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THR Sarak - There's Life After a Hip Replacement

Sorry you're struggling, Sara
Going home early from a night out dancing verifies you're suffering.
I hope the anti inflammatory and injection bring relief so there's no need for more diagnostic testing.
Wishing you comfort until the 6th. Please keep us posted.
@SaraK
 
Sorry you're having problems @SaraK, hope you get some relief soon.
You,ve always been so supportive of me through this journey- sending you best wishes and hope for a speedy return to the dancing, kayaking and other much loved activities!:flwrysmile:
 
Thanks so much @gillycat11 ! I appreciate your support as well. I have already fired the new PT my new Dr sent me to. She seemed to do everything possible to activate and aggravate the psoas. I talked to her the next day (to cancel an appt - first time I've ever cancelled PT appt) and told her the pain the night before had been equivalent to the pain a week out of surgery. Her response? "I guess we must have found the right muscle to work on.". No kidding - it was on the PT prescription and I had talked about the problems with it and how prior PT and I were letting it settle and just starting some targeted stretching.

I have a good son that knows me well. He looked at me and the ice bag the night I was in so much pain and offered to go out and pick up dinner. He'd also (unprompted) stopped at the store on the way and picked me up a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Therapy. He told me I had to eat it before I got the pizza he'd picked up. Yep, he knows me!

The good news? My injection got moved up to this coming Monday! It can't come fast enough! Meanwhile, I'm gonna grit my teeth and try to enjoy the "prom" tonight with my dancing group. I'll just have to decide whether to imbibe at the open bar or leave the possibility of a pain pill that night (I had to find the leftovers the other night after PT).

Have a great weekend - hope all is well with you and you get in some swimming and retail therapy!:loveshwr:
 
Aww, Sara, I'm so sorry. Hurry up Monday!
Ben and Jerry's can keep you company until then, lots of flavors to sample :heehee:
Check out their Flavor Graveyard online if you never have....kind of humorous.
Those two old hippies laughing all the way to the bank.
Let us know how Monday goes. Hopefully it's not too painful.
@SaraK
 
I hate you're going thru this, Sara! Dang it, I want to see you healthy and robust, out there showing the rest of us how it's done - boogying in the garden at midnight, with the moon backlighting you. Make that stupid psoas behave!
 
if I can make it behave, I will @Bone-obo ! In the meantime, I'll still be boogying tonight. I skipped the gym last night and cancelled PT today to make sure I didn't make anything worse - we all have our priorities, after all! :heehee:

New physical therapist picked out and booked for next Saturday.

Biggest takeaway for others - the squeaky wheel gets oiled. I had to keep bugging the surgeon until he got tired of hearing from me and referred me to the right person to get this fixed and texted with her to tell her to do the injection right away rather than waiting for another round of PT. I'm not always good about advocating for myself. I'm better at advocating for my kids (Mama Tiger comes out) so I just pretended my hip was one of my kids! :rotfl:
 
@SaraK so sorry youre having this issue,

I had psoas stuff 2 weeks ago, see my thread.

Recipe

I had the guided cortisone shot,

7 days on arcoxia 120 mg per night;
absolutely no exercise, been doing nothing but getting fat;

It worked a treat. I am now pain free and have just got back from a 45 minute walk. no crutches.

I will know later if I have overdone it I guess.
 
@Harryn1 - Thanks for the encouragement. The psoas can be a very persnickety muscle. It was the last thing to settle down after my first surgery but had by the 2 month point. It was slower this time around but so much better by 4 months and then just started deteriorating. My surgeon takes a much slower approach than yours and likes to try to let nature takes its course. Luckily I've finally reached the point where he's taking it to the next step. It's also not so bad that I can't function on a daily basis - just that I can't do some things very well or without pain. (At least, that's how it was until 1 session with a new PT). I don't like needles and am very cautious about cortisone because it can cause havoc with blood sugar for diabetics but very much looking forward to the cortisone shot (in back directly into the psoas itself where it comes off the spine). I went dancing last night and can barely walk this morning (but it was worth it). Hopefully it will lose up soon.

Good luck with the rest of your recovery. Looks like you'll hit the 2 month mark next Saturday! Congrats!
 
Aww, Sara, I know you just well enough to know that. Very thoughtful of you to take the time to express it though. We've communicated enough for me to know you're appreciative of others. Please no worries in that area. I just want to see you moving forward without issues. Prayers that it's coming soon.
I hope you enjoyed time out last evening even if you couldn't dance.
A great day to you!

Mojo' birthday if you want to drop by her thread. I noticed she's not around today.
Hopefully she's taking the day off to do something fun....besides flipping four wheelers in the woods!
@SaraK
 
Oh , I danced last night - and paying for it this morning! I will stop by and wish Mojo a happy birthday!
 
SaraK said:
I'm not always good about advocating for myself. I'm better at advocating for my kids (Mama Tiger comes out) so I just pretended my hip was one of my kids!
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That's actually a great way of looking at it!
Hope you get some relief tomorrow:fingersx:
 
Quick update. Psoas injection yesterday. That area still a tad tender but not bad. I had numbing down the leg much of the day/evening (mainly the thigh but a little tingling in toes). Pain in psoas not resolved but better already. I was able to sleep in my bed last night (hadn't since ill-fated PT session) and was more comfortable getting in, rolling over, etc. than I have been in a couple of months. Cortisone will take a few more days for full effect but already feeling better than I have in a while and some improvement in range of motion. Keeping my fingers crossed for full and lasting relief but at least this provides more information for the future in any event.
 
Great news, Sara!
Thanks for sharing. I hope it continues to improve over the next few days and is lasting.
Keep us posted and enjoy the day!
@SaraK
 
:fingersx: for you
Glad you are getting some relief already!
Hope you have a restful night.
 
Does anything particular make your psoas angry, like the gym, or is it just a cranky Miss Pissyboots who's going to have her say no matter what? I noticed that your psoas seemed to take a turn for the worse after your Florida vacay, which was filled with lots of walking, and one happily inconsequential fall. Not that you would ever overdo! You and I are way too smart for that!

Regardless of cause, sorry you're in pain!!
 
@Bone-obo - The problems started before the Florida vacay. I'd never completely gotten the full range of motion in the new hip and had noticed from day 1 that the range of motion was worse on a day after doing a cardio session at the gym. The psoas generally didn't like a lot of things during the first 3 months but calmed down significantly by 4 months. At that point, I could do just about anything with little pain unless I tried to push the range of motion. Then it suddenly started getting cranky about a lot of things. It didn't like anything that required me to lift the leg or hold the leg up. Both the primary contraction (lifting) and the eccentric contraction (lowering the leg - especially when on my back) started hurting and it got worse over time. I eliminated things that caused problems, but that list grew and grew. During that timeframe, we went to Florida and I did a lot of walking. I did note there that the more I walked, the more issues I had with the psoas. The walking itself didn't hurt, but it seemed to contribute to the problem, so I started reducing even that. The pain generally feels like someone is overstretching your muscle and not letting go. If I don't do the things that set it off, I generally don't have pain. Unfortunately, among the things that hurt are getting into the car, raising my leg to get in and out of the bathtub (no walk-in shower), putting on shoes and socks . . . The pain doing those things is fleeting, though, and not extremely sharp, so I can deal with it. I'd just like to be able to get back to over-doing it! The pain from my PT session last week (with the new PT that had definitely been fired) was severe - almost felt like the pain in the 2nd week after surgery! Luckily, both time and the injection have taken care of that pain. I'm hoping that the rest of this improves with the cortisone, but I don't see much difference between today and yesterday (even seems like a little less effect today). I know it can take a few days for full effect, though, so I'll try to be patient. I'm glad I didn't schedule the next PT session until Saturday so it's more likely to have full effect before this next person starts deciding to poke the sleeping bear (my psoas has officially been given the nickname "Ursula")!
 
Girl! I am so sorry! I have a theory (posited briefly in my blog) that the additional ROM in the new hip stresses the muscles and soft bits that had learned to accommodate the limitations of the old hip. Clearly, I'm just making stuff up (see my signature), but could this be related? Was your psoas sore before surgery?

This may not be accurate or even helpful, but it seems like a fair number of people have knee/groin issues 2-4 months after surgery, me included. So maddening!

I used to get psoas pain when I'd ride too hard and too far, since my shoes clip on to my pedals, and I can pull up to help power up hills - holy moly, that hurt!! It felt like they'd been lit on fire!
 
@Bone-obo - I can't say whether your theory has merit it other situations but it's not the case in mine. I had good range of motion (could do pigeon, etc.) Prior to surgery and no psoas issues. The bone spurs were causing significant pain with any weight bearing activity (walking thru the grocery store was difficult just before surgery) but that really only made itself known as I got more active after the first surgery. Even in the weeks just prior to surgery, I could do several versions of planks, dead bugs, Russian twists, etc. with no pain before or after. So, I've exchanged one pain for another but, given the relative amount of pain and the range of activities possible, I still think it's a good trade!
 
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