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I am nearly 14 weeks from hip replacement and since last week can do all my exercise walk up down stairs but sit down and get up I get a very very serious pain from groin to knee and it is hard to stand but after a few minutes start walking and it goes off can catch me now and again any one else have same
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cecilia34059 alan1954
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Hi Alan.....You seem to be doing great! No limping?...I get pain too while walking . Everytime from sitting, lying to standing it starts stiff...Sometimes while walking it feels like a sharp pain in front of thigh going down n groin pain too....Sometimes I feel like leg will break.
alan1954 cecilia34059
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thanks for that lest I now it not just me hope you are doing ok and get better soon
Anne68156 alan1954
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I had what is called "start-up pain" for quite some time. After being seated, when I stood up it took me a little while to be able to start walking. I am a few years past that time, but I remember it well!
Kenmar alan1954
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I'm nearly 6 months post op and just starting to be pain free. I've never had any pain from the replacement JOINT itself, maybe a little from where the upper leg bone was cut to fit the ball section.
My main pain areas were initially from the upper leg just below the groin and for a short time at about 4 months post op, a pain that radiated from just below to just above the knee, it felt Ike nerve pain when I bent the knee maybe 45* or more.
I was also getting thigh pain in the last 9 holes when playing golf but I think that was related to me taking Ticagrelor due to having a heart attack in May'19, I was able to go off it late May'20 as it's a anti-platelet drug that had to be taken for 12 months because I required 3 stents in my heart.
ALL GOOD NOW, YOU JUST HAVE TO BE PATIENT, muscles and nerves were probably cut and these TAKE TIME TO REPAIR.
All the best.
cecilia34059 Kenmar
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Kenmar may I ask what kind of hip surgery did you have?
Kenmar cecilia34059
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LTHR done the posterior way. From all of his research and multiple THR, my surgeon still prefers the POSTERIOR method. He always said to me, the posterior method has a bigger cut and more disruption to the muscles and nerves and recovery is generally slightly longer, but it's the tried and tested method that at this stage, he prefers.
Kenmar
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cecilia34059 Kenmar
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kenmar were you given precautions to follow for the rest of your life?
I'm not suppose to bend down at all..cant twist at hip...cross my legs ..
bc he said there was a 3 % dislocation risk....
Kenmar cecilia34059
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I was told to be very careful for the first 6 weeks post op, not to move leg inwards past half way or cross my legs.
After 6 weeks, chance of dis-location was only about 4% which wasn't worth worrying about.
Now 5 1/2 months post op, I really feel I can do anything without pain and risk.
I'm nearly 66 yo and playing golf 2 to 3 times a week with a 2-6 h'cap, I feel that playing golf subjects the left hip to stresses and rotation far greater than anything I do around home.
cecilia34059 Kenmar
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May I ask why you had a THR?
I fell n fractured my hip...the ball part n had a posterior cemented partial replacement...Do you think that places a factor in the precautions that were put on me for life????
Kenmar cecilia34059
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I had LTHR as the hip ball and socket were basically bone on bone, had been very painful.
Even though my surgeon said it wasn't a typical golfers injury, I suspect playing golf for nearly 50 years was a big factor.
I was fairly fit and reasonably strong especially around the upper legs from playing sport for years, that maybe why I wasn't given special precautions.