check up.
NB

villier

Nice to see you back Elaine sorry I cant help you but hope you get some answers on the 21st...................Marie x

kathbee

Hi Elaine

I had a TKR right side 15 months ago so at my 12 month revue a few weeks ago the x-ray showed it was all ok. I find I have a lot of clicking with it and it is not totally pain free BUT I do have RA as well as OA.
I am now going to be going on the list for my left knee replacement and the surgeon did say 'how will you feel if you only get as much from the next op as you have with this one'. Thats the reason I didnt plump for going on the list straight away. BUT I do have plenty of bend in the knee thankfully.

Over the weekend I had a huge flare with the RA, unable to move from bed hardly, and the worst joint being ? My right knee which is the replacement, so its mainly down to inflammation I guess.

BY THE WAY, good luck with this horrid ESA thing, I am well past working age so thankfully I dont have to deal with all that, but I really feel for folks who do, who would actually want to be ill with a rotten disease and opt out not to work rather than get up each day and look forward to what awaits. None of us I would imagine.

Take care
Kath

elainebadknee

Hi NB

Ah right so your'e saying the ligaments are still the original ones so that could be what's clicking and so on? I will ask in few weeks time..

Elainexx

elainebadknee

Marie

I will get the same answer as they have always had for me but if they wish to pursue me so much to take me to a court like a criminal then let them, they can pay my expenses...

Elainexx

elainebadknee

Kath

Im not painfree either in fact still on the codeine phosphate that I have had since discharge last year so that aspect is a bit disappointing....I don't know any signs of arfur elsewhere so don't have your predicament of having to have another operation...It is a major one too so I would think twice about it as me being young and supposedly fit didn't help me as had to have blood transfusion as count was down to under 7 (supposed to be about 12) and was in for twice as long as patients more than double my age...Good luck with yours

Elainexx

kathbee

I understand Elaine.
You are young and its awful to think your knee op doesnt feel right.

You do hear folks saying its still quite early days and perhaps it will improve, but mine clicked from the week I got home when the swelling started to go down. I told the surgeon at my 6 week appointment but he didnt seem to take much notice.

I had a hip replacement almost 4 yrs ago and it has never hardly twinged at all. So very different than knees though, as knees have so much pressure to take.

Hope things improve for you really soon and good luck with the job search and tribunal.

Kath

elainebadknee

Kath

I guess maybe I just have to accept this is how my knee is going to be, to me its not hugely different to before the operation...I can kneel on it and it is very bendy but unstable as my physio says. I am rid of the arthritis I had but what I have gained I am still not quite sure yet. I do have bursitis of my hips and occasionally my joints ache quite a lot but I havent been told I have arfur anywhere else...
I am young which means will need another knee if I live to a decent age..

Elainexx

kathbee

elainebadknee wrote:

Kath

I guess maybe I just have to accept this is how my knee is going to be, to me its not hugely different to before the operation...I can kneel on it and it is very bendy but unstable as my physio says. I am rid of the arthritis I had but what I have gained I am still not quite sure yet. I do have bursitis of my hips and occasionally my joints ache quite a lot but I havent been told I have arfur anywhere else...
I am young which means will need another knee if I live to a decent age..

Elainexx

I feel for you Elaine being so young and having to have a replacement and it not feeling good.
I am fairly surprised you can kneel, I can't on either of my knees, the problem I have are the stairs as I feel I havent a 'good leg' to lead with, one of them still weak from a replacement and the othe one weak from pain and damage which the surgeon said was beyond repair of any description.

I mentioned to hubby the other day
'Do you fancy moving to a bungalow or having a stair lift fittedK
he said 'we will go down the stair lift road as cant face moving'
We shall see.

I am watching your posts for further developments regarding
Job
House Move
Tribunal
Knee recovery

Blimey thats a lot to be going on isnt it?
Wishing you well.

Kath
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elainebadknee

Kath

I can kneel and sit on the couch with my legs up/knees up that's not a problem...Stairs are my bugbear however I am like a 90year old going up/down stairs because my knee isn't strong enough to let all my weight come through it and let it do its thing.....I laugh at my situation and say that as Im overweight then I won't live long enough for a 2nd knee so that won't be an issue! I live in a bungalow too and thank god we don't have stairs don't think I'd make it to the loo half of the time..
I haven't posted on here for a while, the forum isn't what it used to be (text deleted by Moderator YEH)
I don't blame your hubby for suggesting the stairlift option by the way!

Elainexx

destiny0321

I have had my left knee done twice & last time clicking away saw a consultant she said to me it cannot be clicking i said it is she got hold of my leg took it in & out then it went CRACK she said it should not be doing that but it was.
& mine as been no good since. destiny

stickywicket

What does the surgeon say about it, Elaine? I seem to remember you went back previously.

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elainebadknee

Destiny

Oh er that don't sound promising! But I can only see him and see what he says...

Elainexx

elainebadknee

Sticky

Well as you reply to my posts and such I think its good
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Elainexx

stickywicket

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elainebadknee

Sticky

I can only PM what you asked me before.....And it was all done in a joking matter as far as I could see.....

Heyho!

Elainexx