arroyo65
junior member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2020
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- Age
- 60
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United States
Hello everyone-well, I’m home! My surgery took about 3.5 hours and I spent three nights in the hospital. At the point of surgery the anesthesiologist came by and told me I was getting general-that was a surprise. Both my previous replacements had been spinal with sedation. He said since this surgery was expected to be longer he felt general was best. OK? In hindsight I wish I had had the other: my post op pain was much more intense-it stunned me how much. No catheter postop this time(my previous ops had it), so I used a bedpan for the first time. Not fun but hey, when you gotta-! After 24 hours of that I graduated to a walker. I was attached to a wound vac(new to me); it was an in-room version, a pretty large piece of luggage that had to accompany me on my frequent bathroom trips(#1. I was guzzling a lot of water-mouth stayed bone dry for 4 days).
Between the dead leg, walker, woundvac, and IV tree, it was hard. With no spinal I had loads of “sensation” in my op leg but no control at all-dead wood. Could barely make the distance from toilet to bed the first and second days. I knew the surgeon wanted me overnight for monitoring; My BP was very low, so I stayed another night. On Friday morning awakened at 5am with a 103 temp which took a while to come down, so another night. I was discharged on Saturday afternoon.
What I got was a new dual mobility cup. Placement was changed(of course!), my stem looked fine so (whew!) that wasn’t changed out. I’m wearing a smaller(relative term, lol)woundvac which ain’t gonna lie, is still cumbersome and fairly heavy but I understand this surgeon is extremely wary of infection. To that end too it seems like I’m taking many more pills than after my first time. I’m also much more constipated-the only surprising thing about that is that having been through this before, I thought I knew what to expect/worked for me. Uh-uh! I am now taking everything under the sun and double of it. Not fun but again, that’s how it goes-when it goes!
Now about the reason for all this: my impingement pain: I’m not feeling any. There’s pain aplenty in the groin and thigh-postop pain-and that makes it a bit hard to assess. But so far, so good.
My leg/surgical pain lessens quite a bit every 24 hours, but this past weekend was fairly brutal-pain+woundvac+constipation=some bouts of tears and depression-not at all unexpected, which I keep telling myself.
I see the PA in 6 days to get the wound vac off and also, I think, have my staples removed. I can’t shower or really get wet in any serious capacity til I get home from that appointment and that part’s already the drag you might imagine. Oh dear!
Thank you all for your kindness and support!
Between the dead leg, walker, woundvac, and IV tree, it was hard. With no spinal I had loads of “sensation” in my op leg but no control at all-dead wood. Could barely make the distance from toilet to bed the first and second days. I knew the surgeon wanted me overnight for monitoring; My BP was very low, so I stayed another night. On Friday morning awakened at 5am with a 103 temp which took a while to come down, so another night. I was discharged on Saturday afternoon.
What I got was a new dual mobility cup. Placement was changed(of course!), my stem looked fine so (whew!) that wasn’t changed out. I’m wearing a smaller(relative term, lol)woundvac which ain’t gonna lie, is still cumbersome and fairly heavy but I understand this surgeon is extremely wary of infection. To that end too it seems like I’m taking many more pills than after my first time. I’m also much more constipated-the only surprising thing about that is that having been through this before, I thought I knew what to expect/worked for me. Uh-uh! I am now taking everything under the sun and double of it. Not fun but again, that’s how it goes-when it goes!
Now about the reason for all this: my impingement pain: I’m not feeling any. There’s pain aplenty in the groin and thigh-postop pain-and that makes it a bit hard to assess. But so far, so good.
My leg/surgical pain lessens quite a bit every 24 hours, but this past weekend was fairly brutal-pain+woundvac+constipation=some bouts of tears and depression-not at all unexpected, which I keep telling myself.
I see the PA in 6 days to get the wound vac off and also, I think, have my staples removed. I can’t shower or really get wet in any serious capacity til I get home from that appointment and that part’s already the drag you might imagine. Oh dear!
Thank you all for your kindness and support!
Onward!
