Happy Birthday New Hip...2 months old today!!!
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I had a hip replacement on the first of June, these are the things I can now do:
1 I can sleep normally on my back and my operated side.
2. I can get up from a chair without any pain.
3.I can go up and down a flight of stairs using the bannister with minimal disconfort.
4.I can sit down/drive for a long time without any pain
5 I don't have to take any medicine at all
Things I still cannot do:
1. reach down behond my knee on the operated side.
2. long walks without feeling pain the following day
3 short walks without feeling a light pain /discomfort
4 moving my knee up to my chest
5.sleep on my not operated side
I am still improving in many ways but I am been told that it takes up to a year to reach a "full recovery"...
I am writing all this not to show off but to help who is in the beginning of this adventure called "hip replacement".
Best wishes to all of you, wonderful people writing in this forum.
Ella
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amanda1827h briskwalk
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briskwalk amanda1827h
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You are doing so much!!! I wish you all the best in your recovery...take care and write in this wonderful forum...we are here to help each other!
Big hugs
Ella
amanda1827h briskwalk
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Kate53CornUK briskwalk
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My pain is gradually turning to discomfort except when I am tired. I have halved my co-codamol. I have an un-cemented joint and still get quite a sharp pain mid thigh, again, worse when I am tired.
Happy 2 month birthday to you and your continuing progression. I am still in awe and amazement of the magnitude of this op and the way people on this forum help and support each other over all of our questions and niggles. To see someone write down where they are in their healing is not showing off all I think you should be showing off - high five!
briskwalk Kate53CornUK
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when I am tired I have pains everywhere, and the only thing that helps me is to go to bed! My implant is cemented...it's routinely done if you are over 60 years old!
I love this forum as well, and I am amazed by the way we can regain our strenght and independence...I am so grateful to moden surgery!
Have a good and quick recovery, take care
Big hugs
Ella
edarlingb briskwalk
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Such differing practices and guidance.
Elaine
Pansycat52 edarlingb
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Yes, mine is uncemented and I am 63. I believe revision is easier with uncemented, so if you are an active person, you might need another hip replacement in your lifetime. That's what my surgeon implied anyway!
So many different trains of thought!
Linda xx
briskwalk edarlingb
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Yes, there a re so many differences !
Ella
briskwalk Pansycat52
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My surgeon told me that with the "new" materials they use now, an implant should last a life time and he prefer to do a cemented on on bones which are over 65 years old... We will see!
Ella xx
sarahnewhip briskwalk
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This is a great post for someone like me who is at the early days (day 5)
It helps me see how positive the forthcoming weeks will be for me
Hope your next few weeks see you achieve without pain the ones that do at the moment. Xx
briskwalk sarahnewhip
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the first fwe days are very difficult, I remember it well...But we improve a little everyday and this is very comforting. From now on you will feel better and stronger...It's a long process but we will get there in the end!!
Take care, best wishes for everything!
Ella
Pansycat52 briskwalk
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Give yourself a pat on the back - I am sure you are so much more improved than pre op and will continue to improve
Kind regards Linda xx
briskwalk Pansycat52
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Thank you for the pat on my back ( just done it!)...
Pre op i coudn't walk at all, I coudn't sleep for more than two hours, I coudn't sit, I coudn't go upstairs:.I had to do one step at the time and I was getting worse and worse by the day...I would be in a weel chair without this operation!!!!
Best wishes and big hugs
Ella
Jodi-France briskwalk
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you could work on getting your knee to your chest by doing it in bed. Lay in beg, heel on the mattress, toes up, and drag your heel to your butt (bending the knee). This would be a low impact exercise that stretches those leg muscles.
hope4cure Jodi-France
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briskwalk Jodi-France
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I try to bend my leg up to my chest every day doing the exercise you describe, now I can lift my heel from the bed...It's getting better, but I think it will take up to one year to regain all movements. I bend at the waist to pick something up from the floor but also I make sure that the operated leg is stretched out at the back...I have been able to do this a few days after the op...
How are you keeping?
Ella
attractac hope4cure
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