Nerve pain after total hip replacement.

Hello Molly1charlie2,

  I'm sorry to hear about your pain in the morning and when you sit too long.  We have a lot in common I was a choreographer and dancer, my first collage degree was in performing arts. A bachelor fine arts (BFA) in dance. I also had a scholarship for being a gymnast while acquiring that degree. Although I have had four total hip replacements. Unfortunately after the fourth total hip replacement I feel as though I'm back to square one, even though all my x-rays look fine also. I too have some difficulty in the morning when I first start walking and after I sit too long. If I sit for to long when I standup the pain at times is unbearable.  However, it goes away after I've been moving for a little while but as soon as I sit down again it will come back! It makes traveling very difficult. I shall keep following this chat and hopefully somebody will be able to share some information that could be helpful to both of us and others.

Best of luck,

TK

 

Wondering if you have given any thought to consulting a chiropractor?  A good one can do quite a lot for you.  BUT, make sure that you do your research on any chiropractor before you allow him to touch you.  I am in the SW and have always used the same man, but I think he is wanting to retire as he has a young family.  However, he has sold his practice, and could refer you on.  I believe that he could give some guidance to good practitioners in other parts of the UK.  

Another option may be to find a good accupuncturist.

Alternative medicine is frowned upon by many, but the good ones can do a lot of good where Western medicine has failed.

Good luck, whatever you decide to do.

Hi, I had bilateral anterior hip replacement in June 2015. My left hip minimal pain the right was swollen from knee to hip and VERY painful. Since then I have had pain in the right leg, from the bottom , through the hip to the knee . I researched IT band problems, piriformis problems and trochanteric bursitis .

I had 2 steroid inj in the trochanteric area, ( the bony sticky out bit on thigh) as this was where the biggest sting and burning was coming from.. They didn't work. The IT band (runs from knee to hip) stings and burn a lot.

I told the consultants/registrars everytime I went to the hospital, that I had a deep throb stinging pain in the right leg/thigh. They fobbed it off with various reasons.

I can't stand for long, have to sit with knees tilting down and walking triggers it off. All xrays were fine. This is all they are interested in.

After 3 yrs of complaining, the last time direct to the head surgeon, I have now been told it is greater trochanteric pain syndrome . One of the conditions I kept saying it was. Because i have now had this for over 3 yrs it is going to be more difficult to sort. The pain is constant. I can't lie on either side at night. So back only.

I had a steroid in the large bottom muscle plus in the hamstring. That worked for 2 months . The 2nd did not work as they put it in the wrong place and I am waiting for the 3rd.

I have now been given physio to try and build my withered muscles up. I have been told it can take yrs for this pain to go. Physio have said they can No longer help with the pain.

Apparently this syndrome can happen to 'women my age' but as far as I am concerned it was due to the possible rather vigorous hip replacement through a 4 inch incision.

I am wondering if some of you people out there with this near constant thigh hip pain have the same problem I have now got a diagnosis for and which has a name ...at last.

Please check it out.