4 weeks and a step back..

HI Rob sounds like you are in a quandry with the therapist, I fopund it was the bed excersise that was the most helpful and the butt clenches do them every two or three hours and you will get better quickly, now it a month.

Keep in touch and best of luck.

Ian.

I'm 15 weeks post op and have the exact same thing ... IT HURTS! And I want to to get back to my workouts but now I have to wait until this heals. Ugh.

Hi Rob

Sorry to hear about your setback and its very kind of you to describe your previous therapist as "over-eager" whilst you are now suffering for that. Im sure you must be disapointed but you will soon catch up once your sore bits are healed.

I was feeling really low for the first five weeks and my doctor thought I might be anaemic (I wasnt) - I had no energy (more than the usual tiredness we feel as we get over the operation) , I had no appetite and felt sick a lot of the time. In the end they put it down to side effects from the blood thinners as once I finished them at 5 weeks I started to feel much better. 

Because I had no energy during those first 5 weeks  I couldnt do much exercising and was worried this would really affect my recovery.

But here I am 4 weeks later I am driving again, exercising every day, I am going to hip school - using all the gym equipment which I havent been able to do in a very long time (!) and generally feel good, still tired from time to time but amazed at how much I can now do.

So it may take you a little longer but you will get there, so do what you can, and you will soon be walking well. 😀

Take care

Linnet x

 

Hi Rob, 

Oh dear, that happens and might happen agaon in the future  - one has to be en garde almost all the time and we know that that isn't happening - Your body will tell you when you are going to fast - as disappoimnted as you might feel, it is all for the better - 

This Physical therapy and exercises thing can be so confusing - It is easy to want to to do things too soon and with that damage the newly knitted and fragile tissue - not sure about walking without a cane at 4 weeks though - I was told to use walking aid for 6 weeks , also inside - no furniture surfing either because my gait was sooooo off - I needed the cane to keep myself balanced -

take it easy and allow the damaged muscle to heal before you exercise it okay?  

big warm hug

renee

How is it now? Sorry you have had a setback and it must be painful. This journey seems to be a case of five steps forward and four back for quite a while.

I hope it is better now. I am avoiding too much physio - walking is the best exercise. I hope you are okay x

The Saos muscle is Very slowly starting to settle down. You use the darn thing any time you lift or bend your leg/knee, so its almost impossible to not use it at all.   Still hurts a good bit, and I'm back to not sleeping so great again. Back n forth =)

Lots of traveling to do this next week with the holidays, so I'm sure it will be a rough week or two yet.

Hi Scuba!

I am 8 months out. Still use a cane to walk around outside for any length of time. Still having issues walking up and down steps.

But my surgeon told me that if any exercises cause groin pain to stop doing them. My therapist wasn't too thrilled about that one but it made a difference.

Good luck!

 

Hey Rob, So sorry to hear that you are having a bit of a set back. I know what that all about... Before I was fired from physio, I was doing the same exercises I was doing at my first appointment after my first hip replacement. So, not progressing as "the norm", whatever that maybe. The way I look at this experience is, people worry about what type of surgery to have, anterior, posterior or lateral because one heals quicker than the other. Or the amount of restrictions and how to live with them, or a set back due to an injury, or even complications from the surgery.... But regardless of all the above, (in most cases anyways) we all end up in the same place at the end... With a new hip, that is less painful and has more mobility then the old one. At the moment, it may suck, but the big picture is what we need to focus on. I will post tomorrow and fill you in on how my block went. Too sleepy now. So have a good night, and catch up tomorrow.