extreme sweating every night

i haven't heard of paracetamol.  funny thing is, my normal body temperature has always been around 97 or so.  hardly ever gets past 98.3.  it isn't like i'm fevered, but something happens when i go to sleep.  

Janie, that makes sense if it is just the body's reaction to the major surgery, it's not actually a temperature thing, but the body is sweating - it must be a 'shock reaction' thing - very odd, but I'm going through it once again.

Graham - 🚀💃

That makes sense rocket as I actually felt like I had post traumatic syndrome at the time. When I explained to my physio how I felt in hospital (she was particularly nice and caring) she said on a primitive level the body responds to that level of assault and injury, no matter how well prepared mentally we are, we can't over ride the shock. I felt like I had been run over by a train for a few days - not the pain, just the reaction. It is a brutal operation, so we must have to deal with that in some way.

I hadn't however connected that feeling with the night sweats.... so that is probably the answer. I looked up blood thinners side effects but it doesn't mention excessive sweating on the list.

I can feel where someone applied a lot of force to my leg, just above the knee, I have seen somewhere that you can end up with a hand-shaped bruise just above the knee, so it sounds like someone was very forceful with my leg.

Another page on the wensite done now - so that's :-

  Other Online Resources

  What is Total Hip Replacement

  Assessment and referral

  Pre Admission

  Hints and Tips (things you may need) - to be expanded later.

  Blog : Operation January 2016

Graham - 🚀💃

wensite = website 

Rocketman - i was the one who posted earier that I had a clar handprint on my leg just above my knee, if it wasn;t soo sore would have been funny.

Too bring you up to date, on my lower back MRI, self diagnoses with the help of the web, see the specialist Dr tomorrow, bulging dics, at least one ruptured disc, not pretty generally from what I can understand when I look at mri pictures.

Ooh, that's not nice - no wonder it hurts, but at least you know there is a good reason, and can get treated now.

They must really manhandle us when we are on the operating table, it was quite sore above the knee for a day or two, I was just hoping I wasn't going to be needing knee surgery and then get Gaby's problems.

Graham - 🚀💃

Oh, I am shuddering as I read this, you poor dear! Good luck with the specialist and whatever the recommended treatment is. My spine MRI is tomorrow...

Good luck Annie, let us know how it goes x

Well what a total waste of time visitng the specialist for my hip. The MRI clearly shows i have big problems, interesting that I had no pain before second hip replacement. He has refered me to a physio for help with the pain issues, and then if that doesn't solve the problems, come back and see me again, he said clearly try to avoid spinal surgery at all costs, I'm inclined to agree with him there. Friend of the family years ago ended up as a horror story, that they could not undo.

This is in the comments field of report. Annular disc tear at L4/L5, with left paracentral focal disc protrusion creating a potential for irritation/compression, of the descending left L5 nerve root in the effaced lateral recess. Severe degenerative facet arthrosis bilalaterally at L5/S1. Don't look pretty for my future does it. I suspect all of this comes from my background arthritis. More fun and games into the future.

Sounds pretty bad, Lyn, so sorry! Who knows why things start hurting. The distances are so tiny, so all it takes is a little bit of movement/change to hit the nerve. Perhaps the extra work your body had to do when trying to ambulate after the hip surgeries was all it took to get the pain going.

Pain is so weird. My hip had been kind of bothering me a bit for a couple of years, but I could easily cope with it. Then about a year ago, I hurt the knee on my good leg, so my "bad" hip/leg had to do a lot more work. Then, when my knee felt better, my hip started to be more painful. When my orthopedist saw the x-ray of my "bad" hip, he was floored. He said he couldn't believe I hadn't had a replacement long ago, since it was bone-on-bone - no cartilage. My pain just wasn't that bad unless I did too much walking. And I didn't even think to have it checked out until after I hurt my knee. 

I hurt my back on a backpacking trip in 2011, which is what I think started my current decline. With my limited experience, back pain is the worst, since it affects every single move that you need to make. 

I agree that you want to avoid spine surgery unless you absolutely have to have it. Hope the PT will help you and that you get a good one. I keep hearing stories on this forum about how PT has done more damage than good.

Sending you good vibrations, Lyn.

oh my goodness.  i hadn't thought of that.