Foot Drop after total hip replacement AFO causes blood clot

So bloody distressing these complications are a high price to pay. Especially when the emphasis is on the positive outcome of the THR My surgeon didn't exactly say how devastating the outcome of surgery going wrong can be on our lives. I think a more balanced view should be given when discussing the surgery. I have sympathy with all who are suffering on this website. On the positive side I am determined to live with this disability and not let it get me down. I do have my down days but spending time with my grandchildren brings me a lot of joy.I am having further nerve tests on 30th sept to see if any improvement since February tests. I know myself without the test that my numbness and pain is as bad from the time I woke up after surgery last November. Although my muscle strenth has improved as my leg does not wobble as often. I have femoral nerve damage and possibly some sciatic but not with foot drop. I use a leg brace if I am out for confidence but am using it less often now. It is better if you can try and loose some weight otherwise your health will get worse. It is difficult but not impossible. I have put on weight due. to not being so active. when I do put it on I watch what I eat until my weight gets to a healthy level. I have had to do this since I had a car accident 22years ago which made be disabled I knew the weight was not good for my damaged hip joint. I wish you all the best keep fighting to get some degree of happiness despite your difficult situation. We are among the very unlucky hip replacement patients.

The worst thing is that the AFO gave me a blood clot which messed my whole cardiovascular system up. I walk 20 feet and I'm out of breath. I am bed ridden most  the time. I love sports I was very athletic and love to hike. Southern Indiana Orthopedics took my life away and my surgeon don't care. He still goes home to his million dollar mansion and continues his daily life while I lose my great job great insurance because I am totally disabled. 3200 a month went 782. My depression is the worse

I could not agree more with the previous writer said.

Plan for,at least 3 months for, various degrees of disability and pain. My experience, the pain is horrendous, I had a pain management physician. Plenty of very strong pain meds. Even with Diuladid, and demeral..drugs can do only do so much.

As far as getting back to normal activities, try hard, but be realistic. 4 to 6 months should be allowed for real recovery.

Best of luck.

I went to see a surgeon to operate on my back because I have severe stenosis. He wanted an xray of my hip when the results came back it showed I had severe arthritis in my hip. He referred me to another surgeon who told me that my pain was most likely coming from my hip. He told me I needed a total hip replacement. So here I am 15 months later. Totally disabled 

Don,

i am am very sorry to hear what you have been thru. So soory that so many things happened at once. I have a similar story . It s lik UR whole life change in one blink.

i have learned to move on and keep movin. Life is different and given the new limitations we now have to adjust to, it takes time and courage. I know it's a loss nd in a way e are grieving for our old lives .  Everyone takes time to heal as best we can and accept the things we can do rather than the things we can't. It's takes time . 

Many blesing sent UR way...

 

Oh DonDon71, I am so sorry you have suffered so!  I had my first THR four days after you did last year and it went perfectly, but yours has been so much worse.  I too, in an unrelated situation, have suffered a pulmonary embolism and it is SCARY.  I trust that they were able to use the blood thinners to disolve the clots.  

Every journey has its own learning curve doesn't it?  

My second THR on October of last year has been a living nightmare.  It sure challenges our level of endurance and coping skills when something major happens doen't it?  I have suffered depression, 30 lb. weight gain from lack of mobility and have wondered if there is life after this second THR.

Well, my spirit is with you and one thing I tell myself in order to not fight against the flow of things, is that "it is as it is" and somehow, someway, we will grow where we are planted.

Take care and visit here often,

Dawn

Really sorry to read of this: my heart goes out to you. 

I had a hip resurfacing in 2007. Several days later, my leg from knee down developed excruciating pain and burning pins and needles. That, and the pain in hip never improved. Consultant eventually decided to do a revision (replacement) 2 years later. Still no improvement. Had to retire early from work. Mega painkillers including Fentanyl have v little effect. 

Now due to have other hip replaced in a few days and am absolutely petrified. 

I'm sorry to read your story and at such a young age.  I know it's 3 years since your posting, how are things going.  I had a hip replacement 16 months ago and have been suffering with my foot since then.  What does foot drop feel like because I have been told I don't suffer from that.  I have had tests and have got damaged nerves but they say there's nothing that can be done for them.  I have been to 2 different Physiotherapists and they tell me it's from my spine.  On top of that I have just been gardening taking heads off dandelions and I've dislocated my hip and I'm wearing a leg brace.

All the best

Brenda