Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Total shoulder Replacement 22nd of Jan.

Well on my way to being the Bionic Man, both knees replaced and now the left shoulder. Had to do the "Reverse" as there was nothing left, too many years in the concrete business and toss some football in. The Doc wanted to know if he could use the X-rays in his classes to show what a really bad, no cartilage, bone on bone wore out joint looks like for his students, sure why not...

Two weeks out and it hurt less the day after surgery than the day before. Start real rehab in a couple of weeks. Will see where I wind up.

I wish you a good and speedy recovery, sir.

Good luck to you, man. The concrete business will sure beat up your body.

I'm glad your pain is going away, Pain is a big suck. I hope things go well WM.

The physical therapy after the surgery seems to be VERY significant in the recovery process. I followed through on the MD's advice, the therapists' routines and am still quite pleased with the outcome years later. Tylenol (or other non-opioid pain medicine) may be needed to get through some rough spots. Best wishes, sounds like a difficult shoulder repair.

Best to you my friend.

I’ve heard mixed results from shoulder surgeries. Do what the drs tell ya and good luck!!!

I don't do Opioids well, took the Oxycodone for the night of the surgery (Monday) and for the two and half hour ride home on advice of the cutter and his nurses, (stay ahead of your pain) had to spend the night as the wife can not see well to drive at night, I skipped the 8:00 PM on Tuesday and have done fine.

The nerve block worked really well and I have been doing Tylenol since as needed, I cut it out after a week, the reverse regimen is no real rehab for 4 weeks from the guy and he has done 4K shoulders and seems to know his business. Cleaned out the Tylenol and am applying Wild Turkey 101 for a toddy to get to sleep at night. Still in my recliner wearing the sling/bumper pad thingie.

I heard all the horror stories about a shoulder replacement, but so far has not been as bad as the knees, so I am good. Rehab may be a bitch but will face that as it comes.

Last knee was on July 27th, I was climbing a cow face in the Crazies November 20th same year to harvest the bull in my avatar, all under Dr.s orders. Will do the same on this.

I had the same shoulder replacement about 5 years ago. Same problems, nothing left to fix. No muscles to do them with. Mine was fom dragging pack strings all over the Rocky Mountains . Every once in awhile a mule in the string would decide to go elsewhere or stop so suddenly it will jerk your arm back. Plus slinging packs and a lot of things that abused the shoulder.

The nerve block paralyzed on side of my diaphragm. I woke up the night after getting home and could not breath. Spent three days in a cardiac observation ward.This doctor is supposedly the best in town.

One of the more common problems is the doc has to go back in and put a spacer in if the shoulder pops out often. Mine does and I deferred the 2nd surgery. Didn't want to go thru that again. I got use to popping it back in.

A shoulder replacement is much more technical than a knew replacement.The reverse is even more so.

I need two new knees, but the experience left me cold for any more new body parts and I probably would not live thru the surgery anyway. Lungs and heart are not working very good now at my age .

Good luck. I hope your's went well.

Saddlesore

Who was the doctor and what brand implant did you receive? It always surprises me the number of people who cannot answer the latter...

Dr. Willis. Southern Joint Replacement Center. Tri Star Centennial, Nashville, TN.

No clue on the brand of new parts.

Did you do the robotics surgery, I had both knees replaced 3-1/2 years ago, so it was old way. My wife had the robotic knee replacement 6 months ago, it is a total different everything, amazing how fast she recovered, I ask the Doctor about shoulder’s and he said robotic for that too, I know it’s coming also.

Good Doctor. Went to med school in Memphis, fellowship trained at FOI (Florida Orthopedic Institute) in Tampa, probably under Roy Sanders, he is the GodFather there. Stryker has ~50% of the shoulder market.

Did my left shoulder Thursday morning! Total reverse..........I am black and blue but recovering well. Have a lot of muscle soreness.
I have taken the opioids to get me over the top but will stop after my first PT session Monday morning.
Wish you well.
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Good for you... and glad to hear less pain than expected.

My buddy John played SEC football for 4 years. Then he was in the Atlanta Rugby League for 6 years. He said rugby was worse than football. He has had TKR both knees. He also had total shoulder replacement in the right shoulder. The surgery went well, except he can't split firewood any more.

Well, if he can wipe his hinney without pain that is a win. If I have to hire one of those two things done, I prefer to buy split wood...

I’m due for a 3-D printed knee in a couple of months. Outpatient, and PT will be at home with a visiting tech. Supposed to last 25-30 years, which oughta be long enough.

I like to hear success stories like this, considering my situation...
I was scheduled for a reverse shoulder a couple weeks ago. It's not hurting most of the time. My biggest problem is that my left hand goes to sleep all the time. It's putting pressure on a nerve somewhere. I decided it'll have to hurt a LOT worse than it does now before I have it done.
The doc is suspicious of the hand numbness and has me set up for a nerve scan in a couple weeks. We rescheduled the shoulder until April just to keep a date open without another 6 month wait. That way if I need carpal tunnel surgery or something, I'm already scheduled in.
Besides, I'm building a complete set of kitchen cabinets and don't have time to mess around with having my arm cut off.

Good luck on this. My wife just went through this, it wasn’t fun. Do your followup PT religiously.