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i am two weeks after total hip replacement and have had some groin pain PT says it will go away only when i try and lift my leg in marching manor anyone else experience this? feeling like alittle set back started walking with cane and now back to walker
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HLMUK sharon50158
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Hi Sharon, welcome to the club. May I ask if you are UK or other and what type of surgery you had? I had my left hip replaced in June and my right 2 years ago last week, both posterior approach, this one has been much quicker to feel kind of normal, although I do still have the horrid groin pain that I remember lasted a good few months with my first. Keep up with the exercises and speak to your consultant at the 6 week mark and they should advise further exercise to do going forward do you have physio? I haven't for either op, suppose they think I don't need it being young ish but maybe it's a local area health decision
Best wishes
ptolemy sharon50158
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I am just over two weeks and I have the groin pain that I had the op to get rid of. I just hope it goes away.
jen86183 ptolemy
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How is this recovery going ptolemy, are you furniture surfing again? Hope you have a good recovery with this hip. keep the forum informed on how you are getting along.
My right has started going quite quickly compared to the left but, I will not be having this one replaced.
ptolemy jen86183
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Thanks Jen, I actually went privately this time as I was in so much pain. I had been waiting since March for that. My hip went very well apart from me throwing up over the anaesthetist! Everything else was a disaster though, I was actually in hospital for 9 days and in the end pleaded to go home, I felt like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The blister I had last time appeared on the new hip leg. The surgeon brought in a plastic surgeon pal and organised a Doppler xray. He kept asking me what we should do about it!
I fainted the day after the op (so crash team arrived!) as they were trying to get blood out of me and my body does not like giving blood, I had the phlebotomist who gave up, the house doctor who gave up and the senior anaesthetist trying for around three hours. The anaesthetist managed to get a cannula into me but failed to get blood out. The house doctor crept in that night and after a lot of feeling around succeeded, quite lucky as the phlebotomist refused to try again! In the end there was a small, special group who could actually get blood from me.
Because of the faint I stayed on an extra day and went for a shower, and having had a lovely shower I dried, put on my nightie and fainted! Crash team again, they said I was in a crumpled heap with my leg looking very strange and a large laceration in my other leg down to the bone, must have been quite a sight. I was in agony as they managed to transfer me from the shower room onto a trolley down to xray where there was no CT scanner just a basic one with steps up to it so with lots of rolling me across everything they took some xrays and confirmed I had dislocated my new hip, operating theatre booked and hip put back also laceration sewn up by the surgeon, he seemed prouder of doing that than my hip, it did look superb, I suppose he had not done anything so lowly as sewing up a cut for a while!
The following day because of the faint they wheeled in a rather dishy Italian cardiologist with an amazing machine to do an echocardiogram. It showed my heart in 3D and you could see the arteries like tunnels, I was so impressed. Apparently my heart is fine.
The results of the faint was I was monitored 24 hours on automatic machines that checked every fifteen minutes and they would wake me up over the night to shine a light into my eyes. When I fell in the shower some of them were saying I might have hit my head so they decided to do checks on that too. I spent my time having goodness knows what pumped into me, at one time I had three cannulas in action. The trouble was they were in really inconvenient areas of my arms because of the difficulty in finding veins, even near my shoulder, places I am sure most cannulas had never been before, and stopped me actually using my hand to type properly as one was at the front of my hand.
The fact that I had had virtually no food, as I felt so sick after the fentanyl and morphine and no sleep, the following day I fainted again, crash team in action, it comes along with bells ringing and a crowd of people rather like something in a circus. I was now known throughout the hospital and people coming back from holiday were told the saga and were coming to hear it from the horse’s mouth. They decided I needed a blood transfusion, I had a double dose which took six hours to get into me finishing around one o’clock in the morning. I must admit I felt fantastic after it. My surgeon by this time had given up and handed over to the medical team to check the faints.
The sad thing was in all this time no one mentioned my poor old hip and I had virtually no physiotherapy, however the head physio saved my life by organising a decent mattress to take over from the uncomfortable ripple one and he even stole a comfy chair, so he was my true hero. He actually thought about me not the science.
Came home and the district nurse came to dress the blister on my leg caused in surgery. It is now looking rather nasty and my GP has referred me to a plastic surgeon.
Otherwise I seem to be getting round OK and do not seem to need furniture to cling onto this time and have just made a boiled egg for breakfast carrying tea in one hand and egg and toast in the other. I am being given yet another course of antibiotics with which I cannot drink - what I need is a drink!!
HLMUK ptolemy
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bloody hell Ptolemy, you don't do things by halves do you? Hope you start to feel better soon and that you get that well deserved drink!! x
ptolemy HLMUK
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Got the drink sitting in the fridge. At least I wasn't bored in hospital!!
jen86183 ptolemy
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ptolemy,
You sound like you have been in a carry on movie 😂😂😂😂. I am glad after everything you have been through, you are starting to feel better, keep us updated and good luck and please do not faint again, there is no one to pick you up. 😁
ptolemy jen86183
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I cannot believe that I actually went through all of it in such a short time. All I wanted was a replacement hip.
A GP wants to talk to me about the fainting thing next week so obviously he does not think it urgent although the hospital wanted me to be tested immediately along with brain scans and heart monitoring. In fact he never listens to what you are saying so nothing new.
jen86183 ptolemy
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Let us know ptolemy the outcome when you eventually find out.
ptolemy jen86183
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It could be a sitcom. I have a district nurse coming in three times a week. I also went onto my Patient on line website to find that the surgery have made a face to face booking with one doctor and I then have a telephone appointment with another doctor three hours later. No one has told me about the face to face appointment, particularly as the district nurse is at my house at the same time. I suppose I should be pleased as no one seems to be getting face to face GP appointments nowadays particularly ones they never asked for!!
jen86183 ptolemy
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Wow, doctors are a rarity these days ptolemy, I would talk to everyone just for the sake of it, 😀 you never know when you might get another chance to speak to one.
ptolemy jen86183
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It is like winning the lottery!
dale94413 ptolemy
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Feast or famine these days. I can't remember what my GP looks like.
hope4cure sharon50158
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I know you have been in a lot of pain waiting for surgery. I suppose in our wildest dreams no one expects to go thru what you had experienced....what a story... sounds like you lost a lot of blood during surgery,a normal issue. Usually meds given to build up blood cells after surgery helps but sometimes not. I had same problem no faints though but could hardly hold my head up they gave me transfusion second day after surgery and I felt like a new person. we had to give our own blood weeks before surgery to accommodate low blood level issues from surgery. After surgery most protocols are to call for a nurse not to get out of bed without a nurse assist. Sounds like you have kept your sense of humor throughout the whole unfortunate circumstance. Very sorry you had to go thru all of that...Yikes.
How did you get the burn/blister? The cut on your leg sounds serious, hope it heals Ok. I'm also glad that with all the falls you didnt dislocate the new joint.
Nice to hear your home and I hope you have lots of help. Keep us posted....
I hope your healing journey goes well. Sending lots of healing blessings your way.