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My surgeon after my 6 months visit seems to imply that this is as good as I'm going to get n just to take painkillers......
That 1 out of 4 die within a year....this is all I hear when I ask him questions about my pain n my inability to walk without cane without limping.
Is anyone else being told this?!???
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joan23085 cecilia34059
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Your surgeon seems to me to be a pessimist! Have you sought a second consultant's opinion about the limp? How old are you? (at some point the 1 in 4 dying within a year might be true, but perhaps not because of the hip!)
I'm now nearly 17 months post-op, THR right hip. I'm a pretty fit 75-year-old. My husband had a radical prostatectomy in early March. So, for the sake of both of us, we have been out walking most mornings before breakfast - now up to 7 miles each morning, and sometimes other walks during the day. We're playing tennis again too.
What made me want to reply is - your surgeon may be quite wrong if he is saying things won't improve. My surgeon said at my 12-month check that by 18 months I would be able to lift my right foot onto my left knee to put my sock on. (This was pretty well the only thing I couldn't do, and I'd asked.) He said healing continues for at least 18 months, perhaps 2 years.
This morning I put my right foot onto my left knee to put my sock on for the first time!
So I am absolutely certain that healing continues for a lot more than 6 months. But I also think that you really should have that limp checked out by a second person who has no axe to grind.
Good luck!
Joan
cecilia34059 joan23085
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I am 66 yrs old n live alone....
I do my normal activities but my leg starts hurting n I have to sit....I limp alot....my good leg kicks to the side when I walk. I had a partial hip replacement due to a fall...slipped on water leaking from refrig.
I'm walking with a cane more around the house for exercise.
And I started going to therapy.
cecilia34059 joan23085
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He also tells me that alot of people end up like this (not being able to walk unassisted) n just to take pain killers.