Femoral nerve damage after THR

Bone scan showed high risk fracture femor and hip and pain had been thigh and knee. No meds (can't take oral) so physicians ignored my pain. Medicare shorts eviently denied at Clinic.  Now my thigh has a sensation I call like a shock often. So tired I have to lay down to rest between cleaning, gardening, etc.  Constant sensation in buttock that there is something there that  hurts and. Had a lipoma reoved there years ago.  Bones at sacrum seem to be sicking out. I can't find  GP in US that will treat osteoporosis.  Just months of blood tests (high thyroid that no one discusses).  I am now so depressed and anxious that I am packing up my stuff and going to sell thinks Mom left me so I can find a place to move to.  I invested in a house in 2001 and it is all that I have.  I am 72.  I don't have much hope this is going to change. Fear I already have a fracture.  Pain is now in  spine  (id back).  The intermittent shock like feeling is  new and of greatest concern now.  My good long-time doctor passed away.  He was a peach.  He would never leave me floundering like this.  Something very wrong here with Medicare doctors.

I had femoral nerve impingement also.  The pain was horrible with the addition of shock waves several times a day.  The doctor had me use three large lidocaine patches daily over my groin and down my thigh.  It took about three weeks for the pain to stop.  It has not come back.  I now have severe IT band pain.  The nerve can also be cut if needed.  The nerve provides feeling but not movement so you don't really need it.  Or an anesthesiologist can put in a nerve block.  

Hi

so glad to read this... Not because you have discomfort but because I finally realize I am not nuts lol. I had a THR on 2/2/16. The first three weeks after surgery were going as I was told they would be. After I started Physical Therapy, I began to have real pain! All down my leg, and on the outside of my bum and mainly on the front of my shin. It has progressively gotten worse, and today is awful. I too need two canes or my walker to do anything. It feels mich better if I walk while bending down from the waist, but cleaerly I can't walk like that. When I take meds given to me for nerve pain in my legs while sleleping...the pain improves. But it is still very painful and not normal. I go to the surgeon next week. 

I had a hospital apointment on Friday 14th 2014 at 2.30pm,i walked into the hospital but never walked out again, i had a frontal hip injection and had cortasone injected, it did not go well, whilst it was being done i felt pain and very unwell, after the injection my head felt like it was being blown up like a balloon and i had a massive pain in my tummy and i could not feel my legs, i was rushed back to the surgery and had to have many test, i could not feel my legs and my blood preasure had droped very very low, i spent 6 days in hospital and some 18 months on i still can not feel my left leg much, and what i do feel is numbness, electric type feeling, pain in around the croin aria, etc etc i am now registered disabled, i have a stair lift fitted, and use a walking frame and stick, i also use a electric mobility scooter, i have had many meetings with the hospital and many more test to see what had gone wrong, but they keep saying nothing had gone wrong, i had a independant consultant who told me that the frontal hip injection may have nicked my femoral nerve, so still fighting with the hospitals and the Ombusman, the Ombusman has now taken on this case and is conducting a full investigation...

Hello, plx contact me regarding how you are doing now. I'm new to this but going through a really bad time. Had thr 2014 went great year later I had to have a longer stymied put in and came out from my toes all of foot to knee paralyzed and up the back of my thigh. Would like to chat to see where you are and know if any one else is like this? It's been a year had test and absolutely nerve damage!!! Had back test and it is fine. Syacta fine.... thanks waiting to hear from you. ..or anyone.

Debbie I have the same problem I had surgery in October on my right hip and it came out 3 times I had to have a revision done in March and have had the same problem since then the doctor has no clue what is going on but I have the same condition you do he sort of acts like he doesn't believe me like I should be healed and ready to walk by now but it's the right hip numbness across my back and the left I'm glad I found this site and I'm glad someone else has the same issues that I have please keep in touch they want me to see a nerve doctor and do physical therapy but I'm in so much pain I don't know what to do