Day 10 Last couple of days has been quite bad with fever. The doc asked for a few tests. The main reason being that I started the knee flexion exercises 3 days back and the slight pain and the increase in swelling has resulted in fever appearing. The doctor has advised against using ice for the swelling for the time being. I am able to put the entire weight on the operated leg and able to stand with both legs straight though for walking I am bending my knee and hence the gait is slow and limp(when there is no fever). I am using muscle relaxants like volini liberally to ease the pains in other parts like hip joint and lower back due to the increased pressure on them. I am very careful of resting them as my previous injury in the right knee(for which the ACL reconstruction is done) led to double pressure on the left knee and I over stretched my aching knee which has resulted in cartilage damage in the left knee.