[Blueflag]

Maybe we are just tougher and complain less.

I had a total knee replacement on Friday and was walking outdoors on Sunday, doing stairs today.

Never took a narcotic pain reliever. Only ibuprofen and Tylenol.

Just. F-ing. Do.It.

Fyi, the author used the phrase “exquisite pain.” Makes me wonder ...

[9YearLurker]

If you could so tolerate pain, what’s up with getting the joint replacement?

[Vigilanteman]

It is mostly culture. Men are taught to cowboy up and keep a stiff upper lip; women are taught to share and show empathy.

At least, that is the way our generation was raised.

[arthurus]

I got a prescription for codone some over twenty years ago for a broken leg. I still have two thirds of them and do take one when my gout gets really extreme which is very seldom since I stopped eating anything good. No beer either.

[ZinGirl]

When she was in 7th grade, my daughter tore her ACL in a soccer game. Finished the game. (But definitely limped over to mommy after the game). Doc said no way is was torn thru as she couldn’t have finished the game. Welp. MRI showed differently. She had ACL replacement surgery. Took one Percocet (in hospital), came home and said she would never take that again and declined even Tylenol unless it was too unbearable to sleep.

Some people just have a different tolerance for different things.

As a matter of fact, when that daughter was born, she was 9lbs, 8oz, the 2nd biggest head in the county that year (at that hospital), AND came out with shoulder dystocia. (She came out like a football player plowing thru to The goalline, per my mother in law!) I did it all with no drugs. BUT if I were EVER to go the dentist, I would need any and everything they could offer. I would want to know why I had veins which did not have IVs loaded with painkillers dripping into them....even if both arms were already hooked up. I would want to start taking morphine the night...or week..before any appointment. I am a total baby about mouth stuff!

good luck with the new knee! Hope rehab remains easy for you. Ortho says that is in my future...that was 1.5 years ago and I haven’t gone back yet. Kinda putting that off. :)

[Flaming Conservative]

Exquisite pain is a medical term. As far as knee replacements go, sometimes the postoperative pain is less than the pain was before surgery. As a rule, though, post knee replacement patients heal faster and regain function faster, if they have adequate pain medication. Not everyone is a “bite the bullet” type.