Hip scar

that looks really good..... I hope mine looks like this...

I'll try and get my youngest to take a picture of my other scar from where they tried "god knows" as still left with no socket but the scar back then so thick and horrid. it is 43yrs ago remember too, but to show difference from then to now...

omg how good is that one...

did you massage cream in alot of just naturally went like this?

i wasnt really very diligent with the cream! luck i guess

40 years a long time and many changes in technique in that time. My surgeon has been doing it for 32 years and has pioneered Minimal Invasive and rapid recovery hip replacements, smaller incisions avoiding muscle. last year he carried out over 600 replacements ! These guys are incredible giving so many their lives back.

I think a lot of surgeons have reverted to the posterior approach, I had lateral posterior, where the muscles are no longer cut and you have very little chance of nerve damage. I think things are changing.

I've had 5 hip surgerys in the last 5 yrs 1 every year the first 2 they went in through three small holes them had my first hip replacement then yr later a hip revision which was just the ball and socket the man dec 3 last yr had another hip revision cause the stem was loose and those 3 surgerys were all done by anterior approch so in the front it's less invasive and they dont have to cut through any muscles fast healing through that approch but mine will be a long recovery cause it's a revision and the scar got longer and longer and they went through the same insicion 3 times everytime it got worse

like I said to the other person I had three and they did mine all anterior and he didnt have to cut through any muscles

I was trying to point out that it seems most approaches do not need to cut through muscle anymore unless there are particular problems. Anterior still seems have trouble with nerve problems though. In fact hip surgery has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years.

omg 5 hip surgeries in 5 years, that must have been tough?

I hope you have got a good working hip now..

nope not really I had this huge needle on sat afternoon they stuck it in my hip and drained out 16 cc of fluid they said it's probably from all the procedure's I've had and trauma and scar tissue etc but it still hurts quite a bit I can't lay on my left side at all

omg... that's awful.

is it not worth seeing another hospital/consultant...

must be very traumatic emotionally and physically .

hugs x

I've been waiting months and months to get a second opinion and still havent heard anything its frustrating and its draining me physically and mentally and emotionally

ouch thats a lot of fluid

will it help having had that removed, did they also give you a cortisone injection?

it didnt help me at all it hurts worse then before and I dont get cortisone injections anymore I just had my 3rd hip revision dec 3rd so I'm still healing