I am scheduled to have a total knee replacement in oct..i am very scared because i am obese..and very out of shape since i have not been able to get around. I am scheduled to go to water therapy to try to build myself up a little before surgery. I have slowed down considerably every year and I am only 54. The doctor told me I had the arthritic knee of someone 70 or older. Please let me know if you have been thru this and what the outcome was. Since college, my dad had a bum knee. By the time he got to be 80, he was using a cane and very inactive and obese. He had basically worn away all the cartilege in his knee leaving no cushion. It was painful.
He lost his wife, my stepmother, to cancer and decided to get his life in order. He had his knee replaced and once again was able to get around and be more active. Since the event, he has often said that he wished he had done it sooner and that it was the best thing he had ever done for himself.
What was key for him was doing his physical therapy (PT) religiously. His PT started almost immediately after his surgery.
Now he is almost 90 and still lives alone, shops for his own groceries and exercises on his stationary bike, his ablounger and some free weights. He has dropped about 40 pounds and though he is still overweight by about 40 pounds, he is more active than most 90-somethings. It really is about the quality of life. You may find that yours will improve dramatically once you get through this.
Since you have some time before your surgery, you need to approach this event as though you are in training for an athletic event. Start watching the quality and balance of the foods you eat. Cut out the fast foods, fried foods and high sugar foods.
Get a good set of multivitamins and amp up the Vitamins E and C. Massage your knee regularly to increase the blood flow. This will not only increase the blood flow but also put you back in touch with the offending limb. Your knee has a lot to say and you should listen to it.
In general, be good to yourself. You will find that your recovery time will be shortened. When it comes time for the surgery, stop taking Vitamin E and any asprin. They increase the blood flow which is good but not right before your surgery. Resume taking them after the event.
Take heart. You will get through this and come out the other side and better shape. Picture what you want to be doing once your knee feels better. Make some modest plans and set some goals. Then resolve to do them as the markers of your successful recovery.
BTW - 54 is relatively young and your body if quite capable of recovering faster than you think. Good luck! My brother in law weighed close to six hundred pounds and they told him that before they would do the knee surgery that he would have to lose at least 300+ lbs. So he went and had a gastric bypass and after about a year to an year and half he lost the wieght. So they did the surgery and made him do water therapy too. He has done so much better since the knee surgery. I have had both knees replaced (November 2006, April 2007). I can easily get around and have very little of the former leg and hip pain I used to have. I am slowly losing weight. My doctor had told me that I had NO cartilage left in my knees. He is confident that my weight will continue to go down because I am able to walk and exercise without pain limiting my motion and endurance. I am 55. Hope this gives you a boost! Although i never had the procedure my sister and brother-in-law both have had it. They told me that while it is healing it is pretty painful but the end result was well worth the pain and discomfort. They have both since had the second knee replaced and are glad they did it. By the way both of them were overweight. I'm not familiar with knee operation but I know how to help you get a personalized weight management program that will help you lose the weight and feed your cell with right nutrition and will enable your body to repair itself. When that happens maybe you will not need the operation. Friend,
before you encounter the surgery, please read
at the age of 54 FEEL you are overweight,,
I have to talk three things 1- your overweight and fast cure by liposuction 2- your overweight and weight loss 3- Knee surgery
DO NOT STARVE YOURSELF TO DEATH ,WATER THERAPY WILL be temporary releif .
1-but Liposuction is t is harmful as far as Your Pocket is concerned It also affects yuor health in unnatural way.
The fat gathered by body in a number of years has to be burned out by regular diet exercise and some Yoga,
You have gathered fat in years by food, your lifestyle. etc.
If you are not going to change lifestyle it will again gather.
it is like weeding the grass . but it grows daily.
and the fat has some use for body which keeps it as reserve energy . now suddenly it is gone then your body will have to struggle and show its effect on your health. you may become weak, tense , irritated, you may not like your suddenly changed appearance,
there are hundreds and thousands of persons who have reduced weight . one way is to adher to regular exercise, not Gym but aerobics. (please email me , I will send you one complete set of instructions of exercise )
taking Honey with Lemon juice. for burning the fat.
do not starve yourself but eat your food in such way that - each morsel is turned liquid before it goes down. eat only sprouts, and vegitables , boiled or raw. eath whole wheat breads, stop meat and fat contained food.
You can loose your fat , happily and healthy way without tears..
2- LOOSE WEIGHT GAIN SHAPE, FEEL ENERGETIC AT NO COST.
Without spending for costly Gym fees or steam baths For weight loss or bulging belly or sagging breasts, tired knees or laziness whole days. For all theses, I have one prescription of simple exercise of spot jogging to be done in four stages. Or 15 minute each. And that too for first 15 minutes to be done spot jogging. Second stage sits down with crossed legs keep your both hands on waist. Wide mouth, chin touching pit of collar bone at mid of chest. Sway you upper part from left to right, bending up to left knee and keeping in this situation move head to right knee and straighten the upper body. Do this for 15 minutes.
Third part is to be lying down on floor keep eyes wide open, starring at ceiling imagine stadium size clock and your eyes are moving on periphery. Roll your eyes fast on periphery in circle.
Last 15 minutes close eyes; relax body and lying on floor.
Get up after 15 minutes, take warm or hot water bath.
Eat sprouts, boiled vegetables.
Do not eat curd, banana or sweets, or iced foods,
Avoid saturated fatty foods, beef, mutton, meat, fish,
Take natural juice in limited amt.
Take honey 2-3 spoonful with half lemon juice mixed with water to make it one glass
Avoid junk food, pastry, snacks, and irregular intakes.
Regular sleep and food will bring drastic change within 21 days. And continue for 6 months together without break and report at my email krishprud@yahoo.co.in
Further you chew the morsel till it is liquid and then only take another in mouth.
This will greatly control your food intake and give your mouth good exercise. It will also be fewer burdens on your digestion system and your food will directly become blood .this again will give you more energy and nourishment and waste will be minimum...
People do not Love their body and when they stop loving themselves, they ignore and in that they start damaging the body by eating wrong foods, eating too much eating at wrong times, avoid the exercise etc. The reasons are many
And eat to your hearts delight ... do not starve yourself... enjoy food but eat each morsel and make it liquid and then allow it to go down your throat ... this will be another exercise in your life along with Jogging, so jogging and chewing both are your work, prayer and worship
Keep a fullsize photo current one, on your dressing table where you do exercise for your daily viewing
Keep note of your weights and other body parts for your knowing where your exercise goes.
initailly it will be exhausting but you will feel more energy once you pass the 21 days
your face should glow, your eyes should shine , your voice must be clear and walk must be energetic , your foot springs when you walk
3- Knee Replacement - I have seen in India, ex Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee had unergone knee replacemnt surgery , and still he walks even slower than he was walking...
As I understand the knee cap gets friction and sore due to acidic formation and loss of some fluid that keeps your knee in motion without pain.
Now the reasons of that acid formation and fluid reduction are your Food Habits,
After you have read the point 1 and 2 you must have known that how food is important to your health and shapely body
Some of the foods are acidic and add to your paining knees..
I suggest ,If you can start an experiment. Eating raw papaya daily .. skin, seeds and inside..
Papaya are alcaline and raw papaya has best of its powers retained , before it goes in to cold storage.
I will add here that raw papaya skin will make your tongue sore and you may have blisters also if you take first time and too much.. I have experimented on myself and have learned the trick..
Just take one slice then wati for one day and then increase by one slide each day .. if you are comortable..
Papaya will work magic such that it will
-clean your bowels fast as it works as laxative too
-lubricate your inernal organs
-absorb acids, and clean the acids formed in joints all over the body . not only knees will feel better . your whole body will have new energy
ripe papaya give your good taste , and will give your skin a new lustre as it contains Vitamin A
-one books I had read titled HEALING POWER OF PAPAY by Barbara Simonsohn... this was for getting cure of my wife who had suffered breast cancer and I have found this book tremendously useful .
I will also suggest that if you can get lay your hand upon another book titled EVERY THING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NUTRITION -by Dr. David Reuben, This book was written in 1970s and Dr. David himself a Qualified Doctor , left his practice and started some naturopathy, I am not much aware about his present activity but I am very grateful to his books... His book informs us how our food and medicnies are just THURST upon us.. How food is mistreated in factories AND how humans are coned with multi vitamin supplements...
Friend wish you come out this painful life sucessfully and a winner..
Last thing I will add is that Acid formation is not only by food but by our mental Stress too,
You need to calm down your nerves by Meditation and you will know your Mind is making your body slave of you and exploiting it.. Mind is just giving you Hell..
so for this another chapter is needed to explain in detail... for now try above recipe and find your normal health..
Now you are below Zero level ,come out from -ve to zero. the upward +ve health too you can try... once you are free from worry and ful of confidence. |
