I'm sure doctors would advise against it, but I'm less than a week out and have had a beer or two without any apparent ill effect.Just a thought, when did people start drinking alcohol again? I don’t mean getting wasted etc but having a couple of glasses of wine with a meal at a restaurant
This is interesting to me about choosing our own surgeon. I'm in the US and didn't technically choose my own surgeon. I'm sure if I had hated him, I could have asked for another one. But I thought very highly of him from the beginning.It’s great to see this place is active! Congrats on your surgery.
I just found this today and am curious if like in the USA you get to chose your surgeon? I’m in Canada and we do not. I’m 4 yrs in pain had spinal surgery when I needed a hip done.
I found it was my hip in oct got to see the hip surgeon in Jan and they said 8 month wait. Once I told them of my last 4 yrs they put me on a cancellation list. I got a call thurs asking me to come on wed!!! I’ve had no prep or pre op anything to ask questions of recovery. I have read through a few things here and was so happy to see your story.
You will be almost a full week ahead of me. I will be reading up to see how you are doing.
I can’t imagine having a little one running around through this. Although I’m sure your little one is not nearly as messy as my teen lol.
I don’t mind reading your rambles. It’s just nice seeing others recoveries. Keep updating
Your dr is determined by insurance? Here in Canada we can purchase insurance which I do have. However unless I leave the country the drs I have are pretty much who are available. I did change family drs but that was a long time ago. Can not do that now because we have a dr shortage. People are on insane wait lists for family drs. I tried to leave mine but no one takes new patients and they refuse anyone who already has a dr. Canadian health care is horrible !This is interesting to me about choosing our own surgeon. I'm in the US and didn't technically choose my own surgeon. I'm sure if I had hated him, I could have asked for another one. But I thought very highly of him from the beginning.It’s great to see this place is active! Congrats on your surgery.
I just found this today and am curious if like in the USA you get to chose your surgeon? I’m in Canada and we do not. I’m 4 yrs in pain had spinal surgery when I needed a hip done.
I found it was my hip in oct got to see the hip surgeon in Jan and they said 8 month wait. Once I told them of my last 4 yrs they put me on a cancellation list. I got a call thurs asking me to come on wed!!! I’ve had no prep or pre op anything to ask questions of recovery. I have read through a few things here and was so happy to see your story.
You will be almost a full week ahead of me. I will be reading up to see how you are doing.
I can’t imagine having a little one running around through this. Although I’m sure your little one is not nearly as messy as my teen lol.
I don’t mind reading your rambles. It’s just nice seeing others recoveries. Keep updating
As a Federal Employee (and now a Federal Retiree), I have had a choice every year of at least a dozen different insurance plans. Way back in 1985
I chose an excellent HMO and never changed. We have always had excellent doctors and my kids had the same great pediatrician for their whole childhoods.
So when my PCP referred me to orthopedics, I was assigned Dr. Whadley, who only does hips, and has done anterior since his training.
I did not ask for any specific approach but was glad he did anterior and I just read my surgery detailed notes and found out I have ceramic, titanium, poly duel mobility hardware.
Very interesting! Here you do see the surgeon post op and pre op. We don’t get a choice who we get unless you get your family dr to send a referral to one you may have heard of. Even then if the family physician is not familiar with that surgeon you may not get that one. Then there is the insane wait times!! It takes a lot of people here over a year for a hip replacement or many other surgeries / specialists.@Lyla Generally American insurance plans have a network and they will pay the scheduled amount if you stay in network. You can go out of network but it might cost more out of pocket with some plans. Dr.'s here in some areas don't accept new patients because they are very busy. The big thing here is you don't get a "real" Dr. you see nurse practitioners or physician's assistants. If you read threads on here you'll read that many never get to see their OS, always PA's especially post-op. That is why you have to put effort into finding the OS and their office that you are comfortable with. Most are assembly line production work clinics.
I don’t think people truly understand how painful it is. They also don’t understand the longer you wait the more damage and difficult the recovery can be. It took 4 yrs for them to find mine and it was a doozy! Plus the younger you are the higher recovery rates are!So exactly 2 weeks to the day was my surgery and everything seems to be going very well, even took a few full weight steps (still had my crutches in my hands) but yeah the last few days I can really feel the muscle strength slowly coming back.
Took a trip to see everybody at work the other day (I work in a supermarket) and it really helped with the confidence of my improvement to hear everybody say how it’s the best they’ve seen me walk even when I was using crutches.
Took the outer bandage off the other day as per my instructions and started cleaning (only dabbing with a sponge with sensitive childrens bodywash then dabbing dry with a towel) still have steri strips attached but they’re slowly peeling off by themselves so I’m interested to see how the incision site looks once they’ve all gone and it’s all cleaned up.
It’s weird how on one hand I think god those 2 weeks have gone quick but on the other I think my word I have another 4 till I see my surgeon again to assess me and look at lifting restrictions.
Struggling to sleep now everything’s feeling better as I’m a side sleeper and trying to force myself to stay on my back but at least I’m not at work to worry about sleeping randomly.
A lot of people did question my decision to get the surgery at my age (30) as I don’t think people understand how much pain and how debilitating the conditions which lead to this surgery are, I just got on with life struggling but showing a brave face with the odd grunt of excruciating pain every now and then. But seeing how much better and pain free I already am at 2 weeks post op I would never change my decision it has honestly given me a future full of fun and adventure with my fiancé and children and if it ends up my other hip gives in too then I’ll jump as early as I can to get the next surgery.
Sorry to have been quiet a few days but they kind of ended up being very similar so didn’t know what to write lol I’ll keep updating as I go but it may be a few days between posts if it’s the same monotonous things lol
Thanks again everyone
@benne68 Not my experience, I won't go to an office where you get PA's or nurse practitioners. But if you read many posts on here you read that many never get to see their OS post-op.Also, contrary to the experience @Eman85 described, I have never once had to see a PA or nurse in place of my orthopedic surgeon. He personally met with and examined me at every appointment -- and never rushed me. (One of the reasons I chose him).
I love your update and I’m happy you’re doing well. You’re wise not to give into the temptation of doing too much, too soon. We see it often here, then there’s a setback. It’s simply not worth it so relax and enjoy this time off as your body recovers from major surgery.“oh if I could get a lift to work everyday I could probably go back now” but I’ve got the time off for a reason so I’ll definitely be using it.