Some good news at last

It isn't my operaated side that is the problem. It is my unoperated side.

The hip on the right collapsed only two weeks after the left hip was done. I was in so much pain I was off my feet for three weeks only getting up to eat a meal or go to the loo. The pain was beyond any pain I have ever been in. I havn't been able to do anything never mind over do it.

Yeah I know it is hard not to think about things and I know I have to take one step at a time and not to worry so much. But after what I have been through and all the posts saying everyone has gone along the road a lot further than I have is very frustratiing and rather upsetting. I so want to get better and I am so fed up with everything I have had to put up with over the last almost 4 years it is getting very draining and I have just about had enough of hospitals and them finding other problems to keep me going back. I have been going backwards and forwards so many times under different consultants for different things I am sure you can understand.

I have had the following done in just over 3 years.

2 x wisdom teeth removed.

A large lump removed from my shoulder ( Suspected cancer but was not )

Total hystorectomy and hernia both at the same time two different consultants.( it is  just a year two days ago since this was done )

Left THR

Still to do.:-

Right THR

Cateracts in both eyes.

so as you can see I really have been through it with hospitals.and I do think I have a vallid reason to worry incase they find something else they want to play with. I keep saying to them I need a room of my own with a brass plaque on it with my name and no one else can use it because I would always be in there.

I know I have done nothing wrong. it is just so hard to put up with everything I have and still have more to put up with.

you have been through such a lot...Let's hope the worse is over now.

Big hugs

Ella 

of course you are worried and it is understandable when so many things happened that have shattered your confidence and trust ...

I wish I could be more helpful -

I am here, we all are ...

blessings and warm hug

renee

I havn't lost my trust in my surgeon or his team. I have lost trust in my GP's care and underastanding. I have lost trust in the nurses at my GP's surgery.

Yes I am on the mend with the infection. That is going very well. I had to ask for an extra 3 days of antibiotics because there are still a couple of stubborn areas that need treating and I didn't want to risk not getting totally rid of the cellulitus. It is really bad when you say you have a problem and are being ignored and the swelling is being putr down to either your operation or the jhip collapse. I knew it wasnt but it took a call to an out of hour doctor for someone to listen to me and give me what I needed. This delay meant the ifection got a stronger hold on me than it sjhould have and this has been reported to my surgeon and he is not happy.

I know you wish you could be more helpful. But there is no need for you to think that way. I am more medicly minded than most and every drug I am given. Every tablet or other meds I research and also inform who ever I am seeing for what ever reason at the time so if I am taking something I need to stop taking before any operation the consultant is fully aware. Like the new pain meds I have been given. I have to stop taking them 24 hours before my surgeon can do my hip operation this time. If I hadn't read that and informed my surgeon that I was on these new meds it would have delayed my right hip operation.So it maybe a good idea for anyone to read all the info provided with any meds includibng side effects. I do have a good relationship with my hip surgeon and he has told me that if anything changes no matter what it is I have to tell him. Now that is a good surgeon and that is why I trust him. He has two weeks off in August. Then hopefully I will be in for myoperation on my right hip in september. I won't know for sure till next Thursday when I see him. But at least some things are going in the right direction now. I just hope I get done before my femur comes totally out of the socket. It does feel very loose these days since it collapsed.

Thank you again reenee x

and to have a surgeon who understands you and whom you trust is wonderful ... 

I agree, one has to be vigilent and you certainy are - this also makes you a valuable fellow hippie with great advice - I am learning so much here ..  

It is so frustrating when people don't listen to you - arrggggghhhhh - 

maybe a stupid question, but can you go to another GP?  it is not always an option and sometimes the thought of starting all over again is daunting .. I am sure that you already considered this ...

take care - wishing you a good day 

warm hug

I wouldn't say I was strong or courageous. I just say or see things as they are. If I do not like something or something needs looking into I say so and it is better that way. I find yougenerally  get listened to and taken seriously if you just say it how it is  and don't be scared to put your stamp on the way you want to be treated and what you want to happen or put your ideas and if they don't want to do things your way then ask them to explain why not. You gain so much more info, % help if you talk to them as if they are a normal person ( which they are ) and not be scared and just accept what they are telling you. I told my surgeon exactlty how I wanted things to go when getting knocked out because of my needle phobia and my surgeons anethatist and my surgeon listened to me. They did eveerything they could to put me at ease and they did what they needed to do without upsetting me or hurting me. I have had nurses in the past just tell me to get over it and try to take a blood test. They ended upo in A & E. That is how scared I am because of the past treatment I had in the 70's & early 80's. Hospitals and dentists were hell for me as a child. Thank goodness things have changed and you can actually refuse and not be forced to go through things you do not want to.

As for changinbg my GP can't do that because of where I am liviung. My GP is the only one in my imediate area and I do not have a car. It is more conveinient than trying to get on a bus to go to the next nearest one which would involve a very painful journey or cost me a lot of money hiring a taxi to get there every time. Also if I change GP I would loose my place on the hip list and have to wait longer to be done which I don't want. Waiting till september will be bad enough in the pain I am in.

Thank you renee. Hope you have a good day too. hugs

Thank you renee