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5 month post op. still in pain

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amanda12547
amanda12547

Hi.  i'm now 5 months post thr.   still in a lot of pain.   my leg now turns in slightly and i can't walk for more than half hour without a lot of pain.   possibly sciatic nerve.   i've been referred to a spinal unit to assess if anything has been damaged.   i'm on a cocktail of drugs to ease the pain.  my surgeon just x-rays the joint and says it looks ok.   i did not have huge amounts of pain before op but now in almost constant pain.   i'm 58 and a professional dog walker!

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  • lynne43902
    lynne43902 amanda12547

    Posted

    Hi Amanda 

    I feel your pain! I too am a young hippy and have a very similar experience 

    I have had an mri because I have much more pain now six  months after my thr than ever.  I have a spasm pain going up from my new hip into my back and I walk with a limp 

    My consultant wants me to use a stick but I am a nurse!!  How can I do that!!! And the physio disagrees and says not to use a stick! 

    Any way the mri showed a prolapsed disc in my lumbar spine and facet joint arthritis.... and I’m 50!!  It seems 30 years of nursing has taken its toll but I cannot retire for another 5 years 

    I’m in dispair about my future .... I imagined everything would be fab after my new hip....   doesn’t look like ... 

    any way going g to see a chiropractor on Tuesday to see if she can help things get better 

    I really really hope that you find some answers and some positivity 

    Lynne xx

    • amanda12547
      amanda12547 lynne43902

      Posted

      Hi lynne.   it's an absolute nightmare i too resort to a stick but i've got my own dog walking business and i feel stupid walking with a stick.   i am a fit 58 year old but sometime feel much older.  i really wish i hadn't had the op.   x

    • lyn1951
      lyn1951 lynne43902

      Posted

      I developed a bulging and ruptered S1-L5, bulging L5-L4 & bulging L4-L3 disc post THR, in dispear I went to a Chiro, took my x-rays and MRI with me, explained what had happened and when.

      He was wonderful but would not touch me, he gave me exercises to do, exactly the same as I had been given by the physio, he had just had his hips replaced a few months prior and was very very good, he understood exactly where I was coming from.

      Best advice I got was from the senior physio, he said its a little unusual, but get in the heated pool, down the road a little from the hospital, support yourself with a noodle under your arms, relax and allow your body to fall away under the noodle, must be deeper so you cannot touch the bottom, and then tread water 3 times a week, could only do 10 minutes when I started, but built that up slowly to an hour at a time, took about a month, but then I started to get some relief.

      Check up at physio a few months later, said I was much stronger in the muscles in my back and core, which is important holding your spine in the right position, but they did find I had weakness in some of the muscles in my buttocks, gave me very specific exercises to strengthen up these particular muscles, worked wonders with my walking gait in a few weeks, and I believe also lessened the stress on my back.

      Orginally I could barely walk, and was on 5mg of Oxycodine every 4 hours, and it was barely touching the edges of the pain.

      Now two year on still do the same, if i feel my back starting to twinge I get back in the pool and do intensive treading water it really does help.

      Oh bye the way, I have been able to give up the pain killers, took about a 3 months to get off the Oxy, and another 9 months to give up Panadol, but doing good now, fingers crossed.

  • Rocketman_SG6UK
    Rocketman_SG6UK amanda12547

    Posted

    Ouch!  Sciatic pain can be absolutely awful, I have suffered it in the past as has my wife.

    It only takes a small movement of the nerve to allow it to be pinched and cause pain.

    I had this long ago before the operation, and had a physio and osteopath working on me for several weeks to relieve my problem.

    Best wishes

    Graham

  • debhip7.6.17
    debhip7.6.17 amanda12547

    Posted

    *FOLLOWING* ...Curious, Anterior approach? I'm a fit, active 47yo at 18 weeks and 2 days (but who's counting). I just finished 25 sessions of outpatient PT and although I'm a bit stronger I am in no less pain (maybe even a bit more). I've had massage, chiropractic care and a I am currently seeing a massage therapist who specializes in Neurokinetic massage- first visit last week and he testing to see if my muscles are "firing" and signaling my brain properly and by the end of my initial evaluation he was not too optimistic, going again Tuesdady sad I stopped using my cane, about 5 weeks ago and since then I feel like I'm getting worse and have terrible knee pain (but learned that using Roc tape helped A LOT!!) and my back now aches quite a bit. With a big blow to my pride I grabbed my cane again this week. I called my surgeon and requested a meeting, we meet on Monday morning-- I'm thinking second opinion, I'll see what he says. I'm no longer buying the "everybody heals at their own pace" something is wrong. I regret having this surgery sad

    This is one of the first threads I've seen that feels like ME.

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