I am 45 yrs old and had my left hip done in Denver last September, and the recovery has been really slow - first weakness in the left led to pain which then led to terrible back pain, which PT helped, but then finally my right leg pain caught up - after all the compensation during the past year, I suppose. In hindsight, I would attribute most of the problems to not enough PT post op (my doc in Denver says "just walk" ) It took him 4 months to finally send me to PT - I should have taken the advice of an elderly gent in the waiting room who was walking WAY better than I was in half the time - to go to PT on my own ...Anyway - I think the doctor is still a very qualified carpenter and he is willing to do my right hip - 50% of the cartilage is there and I am having the stabbing pain and limping problems, so quality of life is not so good and that doc thinks quality of life is important..I now live in St Paul and 2 docs here tell me to wait until I am really in pain and cant walk more than three blocks or need a cane. They really seem to fear the infection more than the other doccs I have been given a feldene scrip - but I tend to shy away from gut wrecking drugs.
So I don't know if I should take the feldene and wait and see or go thru it all again. Both options are painful, but now I know betterthat PT is SO improtant SOON and i do like my left hip, finally.
Anybody have experience with feldene? opinions
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So I don't know if I should take the feldene and wait and see or go thru it all again. Both options are painful, but now I know betterthat PT is SO improtant SOON and i do like my left hip, finally.
Anybody have experience with feldene? opinions
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