Mid-thigh pain after hip replacement

Dave, probably referred pain from your back. Try heating pad first on lower back, then on affected thigh. This has helped me immensely-mine was so bad that I thought that I had bone cancer in my femur! Imagine my surprise when I was told that I needed a THR as hip didn't really hurt. Had my posterior THR 12/14/17 and am doing great. Hip talks to back that yells at the leg. If you can't stop the hip as it's still recovering, stop the pain at the back with heat. Good luck!

I am early stages (3 weeks ) post cementless THR. I’m feeling really well and reading the threads is helping understand my recovery. 

The past few days I’ve had  buttock and back pain and also groin and thigh pain (not all at th and time). I’ve read on one of the threads laying on a towel in my lower back (this has worked) apparently the pain is due to laying on my back whilst sleeping as I normally would sleep on my side. Any advise and tips would be appreciated.... thank you

I am 9 months post op and developed thigh pain bad enough that i had trouble walking. Doc says what an earlier poster did: that it’s a wobble between the stem and the bone that will go away as the bone grows stronger. It is very dispiriting to go back to a crutch this far out. I appreciate the comments from people whose thigh pain went away, and hope to experience same.  

Its been nine months for me. Walking up hill's I'm good its walking on flater surfaces when my leg extends forward and back. Its nerve pain in the mid femur or the stem running inside the none. I am making myself do one to two miles of walking. Lately it starts hurting right away and I'm to have the second hip done in April.

Dave , hope your doing better by now. Ive had to have 5 surgries  just to get one. First one I got mersa from hosp. Had to get rid of it before trying again but each time they went in they found a different type of infection so no go . Then told me if I didn't  get it on the 5th I would never have one. Mersa ate a hole in butt cheek to bone all the way out so had to have that repaired also. I have lupus a bad immune  system.  Have sever pain even on pain meds but doesn't help but a little. Pain cause's hip to give out plus down the thigh also. My dr. Even sent me to a different top specialist in anothe city. But because of all the other hip surgries  they said I most like would not be able have one unless I broke it plus no guarantee  it would   ever get it.Been in therpy for years no help there, I walk as much as possible but pain makes my hip give out then the knee buckles and if I didn't  have crutches I'd be on the ground of which I have. Now have to get a wheel chair. I've had several back surgries  which causes same to point I can't sleep in a bed live on a lazyboy. But still walk and do as much as  possible as I live alone. In 95 had a bad car reck broke hip ball joint off plus disinagrated 6 inches of femure and crushe'd the knee cap, broke opposite  ankle . Down fo just shy of a yr. That leg is all titanum.  But no problems  with it!  Heat and ice help abit. Just never ends but stay as actime as much possible, have to as I live alone. They're  making me get a wheelchair but I won't  give up walking. Just hard to stand to cook but for a short time. Just don't  give up. I'll keep all with these issues in my prayers. Best of luck. Up to date I've had to have 17 surgries  none of what I wanted. Try doing anything to keep your mind off of pain,hard but it helps me plus my dog does to.

Hi Dave. Hope you getting on ok. I had hip replacement 10 weeks back. After 7 weeks i was fine, no pain or limp so retutned to work. Big mistake!! After a week i was in agony. Pain in inner thigh, groin and round the bottom of buttock. Saw my emergency doctor who said hip joint was fine and that it would be muscles maybe strained. I'm still struggling to work as no sick pay but i am in retail so on feet all day. What does anyone think? Shall i take a few weeks off work and rest or carry on working and struggle with the pain?

Dear dave1966,

I just read your post written 9 months ago - that would be perhaps September 2017?  I wonder if you continue to experience the mid-thigh pain?  My husband fell and fractured his femur four years ago.  The fracture line was all the way across the bone, but so thin that it didn't show up on x-ray; was found on MRI.  His initial complaint was extreme pain in the front of his leg, mid-thigh.  He fell from a short step-ladder, while we were camping in the Rocky Mountains, 24 hours driving time away from our home. So, he had a rod placed in his femur and screws placed in the rod.  The pain has never left and although prior to the fracture, he walked several miles a day, and he went through all the physical therapy and home exercise program afterward, he is severely incapacitated from the pain.  The physicians have taken x-rays and confirmed that everything is "in place" and there is no reason for the pain.  He had never broken anything (other than his coccyx) and has only had one severe illness in his life.  I am curious about your pain, and wondering if now - 9 months after your posting, if you are still enduring this pain?  Thank you for your response.  I pray that you are not STILL experiencing that pain.

Now 3 plus years after surgery and have developed thigh pain.difficulty walking without a limp,hard to step up using that hip,standing still for long times painful, some aching pain while sleeping.

just thought I would add my experience. I have two new hips 5 months apart and have had mid thigh pain in one of them.  I agree with stretching but with caution.   For me the way to get a goo stretch was at the gym using strong bands to hand on to (hanging from a high ceiling bar). the trainer gave me guidance and I found that squats (not beyond the 90 deg) gave the thigh muscles the right type of stretch and gave instant relief.  Very good at strengthening the thigh muscles.   Icing and hot water bottles are also useful and for me hot water bottles while resting and icing if in pain have been helpful.   Icing transforms the pain into heat and it feels amazing.