Total Hip replacement for 25 years old !
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Hi
I'm waiting for my total hip replacement ! I was avoiding it for five years!! . Until I just couldn't take the pain anymore . I neglected myself and I did not do much physical therapy after my surgeries in the past . I have stiffness in my knee + muscle weakness in general .
I started to do physiotherapy two weeks ago . It's still stiff but I had some progress .The bending now is around 100 degree . I have strong pain in it because of my weak muscles .
I struggled in the past with infection in the hip . How long it's going to take me to recover ? I have shortening in the leg around 2.5 cm .
the doctor said he will try to pull it during the surgery ! Also he says he will try to bend the knee more . I just I didn't get that part lol ! Is that possible !?
When I can go back to gym after surgery ?
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foofofoofo
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These are my medical report & x Ray
linda38528 foofofoofo
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Hi,
I will leave the advice and opinions to others better equipped to comment as I don't have enough knowledge on this to be helpful given your fairly extensive surgical history.
But ... I wanted to wish you well for a good surgeon and smooth operation and recovery.
Best wishes,
Linda
dorothy04749 foofofoofo
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As a 65 year old, I am sure you are better than me with Internet: look for exercises for THR after six weeks surgery, some good ones in pictures, download them - whatever you find on Trust sites, Scotland NHS Trusts have good ones. Take them to your hosp op and ask surgeon which ones u should do on getting home and how many repetitions and how many times to do it per day! Then DO IT! For reasons of complication I was flat on my back for two weeks - lost all muscles in my op hip and leg so intense Physio for weeks but if you cannot afford that then this is way forward.
once ok'd by surgeon get hosp Physio to go through them with you and Keep Them Up at home, you will enable your recovery at a much better pain free rate and do not forget may still need Physio for knots in scar and toning the butt!
My hip is bloody great at 7 weeks now just problem with my complication holding it back so at 50 years younger as Nike says Just Do It. The world is your oyster the other side!
regards dot
linda38528 dorothy04749
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By golly I would love to meet you in person! Great, great posts with an indomitable spirit showing in each and every line! You are a tonic to us all - every bit as much as Renée is with her lovely gentle spirit.
Thank you.
L
sarah1996 foofofoofo
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I know a lot of people who have found hip replacements to be of great sucess but the main thibg is to remember that everyone heals at different rates. Some are doing amazingly within a few weeks, others arent. But it takes a very long time in general for everything to heal properly. Over q year most doctors prodict. But if it needs doing itd best to just do it. Your body will tell you when its ready xx
linda38528 sarah1996
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Hugs,
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Sissyr foofofoofo
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I too waited a long time for my THP. The pain was unbearable. Had the surgery. My surgeon damaged my femoral nerve. I'm now 3 years out and partially paralyzed for life. The thing is, I'd take all that pain back based on my outcome. Here in the US there are legal recourses for botched jobs like mine...I also had to have 4 transfusions and was discharged from hospital against my pleas and put in a rehab facility. It was expensive, lonely without my husband and only agravated the femoral palsy. My surgeon abandoned me. Health care in the US is broken. Doctors still tap in to the MDiety. They are never wrong. And costs are exhorbitant here even with our expensive health insurances. Don't know where you all hail from, all of you, but I sense Europe. Feel lucky patients are a priority where you live and not profit margins!!!
linda38528 Sissyr
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I hope things turn around for you with health and your insurance case.
No one should have to go through that. Shame on your surgeon.
Big hugs,
Linda
dorothy04749 Sissyr
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please let me know your story as mine started just 7 weeks ago and u may be able to inform me re something I did not know. My lower leg and foot were paralysed, have lower leg slightly back and top of foot back, but base and toes Nada........
regards dot
Sissyr dorothy04749
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i have had no feeling in my quad, my knee, and the numbness circles my Lower leg to my ankle. It has been this way since I woke up. I have had neurological testing confirming a femoral nerve palsy. Very rare, especially to this extent and inoperable. Any attempt at repositioning is very risky and rarely successful, besides the nerve is dead. I must have been bleeding out internally. They ignored my dangerously low hematocrit until 9 hours before discharge...middle of the night I had an emergency transfusion, then two more in rehab. They have no treatment protocols suitable for a femoral nerve palsy. Such a disaster is always a surgical error...misuse of
instrument, etc coupled with careless post surgical care.
dorothy04749 Sissyr
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so sorry to hear that - are u suing the surgeon? I would not have thought consent would have taken precedence over negligence. I hope that your description means u have no pain ?
i have read of people who are permanent and still experiencing intolerable pain as well. Perhaps given time there will be some experimental procedures. I often think that stem cells will become as widely and extensively used as aspirin or antibiotics. They seem to really be making inroads on patient,s own stem cells in different parts of the body.
you have to keep the hope and keep telling yourself one way or another you will change your outlook.
regards dot
Sissyr dorothy04749
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Mobility is the issue now. I teeter...balance,! It's like walking when one of your legs is shot full of novacaine.
I'm 73. Exponentially, aging is my enemy when it comes to neurological research. And yes, pain is now in the other hip. The abnormal gait has contributed to its more rapid deterioration. I opted for surgery so I could better take care of my husband who has serious heart disease and I didn't want to take pain MEDS! Now I'm back with the neurosurgical pain center and back on MEDS....while I teeter. And yes, we are exploring legal recourses.
dorothy04749 Sissyr
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So sorry to hear all this, I too have the balance problems with no motor nerves to heel and ball/toes of my foot. Horrible when you stand at a counter, close your eyes and think lift up on toes and your brain signals back I will on right leg but cannot on the stump on your left leg - my brain refuses to admit I have a viable foot attached to the stump..... Makes you have to do all your hip/nervous system exercises twice as hard for 50% result. Still as I have reported earlier on other parts of the forum at 65 it has afforded new experiences in Physio - I have a female Physio (on hol at moment and lovely young women) but I think this is her daytime job, evenings she is training for shot putting for the Russian Olympics! At present I have Herman, now his favourite word is 'tranquilla' which is pretty hard to do when he is trying to rip you're foot off, so I reply in English 'Relax' and then start to sing (from the 80s Frankie goes to Hollywood' .... relax, relax ...... He jumps in with his Spanish accent and sings 'don't do it' and has this fiendish grin as he try's to rip my foot off from a left angle........ Still at my age a 20 something gorgeous Physio to look at almost makes it worthwhile. Ha ha
You could always book some Physio for pre prep to the other hip before surgery or to see if any advice on how to move your bad leg more efficiently. I have a brace which I am learning to live with and this does aid my foot and protect my ankle too. Glad u are going to sue, I get so angry at seeing how many people have said I signed a consent form....... The fact their surgeon never even tell them after the operation says a lot in my mind.
years ago a hospital nearly killed me as a result of diagnosing appendix needing op and then on monitoring me eventually realised that it had burst!
Two days later when I had some idea where I was and what had happened and still really ill with drips for everything and my first trip on morphine too - there is always a silver lining - anyway young surgeon appeared beside my bed and really genuinely apologised - he had admitted me and then forgotten me till alarms went off 15 hours later - anyway at that point I knew I did not have the heart to sue him, he genuinely had learnt a lesson that night and to apologise was all I wanted.....
regards dot