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Left Hip Replacement is it worse than right?

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m0rningangel1
m0rningangel1

On the 22nd of November I will have a total hip replacement on my left hip. This morning a friend of mine told me that I am probably wasting my time I would be using a walker for the rest of my life that a left hip replacement  never does right. Has anyone heard this. I am really upset about it all..sad

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  • gwen81475
    gwen81475 m0rningangel1

    Posted

    I have one new hip 11 months old and the other three months old. I have been walking without aid two weeks after the second op, in fact a few days ago I did a little jog down the road

    So don't listen to negative comments, none of the people on this forum would have put themselves through this if they thought they would be just as disabled after. Give yourself a few weeks to recover and eventually you will never look back. It's wonderful.

    • gwen81475
      gwen81475

      Posted

      Oh, and by the way,I am 68 years old 😁

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 gwen81475

      Posted

      Thank you!!!!  I love all the words of encouragement...this is a lot for me but I am going to do it and be confident about it!!!
    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 gwen81475

      Posted

      Thank you Gwen!!!  I appreciate the great advise and for sure everyone here has been through this and knows what is going to happen. I am so ready to get rid of this pain and be able to walk again without help.. I know it isn't an overnight recovery but I am looking forward to recovery!  Just getting rid of this grinding pain is a plus!lol

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 gwen81475

      Posted

      Thank you so much for your reply...this is really helping me knowing there really is others that know what I am about to go through!

       

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      I am so tired of limping around here and dragging this walker all over the place..I just want to be normal again
  • rich1960
    rich1960 m0rningangel1

    Posted

    I had my Left hip replaced (posterior technique) 4 yrs Jan 2017, I was back to work in 7 wks (job entails bending/lifting), back to sports 3-4 months later.

    I had my right hip (same technique) replaced 14 weeks ago, back to work at the 12 week mark and back to sports at the same time.

    The info you received is nonsense.

    Good Luck biggrin

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 rich1960

      Posted

      Awesome I am so ready to get this done!!!  12 more days!  This week I will be buying groceries and cooking to get ready for this surgery! I plan on being prepared with my own frozen food. I will only have help about four days when I get home..but I am also staying in the hospital for three days. I should be able to do the walking to the bathroom etc when I am through the first week. I get the surgery on Tuesday , go home Thanksgiving day, celebrate my birthday on the 25th and then my help goes home on Sunday. that is six whole days with help I should be good.

       

  • renee01952
    renee01952 m0rningangel1

    Posted

    Hi morning angel, 

    chiming in with the choir here ... I am happy to read that you are no longer upset and looking forward to the surgery - 

    I had 2 THR surgeries, 1st one was right hip and 2nd one left hip 6 months later -- to have 2 new hips is wonderful - 

    keep sharing how you are getting on,okay -

    you are not alone anymore 

    big warm hug

    renee

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 renee01952

      Posted

      I am so thankful for this forum. You are so right I feel pretty isolated and alone. I know my friends are all tired of me saying,"this hurts!"  The walker is a pain but I fall so easily. My left hip just gives out at times so I need the walker.  I just feel like for the first time since this all started I am talking to people that really understand the situation..lol  Right now I am doing home health care for people. I only have one client 4 hours a day and she needs help but loves to just sit around and talk.After I get well I only work in the accounting field 12 more months then my house is paid off and I retire and I am so ready.

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 renee01952

      Posted

      I am good to go forward and get this done. I want my life back like it was a few years ago. I have been complaining about my hip hurting for a while. My dr sent me to a neuologist saying it was my back..He told me to put a target on my hip and go back to my primary care and point towards the hip. Now down to the wire..11 days!  I am going to keep hanging out here I like this forum and it is all encouraging
  • bobbie102
    bobbie102 m0rningangel1

    Posted

    Utter load of crap 😡

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 bobbie102

      Posted

      That was an easy way to put it. I do think she didn't realize what she wrote or how bad she worded it. I just know I need positive around me completely and any negative isn't good and doesn't have a place near me right now.rolleyes

  • ihavenonickname
    ihavenonickname m0rningangel1

    Posted

    Let's just think about this...The only difference between your right hip and your left hip is the side of the body they are on...same skin, same bone, same blood vessels, same muscles, same nerves....

    are you sure she wasn't just trying the make a joke using a play on words . left can never be right because it is left

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 ihavenonickname

      Posted

      She called me after I wrote her back and told her I was so upset by what she had said. What she said was I had complained my right side hurt. My bad hip is my left side. She says what she was saying if my right side was bad also then I was wasting my time just getting the left side done. My right side is fine just has bursitis and tendenitis from all the limping and weight shifting because of my left hip. I know everyone hurts on the opposite side after limping around for a while...just the way it is. I am disappointed she got so negative with me but I realize she has never been through anything like this so she really doesn't realize the impact of the pain and not being able to do things because of a bad hip.I am going to just move on from her bad wording!!

    • jenny03900
      jenny03900 m0rningangel1

      Posted

      Well I hope she apologised! It was thoughtless at best and downright mean at worst. But she's your friend so if you can forgive her that's great. Just go out and prove her wrong! 

    • m0rningangel1
      m0rningangel1 ihavenonickname

      Posted

      What she meant was...I had fussed about my right side hurting and what she meant was if it has arthritis also then I was wasting my time getting the left hip done because the right is also messed up...I have bursitis and tendonitis on both sides and that is why it hurts on my right side. I don' think she meant to upset me the way she did..

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