Today, a physical therapist who saw my husband said, “I don’t understand people who say, after knee replacement surgery, that it hurts so bad. They should know what to expect. They got themselves into this. ” Meaning, of course, that knee replacement really is elective… especially if you don’t mind riding in a cart instead of walking for the rest of your life.
So I explained to her that you can say, “This is really going to hurt for awhile” as much as you want, but some things you never know till you experience them. You can imagine a gun shot wound hurts, but you don’t know the pain until it happens. And getting the artificial joints to work like original joints (or close to it) takes some work.
Her response was that they should explain it better in pre-op.
I thought… yeah, this would be a bad time to tell someone surgery is going to hurt. Good thing this woman is not a nurse.
As painful as knee replacement seems to be, things do get better. Even though it may not be obvious for at least a month, that walker does go away.
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Sometimes patients will complain that their doctor denied that they would have pain. The doctors when asked, will give some wishy-washy answer about how we can control pain. It’s not entirely true as your husband knows.I wish that at some point, the patients would just be told before surgery that it will hurt like hell for awhile. That way, at least, the patients wouldn’t feel so betrayed.
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Good idea… just not in the pre-op room. 🙂 Of course, with really bad knees “hurt like hell” is already where they are. It’s just a different pain.