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    Time for my third arthroplasty, this time a shoulder

    An update. Recovery has gone really well. I returned to part time work telecommuting from home the week after surgery, then a couple weeks of full time telecommuting, then returned to my office yesterday, 4 weeks post op. Have been diligent with my PT at home and have basically full external...
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    Time for my third arthroplasty, this time a shoulder

    Surgery done Tuesday and I got to come home Wednesday. The 4 hour drive home had me playing catch-up with pain all night, but it's now under control. Ended up with just a humeral side hemiarthroplasty. Attached is a picture of the recently evicted humeral ball. My surgeon said, "It's supposed to...
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    Time for my third arthroplasty, this time a shoulder

    I'm probably among the younger members in this forum...at 48, my new hips are will turn 3 in January (right) and March (left). I've had three prior surgeries on my left shoulder and am getting a new one next Tuesday due to quite a bit of destruction on the humeral side, with a dash of AVN...
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    Hip Resurfacing livendive's thread, +7 & -1 week

    Hey there hippies, it's been awhile since I've posted here, mostly because my new hips are doing so well I rarely think about them. My left hip is now 13 months old, my right hip 15 months, and both are doing great. This past weekend I returned to skydiving, with a couple jumps and no problems...
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    I cried today.

    Totally sympathize and just want to let you know that it does get better. I lived with pain in both of my hips and in my neck for several years, but in 2014, just as I was finishing grad school, everything got MUCH worse, and I was having a lot of difficulty getting medical help spun up as...
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    Only 2 steps into house but no stair railing. Do I need railings?

    My house has three doors to the outside, each with two steps and no railing. When I got home from getting each hip done, and for the first few days after, I used crutches whenever leaving the house so I wouldn't have had much use for a railing because my hands were otherwise occupied. For the...
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    Hip resurfacing vs. hip replacement

    Each of my resurfacings involved about 45-50 minutes in the operating room. I was walking around the hospital floor later the same day and discharged the following morning; first time for the 4 hour drive home. Second time was to drive about 20 minutes to a hotel and spend a night before neck...
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    support at home

    I'm sure everyone is different, and we live in a rambler, but my wife was back to work by my 3rd or 4th day post-op after each of my hips. She would take care of bandages before & after work, and I wouldn't shower without her there for the first 10 days or so, but for I was fine puttering...
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    Swimming after recovery

    I did all my post-op therapy in a pool (under the supervision of a PT), starting as soon as the incisions were mostly closed up and consisting of a variety of exercises. Forward, backward, and sideways walking and treading water with some buoyancy assist felt okay and helped me recover, but I...
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    Continuing Oxycodone Pre-op?

    Someone more qualified than me will have to answer this, but I'm guessing they'll need to know what the "325" is before they can say for sure. 10-325 is a common hydrocodone-acetaminophen combination (i.e. not an anti-inflammatory) but I've not heard of oxycodone being combined with anything in...
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    Newbie in Seattle with THR questions

    Generally speaking, most surgeons who only offer THR will not recommend BHR. On the other hand, all doctors who offer BHR also offer THR, because once they've got you opened up in the OR, they have to have the option of switching to THR if they find problems not identified in pre-operative...
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    Newbie in Seattle with THR questions

    I had both my hips done in Seattle last year, but with BHRs (metal on metal) rather than THRs because I was only 46 and wanted something less likely to wear out in my lifetime and without the activity restrictions. 2 or 3 months after the second hip, my surgeon cleared me to return to running...
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    Hip Resurfacing livendive's thread, +7 & -1 week

    Saturday I biked 8 miles then hiked 3 miles (800' climb) Sunday I spent the entire day putting in a vegetable garden with all the requisite rototilling, weeding, mixing in compost, and planting Yesterday I had a follow-up appointment with my hip surgeon, approximately 5 months since first hip...
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    Hip Resurfacing livendive's thread, +7 & -1 week

    The roller coaster ride continues, now back into the positive direction. Friday I had a GREAT session of PT, after which I felt better than I have in over a year, I was actually able to run down stairs, one step at a time. Things tightened up a bit afterwards, as expected, but it was still a...
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    THR Hips done 8 weeks apart

    Awesome! I've got a few years on you (I'm 46), but am on the same schedule, with my right hip done on January 5th and my left 8 weeks later on March 4th. My first hip has been a total champ, which is good because it had to get me through my second. The left hip has not been quite so easy, but...
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