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Has anyone regretted getting their surgery?

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Snowgirl79
Snowgirl79

This is such a scary time!! I've never had any kind of surgery...and I'm wondering if anyone regrets doing their surgery ...I have horrible movement of my leg ...I can't lift it up very high maybe an inch before I get a terrible pain!! Also when I sit if I move my knee closer to my chest it hurts!! Will this pain go away when I get the surgery?

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  • annone70291
    annone70291 Snowgirl79

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    It's absolutely natural to be nervous if not downright scared before the operation. But I was lucky in that a couple of good friends had had it done and told me that it would be fine and that I would not look back. And I haven't. I have been very fortunate in that I recovered from the surgery very quickly. I've got a pretty small scar - about 4cms and the surgeon did not cut my muscles - merely stretched them. Ask your surgeon if he/she can do this as it does help with recovery. I can't say that I experienced much pain afterwards - I would describe it as discomfort sometimes in the immediate post operative period. And do the exercises religiously afterwards and get some extra physiotherapy too. I'm sure you'll be fine and it is wonderful to be out of pain and fully mobile again. Look forward to that.
  • Kate53CornUK
    Kate53CornUK Snowgirl79

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    Just starting recovery on hip number 2 (done on 12th Feb). First one was done 30th June 15.

    I hope this answers it .....I would go through each operation again just to get these results. To walk without pain, to hold my leg up, to not cry in agony at the end of the day, oh yes, no regrets at all

  • ali2301
    ali2301 Snowgirl79

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    Hi Snowgirl,

    I had both hips replaced last year and I have no regrets whatsoever! Despite having a leg length discrepancy now, I wouldn't change anything I did. Being pain free has given me my life back and you can't buy that kind of freedom.

    Good luck

    Ali xx

    • Snowgirl79
      Snowgirl79 ali2301

      Posted

      So...the leg length can't be fixed?? I was thinking it's because of the way your pelvis is tilted..
    • ali2301
      ali2301 Snowgirl79

      Posted

      It is due to how your pelvis is tilted. However, I might not have been level before the hip replacements but just got used to the way my body was aligned over time. It's more important to the surgeon that you are level at the pelvis. If they made sure your leg length was equal, this could cause problems in the pelvis, in your back and in your knees in time. A small lift in my shoes is a small price to pay I think. 

      I can walk properly now, I'm not in pain and I can stand up straight. I'm a good couple of inches taller now so that can't be bad, can it? 😊

  • lyn1951
    lyn1951 Snowgirl79

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    I too have a length length discrepancy, 10mm or 3/8inch naturally below my knee, and 12mm added duing surgery, which i have really battled with. 

    During check ups I was told, swelling, all in my head, twisted pelvis, yes it can be all of those, but I evenutally came to the conculsion that it was non of those, so had a long-leg-xray done, (prove me wrong, and I will stop complaining, and being the squeeky daily wheel, I made a first class nuisance of myself) to my local GP, after a furious argument, about me being mentally ill, he apologised. Also told be the operating specialist's junior that it didn't matter at my age that I had to wear a 3/4 inch lift on the bottom of my shoes, 64, I don't think so, how offensive can a young Dr get, just made me more determined to find out what the hell was going on. 

    Finally talked to a ortheopedic surgeon who explained to me properly how they can't just take the 12mm they gave me out, will probably make me worse, as all of the muscles and tendons have now been stretched, and he even if he did the surgery, would fear that the hip woudn't be stable, would dis-locate the first time I tried to stand on it.

    He did say it should never happened in my case, it seesm they did not take into consideration the 10mm I already had, apparently one of the last checks they are supposed to do in surgery is check that your legs are naturally the same length, 2nd ortheo surgeon said pretty obvious that that check was missed somehow.

    Have now finally found a right height shoe lift, after fiddling with lifts that were too high, and then too low, because of my natural leg length discrepancy, that I was not even aware of, I had lived with it my entire life, and as the specialist said it probably grew with me.  No help from the hospital at all, have done all the research myself.

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