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Good morning group. A good time I'm sleeping about 2 hours a night I'm in extreme pain however my surgery isn't for 6 weeks. Is there some type of cream or peeled or spray is there some type of cream or medicine or spray that can help me until surgery. Some people say some type of supplement like conjointin.
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ptolemy Jonesy23
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Jonesy23 ptolemy
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jen86183 Jonesy23
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Good luck with stopping smoking when you start tomorrow, everyday free is one day closer to your op and pain free life.
ptolemy Jonesy23
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Jonesy23 jen86183
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Jonesy23 ptolemy
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jen86183 Jonesy23
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Have you tried exercising? I know you will probably say is she stupid! but I found exercising really helped, especially stretching, it is not painful. I did Pilates anyway, you can look up some simple stretching exercises and the pre op nurse said to get as fit as possible before the op.
melody39324 Jonesy23
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I don't think there is anything you can take to help apart from painkillers. You'll need to stop taking them about a week before your surgery but they will give you a little relief.
My suggestions are physical therapy, exercise, and massage. They are the only things that improved my situation and exercise has the added benefit of getting your fitter so you recover more quickly afterwards. I found aquavit / aquarobics particularly good as you can move in water in ways you can't out of it.
If you are in the UK you can also get your GP to refer you to a gym where you will be given exercise to help you.
lyn1951 Jonesy23
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Know exactly how you feel, I could not walk, too much pain, so no shopping, basically no going out of the house, except to the heated pool, where I did non-weightbearing exercise, treading water, rowing myself around with arms, OH WHAT A RELIEF, and it kept me reasonably fit for the surgery.
?Dr was kind enough to prescribe me weekly morphine patches, on the back of my hip, OH THE RELIEF, taken off in surgery, still in pain, but at least I had a little relief in the run up to surgery, the last 6 weeks I used them.
?Very happy and glad post surgery, I was strong, able to support myself on walking frame, and the terrible pain from the hip joint was gone, that was a real surprise as I thought there would be more pain from surgery, although they had me well covered with some pretty serious pain killers, so can't really tell you for sure.
?10 days after surgery off morphine pain killers, and down to Panadol, and then another 10 -14 days later able to give them up as well, first time taking no pain killers in about 5 - 6 years.
?Went back to treading water in the heated pool, helps keep me fit, as 2nd hip also needed replacement 15 months after first.
Still going to the heated pool as I enjoy just the feeling of floating weightless, and when you have generalisied arthritis I have found out that it does help with movement of my joints, even hands, just running them through the water, gives them a massage.
Jonesy23 lyn1951
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