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Golf ball ???

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khippie
khippie

16 days since op now and it feels like I am sitting on a golf ball ?? Is this normal ?! Anyone else experienced it

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  • susan47173
    susan47173 khippie

    Posted

    Unfortunately yes 😊it does get easier but most of us on here have experienced that feeling and i still get it now and again I find the clenching exercises help
    • khippie
      khippie susan47173

      Posted

      Lying here doing them now and yes it does help :-) thankyou
  • Rocketman_SG6UK
    Rocketman_SG6UK khippie

    Posted

    Just about everyone seems to get this.

    See the website.

    Graham - 🚀💃

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK khippie

      Posted

      Yeah - it does go though. I suddenly realised mine had gone when someone was talking to my physio about her pain in the posterior.

      Graham - 🚀💃

  • Worriedgirl29
    Worriedgirl29 khippie

    Posted

    Yes!! I have exactly the same feeling. It's makes sitting down, literally a pain in the ass 😜
  • Kate53CornUK
    Kate53CornUK khippie

    Posted

    Me? - Lateral scar with a small bag of spanners underneath it.

    The feeling goes away as the scar heals. Get past two weeks and start massaging the area with a neutral cream. The worst is if you have recarro seats in the car, the sides squish the bag of spanners making you hold onto the grab handles like someone waiting for a crash!

    Don't worry, won'y be long x

    • khippie
      khippie Kate53CornUK

      Posted

      Lol that made me giggle !! Mines nit under scar but in my buttock ? Is that same as what you have ? Xx
    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK khippie

      Posted

      My scars are lateral - up the sides of my legs and hooking over to my bum slightly. I suppose it is what is going on under, and around, our scars wherever they are. 

      Mine both  got particularly lumpy at about two weeks and I took to carting around a small cushion if I had to sit on a hard chair.

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK khippie

      Posted

      Oh yes, the 'sitting on a golf ball' syndrome - for all posterior THR's.

      As Kate says, supportive car seats rub the scar area and cause some discomfort too.  Like the 'bag of spanners', it has been likened to many things, golf balls, pile of rocks, and now spanners .....

      Graham - 🚀💃

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