[JoMar]

Remember, you had major surgery. Lots of various tissues have experienced trauma which rehab and doing stuff can aggravate. I had my first total knee eplacement done in 1999 and the pain disappeared totally after 3 months. At that time my insurance covered 3 days in the hospital and 10 days inpatient in a rehab facility. After three weeks I was able to do pretty much anything I wanted to do but the tissue was still recovering so total pain free took longer. My other total knee replacement was done in 2011, 3 days in the hospital then home with a PT person showing up three days a week for an hour each day. That went on for 3 more weeks then I was off to an out patient rehab and getting back to normal was a couple more weeks. While pain free was about the same time as the first knee, the journey was worse because insurance didn't provide the intensive and focused rehab as the first knee. We are all different but tissue recovery will take time even though our tendons and ligaments might let us do the things we need to do.