How bad is chronic knee pain?

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I underwent tibia LON recently

I currently have knee pains but it’s understandable because I’m still early in my surgery

Im so scared of potentially having chronic knee pain in the future,  I wanted to ask… How bad is the pain?

Is it a constant pain that never goes? Or only when you do sports or put a lot of pressure on knees?

And how bad is the pain?

Is it easily manageable or does it affect your quality of life?

Thanks guys 

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Guys?

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Pain is very subjective and depends on the individual, but for me my left leg is a little over 2cm  than my right ( not sure if this is genetics or not, but I did get hit by a car in my left leg when I was like 8 ) and if I play sports a lot I'll have lot of pain in my hips the next day ( I'll limp because of the pain ). For my friend he has chronic back pain ( I think mostly because he's 6'3 but it's genetics not LL ) and he always complain about it and it definitely seems to have impact in his daily life seeing how he goes to a specialist regularly.

For me I really don't care about my pain but it would be nice to minimize or get rid of it when I get my surgery in 2024. Overall this is a subject that you should be discussing with your Surgeon as people in this forum don't know you personally or your medical information.

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are you planning to spam the forum for months every day about your pain?
we told you to wait 3-4 months for your trauma to heal as youve had a MAJOR surgery which left you with 4 broken bones, 4 screws drilled into your proximal tibial cortexes, 2 dissected knee tendons, and 2 steel rods hammered with FORCE deep into your tibias.

Then few weeks after that you had a new surgery to remove the external frame and drill 4 new screws in the lower part of your tibias.

Stop being hysterical and focus on your recovery.

If after 3-4-5 months you still feel something then come here and ask about it, preferably after consulting with your surgeon first.

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Yeah, my knee is aching all the time atm, I am trying to wean myself off Tramadol/Endone,  but then again i only stopped my 3/8cm femur LL 7 days ago, based on my last LL in 2019 You def gotta give urself a few months after LL to decide how permanent your pain will be.

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Quote from: AimHigh on July 24, 2022, 05:40:13 AMYeah, my knee is aching all the time atm, I am trying to wean myself off Tramadol/Endone,  but then again i only stopped my 3/8cm femur LL 7 days ago, based on my last LL in 2019 You def gotta give urself a few months after LL to decide how permanent your pain will be.

Thank you so much bro.  Could you please take a look at my situation here that I posted :

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=71280.0

I’d love to hear your opinion as someone who had undergone this surgery.

Essentially I only lengthened like 0.9cm and currently I have a ache in my knees and a sharp pain in my left knee when I do certain movements. My Dr said this is all because I’m still early in healing and because of inflammation. He said it will go away.

Thanks man!

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I have done internal rods on both femurs, due to nail complications i have had 4 rods and a 30cm plate so far...
My experience is not directly applicable to your (Tibia CLL) situation, but i did have 4 nails inserted through knee so there maybe some overlap in our experiences RE knee pain.
I agree your XRay seems to show some misalignment in the lateral view, I am not sure how this will impact you long term (probably not greatly tbh), but at the moment i agree it maybe causing short term pain.
After one CLL surgery I had strong knee pain when flexing the knee for 2 years (max 120 deg flexion) , my Doctor insisted my knee pain was due to a torn meniscus and was permanent and would not improve - eventually I organised an Oblique XRay and found he had inserted a too long nail and it was impinging on a tendon, I had the screw removed and my knee became pain free and I now have 135 deg knee flexion - moral of the story is that this is your body, and there is nothing wrong with obtaining a second opinion.
Maybe before your bone has fully fused it is best to get a second opinion now about the lateral tib/nail alignment - and try to obtain Lat/AP/Oblique Xrays to identify screw placement more accurately than the standard AP/Lat view.