Originally Posted by nikmcjo

I am soooooooooo glad to hear therapy is going good for you. The therapy is still really hard, but I am improving slowly. My therapist are now not the sympathetic ones. It is more the ones that aren't my therapist. When they see me cry and sob, they come over and comfort me and give me cookies

Ha, they don't believe in medications at this place. They like refuse any kind of medications whatsoever along with nerve blocks. The only medication I take (i dunno if im allowed or not....) is tylenol with codeine at night to help me sleep some. I don't take it often, just when I am in more pain. It helps me some.

Omg, my therapist are doing the same thing with walking to me. I also limp, but my right foot is worse than my left foot. It still swells up too. I can't get my right knee to bend fast enough. My reflexes are a little messed up right now. I either walk with a straight knee (most of the time, a lil easier for me) or with a bent knee the whole time (more of a limp). My two pts decide to tape up my 4 little toes on my right foot (can't move them) to help them stay up when walking. I hate it when they do that.

With the pain, it just depends on the day and the intensity of the therapy I did. At first when I started, they would ask me on a scale of 1 to 10, what is your pain at (i hated those questions). At first they were like 9's and 9.5's. The first few days, it got worse. Then after a week or so, they got down to between 7 and 8 which was wonderful. Then slowly, they went down to 6. Lately, they have been jumping back and forth between 4 and 5. A day ago (Saturday, no therapy) it was like before all over again, but today it is back in the 4 and 5 range. It feels so wonderful. The only time that it gets back high again is when I like bump my feet or arms into something. Then they throb for the rest of the day. Besides that, the pain has reduced greatly.