Pain Still 12 days Post OP

its still early days i am the same as you 12 days post op for my 2nd hip and i am still on painkillers, and can feel the ball bit too and yes i get the pain down the thigh, i wouldnt feel bad about pain killers if you need them, then take them, you are lucky that you are allowed to fly some drs dont recommend it till 6 weeks or more, hope all goes well with your recovery

All of us are different and need pain killers for a different length of time.  There are no prizes for suffering with pain but not taking pain killers.  What each of us should be doing is aiming for what is best for us and not in competing with each other.  We each have the same aim, to get as well as we can for our own benefit.

Best wishes,

Joan

Yes normal, did you have posterior, if so they cut your muscles and tendons and being 12 days out your soft tissue has not healed yet. I have not had butt pain but groin and thigh are normal, you have to get that muscle strengthened. That can take months, I am 13 weeks out and I still have that thigh pain sometimes down into knee. You heal in layers I read from Bonesmart that your tendons heal and mesh around your joints then the muscle heals around all that to hold it all nice and tight so you don't dislocate. They say if you dislocate its usually early on, 3 months is first milestone, 6 months second but could be year before you feel normal. I try to think about process like a vine growing around a broken fence, once the vine strengthens around the fence even being broken the vine holds it tightly together until it dies. My doctor said at 7 weeks you are about 75 percent healed, hope this helps.

No dear Girl ( you are a girl?)...Don't feel bad at all about taking painkillers.  You are so early on..I am 12 weeks today and still have to take the occasional painkiller and at your stage I was taking all day and some in the night!  Yes my pain goes down front of my thigh too ..I am a bit of a twerp as until I saw the xray and SAW the bit going down the front of my thigh I didn't even think about how the op would work!  I imagined a floating ball and socket!!

​Lovely for you to be going home. Are you having daily blood thinning injections to carry on at home?  If so they were'not anything like as bad as I feared..just went on for 35 dyas!!  Better for me at any rate than the stocking things.

​Speak soon.

Alice 

We all get differing pain  - we know someone else who had the same surgeon as I did, and she skipped out of hospital totally pain free, no limp, nothing - whereas I still have a limp at 4 weeks .......... 

Graham