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How My Revision Went

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jilliboss123
jilliboss123

Yesterday showed up at 10am for surgery scheduled at 12 noon.    Surgery went much longer then expected  so I ended up in my room about 7:30pm.

I had my previous surgery June 20th of this year, making it 12 weeks.  I'm 48 and live in the states.

I had iliopsoas tendinosis or too much tension on ny groin tendons.   (FLEXOR muscle group).

With that problem I had severe pain and inflammation in my groin and thigh.   Any lifting of the leg in front was painful, so no hiking or walking up stairs like a reg person.  If I tried to do exercises or swim I would pay dearly later.

So today My OS came in and told me about my revision.   He wanted to replace the stem with onw thst had a shorter neck, which would pull my leg closer to my pelvis and tried that but it was way too close and would touch pelvis to hip.  So he opted for a different implant with a smaller ball to release some tension on that tendon.  They al so cut or released part of a tendon.  

So today I went to PT twice but only from my chair because I was waiting on blood for a transfusion because I'm very low and so light headed I couldn't do the standing exercises with the walker.  < i="" could="" do="" those="" easily="" with="" my="" first="" surgery="">

Walking using a walker was a challenge because my leg won't come forward.  I had to pull my shorts tight around my thigh and pull my leg forward.

I'm not going to push it, I'm just going to take it slow because I know I'll have to strengthen different muscles to be able to walk again.  It's going to be a long process I think.

I have a huge booty on one side.  They cut into the same scar area so I can just imagine how well that will heal.  NOT PRETTY!   Lots of scar tissue since I have a lot of junk in my trunk. 😃

I'll be in hospital a couple more days then back home.

I didn't have to pay since it was a revision within 90 days.  I was worried about that.   My first surgery is costing me about 4500.00 that's with insurance.  My part is 10%.

Just sitting in the recliner dreading the bathroom stall.

I have to say I am loving their food.  So much good stuff!!  Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and spinach for luch, tuna melt, veggie soup and a bomb Cobb salad. Oh and cheesecake.  They say during healing you burn 1500- 2000 calories!  So they feed us yummy.

Staff is wonderful here a Good Samaritan too.

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  • Sredni393
    Sredni393 jilliboss123

    Posted

    Couldn't get why the need to revise? Was it surgeon error...if so, they owe you and no wonder they taking gd care. I was starved for 5 days and feel my healing delay and pain for 9 months due to that in some part.   But your costs are eye watering. There must be advantages and disadvantages and mine was free in one sense but costly in another. Either side of Atlantic surgeons seem to run and hide but yrs is paying you the attention due.  Your healing will go exponentially I'm sure as you are already inured to the vagaries and indecencies of surgery. Sorry you are so young but at least you have age on your side for recovering... Bon appetit!

    hope your recovery goes well and you get an appropriate exercise plan thru physio. 

    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 Sredni393

      Posted

      The need for revision came from my iliopsoas tendons being stretched and pulled over the ball.  It caused major irritation just from walking, so hiking or any thing to do with the front groin muscles*(flexor muscle group) pulling up the thigh caused major pain in the thigh muscle down to the knee.  So any kind of exercise would just make for hell to pay in my thigh a couple of hours after.

      I could not lift my leg up over the cars threshold and could feel sharp pain in my groin area from coughing or sneezing.

      So I'm out of surgery and very swollen and so much more bruising in my inner thigh last surgery there wasn't any there.  OS had said that the problems with my blood pressure after surgery were probably from a "small pump" as he put it or bleeding inside my thigh.

      I'm very sore but am getting around with a walker.  Worst part is getting in and out of bed with this groin issue.  All my prune juice I drank helped and was able to finally get that moving along.  6 days without a bm is worrying but normal because of the medication.

      Yes I am feeling like my healing is going to go faster as I've already been through it but I am really going to take it easy on the groin area and learn as much as I can about tendon release so I can help it heal correctly.

      I think it will take a couple months before I can truly feel what the outcome is.

      Thanks for the words of encouragement I really do appreciate it.  You know family and friends haven't got a clue what we go through so it's a relief going back and forth with you all.

       💜 JiLL

    • ginger47520
      ginger47520 jilliboss123

      Posted

      Jill you are an amazing person.I really look up to you. You sure have been through hell with these surgeries I pray your in the mend. Everything forward is bright and beautiful.smile
    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 ginger47520

      Posted

      Awe Ginger💝💖 how sweet you are friend!

      Where are you located?  States or abroad?

    • ginger47520
      ginger47520 jilliboss123

      Posted

      I live i in kansas.ig yes I'll never see the ocean again or smell the seasad
    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 ginger47520

      Posted

      Kansas is beautiful tho right.  I hope it is good to you.  What would be your nearest ocean?  Texas??

      Well I may just have to send you an ocean care package so you can close your eyes and play with the sand.

      I guess these are the reasons they speak about meditation.   I'm going to try to get into thst to help clear my head since I'm feeling  cooped up too.

      Big Hugs Ginger!!🐻🐘🐳

  • Jayive
    Jayive jilliboss123

    Posted

    Hi Jilli,

    I do hope you are progressing well now. I've been watching the postings as I am waiting for an MRI as my surgeon wants to check and hopefully exclude illionopsis tendonitis however when I read what you say I realise that my symptoms are about the same as yours.

    DId you have an MRI and was that how yours was diagnosed?

    My surgeon has said that he doesn't think he can do anything to alleviate my pain and I dread that I may have to spend the rest of my life like this.

    I wish you well and look forward to seeing you here again, xx

    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 Jayive

      Posted

      Hi Jayive,

      I am feeling okay today but very tired of the medications and 5he headache I have when I wake uo.

      About the MRI,  I was led to believe that to diagnose this problem they would shoot into the iliopsoas tendon while viewing through an xray to ensure and guide them right into it.  Then if you have relief hen that is the problem.   I couldn't understand why they couldn't do a side view and see the tendon tightly lulled across the socket.

      Hopefully whoever does your MRI knows a special trick because all of my xrays looked normal.

      You too can diagnose it yourself.  Does your leg seem to snap forward when walking?  Mine did kind of a swoosh off of my toes at the very end and snap forward prematurely.   I would have to force my leg to straighten out at the end of a step forward.

      When laying on your bed while on your back does your groin feel like it's holding your leg from rolling over and relaxing or even in my case I could feel the tendon trying to find a place on either side of the socket kind of like it was high centered.  I feel like mine would have eventually stretched out with much work and massage.  I don't know how long that would've taken and in the meantime I wouldn't have been able to do the one thing I had this surgery to do, go hiking, because that front leg lift for elevations is the kicker.  I couldn't do that without certain pain in my thigh later.   

      I want to hike because at my job which is retail I walk about 8 miles a day.  Flat ground doesn't do much to get a person healthy and I could spend hours in the mountains, it's kind of my Church.

      Good luck with the tests I hope the help the Dr's address the problem with all the info to they need to get it right.

      I'll tell one thing I have learned about this surgery of tendon release is that I must stay on my back while in bed and keep that tendon stretched.  I tried the side sleeping with the pillow between my thighs, which I love, but when I tried to lay back flat my groin was cramping and would not relax to let me lay down just a miserable feeling!!  

      I am doing laps with my walker inside the house and I can stand and move around with just new pain in my inner thigh and this swollen groin area.  Of course ai have the huge double butt again also.  So much FUN.  NOT!!

    • Jayive
      Jayive jilliboss123

      Posted

      Hi Jilli

      I understand what you say about the medications making you tired. I am on medication 4 times a day and often fall asleep due to the effect, then as soon as I wake I realise I'm in severe pain again.

      I cannot lie flat on my back as the pain in my groin is too bad and I can't bear my weight on my operated leg because it is extremely painful to do so, I feel very bad pain in my groin, on the outside of my hip (where the bony part sticks out) and also in one certain area in my buttock. I have already had steroid injection into both areas but it didn't make it any less painful. I just hobble around indoors on 2 crutches and can' ever imagine beaing able to walk normally again - how I wish I could turn the clock back, I'd never have had the THR if I'd known.

      Anyway, keep smiling and do be careful not to overdo it. xxx

    • eileen64__UK
      eileen64__UK Jayive

      Posted

      Hi Jayive

      Oh I do so agree with you.

      I take a load of meds for various things and i'm always tired.

      Like you I cant sleep on my operted side....its so sore

      I cant lie flat on my back because of kypho scoliosis {C shape curve in my spine}

      I hobble around the house with one crutch but must use 2 outside and like you say I cant imagine ever walking properly again

      I wish I had never had the 2nd THR

      Love

      Eileen

    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 Jayive

      Posted

      Geez, sounds like you have much more going on.

      I hope they find some way to help you.  So horrible to be in so much pain  ALL THE TIME!!

  • Sredni393
    Sredni393 jilliboss123

    Posted

    Re read yr revision saga.   Now realise yr difficulties. It took 16 weeks to be able to raise my leg after tearing the ligament. My leg then literally fused to the pelvis and ground away, setting turning inwards for 20  yrs. I could not understand why the mobility of the hip following THR was agonisingly difficult and slow to resolve. Thought it wd automatically cure everything! It took 9 months so you are in the very early days.  It is appalling that you needed correction so soon. Why wasn't it picked up previous to original surgery. You are amazingly calm and resigned to the indignity of it all. If it's any consolation, it does resolve eventually and one morning it sort of all starts working in unison with the rotational walking. My body has now accepted that the prosthesis is too big, stem et al and the taut stretched tissue has found some slack.   V best luck w yr progress
    • jilliboss123
      jilliboss123 Sredni393

      Posted

      Thank you for your words of wisdom, I hope it all works out too.  My family is tired of me being layed up and I'm tired of the pain.

      They did place a smaller ball in the socket and that has me worried a bit because the reason they use the larger ball is because it won't dislocate.

      I sort of feel a looseness but I don't even want to think like that   It's all so swollen and hard to make out what exactly is going on with it.

      I'll be glad to get some time with this behind me😉

      Hope things are better for you now with more good days then bad.  Thank you for all the natural med info you put out there also I've read a couple of your posts and will try and get some of the same supplements.

      Hugs,

      Jill👣👣👣

    • Sredni393
      Sredni393 jilliboss123

      Posted

      Ok what I wd say is that our bodies are v adaptable and plastic and can accommodate foreign objects. I was SO deformed yet my skeleton has adapted to the too big prosthesis, so you will go on improving despite the discrepancy(ies) .   The leg circulation is the "second heart" as all the Chinese medics know.  Massaging from the foot upwards, or, getting those compression massage cuffs (miraculous) will help swelling. I was so swollen, the prosthesis didn't "go home" for 8 months. You gotta lay up 3 times per day and rest, for the swelling. Sleep with feet higher, a pillow underneath feet.  And think in terms of a year , not weeks. Rest is even more important than pushing yrself. Looseness, swelling, you don't know what outcome you'll get until at least 9 months...you gotta stick with it. All surgeons will say is "wait and see" as no one wants to dig around in there on another's territory. We've got what we've been given and have to learn to live with it. You'll be ok and will look back not recognising the uncertainties... Crois-moi
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