12 months in and more problems

3 yrs post double thp  same issue as yours and no doctor has figured out cause...I also hace severe pain in hip area,hamstrings,calf  when ant kind of activity as walking or biking. it is especially painful when any kind of stress  as walking up a grade.biking up a grade,walking on a beach in soft sand. after years of research on my part i finally went to another DR. and asked him about Piriformas syndrom.He said I have every symptom .so im starting PT next week and he prescribed a muscle relaxer...we will see in 5 weeks...you might want to mention this to your DR.as the siatica nerve runs directly through the Piriuformis   hope this helps and good luck

After knee op I had liquid morphine whixh gave me excruciating gut pain like gall stones but situated half way between the navel and the rib cage. Similar to the pain I get if i eat wheat!! ALso got nightmares. For my subsequent hip op. I refused morphine and just had Ibuprofen and Paracetamol.P.S. th print on my copy  has shrunk to a very small size - any help please!

You could be writing my story there with leg length discrepancy.

After surgery about 12 weeks I was hit with extreme sciatica, I could not walk, not that I felt I had been able to walk properly since my surgery, I identified alot of extra leg as soon as I stood up 12 hours after my surgery, pointed it out to the Dr's at the time, they assured me it was OK, and I would get used to the difference, nobody did a leg length check either prior to surgery, and or after surgery to see if what I was telling them was correct.

After begging my local GP for a long leg x-ray, private physio had measured my leg and agreed I had alot of extra leg on left side, my GP agreed to X-ray, from floor to above pelvis.

Even x-ray tech said wow, you have a serious problem.  10mm naturally below my knee which is outside normal paramenters of what most of the population has, and then 12mm added by the surgeon, thanks  to the senior consultant who did my surgery.

Nobody helped me figure out what ws the best for me, reading papers available on the interenet, sorry not forums, but Dr to Dr papers, and between lots of contradicting advice I figured out what was best for me, physio suggested shoe lift, under shorter leg might help.

Junior Dr's at the hospital refused to help with leg length, or they just didn't know what to do, senior consultant who did my surgery, although booked twice, was never available to see me when I arrived for appointments.

By 12 weeks post surgery never having had a back issue, I had rupetered S1-L5, bulging L5-L4, and bulging L4-L3, told there was no link between issues, RUBBISH RUBBISH,GRRRRRRRR, I could find the links on Dr to Dr papers on the internet, in fact took a paper into the hospital for one visit when they continued to deny there was a link, and shoved it in their face and told them to get themselves a medical degree, and was not very polite about it.

Help - shoe lift, getting in our local heated pool, with a noodle under my arms to stretch me out, 3 times a week for an hour at a time, and treading water, carefully as back was soooo painful, and within about a month started to feel the difference, less pain, less numbness in lower legs, although it has never completly gone away.

I am now 2 years on alot better than I was, shoe lifts a part of life now, still go to the pool, but mainly if I feel twinges from my back, doing more general walking than I was, very very slowly adjusting to the leg length differences, just as the junior surgeons said I would, but what a painful adjustment.

I DO NOT sit in a lounge room couch, only seems to cause me more pain and discomfort, spend most of my sitting time in a straight backed kitchen chair, imagining I am my great grandmother wearing her horror corset, and keeping my back straight at all costs, seems to help as well.

Best wishes to you as well, Love Lyn