Knee & Hip Replacement Community

Long story which I'll try to keep short. After 4 scopes and no cartilage left, my knee was replaced in 2007. Too many years of wrestling drunks as a Cop and too many sports. Initially the surgery seemed successful but within a few years was clearly not functioning right. After a bone scan and another scope in the Spring of 2012, my Ortho Doc advises that the bottom section of my prosthesis hadn't bonded properly, and the surgery would have to be re-done. One week later I learn that my knee is infected with an MRSE Staph Infection. No doubt from the Scope procedure, but who's going to admit that. My knee swelled up like a ballon and the fluid drained (and analyzed...), verified the infection.

I had to go in for an emergency procedure to have my prosthesis removed and a temporary implant put in. 15 days in hospital I was so sick from the infection. I went home with a "Pick Line", and home care came in each morning to change my I'VE bag. This went on for 2 months.

By November, 2012, 5 months later, and several test confirming the infection had cleared, a new prosthesis surgery was successfully conducted. Because there was so much intricate work done, according to my Doc, I had to wait 6 weeks before starting a more intense Physio Therapy program.

All was going great and my wife and I couldn't believe how well I was recovering. Until Monday, January 7th, not quite 2 months ago. One of the stretching exercises my Physio Therapist was doing, was laying me on my stomach, sitting beside me with her back to me, and bending my knee as far as she could, until I told her to stop. She has 30 years of experience so I figured she knew what she was doing. That night, I was in agony. I went back a few more times, explaining my pain and making sure she took it easy. But my knee only seemed to worsen so I stopped after a few more sessions.

I remain in moderate pain which basically means that with all the meds I'm on, I'm just accepting and coping with the pain. My wife and I left the end of January for the Dominican Republic, and will be here until the end of April. My next appointment with my Doc is a few days after we return.

The pain hasn't worsened but hasn't improved either. But what's different and unique is that while the left side of my knee (if you sliced it down the middle...) feels fine. All the pain is in the right side of the knee. Also, the right side feels numb, similar to when you have teeth frozen before a filling. I can poke the right side with a needle and feel barely anything.

I'm guessing I've suffered nerve damage from the Physio Therapist over extending my knee with her aggressive bending. My question being; has anyone experienced anything of a similar nature, and was there a solution??? I want to get off the narcotics, (Oxyneo, Endocet, Celebrex. And something for my stomach...), fearing that my poor liver is slowly being destroyed.

Any comments, suggestion or input will be appreciated. I don't get to see my Ortho Doc until the end of April, and I fear I may be facing another surgery to repair nerve damage, but certainly this is only speculation right now. Oh Yeah... Besides my 2 knee replacements, in between I had a hip replacement, and both shoulders operated on. I'll be turning just 54 on my birthday in March. As I said before, the product of wrestling too many drunks and domestic disputes for 26 1/2 years, and too many sports at the same time.

Any input will be appreciated, and thanks for reading my Novel, ha....... wB...