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Hi,
New to posting on online forums and I am posting to see if I can find out some info for my daughter, who is 21 and has both FAI (Cam) and mild dysplasia (acetabular retroversion) with bilateral anteriorly-based labral tears. Having had moderate, occasional hip pain for about four years, a year ago the pain became constant, hurting when she was sitting, standing and walking. It eventually meant that taking stairs was painful and would result in falls. Her activities were severely restricted. We have been told that a misdiagnosis of Bursitis, and the exercises she was given to do to cure that condition likely increased the damage to her cartilage.
Unfortunately, no pain killers of any sort seem to help her. NSAIDs do not impact the pain and codeine based medicines make her extremely sick.
It took a long time to get a proper diagnosis. Following failed attempts at treating the problem with PT and then injections into the hips, it was decided that only surgery was going to help. She was told the first move would be arthroscopy but there was a chance that acetabular osteotomies might be required. Exactly two weeks ago today (on Wednesday 14.10.20) she had an arthroscopy. The specialist said the cartilage was far more shredded than expected and that it was no wonder she was in such pain. As we understand it, he trimmed it up and he reshaped the bone to correct the impingement (please forgive lack of medical wording). He told her they would not know whether it had been a success until the pain from the surgery had stopped. She has a follow-up consultation in two weeks.
She was sent home with instructions to get on an exercise bike with no resistance for half an hour several times a week to get the hip moving. However, since then she has had a really rough time of it, with her temperature shooting up on day 5 and feeling really ill. This has sorted itself out but now, but she has been fairly static for the past week and only been on the exercise bike - as directed - a couple of times.
The reason I am writing is because she is a bit stressed because she is in a lot of pain. The post-op pain has ebbed in the last couple of days, and now it has eased it has been replaced with pain within the joint which she says is the same as before the operation, but as bad as it was on her worst days.
She fears, understandably, that this may mean the operation has not been a success. I have tried to reassure her that it is VERY early days, but obviously I have no real knowledge on the subject and would be very grateful for any insight into what is normal from the point of view of post surgical pain trajectory. Thank you.
New to posting on online forums and I am posting to see if I can find out some info for my daughter, who is 21 and has both FAI (Cam) and mild dysplasia (acetabular retroversion) with bilateral anteriorly-based labral tears. Having had moderate, occasional hip pain for about four years, a year ago the pain became constant, hurting when she was sitting, standing and walking. It eventually meant that taking stairs was painful and would result in falls. Her activities were severely restricted. We have been told that a misdiagnosis of Bursitis, and the exercises she was given to do to cure that condition likely increased the damage to her cartilage.
Unfortunately, no pain killers of any sort seem to help her. NSAIDs do not impact the pain and codeine based medicines make her extremely sick.
It took a long time to get a proper diagnosis. Following failed attempts at treating the problem with PT and then injections into the hips, it was decided that only surgery was going to help. She was told the first move would be arthroscopy but there was a chance that acetabular osteotomies might be required. Exactly two weeks ago today (on Wednesday 14.10.20) she had an arthroscopy. The specialist said the cartilage was far more shredded than expected and that it was no wonder she was in such pain. As we understand it, he trimmed it up and he reshaped the bone to correct the impingement (please forgive lack of medical wording). He told her they would not know whether it had been a success until the pain from the surgery had stopped. She has a follow-up consultation in two weeks.
She was sent home with instructions to get on an exercise bike with no resistance for half an hour several times a week to get the hip moving. However, since then she has had a really rough time of it, with her temperature shooting up on day 5 and feeling really ill. This has sorted itself out but now, but she has been fairly static for the past week and only been on the exercise bike - as directed - a couple of times.
The reason I am writing is because she is a bit stressed because she is in a lot of pain. The post-op pain has ebbed in the last couple of days, and now it has eased it has been replaced with pain within the joint which she says is the same as before the operation, but as bad as it was on her worst days.
She fears, understandably, that this may mean the operation has not been a success. I have tried to reassure her that it is VERY early days, but obviously I have no real knowledge on the subject and would be very grateful for any insight into what is normal from the point of view of post surgical pain trajectory. Thank you.