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Clicky 'locked' hip pre-op

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Fernlady
Fernlady

Hi, did any of you hippies (or soon to be hippies) suffer with a clicky hip or gotten into a position where it feels like your leg has locked & you can't move? This happens to me when I'm sitting on the loo (& I don't mean for any considerable time)! It's almost scary to try & move as you feel like it's going to 'pop' out x

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  • vanessa88276
    vanessa88276 Fernlady

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    Yes I did before my op x I was bone on bone and sometimes it would kind of lock and it took ages for me to gently get back in a proper position it was horrid I had right hip done and its fine now am going in for left hip soon as it is happening to that one as well now x
    • Fernlady
      Fernlady vanessa88276

      Posted

      That's exactly it Vanessa! I'm bone on bone & its just such a weird feeling x
  • sarah1996
    sarah1996 Fernlady

    Posted

    Me me me my hips and knees constently crack and pop and lock (and my collar bone from a bad break)

    Theres been times were my knee has locked and when it unlocked it reduced me to floods of tears and i couldnt walk on it for 3 days. But my knee does regularly lock. Its worse when it happens in public and you have to hold your scream of pain hahaha

    • sarah1996
      sarah1996 Fernlady

      Posted

      Its probably that bad for me due to the how bad my disability has gotten and so on haha. Could live without the knee locks though.

      I reached up to put a pan on top of thw cupboards the other day and me shoulder locked. It was horrendous haha

      Are you clicking and locks regular? Xx

    • Fernlady
      Fernlady sarah1996

      Posted

      I would say regular but perhaps others get them more than me. I'd say at least once a day x
    • sarah1996
      sarah1996 Fernlady

      Posted

      Ohh thats awful. Iv managed to cut the locking down as i know what kind of things make it happen. But sometime it randomly happens when im walking.

      Try and remember what you are doing to make it lock and try to stop doing whatever it is and see if that happens

  • CelsB
    CelsB Fernlady

    Posted

    Yes, yes, yes.  Sometimes i used to freeze and say to my friends "my hip has got to click back into position".  My consultant said that as the cartilage crumbles your bone tries to heal itself and you get bony 'spurs'.  These catch and cluck and cause all sorts of problems.   My hip clunking was audible to my friends.  I don't think it's in any danger of popping out, it's just that sort of sensation.

    cels xxx

    • sarah1996
      sarah1996 CelsB

      Posted

      Hahaha was that you opying my me me me? 😂😂 xx
    • Fernlady
      Fernlady CelsB

      Posted

      Hi Cels, I freeze as well & then end up doing everything in slow motion! I don't know why it happens when I'm having a wee, must be how I sit! How are you getting on? X
    • CelsB
      CelsB Fernlady

      Posted

      I feel I'm doing pretty well, better than I expected actually.  Plenty of time for setbacks though hopefully not.

      the pain isn't too bad most of the time although I try to keep ahead of my pain relief - not that easy when youncan only have 8 tablets in 24 hours and want more in the middle of the night, so I'm having 1 1/2 tablets rather than two to try and eke them out.  Walking reasonably well and managing little things around the home.  Living alone makes me keep more actuve than perhaps I would and possibly works to my advantage although I try not to overdo it.

      just managed a full 6 hours sleep.  Bliss cheesygrin

    • Fernlady
      Fernlady CelsB

      Posted

      I think you're doing marvellous on your own. I went to see a customer a few weeks ago (farmers) & Mr & Mrs are both in their 70's. Mrs has had both hips replaced & Mr just the one. We were talking about recovery & how long I'm going to be off work. Mrs said '3 months, I wish I'd had 3 months. I only managed about 2 weeks, there's too much to do here for me to be having 3 months off'!! She's perfectly fine & you wouldn't know what she's had done. It sort oif made me realise that if she has that attitude at 70+ years then I can surely do it at 46!
  • suzie56
    suzie56 Fernlady

    Posted

    Exactly same happens to me, excruciating pain too,  now picture this at work I shuffle on my office chair using good leg and crutches as skis to the  staff room where I lie on my back and slowly stretch my leg out, even through the pain my collegues and I can't help but have a laugh.....roll on April............
  • bridie000
    bridie000 Fernlady

    Posted

    Yes that used to happen to me, I'd do sideways stretches to loosen it uponce the shock had passed, when it happened while I was riding my bicycle it would be excruciating and I'd have to stand on the peddles and stretch but after that I'd have to make my way home trying to pedal with one leg because the pain was just so bad from hip to knee.

    Hopefully that's all a thing of the past yipeeee!!!

  • lyn1951
    lyn1951 Fernlady

    Posted

    Clicking hip for years, but never when I went to the Dr to demonstrate. Sometimes it used to lock up and go click, or closer to crunch and other people in the office would look around and say where did the rifle shot come from, and I used to point to my hip, used to shock people who hadn't heard it before, and suggestions that i see my Dr.

    That click crunch then advanced to the sensations of standing on a marble on ice rink, used to slide with no warning, but the stop, OUCHH doesn't even start to describe the pain, so I can relate big time.

    The one and only crunch I have had since, is two -three days after my surgery, when my hip went crunch in front of the senior nursing sister, she turned around and said are you OK, no pain, NO, nothing, scarey, but I seemed to be OK, so nobody seemed to worry about it.

    I asked what it was, and nurses said maybe tendon going back into place, around a bony spur, in someways I think she was right, alot of tension I had in my leg relaxed a few hours later.

    Was all the crunching and clicking for years previous a tendon clicking past a bony spur, had lots of those, of course lost them all after surgery.

    • Fernlady
      Fernlady lyn1951

      Posted

      What's a bony spur? I've never heard of those. As I said previously, mine normally happens when I'm having a wee. Another regular time is when I'm bending over to clean my dogs feet after we've been on a muddy walk.
    • lynn66084
      lynn66084 Fernlady

      Posted

      I had them, you will see on your x-ray, they are where the bone has grown out from the main part.  My other hip needs doing in 3 or4 yr and it's the oddest shape, more oval than round with some bony growths jutting out. Think they take them off when they do the op.
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