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Is it normal to experience knee swelling after having ankle surgery?

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Is it normal to experience knee swelling after having ankle surgery?

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Hi, The knee joint complex has – Bones – Cartilage – Muscles – Ligaments – Tendons. If any one of these structures are injured or damaged, then the person lands up in knee problems. As you have posted that everything in there was torn apart as informed by your surgeon, it seems that you have not only injured menisci but other ligaments also. With this history, arthritis would not be first entity to be considered. The badly traumatized knee has to be rehabilitated and this requires you to start physiotherapy. But before this, if you can have another orthopedic surgeon’s opinion would be highly beneficial. Other option that can be foreseen with such a bad knee would be an knee replacement. To comment on such a surgery requires in depth analysis of your condition. Sources: http://www.medhelp.

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This is actually less of a question than an answer for anyone experiencing severe calf pain/swelling after having microfracture knee surgery. This website seemed like a good resource, so I thought I would post here. First off, as everyone would tell you (hopefully including your surgeon), if the pain persists, you immediately should have an ultrasound to rule out a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). I had that done and the results were negative (good news) but I still had terrible (and, I mean, terrible) pain in my calf. Literally, I could not stand for more than 30 seconds without my foot turning dark purple and the pain so bad that I had to go back down to the bed. Needless to say, I was very frustrated and became pretty depressed. Naturally, I took Vicodin to quell the pain, but tried to restrict that to bedtime only so I would not grow too dependent on the highly addictive stuff. That helped a bit but the pain in my calf just wouldn’t go away. Then one day a friendly neighbor saw me on cr

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This is actually less of a question than an answer for anyone experiencing severe calf pain/swelling after having microfracture knee surgery. This website seemed like a good resource, so I thought I would post here. First off, as everyone would tell you (hopefully including your surgeon), if the pain persists, you immediately should have an ultrasound to rule out a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). I had that done and the results were negative (good news) but I still had terrible (and, I mean, terrible) pain in my calf. Literally, I could not stand for more than 30 seconds without my foot turning dark purple and the pain so bad that I had to go back down to the bed. Needless to say, I was very frustrated and became pretty depressed. Naturally, I took Vicodin to quell the pain, but tried to restrict that to bedtime only so I would not grow too dependent on the highly addictive stuff. That helped a bit but the pain in my calf just wouldn’t go away. Then one day a friendly neighbor saw me on cr

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