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LeeApril26 Lenora, I know you are disappointed about your precautions but come Monday they most likely will be lifted. Having said that make sure you take it slowly, you still don't want to disrupt muscles, tendons etc. all at once because they will become very angry with you. It took me a couple of days to get use to kicking my leg out after surgery, same goes to doing it normally it took me a couple of days (still every now and then I want to kick out the surgical leg).:rotfl: Surgeon told me to get rid of the toilet riser, when I did that my toilet looked so darn low. I had to learn to sit on the loo normal again (that was strange).
 
Josephine. I couldn't get over how bad it was, and yet I kept swimming, until I couldn't move at all. Genius, no?
Liveringer. Am looking forward to ditching the risers, and being able to swim. But, as mentioned above, I have a tendency to overdo exercise in the water, because being in the water makes me so happy that I never want to get out. I keep telling myself I will start by walking in the pool for ten minutes a day. I need someone with a hook to yank me out!
 
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Okay LeeApril26 YOUR 10 minutes are up! GET OUT NOW there is always tomorrow....I hope this is not you this chicka has a lot of weights:egypdance: :egypdance:
 
Mamarey you have had some wonderful advice :) We all care so very much that your recovery will let you be the person you were used to being before OA took its horrible toll. I am also a non-patient person, but unlike you I don't have that glorious energy that might lead me astray into paths of overdoing it. Pamper yourself with a rest. I liked BarbaraR 's yoga analogy (as if I knew what it meant LOL). We want you to get better faster by slowing down, just like Josephine said. Have fun in PT, have fun with the pups. Pace yourself, and July and August will be soaring instead of grinding :) :)
 
Hi Mamarey, everyone has said it all, so I won't lecture too :) but please slow down a bit, and rest a lot more. Get some good movies to watch, or good books to read. Thinking of you, I hope with a bit more rest you will feel better.
 
zauberflöte said:
just like Josephine said.
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Everybody, I am more than pleased to be tagged when somebody really needs me for something. But please, please, PLEASE don't make my name a tag just because you're mentioning my name in the course of conversation! I have something like 20 tags every single day which takes me a considerable amount of time to look at and reply to (when the need arises). It's very frustrating when I get to the post only to find I've just been mentioned in passing! Thank you.
 
Dear Mamarey I hope you're feeling a bit better now and not taking this bout of pain too hard. I'm sorry it became so rough for you. It will get better. Don't be too discouraged - you were just doing what you thought was the best thing to help yourself. We're here for you if you need anything. Again, I'm sorry you had to go through this. Keep us posted, we're all in this together and want to help each other. Thinking of you.Take care.
 
Mamarey Hope you are having a peaceful weekend. I haven't been on BS much in the last 24 hours because my thumbs are killing me from typing on the iPad. New ailment! Just checking in.
 
Love all my BS friends...a good feeling to know that others are looking out...especially since I am mostly looking out for myself. My leg is better today, especially when I think about Thursday, when I had to go out and get crutches (like another post, more money spent), because I could not put any weight on my leg. Trying to balance walking solo with the cane. If I do too much on my own, my groin quickly begins to hurt. I am trying to be smarter and listen to the signs my body is giving me. It always feels worse in the morning and the end of the day, and I keep icing and elevating as much as possible. Today, I ventured down to the basement and did some catching up on the computer for work, reports, etc, and decided to step on my Elliptical and see how it would feel. I am going to stay away from the treadmill for another week or so, as that really contributed to my leg/groin pain, even though I was not walking very fast or far. All relative...I guess a 25-20 minute mile is fast on a new hip, and 2-3 miles was much to far. The elliptical actually felt ok. Did not elevate to my normal cross-resistance or high cadence, but after 30 minutes still felt good...so, I thought 45 minutes...no, at 35 minutes, I began to feel it in my groin, and got off right away.
I realized too, that I cannot expect to workout daily on the treadmill and elliptical. It is better maybe 3-4 times per week. When I got into trouble, I was walking on the treadmill and going to the gym for a weight workout.
Too much too soon. It has been a hard, painful lesson this week. Old habits are hard to break, and I went over a year and a half without a day off working out until the week before my surgery. I am working on letting go with having to workout two-three hours a day and even allow myself a day to do nothing...eee gads, I am a work in progress. That's ok, the minute I stop learning, making mistakes, and growing, then I have lost me.
 
Hi Mamarey, glad to hear you are feeling slightly better and taking it easier. I think using the crutches, or at least one, is a good move. It will allow you to walk around but at the same time give your hip a bit of a rest. Having to slow down is a bit frustrating for you, having been a very active person, but it's necessary right now. Sounds like you are on the right track now.
 
Mamarey I also am glad to hear you're both slowing down and feeling better. I really feel that we ave our best years ahead of us to enjoy our new hips-- so we need not panic about missing a daily mile or type of workout now. The time for pushing will come. We have allllll kinds of soft tissue damage that just will not heal if we insult it too much (says my own soft tissue LOL). You are so right about losing ourselves if we stop learning, making mistakes, growing. I am learning, for example, that I can stop the little evening walk before I want to, so there will be some of me left to carry on with the healing while I sleep tonight :)
Speaking of sleep.... I'm drinking so much water, and sleeping so hard in the first watch of the night, that I wake up very suddenly-- stiff, sore, in pain (almost pill time) and have to pee SO bad I almost can't move!:heehee: Awful! Good thing the toilet is only about 7 stagger-steps and a 180 turn away from my bedside LOL
 
Mamarey Just for a comparison, I went outdoors for a walk today, and 6/10 of a mile took 25 minutes. I did have to negotiate the street fair on my block, and cross others, but still I think you are doing very well. I think you are wise to give yourself breaks between workouts, to give your leg and muscles time to recover. From what I've been told by PTs it is fine to do hamstring/quad stretches and other stretches daily, but muscles need time to rest in between strength training when you are trying to rebuild.
The most difficult thing I did today was go out to dinner with friends (and a pillow). Sitting in the chair perched on a pillow for an hour and a half was very uncomfortable!
 
LeeApril26 Lenore-- dinner out! YAY! I know that pillow was torture, but friends and dinner and the satisf!action of negotiating that minefield of a street fair must have been great!
Most difficult thing I did today was try to find a movie on Netflix with a testy husband who'd been called to fix supper a littler earlier please. We watched 20 minutes of a bad Jane Russell movie, and then switched to Never On Sunday-- can't believe I've never seen that!
 
zauberflöte. Dinner was lovely-went with friends I've had from high school. Getting out was great. I remember Never on Sunday-enjoyed it a long time ago. I have been watching movies on Netflix and reading some mysteries, mixed with some a little more challenging, when not watching my toenails grow. ( We will not discuss the hair on my legs, let alone the flakes.)
 
I had left THR 2/21/13- completed all required PT tasks by end of day 1 postop and repeated them again on the morning of day 2. Discharge to home with a cane, glue on incision, drain out and OK to shower next day. I was totally able to care for myself, climb steps, etc despite hip precautions (posterior approach). I walked outside on day 3, when out to dinner (carrying my pillow) that evening, was driven to the mall to walk on day 4, and drove myself to the mall to walk on day 5. At 1 week was walking 1 mile (total) a day, 3 miles at 1 month, 5 miles at six weeks with some hiking. I stopped using the cane after my first day back to work as a nurse (not a hospital setting) on day 18. I felt I needed the cane to maintain a "normal" gait until then. I did at least six weeks of pre-op exercises and continued them as soon as I woke up in recovery, but did not have PT after discharge. After removal of the continuous epidural, I used Tylenol and ice packs for discomfort but never had any actual pain.
I only commented here to present a positive result- my sister had both hips done (6years ago) and left the hospital on day 4 and met most of the same milestones- so I had a goal in mind. We both did preop exercise routines and felt it made the difference during recovery.
 
Welcome mooriel to BoneSmart.

Thank you for such a positive first post, you are having a wonderful recovery - I am thrilled for you :)

Would you like to start your own thread in the hip pre op area. You will find a black tab at the top right hand side displaying ‘Post New Thread’. Click on that and decide on the title you want for your thread, then start writing and share a little about your story that has lead you to a THR.

The benefit of having your own thread is that you can ask more specific questions relating to your personal situation and we can answer them. Also other members will pop by and respond to you directly with their experiences and support.

Once again, welcome, we are here to support and encourage you!
 
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