One week to go and I’m incredibly nervous.
Hi
@ReluctantHippy. It's normal to be scared. It's a big surgery and surgery is always scary.
That said, I'd like to share my own -- very positive -- hip replacement experience in hopes that it will make you feel better about your decision.
I started struggling with hip pain in mid-2018. Finally went to see a ortho, who took x-rays and sent me to PT. Despite following the protocol, I continued to go downhill -- and over the next year had to give up yoga, then my daily walks. By late 2019, I was at end-stage osteoarthritis in that hip and needed a cane to walk.
I had myhip replacement on December 13, 2019 ( Friday the 13th!
). The next day, I was up, walking, and released. The first couple of weeks were challenging, but not as painful as I feared. I used a walker for 2 weeks, then switched to a cane with the help of in-home PT.
I started outpatient PT in January, but the pandemic soon shut everything down. My surgeon told me that all I had to do to recover was to walk daily. So that's what I did. By April, I was walking 2 miles at a time with no pain and was attending my yoga classes again (and doing almost all of the postures!)
Long story short: I'm really happy I made the decision to have my hip replaced! It gave me back so much that I decided to have my bad knee replaced. I'm now almost 3 weeks post that surgery and eager to get back to life.