Post left hip replacement but feel I am sitting on a lump!

I am 16 months out from THR as the result of an accident and my hip has degenerated to the point I can no longer walk. To say that I am angry is an understatement as I have been given the runaround by my surgeon and the local establishment has circled the wagons. No other ortho man will have anything to do with me so that now I have to go to another city to get help.

I've read thru about 25 posts here and am impressed by how many of you have the very same experience. You know why, don't you? It's because your surgeons are scared to death of being sued so they put you off any way they can. There is something called the standard of care for major medical proceedures; when a surgeon installs a prosthesis in you, you have a right to expect that it will correct your current problem. Not next week, next month or next year but NOW unless you were told otherwise at the beginning. But you have been kind and polite and most considerate while your surgeon takes advantage of you, and the more tolerant you are the worse it gets. Folks, I'm afraid that your only option is to get tough and force the issue. Lawsuits are not fun, they are very difficult and trying but sometimes they are the last option available. Or at least the threat of one.

These surgeons become very wealthy doing what they do (at least in the US they do) and the least we should expect of them is to take our complaints seriously. But to do as they do IMHO is just plain reprehensible and should not be tolerated. Its our lives that are at stake here.

Your groin pain needs to be treated. You may have iliopsoas tendonitis tendonitis OR you may have a iliopsoas tendonitis cyst. It is your orthodic surgeon who will treat your iliopsoas tendonitis. You are a year and a half almost post op so you really should be havig that taken care of, enough time has passed that if it hasn't healed itself by now it will not do so without intervention by the doctor. They can go in and cut it if need be. Or you might have a cyst. Going back to your ortopedic is your only option now. You do NOT have to suffer with groin pain, they can treat that. At this point in time physical therapy will never take that pain away. You ahve to go back to the orthopedic doctor. Orthopedic doctors have a specialty not just in bomes but also tendons.

Google - iliopsoas cyst causing persistant pain after total hip arthroplasy

Good luck to you Jude.

By the way was your surgery through your butt or your side?

I have never felt like I am sitting on a lump. The best releif I have found for joint and tendon pain is Voltarene Cream. (Diclofenac). It really does work. it does not last very long, a few hours of releif but it knocks the pain down enough to allow you to sleep. I used to take napraxon (Aleve) + the Voltarene cream on my really bad tendonitis I had from my hip to my kneee, before I had my THR. I had that for almost 3 years. It was like a miracle for me that my hip replacement eliminated that tendonitis I had on the outside of my leg.

Sometimes even now if my kneee is bothering me I will use the Voltarene cream.