Femoral nerve damaged from hip replacement

Hi barbara

I have just had first physio (lthr march 3rd ) was referred as consultant suspected quad strain poss qiad tendonitis ,but physio has today said he thinks it is femoral nerve damage from surgery !! I have to go again mext week . Im just wondering how you are now and if you have found any help or relief ?

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Hello Barbara I'm sorry to hear about your experiences, my mother ( in her 80's ) has had identical issues after hip replacement in Dec' 2016 she was told by her surgeon that the femoral nerve was damaged during the op,oh dear that's a shame and regrettably unlikely that there will be any improvement but would like to see her in 2 months meanwhile my mum is in agony and looks like staying that way!

I believe this is negligence and am taking this further.

 

I had hip surgery December 13, 2016 I had them femoral nerve damage.  I was home for a week I was not able to walk get in and out of bed by myself it was horrible. Went back to the doctor by the end of the week and I went into a nursing home for two months with extensive therapy five days a week. They used a stem with the Russian setting  to get my nerve started again. It helps so much when I left there I was able to walk with a walker but I still cannot drive. I continued my therapy at home with

outpatient therapy at the nursing home. I useed the esteem twice a day at home.  I'm

am able to walk without the Walker and I only use my cane once in a while. If I know I'm going to be taking a long walk or going somewhere I will use my walker more for stabilization and comfort. I can't walk long distances yet. I can lift my leg more now but I remember when it seemed to weigh 100lbs. My orthopedic doctor said it could take up to 18 months for it to be normal. I work part time as a cashier and I did go back to work. I am retired but enjoy working and seeing people. I am 72 . I worked in Medical field for 40!years and this is a fun job to me. I also have spinal stenosis and have a lot of back pain at times. Me leg is still numb in areas.  Sometimes my thigh and leg swelled up pretty bad but it's much better than it used to be. It seems to be better since I didn't go back to work and I'm moving around more. I sympathize with you because I know what you're going through. The therapy helped me out a lot  i'm so glad that my doctor suggested it. I don't know if you had any kind of therapy after your surgery or not but that is needed. I could not walk at all after my surgery and it was and it was horrible.

Yes this is the exact situation I am in, 7 month post op.  I'm not quite sure if it's nerve damage or if it's is due to garaged muscle from the surgery. I had anterior  THR bikini line cut. Only the bikini line is way below where the bikini line should be. About an inch off. My leg is firmer and numb and painful at the same time. I too can't lift my leg very far while standing, and lying in bed and doing straight leg lift is non existent, can't put shoes on without pain and can't bend over without pain. Can not rub my leg because the best way I can describe it is like I am getting a flu and the pain in the skin when you touch it, this pain is the same as that but 20 times worse. And it has been a permanent thing since surgery. 

Thank you very much for sharing this story with us. It helped me and now I can see that other people have the same problem as myself. 

Are you still employed? If this condition continues I will more than likely lose my job. The Docs never want to admit they made a mistake.

I'm 8 months post OP and have much difficulty trying to do the simplest things...still cant get up off of the floor without assistance... I'm still so angry at the Dr....but he acted like it was no big deal

Hi Barbara and anyone else that is suffering from this complete debilitating feeling. My only expression is without the medication I wouldnt be able to walk ...my first hip resurfacing was done i 2006..to this day i am left with no feeling on inside of left leg from the groin right down to the ankle. I was never informed of nerve damage I still to this day have my consent form...that day, I'll put it bluntly, a man with a knife changed my life within 24 hrs!! The surgeons name Mr. Did not even come to explain wat could've happened etc because back in 06 it was considered so rare it took the hospital 2 weeks to decide to send me to London to a specialist up there...however they expected me only to take paracetamol for a 5 to 6 hour journey. If surgeon wasnt blaming the annetheatist the poor guy was blaming him and all this over me .. not to this day have I ever had a letter of apology and explanation as to what wen wrong...noone expected this. But tell me if my surgeon went in via posterior approach pls tell me how the hell really in all honesty they could damage my femoral nerve so bad and right next to groin area...then to be poked n prodded and these men who are legal to cut u open, surgeons are next to gods themselves however not one person knew left me two weeks in a private room etc then sent me all way to London to be wheeled into specialist office he read notes took one big gruff to clear throat and said does this hurt and for the first time in 3 weeks I had an answer. However because it was 2 weeks before anyone even taking it seriously he said to me after exam n xray the only consolation u have is the femoral nerve is not severed n only really badly crushed. I'll try to decompress it but I can only do so much after u being just left and no one knew.

I still have no feeling. I've had hydrotherapy physotherepy etc etc and it took me two years to walk again . I'm glad to say it's the first thing spoken about now in my hospital. But back in 06 I was supposed to return to my hotel job got promotion to receptionist etc but because no one knew how long or wen I had to give my notice which killed me ..to add insult to injury, I couldnt afford to pay my Bill's etc so had to declare bankruptcy, so from start of June 06 , I had gone from a strong happy married working woman new house everything...by the Sept 06 I was bankrupt and then the worst, my father went and died !! So to this day that poor man never got to see me walk again , tried going to the social to see if we could get any help and believe it or not was told no sorry. I couldnt believe it! In the end after me n hubby spoke I got in contact with social services to see if they could find my youngest in all day care for then hubby to get her after he finished..I am no longer married, no longer have my home that we paid for ourselfs, and the icing on this horrid affair ..... my daughter who is 16 now knows me no other way than continually being I'll. She never knew the mom that had it all. I tried to sue for medical neg , and was only waiting for court date when legal aid pulled the rug from right underneath me. I couldnt sue cos they found out I was bankrupt ....!!!! OMG!! I wouldnt be bloody bankrupt had they not done this stupid schoolboy error of a c**k up! But to never have been told of nerve damage risk depending how they do OP, to have been left in a room for 2 weeks only then to be told I going London only overnight, wouldnt even let hubby come with me, paramedics used their own incentive and stopped a fellow ambulance and transferred gas n air for me to use cos I was not allowed to bring meds..not one person came to explain or even wrote a letter of apology and the fact that my local hospital even after 2 weeks didnt have a clue. Oh I take oxycodone/oxycontin/longtec now with lyrica to keep all pain at bay only to be told that the powers of be would rather I not have those spec tablets ....oh yea highly addictive but how dare a pen pusher at the top decide wat a person can take etc. I look at my doctor I say sorry first but sod it I speaking the truth now, how dare some white collar pen pusher who at the very most have used germolean for a cut!! Do they think I like or we like living like this , the only difference between me and a street user of drugs is the word " legal"! Yep because a man with a knife thought he was the dogs gonads, cos of MR TEMPLE, I'm a prescription legal addict and now they say I should only be taking blah blah , that man could not even come to talk to me to reassure me etc. Please do not go on operation table unless u need life saving treatment. I've had two hip replacements surgery to place little metal disc in neck and base of spine been fused....again it took the medical establishment over 10 years before they would entertain the effort of sending me for xray blood tests always came back I was fine but I knew I wasnt. And cos of the non belief that's why I had to have my first replacement....apparently everything I suffer with is hereditary...yet I am the first in family to be disintegrating like melting wax!! I'll b honest it was only reading this I actually thought I was only one cos its app one million to one chance....thrown helplessly to the medical team and for what? They didnt persue my claim altho I had barristers reports to say that yes I shouldve known but it wasnt even written on my consent form then at last hurdle they threw my medical negligence claim out cos any money I won would have to go to the official receivers of my bankruptcy altho after a year it's supposed to be thrown out, no! They said if I got so much as 2p they would take it!!! Yet it was cos of hospital I was like this .....thank u for opening my eyes at the knowledge I not only one who has been through this. I couldnt even sell my story to magazines n such cos I had no photos not to hand anyway. So my national health who I've worked n always put in, let me down emotionally, I felt I was just thrown to kerb like rotten apple. Now I'm told off for still being in same pain, still trying to find ways of compensation. I lost my marriage, my job which I loved, my independence, most of all my self respect or my self worth I lost , I lost my dignity but I lost my home my marriage my dad never seen me walk again in fact night before he died he rang me and I told my hubby tell him I'm asleep cos I was still woe me!! My daughter I feel sorry for cos her dad left and as soon as she was 3yrs she was helping care for me she never seen a mom that was confident married and so in love only I could not and did not know who I was anymore , to finish, give n take the facts , morally I look at me now to that woman before and altho I would of preferred all to have gone ok it changed me hand on heart on my sisters grave I never thought I would ever smile again but I did . It humbled me and made me see life people etc as new. No wonder hubby divorced me I couldnt even look in mirror wen it first happened. I felt I'd lost me and u know what I did but I came back more aware non judgemental and able to see other sides and new ways of thinking. Would I go back ...no way! Shame it always takes something drastic make u live n like another way of life ...thank u so much I thought I was only one ..nice to know tho that since June 06 the first things discussed now are the risks. No matter how small or life changing that was down to me ...and others u came from behind after me ...

Hi, i am lee i am 51years old i had both of my hips done my right leg in 2017 and my left hip done in October 2018 and i tell you what I have had nothing but problem after problem it's ridiculous it has gone from bad to really bad i thought I was the only one with the problem, now my right foot doesn't work at all i have foot drop apparently!! And the heels on my feet have split and is sooo painful!! I am now going to a podiatrist 3 times a month i keep going to my gp to see if I can get something for the pain, then they started me on a medication called pregabalin 75mg 3 times a day and then I started to get seizures!! Crazy i know so they have taken me off of those and have started me in buepomorphine tablets dissolve under the tongue, i think the drs just use us as guinnipigs. I don't have any confidence in the drs or surgeons anymore!! I

does anyone know of a femoral nerve surgeon in dallas or ft worth otherwise im going to try to see dr tollestrup in nevada been non living in pain since 2014 😦

does anyone know of a femoral nerve surgeon in dallas or ft worth otherwise im going to try to see dr tollestrup in nevada been non living in pain since 2014 😦