THR last Tuesday
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At home and leg swollen twice size, but i guess thats normal. Cant sleep because of strange problem. I have normal post op pain, but also it feels like someone is stretching my leg when i lie down, to full capacity and beyond. It is really uncomfortable. Did not have this on hospital bed but now in normal bed i just cant straighten leg without this awful pulling and stretching.. Also keep having weird spasms when going to drop off to sleep that are excruitiating, feels like leg coming all out of place. Anyone had or understand what all this is please.
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patricis helen09386
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judiwoo helen09386
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patricis judiwoo
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jeanp helen09386
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Sorry you are having problems, hope it resolves itself soon. Our bodies always seem to give us new things to think about/worry over, don't they?
Have you tried putting shallow pillow under your knees at night? I find this more comfortable even now several years after THR, probably because I am used to it.
Sredni393 helen09386
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Swelling is awful if.you read my previous earlier posts about the leg compression massager. It was worth every penny as my swelling was.terrifying. They will tell you to elevate the leg 3 x pday for an hour, but with that and exercising you do start asking yrself if it was all worth it. It does improve at different rates.for everyone. But that 400 quid kit was my saviour. It is hard to reconcile all the exercising while the swelling is so bad so u have to use common sense. If you can afford it yhe massager will give you more hope . Miracle for me.
Good luck. It is slow but gets better. ..
carmen56984 helen09386
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I feel for you, everything will be very strange at first, dont forget the you've had a merger surgery all the tissues, blood and muscle have being pulled and streatched, you have metial, screws and all the rest put into your hip.
It's very early days yet.
Try and put a small pillow or a roll up towel under your knee to see if that would help, You'll feel very uncomfortable in the first 6 weeks, But do take it easy.
Wishing you all the very best.
Keep us updated on your progress
annette15401 helen09386
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karolina33830 helen09386
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Im 8weeks post operation,first two weeks I used to get the same weird feeling of stretching and same spasms ,so I suppose it's very normal. Also my leg and bum was swollen 3 times more when my good side ,I needed to wear my boyfriends tracksuit as I couldn't fit in to my ones
If I overdo I still get swelling in to my leg.
It's tough time and long recovery, so take it easy .
All the best
Karolina x
marey helen09386
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your body is reliving the operation and it needs to do this during your slumbers...its part of your recovery!
take care and very slowly mobilise per instructions....even just practising getting out of bed and walking to the loo counts.
keep a journal of your progress at this time xx
the magnesium will not only relax you and help you to sleep but will rebalance a deficiency that we mostly all have....it also helps to ease spasms....taking herbal sleeping tablets if you need to is a good reserve strategy too...often those herbs are very nourishing to the body.
hope this helps....thinking of you x
helen09386 marey
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Jodi-France helen09386
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davidintheUSA Jodi-France
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davidintheUSA helen09386
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Jodi-France helen09386
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I did have Iliopsoas tendonitis which thankfully I and my physical therapist identied very early. I rested that tendon didn't do anthing that aggravated it (sitting would be fine but then when i stood up after sitting it was painful). Instead of sitting I laid prone on the sofa, I just rested it and it took close to a month but it has healed. You do not want to stretch/exercize an injured tendon. Tendonitis means there are litlle tears in the tendon and you have to let those tears heal, not make more tears in it by exercizing it. While on vacation in Spain last week and this week, twice I got a sharp groin pain but it didn't last but a few minutes and then went away (thankfully!)
davidintheUSA Jodi-France
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patricis davidintheUSA
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davidintheUSA patricis
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I'm not suggesting that the early groin pain is related to this but it comes to mind occasionally.
patricis davidintheUSA
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davidintheUSA patricis
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I don't know what the nature of my failure is only that I can't walk. All the xrays and scans did not reveal much and my suargeon said, '"your condition speaks for itself." Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. He did do one very untechnical test: he suddenly grabbed my knee and swung it around. I think my scream could be heard throughout the building. He apologized and I said I fully understood why he did that. THAT was the most telling diagnostic test that led to a scheduled revision.
I now need to ask him some critical questions like what type of replacement device he intends to use, if necessary. We don't think the head and cup are damaged so it should be only the femoral stem being replaced. He won't know what the problem is until he opens me up. I pray its not infection. Blood tests were neg. but those are not proof, just an indicator.
My surgeon is rather arrogant and gruff, but I hand it right back to him and he seems to appreciate that. Surprise, standing up to his BS cut right thru it. So you never know and now I actually like the guy.
patricis davidintheUSA
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Off the subject, but of interest, I was asked if I wanted to particupate in a study of aligning the leg/hip using laser....up to now they use a manual contraption made out of steel tubing that they attach to your hip and then do measurements manually to align the leg.....I said I would think about it....on one hand I thought i might be more advanced than what they have been using for years and did ask if they double checked the laser measurement by hand, and they said no, that would defeat a blind study (though the patient can ask one year later if they used the laser or the old method)....while reading the waiver I noticed in very large letters/caps stating CONFLICT OF FINANCIAL INTEREST, wherein it stated that each doctor (not hospital but doctor) that used the trial laser was financiall rewarded......I didn't feel too good about this going straight to the doctor....so I said no...anyways this was just an aside...don't know what they use in the UK or the USA. Patricia
davidintheUSA patricis
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Aha, Patricia! Nothing like spelling your own name wrong, LOL. Hey, I can't type in these dang boxes either.
patricis davidintheUSA
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