@Josephine - here are my answers:
1. Lateral (although I think my surgeon called it a posterolateral)
2. The pain varies between 5-7 - depending on the day. I found a picture online and thought I would include it as it is more on the direct side of my hip... The red area always feels as if there is a knife stuck in my hip. It was this way prior to the revision and is now worse after the fall. This area is also the area that has started clicking/popping/snapping... This sensation radiates down the blue line... I do not have any numbness or tingling (or the "typical" sciatica type pain). It just always aches - a very deep aching feeling. There is no swelling.
Ignore the black line and dot - this is an image I found online....
3. I was taking Tylenol - approx. 3-4000mg per day for about 3 weeks but stopped as it was not helping. I am currently not taking anything.
4. Yes I am icing. 2-3 times per day for about 30 minutes. It does not seem to help - as soon as I take the ice off, it doesn't feel as if I've iced at all...(It's hard to ice during the day at work).
5. elevating: Only at night while watching TV- but like icing, etc. It does not seem to make a difference
6. activity level: Grocery shopping (I lean on the shopping cart so I won't limp as bad), helping with laundry - folding clothes.
7. (slow)walking - with walking sticks. If I don't use the sticks or a cane, the Trendelenberg gait becomes dramatically worse (the read are in the picture becomes too "fatigued" and basically gives out). I try to go out every other day.
Exercises done at home
Only slow walking.
Anything done at PT
I had been going to PT 2 times per week for about 30 minutes. They were focusing on the glute medius muscle so the exercises were clamshells and side lying leg lifts - 3 sets of 10 each. PT ended mid-July so I have not done these since.
I had been doing the leg exercises at home but it seemed to be a futile effort as the muscle identified by the red circle was/is not responding to any exercise - it is as weak now as it was after surgery. Plus PT said that I was not making any progress and they were at a loss as to what to really do to help me.
I wish the sports medicine doctor would have at least done an ultrasound. I am concerned about the snapping that is now happening as a result of the fall, but the doctors seem to ignore my concern. (hoping I didn't tear anything) I am afraid that if I keep limping the way I am that my back, etc. will suffer. If I walk too far or am on my feet too much, my right foot becomes very painful. I know that it is the result of my gait and how I stand...
I still cannot walk up stairs unless I have a railing to hold onto - because the area in red feels like it gives out and collapses.
Thank you Josephine!