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    THR 5 days post surgery

    Patience is really important! I still have slight "pain" but it isn't at all debilitating, just more of an awareness that everything isn't completely back to normal. This doesn't keep me from working out HARD but whenever I have felt actual pain I've quit whatever it was that was causing it...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Healthy and Happy at 62 in Sukothai, Thailand!
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    THR Weight after surgery

    The funny thing about my weight gain was that I ate LESS! But it has finally come off. I think most of it was just fluid. My doctor explained that it can take up to 6 months to loose the fluid! Anyway, I did stop when I got tired and NEVER exercised through pain! Thing is, I was already in...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    I am now more than 3 months post THR. I stopped posting because I was told that my aggressive approach to exercise might be injurious to others. But I kept up my daily exercise and completed PT. When my doctor last saw me he said "wow, I wish more of my patients were like you." I am in Thailand...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Hi Josephine! This is where I got the lie in bed all day "never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can go to sleep!" That mantra is posted in many places on the site and I did, indeed, think it was ridiculous! Why not say something like "stand...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Oh Cynthia777 Hooray for you too! Be nice to yourself!!!!!
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    THR hamstring stinging pain

    I actually have a hamstring that moves to the side when I exercise! It is creepy, even my PT can feel it. One explanation is that we walked so badly to compensate for pain prior to surgery that we misused these muscles. Sometimes causing some atrophy which makes them hurt when they are finally...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Wow Dashinghippie! You are awesome! I imagine you are a wee bit larger (and you are clearly supplied with testosterone) and I can see that you are nearly 10 years younger than I am so heap on the scoops! My biggest frustration is not knowing how much I really weigh haha! I am only now up to the...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Thanks, there is still a long way to go! My husband and I live in Thailand 6 months a year and we travel a lot from there, so I have to be ready to do some walking and I don't want to have trouble on the very long flights! But I have been working out for some time and I think that made all the...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    So glad to hear from you. Most people have been telling me that I am overdoing it and I know I am not! I also have thoracic spinal arthritis, but I am lucky in that it only hurts after I do anything with my arms for say 20 minutes, like cooking. I just deal with that, nothing I can really do...
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    THR 5 days post surgery

    Thanks for the information, I will check on that. I know ibuprofen does something to platelets and that is why you can't take it pre-op - bleeding problem. But I certainly don't want anything to interfere with the bone growth, I was actually hoping the anti-inflammatory action might reduce...
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    THR 5 days post surgery

    I was not aware that we could go back to Ibuprofen! I am 25 days out and would like to be able to take an anti-inflamatory, it works so much more directly on the problem than the narcotics that just make you not care about the pain and taking them too much is risky for things like balance. I am...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    I feel better every day. My leg/hip still gets stiff and heavy after exercise. This is mitigated by coming right home from PT or the gym and elevating and icing for about an hour. I do not plan to increase resistance on the bike or other weights for about a week, then I will judiciously try a...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    I have read all of the suggestions/precautions above. I am surprised at the extreme hip precautions as these seem to be the ones used only for posterior hip replacements. I (and most people now) have had an anterior hip replacement and my doctor has told me that these precautions are not...
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    THR Weight after surgery

    Thanks, I am off pain meds because I am not in pain (slightly uncomfortable at times but ice takes that right away) so why take narcotics if I don't need them? I do elevate and ice 2 hours a day. I am not depressed have finished home PT and have increased energy daily. I get lots of energy from...
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