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If pain in my hip replacement of 4 months is still chronic will it ever be right/ pain free? Am I over doing it or maybe not enough.do o need to a wear long lift in shoe as surgeon Said I'd to take . Out but still limping. Should I put it back in?
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hope4cure lara69400
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The femur bone implant into the bone has a surface designed for bone to attach, nit & grow onto & thru small microscopic openings and heal . That's a lot for the body to do.
This design in UR case is a honeycomb design. Same design I have in my first one 14 years ago. The bone grows into the device stabilizes the implant because it is not cemented into place( which has a history of loosening in 3-5 years) , UR implant is pressfit into place. In other words the hole is strewn into the bone , the implant is pressed into place then tapped into a tight fit into place once the length has measured up correctly to the other leg length with the correct angle. The long end into the femor bone needs time for the bone to nit and grow into the implant device. This is why the honeycomb description was given to u.. This is the insert into the femor. This will give u stability and mobility in years to come.
My hip was always in /out of pain daily for 9 months to a year. My hip was done using the posterior surgical system which is known to take longer & have more movement restrictions than the anterior surgical system.The bone is surrounded by soft tissue which grows with the bone to support new bone growth with the implant device with blood supply and oxygen to heal and stay healthy.
Please see more details online a google search will help u identify with the whys , how's & where's of the pain UR experiencing, growth and healing.
There's a lot going on with healing inside UR body. I refer to it as the giant sea reefs structures with many things supporting those reefs at the same time. The skeletons growing & feeding on the sea plankton while the sturdy growth supports many strong sea currents & creatures. The movement and flexability of the reef is imperative for the structures survival.
Right now the pain is getting really really old and the walking & the exercises u just wish it was all over. And I don't blame u one bit. I think there a time during this healing process that we just hit a wall. Hate every minute of it ....yet stuck with doing the grinding drill day after day .
Try to stay with all the post surgery strengthening exercises u need to support a important structure YOU..be kind to UR new appendage don't over do. Rest is important every day just another important thing for healing. Most important post OP tip r always eat UR share of chocolate. Best medicine ever...
carmen56984 hope4cure
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When i go out for a couple of hours, i find when am back home all i can do is rest as am in some pain :-(
Am worry about going back to work as my job is standing on my feel for 7 hrs
hope4cure carmen56984
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be happy and supportive and it will be returned to u in droves. Bring goodies and treats kiss a little ...and they will help u..guaranted!
TC&GB
Nordic lara69400
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4 years on I am in constant pain in the new hip, but I had a "sub-optimal" replacement according to a 3rd opinion from another surgeon, after I had to keep asking my GP to refer me again. I thought I'd be pain-free! Silly me.
Jayive Nordic
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I have 1 leg longer following thr and am soon going to see a hip revision guy and need to have as much information as I can beforehand.
Pain free, yes I thought that as well, so it's silly me as well.
Nordic Jayive
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Are you having a revision because of the leg length discrepancy? Surely not!
hope4cure Nordic
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My $&#% 4 years of struggling is long enough. I've been struggling with pain for almost 3yrs after surgery due to recall. It's exhausting to jump thru all the hoops to find any resolve. Most drs would rather not due revisions of any type due to the severity of the revision surgery. See details online/risks. Unless it seriously has health issues ie: blood tests infection..heavy metal poisoning..bone or tissue necrosis..there hesitant. I wonder why quality of life in most cases does not enter the decision.
I'm just as silly wanting to be pain fee and no life.for a few yars.... I just decided to go for it and adjusted to my severe limitation while still living in Limbo. Here I wait....
hope4cure Nordic
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PT has help some but as I wait the stress is handed down to the knees ankles ...it's just a osteo roller coaster..I call Limvo...
christine98681 Nordic
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i have a large lump just above my knee were the drainge tube was is this the same place as yours this really hurts and when i try to bend my knee it wont let me now its locked my scar is just below it wich the scar is 12 inch long its so close to were the muscle is but on the side the length of the rod is only about 4 inch from my knee.
i also have foot drop from my post op of 3 months with cronic pain but i cant walk through this foot drop also a 3 inch discrepency on the op right leg but i have to have a brace fitted and my shoes built up i certainly wouldnt want another hip op after 2 since last october 2013 that as gone wrong hope you dont mind me asking its solid hard.hope you can reply before i go back next week you can see its raised up and very tender to touch.
christine.
Nordic christine98681
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If you have a 3" discrepancy after the op this seems really extreme & shocking - the surgeon made some very poor calculations.
christine98681 Nordic
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he as made a lot of trying to calulate by the sounds of it foot drop 12 inch scar my own dr cannot belive the way he as left me but i cannot wait to see him next week but its not him i will see but if i dont get some answers i will sue him for the way hes treated me ive seen him once since the day of the op hes obvious done more damage than helped me as promised i would be free of pain like hell i am.
i new from the beggining there were a 1 inch with the first op i had but to knock it up another 2 is way out of order it shows more when my knees are together there is one up and one down the physio measured my legs and asked if i had them measured in hospital but they didnt this is why i have to have all my shoes buit up by the hospital if i ever walk again the scar gose up to my waist think hes put the hip on to my waist he must have shoved my leg up there too i know it sounds funny but its not i only have short legs aswell my hip bone feels alot higher up than other one ive got a lump there that sticks out but thinking its still in the healing prosses and settleing down.
thank you for getting back to me.
Jayive Nordic
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I don't yet know if I am having a revision, just going to see if anything can be done or if I have to live with this pain. I only wish I could walk a mile, I couldn't even do a hundred yards at present. It's a constant burning pain around the scar, I can't lie on that side as it feels really bad, and I've lived with it for well over a year, tried acupuncture, ice packs, physio etc but cannot find any way of relieving the pain except taking high doses of pain meds which make me very sleepy and exhausted. So now I'm referred to a different surgeon in a different hospital group to see what he thinks.
hope4cure Jayive
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i hop UR doc can give u some clarification as to why u have suffered for so long.
christine98681 lara69400
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as for putting your builed up in your shoe i think you are better asking how much dicrepency you have in shortness from your physo first if you dont have one then get your dr to measure your legs he will refer you if there is a lot to the othodontic dept sorry if spelt wrong im in the same boat as you regarding the cronic painit really gets you down you hear of ppl that as had same as both of us saying you shouldnt get pain now so and so dosent have any pain well im not so and so and i am i suppose you feel the same as me on this we both are not so and so that didnt have any pain after op
i have had these 2 hip ops through a fall 18/10/2013 was in agoney after it was done shuda been done correct in first place got second opinion from dr with a different surgons from different hospitals i went to see this surgon on 22/1/2014 he found what mistakes was made marked urgent didnt get done till 15/5/2014
this was only picked up 3 weeks since by my physio i have a 3inch discrepency i have to have all my shoes raised up also i have to wear a brace as i have foot drop physio as sorted this out for me i cant walk now i have spent almost 7 months bed bound from all this
but as for your pain i do smpathise with you im in cronic pain after 3 months post op i feel now like you will it ever end im sick of taking pain killers morphine for there mistakes the best surgons can make mistakes they do not give us enough advice on complications i havent even seen my consultant that did the first op or got an appoinment i made had urgent one for second one not been able to bend the knee said i needed more physio's but now as completly locked i cannot take much more of him or the pain
we get pushed of with there register r so they dont have to face us i have seen my xrays on the last vist but nothing explained to me what was done and why i have a 12 inch scar. i no it was a lot different from my first op
you think why am in so much pain cos at the end of the day if everything went smooth for them no pain after it was done why am i still in so much pain.
but they would be out of a job if every ones ops went to plan they will not admitt they can be wrong.
you dont get the chance to ask what the doing or can be bothered to explain as you are not in long enough you put your life in there hands going into it blind till the pain dosent go away then they try to blame us in some way they arent bothered what pain we are in we are just a number to them .
if half of the surgogons had to go through an hip op and suffer like us and theres went wrong they would sit up and think we all cant be wrong we know our own bodys or are they totally stupid i have the same lump as nordic but i put it down to thinking it will go away but it asent i go back next week i want some aswers as he dosent no what as happened in the last 3 weeks i cannot walk through both ops one mistake yes but not two
register r new i couldnt bend my knee so dont no what is excuse or should i say is register r did not seen surgon since he did op.not likely to either
it was my physio who picked up on this 3 weeks ago i did everything i was told to do but from day one i new it both was not right. i wish i could turn back the clock from the small fall i had and causing me so much pain please dont think this will happen to you im just one of the unlucky ones.
i do have muscle damage physio told me plus my dr asent had anything from the both consutants on both occasion's
hope this pain gets sorted 4u good luck keep posting .
christine xx
hope4cure christine98681
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all lol we can do is push on for the best . U have certain ally been thru so much. Have had soo much taken and I really hope u can get better help and PT .. UR story is very much distressing. Hoe do u cope with the stress?
Do u have counselors to take with to help cope? My heart goes out to you. I know exactly how u feel. It's like someone stole over future and now we r left to settle with a part of who we were...
lara69400 christine98681
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hope4cure lara69400
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