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Bilateral THR Jwadds Recovery (2 hip to be square!)

mikeycat said:
Another question:my muscles seize--quads, hip, gluteus like steel and they won't give did you have this?
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So much so...& cramp in my weak leg!
Finally feeling more mobile though. Out in the car today (as passenger) doing work stuff and in and out 3/4 times! Can now do a couple of steps without crutches and a potter around the house with one
I’ve been told to stay with two for six weeks so I’m trying to. It’s just so limiting as you can’t carry anything. I think a walker is so much better for that
Seeing how you bilateral buddies are getting on is so inspiring
 
I think the muscle cramping is an early on thing, which is where @Yogigirl and @mikeycat are at. It does get better! Having said that, I was out today for about 4 hours and made 3 stops, in/out of car. I’m now sitting in recliner with ice packs. Prob did too much.
Ps... early on I liked the walker better than crutches/cane because I had a basket on it and could carry meals, drinks, laundry, etc. No one here to carry them for me!
 
Isn’t that one reason this forum is fab as you can tell us things like the cramps will pass! It’s so nice to know a more normal life is so close now
 
Yup I overdid it yesterday too. Too much walking inside and out with a cane and today I am sore and swollen.My PT says if I go in the car stop after 45 minutes and stretch walk because of the clot thing. Glad that you can maneuver around and for such periods of time. Must be confidence building.
 
:wave: Sorry you're hurting a bit. As you mentioned, you may have done too much.
You're really doing well as a bi-lateral only seven weeks post op.
Continue balancing activity with rest / icing and you should be okay.
Happy Saturday....I hope it's a good one! :)
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Today I felt so much better, I almost feel like I've never had hip replacements. I do not understand how they can dislocate your hip, saw off your femur, hammer in a stem (and in my case crack the femur), ream out your acetabulum.. screw in a cup and drill whatever else they need to... on both legs and then 7 weeks later.... you feel fine... what?
 
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Amazing surgery...and if you feel just fine at 7 weeks, you are amazing.:wowspring:
I felt so much better after 6 weeks because I felt so bad before..
Then I found out my exuberance caused me to push my activity a bit too much too soon.
Lots of healing still happening so do take your good fortune and mindfully ease into new activities so that you can see how much is too much.
You are definitely an inspiration to the "Both at Once?!!" Folk..so don't mess that up for us, okay?:heehee:
 
Good for you.So happy you are feeling like nothing happened. I follow your progress because of the mutual bilateral thing. I overdid walking with cane only as instructed only 3 weeks and rehab next week. They want me to get there on my own with cab ,no help and with a cane to which I say-- nope.Just onward and upward now.
 
@jwadds It is truly amazing and wonderful how our bodies heal and adapt to majorly invasive procedures like joint replacements!!! After all that sawing, reaming, and pounding - a few weeks of healing time and - off you go with two pain free hips! I think it was Josephine who once quipped (several years ago if I remember correctly) that hip replacement surgery is actually more carpentry than surgery - and tools included a saw, a mallet, and a screwdriver! Congratulations on reaching this awe-inspiring phase of your healing :yes!: :cheers:
 
Mojo333 said:
I felt so much better after 6 weeks because I felt so bad before..
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ok... I do agree @Mojo333, could be all relative ...but I'll take what I can get! I do feel pretty good. I'm going to return all the equipment I got from the Red Cross and return the rented recliner. I'll shed a bit of a tear as I am in love with that big brown old thing, we spent many hours together. I feel like I need to "de-handicap" my place. Still feel stiff and I can't quite get down yet to scrub in between my toes, but I think that will come in time.
 
:ok:So so glad that this recovery has gone phenomenally...and that you can get back to a normal life.
Hope you have help getting rid of Brownie. :yes:
 
Good for you jwadds. I am so looking forward to getting on my knees--ha. I bought my recliner so I am happy I will have it to lounge in as right now I know how you feel. I was sleeping in it for several nights and daytime was wonderful.Wish I felt as you do as I am stiff and sore and wondering...well...I am so glad that all is going so well for you.
 
Well I do miss my ole brown recliner but I’m managing with my de-handicapped space.
Like many others in these forums, I developed callouses on my hands from using/gripping the walker before surgery. But about 2 weeks before surgery I also developed a numbness on the outside of my right pinky. Must be some kind of pinched nerve. I thought it would’ve gone away by now, 9 weeks post surgery, but it hasn’t.

Did anyone else experience this and did it ever go away? :what:
 
Sorry you had to give back your recliner. Never had the pinky do that. Hummmm. It must be frustrating.:chinstroke:
 
@jwadds Maybe you should have that checked out. Do you have a family physician--yea like you want to see another doc but if it is troubling you. The left side of my lip was swollen and numb and I had a blister inside my mouth post-op.I asked at the hospital and they did not address it. It lasted til just yesterday so 4 weeks. I suspect it happened when I was under during surgery. You on the other hand had it pre-op. Did you ask about it or discuss with your OS?
 
Yes I’ve already asked when I was in the hospital, my PT and family doc and they all seeemed unconcerned.

They said it should go away but I wondered if anyone else had this experience. It hasn’t got any worse but also hasn’t got any better.
 
Hi @jwadds
Glad you are feeling good about your hips...
About your numbness in finger...sounds like it might be caused by ulnar nerve compression which is due to compression at the elbow. All the time on the walker before and after surgery and the fact you used your upper body like we discussed, makes me think this.
I'm not sure if there are exercises for the hand or arm that a therapist can suggest but I know one of the treatments is actually a splint worn on the elbow in order to rest it.
Worth checking in to...
Hope you find a reason and work on it now as nerve damage often needs timely intervention as not to become permanent.

Please note my staff disclaimer...just an educated thought...not a diagnosis.:yes:
 
This sounds like it could be this especially if you were leaning and putting weight on the arms and hands pre-op and of course post-op all the heavy leaning which brings the callouses. And when a nerve is involved it does take a long time and sometimes there is residual pain. Does it make walking with any assisted device difficult?
 
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