THR I am titanium!

[calikat]

Oh sunsetbiking I had forgotten about your job situation. That is so awful. Are they laying other employees off also? It seems like that should not be legal.

I had no idea about the hip dysplasia either. You can ramble on my thread any time you would like.

I am envious that you have no pain in your hip. I am pretty sore this morning. Yesterday my PT had me do some new exercises to try and strengthen the small muscles around my hip. I have to say I probably feel worse than I have for several days. I am trying to figure out if it is good pain or bad pain. It feels different than any previous pain I have had. That is the way recovery has been for me...2 steps forward 1 step back. I am nervous about going back to work, but I have a few weeks yet so I am hoping that my hip continues to improve. As far as my scar...mine still has some hardness and swelling under the incision, but it continues to flatten out. Did you ever ask your doctor about your lump?

 

[sunsetbiking]

calikat no they are not, in fact one of my co workers is retiring on the same day, so now they are going to hire 2 or 3 people. There is more drama to this story and they are just using "lack of work" as the reason so I don't start any trouble, at this point I don't want to work there and my talents are being wasted at that company. I have never been treated so poorly by management before this job.

Make sure you tell your PT about your pain, whenever I do new stuff at PT I make sure I extra medicate before I go to bed. I'm sure it's just muscle pain from stuff not being used for so long.

I was nervous about going back to work also, each day gets better. I still have to use my cane, just to reinforce good walking habits. I sit at a desk all day and returning to work was a little easier for me than it will be for you.

I did ask my doctor about and he said its from the stitches and it will go away when they dissolve. He also said where compression shorts too! Ugh....... It has gone down, but a co worker came into work the other day and she just had a partial hip replacement and she only has a pea size lump. I think it just made me think about it more and worry a little bit about it again. This week was my 10th week and I was hoping it was gone by now.

Well I need to get back to racking leaves, first time doing physical labor and it feels pretty good!!

Have a great day and I'll talk to you later!!! ​

 

[calikat]

I did ask my doctor about and he said its from the stitches and it will go away when they dissolve.

I think this is what is under my incision too. You were right about the puckering along my scar being stitching underneath. I can actually kind of see the stitches, but they are starting to dissolve and the scar is getting much smoother.

I hope you find a new job worthy of you. <3

ETA I am now going to have to go google a partial hip replacement. I did not know there was such a thing. Is that the same as the resurfacing?

 

[sunsetbiking]

ETA I am now going to have to go google a partial hip replacement. I did not know there was such a thing. Is that the same as the resurfacing?

I think it is the same, she said it was the Birmingham procedure, not to sure about that procedure. I saw her x-ray and she had a cap over the femoral head and the cup part in the joint and she said the OS cleaned up the cartilage and removed all the bone spurs.

I hope you find a new job worthy of you. <3

Thank You!!

 

[Carolineellie]

my worst pain was the day after surgery when the nurse tried to roll me to change the bedding, I screamed the place down in pain, when the physio came she was great and helped me get out of the bed properly, felt traumatised, worse than child birth pain

 

[Carolineellie]

a milestone for me today, no more injections, last one was last night and two weeks for my 6 week check, I cant wait for that, really want a shower, can I lay on my side at night, I swear I will never moan again !!!

 

[bottomshollow]

This is one of my favorite milestones in recovery. It's just so great to not have to even think about the injections much less do them. And things will just continue to get better and better.

Take care and keep us posted. We care.

 

[calikat]

I am glad I didn't have to do the injections. I just had Xarelto for two weeks followed up with 2 weeks of aspirin. Very easy.

 

[inthebeginning]

Me too! 2 weeks of Xarelto with a baby aspirin, then back to my normal big aspirin and Plavix. I was already on the plavix and big aspirin before THR because of my cardiac history.


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[calikat]

Hey inthebeginning! How is the airport life?

 

[inthebeginning]

Airport life is great! Actually glad to be back. ;-) getting ready for our busiest week of the year this week. Over a million passengers will pass through!

What's you story lately? How are you getting around?

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[sunsetbiking]

Hi calikat have you gone back to work yet? or are you still staying out until the end of December?

 

[calikat]

Hi inthebeginning and sunsetbiking. I am set to go back the first week of December.

 

[sunsetbiking]

Good luck to you!!

 

[Carolineellie]

Great to hear from ou all, I have had a low day today, think I am struggling with the isolation, missing work, really want a shower too. xxx all i want for christmas is too feel abit more normal,

 

[sunsetbiking]

Carolineellie I think all of us have felt the same as you. I know I did, I got to a point that I was bored out of my mind, I was so active before my surgery and it was really hard for me to just sit there and ice and elevate my hip. I have become a little more active but as much as I was before surgery.

Are you able to get out? Have you been cleared to drive yet?

Every day gets better and you will start to feel more "normal" !!!

 

[calikat]

I am feeling somewhat discouraged. Thursday was 8 weeks since my surgery. I still have a substantial amount of pain...especially at night when I try to sleep. My hip area aches and aches and it wakes me up continuously.

It circles around my thigh right where my leg attaches to my pelvis? I am not sure quite how to explain it.

I feel like I am going backwards a bit as far as pain even though I am taking daily pain medication. I am returning to work on Dec. 4th. An opportunity came up for me to work 2 or 3 days in the office and I took it. I thought it would be a good way for me to transition back to work. It will also be helpful for me to have something productive to do and get outside of my own head. Since I cannot really do all of the activities I enjoyed prior to having hip problems work will have to be my distraction! LOL I pretty much had to give up my final recreation (Yoga) last year in October.

I will say that I am much better than I was before surgery. The last few weeks prior to my hip surgery I could not walk very well because of pain and I was pretty much non functional. I can walk now, not pain free, but very manageable. I feel functional, but uncomfortable. I don't know if this is normal or not.

I have these internal debates with myself as to whether I need to see the OS or not? Is something wrong, or is this just the way it goes? I have a follow up appointment scheduled for Dec. 17th. My biggest concern is that prior to this week, my symptoms improved a bit each week. This past week however, my pain has increased. I even took the week off from rehab exercise to see if it helped. It has not. I also get a burning sensation at my incision. It is not always there, but when I lie on my stomach at night and move to roll over or stretch my leg I feel an awful burning pulling sensation. It also burns when I massage my scar. Does anyone else have this?

 

[Josephine]

I have a huge screw in mine!!!! Good luck

Calikat, the use of screws and cemented vs uncemented is one of those things that surgeons just tend to differ on. The surgeon I went to prefers uncemented implants with no screws. His partner does uncemented with screws. My theory...... my non-screw surgeon is about 15 years younger than his partner.

That is what I was wondering if the screws were used for...extra insurance. For me personally it sounds like a good idea.

The use of screws and/or cement are design things, meaning some cups are designed to be used with between one and three screws. Pure and simple!

I know the pitfalls about overuse (whatever that means) of NSAIDS but didn't know a thing about impeding growth of bone into prosthesis.

That's right - it suppresses the development of new bone cells which I why you will never see me advise it's use before 10 weeks at the earliest. In fact, the use of ibuprofen is a treatment for bone overgrowth known as Heterotopic ossification.

a co worker came into work the other day and she just had a partial hip replacement and she only has a pea size lump. She said it was the Birmingham procedure

That's not a 'partial' hip, it's a resurfacing, a Birmingham resurfacing. Quite a different thing. A partial or hemi is done for fractured hips.

 

[Josephine]

This past week however, my pain has increased. I even took the week off from rehab exercise to see if it helped. It has not. I also get a burning sensation at my incision. It is not always there, but when I lie on my stomach at night and move to roll over or stretch my leg I feel an awful burning pulling sensation. It also burns when I massage my scar.

calikat, did I ever ask you to pinpoint your pain using my chart? I had a feeling I did once. And that I expressed a feeling that you might have a condition called meralgia paresthetica which is a problem with the lateral cutaneous nerve in the thigh, the symptoms of which include:
- burning sensation felt in your outer or lateral aspect of the thigh
- tingling or numbness felt in your thigh
- sensitivity felt on light touch more than on deep pressure

 

[calikat]

Hi Josephine. I did complete the pain chart. You know I do have numbness to the left of my incision. To the right I have no numbness. The burning sensation was not there before the surgery so the nerve could definitely have been injured although the pain has been down the center of my thigh. A different type of pain circles around my hip with external rotation. These pains seem separate from one another. For the most part the pain down the center of my thigh is gone except for the burning sensation under my incision scar with movement or massage. The skin to the left of the incision (my left) is still numb. I still have a lot of joint pain on external rotation, for instance, when I roll over in bed, lift my leg to get in the car, shower etc. I have decided to give up clams completely as it seems to aggravate things. I can do straight leg side lifts with no problem, it is just the rotating motion of my hip with the knee bent that causes kind of a sharp deep ache...hence my reason for giving up clams. They have been my most difficult exercise since the beginning. Those first weeks I had to steel myself to get ready for the pain when I tried to do them. Who would have ever thought such a simple exercise would cause such discomfort. The pain will travel all the way down my leg to my ankle.