Hip Replacement Blister.
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Since my last post I have developed a blister on my ankle due to tight DVT stocking. Weeping fluid but no pain or problem. Anyone else had this problem.
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Posted , 9 users are following.
Since my last post I have developed a blister on my ankle due to tight DVT stocking. Weeping fluid but no pain or problem. Anyone else had this problem.
0 likes, 13 replies
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denise18714 davyboyok
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milliejean davyboyok
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I'd ask your health professional for advice but if you don't need the stocking make sure you exercise and I used cream regularly as my skin got very tight and 'hard'. I had one blister but it came off and I had no bother with it. Wishing you well, take care.
eileen64__UK davyboyok
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No I didnt have a blister.....just hated those "passion killers" with a vengenance
When the district nurse comes in to check the dressing ask her
Love
Eileen UK
dallasjody davyboyok
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I'm having an anterior hip replacement in 10 days, I'm so scared and wish I didn't have to have this. I didn't even know that your legs swell for months afterwards, it all sounds terrible. Do you have to buy new shoes? When I was pregnant, my feet swelled up so much I had to wear slippers for months before the baby was born, but it all went away in 2 weeks. This sounds SO MUCH worse. I've never worn those stockings before, do they hurt to put on? How can you walk for miles as exercise with big swollen legs? Is there a medication to relieve the swelling? They say with anterior you just walk away and resume your normal life -this doesn't sound true. I didn't know you get blisters! Are you swollen for 2 or 3 months? I'm so unhappy and really don't want this at all.
stella97565UK dallasjody
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I wish you well. Just think, in a few days' time you will be out of pain and looking forward to dancing again!!!
Take care and all the very best. Keep in touch with us all for support and encouragement.
Stella
dallasjody stella97565UK
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Thank you for all your encouragement, but I'm still dreading the day. Why did you have to have a revision? Something went wrong and the had to cut you open again to repair it? You had to go through post-op again and a hospital stay again? This all sounds awful, I lay in bed thinking about having a fake piece of bone in my body and can't sleep. I called the ortho group and left several mesages about what happens but got no calls back. Online, this big ortho group sounds caring and wonderful, in real life I'm not sure. I didn't get ANY pre-op videos or classes to know what happens. Did you get that? This is a BIG surgery to me, how can you take it so easily? I just show up in a few weeks and they start sawing my bone off on New Year's Eve? Worried sick and can't even go home for Christmas...
But thanks Stella, you sound very positive.
milliejean dallasjody
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We all heal at a different pace, I didn't have to wear stockings either although I do wear support knee highs when I go out as they help. Exercise, but don't overdo it, patience and pain relief initially all help. Hope it goes smoothly and well for you. As it does for most of us! :
Butterbean dallasjody
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lee47625 dallasjody
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Try to focus on good results, you know your doc wouldn't have put you through it if it wasn't necessary.
good luck and Merry Christmas.
stella97565UK dallasjody
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Yes, it is big surgery but you will feel soooooooooo much better afterwards. Just do everything they tell you and you will be find.
Hope you can enjoy Christmas and look forward to a positive outcome in the new year. We'll all be thinking of you.
Stella x
Jodi-France stella97565UK
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FWIW I never had any swelling at all.
It seems to me that everybody who had sweeling are all from the UK, I had mine done in France. I mean like NO swelling even around the incision, but in France they keep you in the hospital longer (a week) and also put in a drain. In the UK they do not seem to use drains and they sure get you out of the hospital quicker than the French. After reading so many comments here I do htink the sweeling is because of the way the UK Doctors do the surgery.
I got a shot in the stomach every day for a month and the physical therapist came 3x a week and deep massaged my leg, so I didn't wear those stockings. I came out okay. I think the big thing is if you get verticle and move as well as getting that stomach shot. Which the needles are SO much better than when I was younger, now when they give you a shor the needles are sharper or something and the shots don't hurt at all. Not like the olden days, LOL!
stella97565UK Jodi-France
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Happy Christmas!
Sx
Maxyboy davyboyok
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took dissolve aspirin every day for 28 days took off the tight sticking after just 10 days as couldn't keep them on any longer totally dried my skin out . After 2 weeks started laying on my op side as doc said if I couldn't sleep in my babk that would be ok. After 4 weeks alternate back left side right side but sleeping still only a few hrs at a time,
NO pain at all from operation ...mild ache from sitting around on high chairs so walk a bit sit a bit get restless legs at times too.
now bored of not doing much but cannot walk yet without one crutch but lightly using it .
hope this helps