Akblueloon
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1 week and 1 day post op for my left THR, superior approach.
My first one was done 5 years ago, anterior approach. I guess it's probably a good thing to not carry the memory of the first week with me, because, honestly, I really just remembered how quickly I recovered from that one, NOT the pain and discomfort of the first week especially.
I'm doing pretty well, I think, though it's really hard to know what's "normal," and I think I'm probably normal in questioning where every new tingle, ache, twinge or pain is coming from.
I had a lot of buttock pain before surgery, in addition to the hip pain, so have wondered all along whether that was a different issue or part of the same. I still don't know, as it's hard right now to distinguish one ache/pain from another and it's source!
I am not taking any hardcore pain meds anymore (personal choice, I just don't do well physically or emotionally with ANY opioids), and my pain seems quite well managed with my ibuprofen 800 and Tylenol.
I live in a 3 story house with the living area on the top, bedrooms in the middle, so doing stairs several-many times a day is a must, and I am doing okay with that. I get outside to walk around the garden and around the house and driveway a couple of times a day with my walker.
I have my ups and downs, physically, and emotionally, but am trying hard to acknowledge each day that this is only day ___, and I'm doing better than I was yesterday.
My doctor's office has not been much of a help---or rather, with the change in their staffing due to Covid etc, it's so difficult to actually get a conversation with the doctor or MA without going three multiple channels, that, unless I feel it's an emergency, I will find answers on my own.
Since this isn't my first rodeo(I also had my right hip and left knee replaced), I know that the couple weeks are the hardest and it gradually gets better in most cases, so I just need to be patient, take it easy, move, walk as much as is comfortable, and see what the doc says when I go in next week!
Glad to be a part of this forum. It's always good to know we are not alone!
My first one was done 5 years ago, anterior approach. I guess it's probably a good thing to not carry the memory of the first week with me, because, honestly, I really just remembered how quickly I recovered from that one, NOT the pain and discomfort of the first week especially.
I'm doing pretty well, I think, though it's really hard to know what's "normal," and I think I'm probably normal in questioning where every new tingle, ache, twinge or pain is coming from.
I had a lot of buttock pain before surgery, in addition to the hip pain, so have wondered all along whether that was a different issue or part of the same. I still don't know, as it's hard right now to distinguish one ache/pain from another and it's source!
I am not taking any hardcore pain meds anymore (personal choice, I just don't do well physically or emotionally with ANY opioids), and my pain seems quite well managed with my ibuprofen 800 and Tylenol.
I live in a 3 story house with the living area on the top, bedrooms in the middle, so doing stairs several-many times a day is a must, and I am doing okay with that. I get outside to walk around the garden and around the house and driveway a couple of times a day with my walker.
I have my ups and downs, physically, and emotionally, but am trying hard to acknowledge each day that this is only day ___, and I'm doing better than I was yesterday.
My doctor's office has not been much of a help---or rather, with the change in their staffing due to Covid etc, it's so difficult to actually get a conversation with the doctor or MA without going three multiple channels, that, unless I feel it's an emergency, I will find answers on my own.
Since this isn't my first rodeo(I also had my right hip and left knee replaced), I know that the couple weeks are the hardest and it gradually gets better in most cases, so I just need to be patient, take it easy, move, walk as much as is comfortable, and see what the doc says when I go in next week!
Glad to be a part of this forum. It's always good to know we are not alone!