help, i hate hearing my grandad in pain!

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Im currently staying with my nan & grandads house to help out.., my grandad came home today from the hospital from having the ball part re done on his hip, he had a full hip replacement 14 years ago... when he was in the hospital a nurse sat him in a chair which was too low, he felt an ellastic band like pain go down his leg. Ever since then, all he has been getting is killer sharp pains in his leg which come and go.. Im not sure if it would be related to that or something else as he had an x ray after and the hip was fine, sent him home with pain killers. Surely this cant be right and there is more to it? Breaks my heart hearing the man i adore in such pain? Someone help me figure whats wrong with my gramps?

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    Hi Megan,

     I'm sorry to hear about your grand dad. It's interesting to me that he would use the term "elastic band". I am 10 wks post THR and at about week two I felt that sensation in the front of my thigh when I walked. It didn't hurt, just felt really strange and it went away in a day or so. I'm not sure, but if your grand dads hip was ok in the xray, it's probably the muscle. You didn't say where in the leg the pain is. Can he walk, has he tried ice or using a heating pad?   My surgical center gave me an emergency number to call if I had problems or questions after hours, did he get a contact number for problems after surgery? He should call it if so.  If the pain is so bad his pain meds aren't working then he should go back to the doctor.

    Sorry to hear about all the incompetant medical personel like the nurse. Hope

    your grand dad feels better.

    Good luck Megan

     

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      yes I think I can help. I had the exact same thing, but for me it was getting on an off a low footstool like 50 times a day. Once a year at my job we have a busy period and so once a year I would be sitting down and getting up from a footstool. I was find doing this and then one year I wasn't, did I gain a few more pounds over the past year, was I jsut a year older? I don't knwo why that happened when in previous years it did not happen, but there it is. Search on the internet for IT Band Pain.

      BOTH my legs hade that, I can run my hand down the side of my legs and tell you exactly where my IT band is. I got debilitating tendonitis of that. I mean like I couldn't really even walk in the grocery store. But miraculaously after my THR it totally cleared up the tendonosis of that IT band.

      The main thing to understand about tendonosis is that it makes little tears, rips, in the tendon, so what you want to do is rest the tendon, don't do a motion that makes those tears linger and deeper. Because if you do not stop whatever it is that causes you tendon pain what will happen is you will get scar tissue and that never seems to go away (well at least until the surgeon does something). I was reading another article on the Psoas muscle which is groin pain after THR and the study showed that a thick figures basically a callus (scar tissue) developed on the Psoas Muscle. We older people and I'm 60 need to take very good care of our  tendons.

      After my THR I had tendonitis of the Psoas and I recognized it immediatley because of my previous tendonitis experience. So what I did was basically not do anything to aggrivate it and let it heal. It took almost 4 week, 4 weeks of laying in a prone position either in bed or on the sofa. While everybody else was promoting how you HAVE to get right back into execizing and physical therapy right away after the THR, I knew better and simply rested my tendon, in this case the Psoas muscle and it healed up jsut fine and then after 3 close to 4 weeks I got up and did the exercizes and at around 6 weeks I needed nothing, no cane or anything and i was walkng fine.

      You have to be specific where the pain is, describe it better. Once you do that I will give you a test and with this test you can determin if it is the Psoas muscle or not. In the meantime I can recommend a cream that is very effective in knocking back the pain. This stuff really works good but doesn't last long. Most nights when I had that leg tendonitis prior to my surgery I could not fall asleep without using this cream. It is called Volterane and the scientific name is Diclofenac 1%. You need not even bother your dad surgeon, just call up your general physician and run in and get a prescription. Tell him you are pretty sure it is tendonitis he should not have any problem prescribing this. Just make up a story on you had tendonitis before and how much this cream helped you, so you want it for your grandfather. Look it up on the internet so you get the right UK name for it.

      Wrte back with more details on where the pain is exactly. See pic of IT Band

       

  • Posted

    Hi

    I believe you should contact the hospital department concerned immediately. 

    Elaine 

    UK

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    I'm wondering if it could be tendinitis? Worth asking perhaps because since my THR op (right leg) and the way it changed how I walk, I found that my left ankle (achilles heel) had awful pain at times but I use paracetamol when necessary, gel and strap it up when it's really hurting. I'm hoping it'll eventually go away when I walk better. I do hope your gandad finds out what the cause is because  when you know you can do something about it. Like the other replies I think muscular or tendons as the hip exray was ok. All the best.

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