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THR Patrikya’s THR recovery journey

Yahoo....Home Sweet Home! Nothing like it, especially for recovery.
Hope you're comfortable and your pain is well managed. Icing truly helps.
Wishing you a comfy first night home :sleep:
@pkuznets
 
Hi again!

Hope you have a good night and the nurses aren’t coming in non stop. Home is the best for recovery. Nothing like your own bed. Good night. Jane
 
Home sweet home and ice packs sweet ice packs. Ahhhh. That was a 36 hour turnaround from walking into the admissions office to leaving the hospital with my friend. I am having trouble wrapping my head around it! I feel so good about the way I hip-proofed my home prior to surgery--partly from having been to this rodeo some 8 years ago and partly because Bonesmart Hippies provide such terrific tips.
Thank you all!
Patrikya
 
The turn around IS crazy! I was out in 24 hrs. When they initially gave me the plan I was terrified!
What?!!! No nurses, no doctors, just hubby :yikes:
Some day when you're up to it I'd love to hear your impression of the progression of THR over the past 8 yrs
since you're and old pro.
Hope your comfy, cozy, pain free and sleep well tonight :sleep:
@pkuznets
 
WELCOME HOME! Isn’t it a great place to be? I agree with you..... there is so much helpful information here that I️ too was fully prepared and had my home ready for me when we returned. I️ have a coworker having THR next month and I️ quickly emailed him all the helpful tips that made a difference for me. Once again, thank you all for taking the time to share super helpful info with those of us pre-ops who don’t know what we don’t know [emoji51][emoji51][emoji4][emoji4][emoji4][emoji4][emoji4]




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@Layla
What?!!! No nurses, no doctors, just hubby :yikes:

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Hahaha! Yes, @smstok ONLY hubby!
I was a little nervous as I'd never experienced major surgery before and wasn't quite sure of his nursing skills.
He was great though. My sister lives within a minute of me so I knew I could :sos: if need be and she'd be there in a flash, lol!
I hope you're doing well!
 
At least you had hubby - substitute teenaged son for hubby and see how much the fear factor goes up! And I made the mistake of letting him know the size of the life insurance policy! Good thing he doesn't want to live with his dad or I might be in real trouble. :rofsign:
 
Home sweet home. Do take it easy.


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@SaraK

[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]. That was soooooo funny. (The teenage son part). I nearly choked reading that and laughing. You poor thing. You deserve a special reward for such bravery. [emoji1303][emoji1303]


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Glad you are at home and off to a good start @pkuznets. I also will be interested in hearing your views of changes. Just from the presurgery stuff my os has given me and the SwiftPath approach he is taking there seem to have been changes in the last year. Have a good day.
 
Hope you are enjoying some California . I’m curious about how so many people on bonesmart have had or are having a second hip replaced. Has anyone researched this? Did you know when you had the first hip replaced that the other would need to be done at a later date? Did you have the same surgeon? Did you know if there was a “cause” of the arthritis and lack of cartilage? I had a bike accident in 2013 and I “think” that is what happened to my right hip (replacement). At the moment, my left hip looks good on the X-ray. Answer if you want or get bored. I’m elevating and icing at the moment.
 
I have had both hips done this year. First problem to surgery on first was 14 months but was going south quickly due to insufficiency fracture, torn labrum, etc. Had not had problems with other at that point. Within a few months of first, started having problems with the second. Different issues but it was deteriorating quickly as well. Given success of first surgery, I decided to bite the bullet and get it done now because it probably would only be a few months to a year before it was also in sorry shape. I had already had to start sleeping in the recliner again and was finding myself cutting back on activities in anticipation of pain they would cause. Used the same surgeon about 7 1/2 months apart. First inpatient 1 night at hospital and second outpatient at ambulatory surgery center.

You may never need the other to be done - especially if trauma was the root cause. If you do, though, you'll be more confident going in. Not every recovery by same person is the same but it's easier when you have some idea what to expect.
 
Hi Sara,

Thanks for your post. I hope I don’t need another replacement, but like you said, at least I know what to expect in case I do. I’m guessing your causes were genetic? I get sort of jealous when I see people 10 years older than me walking briskly on the beach with no pain. Hey, maybe they had a replacement too.
 
I had my first hip replaced once it was down to bone-on-bone. Before the first THR, at age 52, my life had narrowed to two activities (1)going to work and (2)coming home to sit on a heating pad. My pain limited EVERTHING—I lost 20 pounds because it hurt too much to drive, to walk into a store and buy groceries, to walk back out to the car, and drive home, and then bring groceries inside and unpack them. It was just easier not to eat. Plus, the agonizing pain completely squelched any hunger pains and took all joy out of eating.

I knew when my OS showed me both of my hip X-rays, that a second surgery was coming down the pipleine—it wasn’t “if” but “when” I’d need the second one done. That same OS indicated that osteoarthritis is largely hereditary. (By the way, my Dad had his first hip replaced at 55, second hip at 68, first knee at 77, and his second knee at 88). My first hip was replaced using posterior approach (and, in incidentally, the same OS who repaced several of my dad’s joints!) he is an excellent surgeon.

For this hip, I knew I couldn’t bear the agonizing pain and life-extinguishing power of arthritis again. But I chose a surgeon this time who only uses the anterior approach. I consulted with him and then began what I’ll call my waiting game. Because I so vividly recall the trajectory of disability with the first hip, I sort of knew the tell-tale signs that preceded the agony stage. As my gait became effected, my back and knees also began to feel the changes. Yoga poses that were once accessible, gradually became more difficult to modify. Straddling a kayak became a no-can-do. But it was the onset of the dull ache—I saw that was my point of no return, and I scheduled the surgery. So far, I am elated that I selected this surgeon who uses this approach. Everything has felt less traumatizing both because I hadn’t degraded so far physically and mentally this time around, and because the anterior approach feels so much less invasive.

I’m going to write more (later in my recovery) in a separate post cataloguing the comparisons between the surgical approaches as I experienced them.
 
Thank you so much for your excellent description of your journey so far. Since I have only had the anterior approach, that’s all I know and I’ve been happy so far. My pain was not anything as bad as you had with your first hip. Plus, loosing so much weight because you hurt too much to shop. (I’m pobably the only thr that has gained weight. I’m so bored, I just want to eat!) Your description of straddling a kayak brought back a memory of last summer when I got into my kayak fine but when I paddled up to the launch at the end and tried to get out. Nothing I could do to get out. I just sat there thinking about what to do. I had to explain my hip and ask some guy to get me out. How embarrassing and frustrating. Well, hopefully we will both be back in the water before long. We’re going back to Cali in March for some hiking and then off to Maui for some snorkeling.
 
nice congrats, i hope my next one is anterior, posterior is just fair. only good thing is as a long time gov employee I have tons of sick time, he put me off 6months with out a blink.
 
Hi @pkuznets
Wonderful to hear you're doing well.
Wishing you a peaceful relaxing weekend of continued healing!
Some Christmas cheer :reindeer: :reindeerlights: :reindeersleigh
 
Totally agree with you about not waiting as long for second hip @pkuznets. Having let my left go until being in sever pain constantly I am hoping the right is not at that point by surgery in February. I learned how quickly it can go from annoying to horrible. I now notice all the subtle changes that I tried to ignore. Glad your recovery is going so well.
 
Smstok. Unlike you, I only had bone on bone crushing the medial side of the joint. It was not debilitating all of the time. Some days a 1 and sometimes an 8. I could do most anything. It took me 2 years to bite the bullet and get the replacement. My OS said that I definitely was a candidate and said it’s not just the level of pain but also your quality of life. I couldn’t play pickleball (like tennis) anymore, I couldn’t take long walks or hike. And, it was “almost” funny in bed with, “Wait, wait, wait! Let me move my leg”. Quality of life matters as well as pain in my opinion. So, don’t wait too long on your next leg. Go for the anterior approach if you can when the time comes.
 
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