Hi Guys. Sorry i have been a bit absent from my thread and BS these past months. But, the narcissistic hypochondriac in me is back, so I guess I am too.
My 1 year anni of my LTHR was last week, and for a long time I was looking forward to reporting back how awesome everything is. And it really was. But, as it transpires, I have been writhing in agony. The story is long and boring, and not really even a story, so here are the bullet points.
1. After 6 months post op I healed and felt really great. Been feeling like woohoo, got my life back kinda thing.
2. On 22 April I had a little fall, but not on the hip and nothing serious. Or so I thought.I had some minor twinges, and my operated hip started clicking very softly as i put weight onto it. It went away. All was good.
3. A couple weeks later i put my back out bending down to pick up my laptop cable. Agony. the insane lower back pain, somehow also brought back the hip click, but its so soft i can only hear it at home in the passage. But I have no pain in the operated hip. But the lower back pain has been hectic.
4 . Last week I went to see my physio. He reckons my hip is good, but I injured my sacroiliac joint in the fall, which he treated.and i have spent the last 7 days on a crazy dose of arcoxia. 120 mg per day.
5. Yesterday, the back pain moved into my as yet unoperated (but still arthritic) hip, which until now has been relatively cool about life. Its been painful now and then, but the pain has [until yesterday] been quite transient, and when present, has been very bearable. Nowhere near bad enough for me to consider an LTHR although I have been told it definitely is in my future.
6 . But since yesterday, although the back is pain free, I have *mad* pain in the butt / hip when I stand or walk. But no pain when I lie down.
6. The pain is so very very different to the deep dull, sometimes throbbing pain, i felt pre op with my right hip. This pain feels muscular. Like more in my glute than inside my joint, and it shoots down my leg, and i feel it on the side of my shin just above (but not in) my ankle.
7. Not only am i sore and worried, but am just so confused. I don’t know if its that friendly old devil called arthritis or if its something else. Like Maybe trochanteric bursitis. Lord knows why I think this, but I do because the pain doesn’t seem bony, but is totally insane, shooting down the leg (but misses the knee). And the location of the pain seems to be at that bursitisy kinda spot on Josephines grid.
Crikey, these aren’t bullet points, I have written a flippin mini series.
Anyway, i have a scheduled app with my physio for Thursday, but I dunno if I can wait till then. I have done nothing this weekend but lie on the couch like a beached whale. Tomorrow is a holiday so I don’t have to go in to work, but I am worried about how I will handle Tuesday.
Please help. Anyone.
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