@lovesstars - Sorry about the pain. Not sure if this applies, but I had a very bad experience with "standing on one leg" pre- surgery days that was pretty shocking to me but demonstrated how much extra weight and pressure is put upon that other hip when we "go flamingo" like that. Like you did in kitchen. So I'll share it in case it might spare someone else extra pain.
Early last year I was doing some volunteer work outdoors that, unbeknownst to me that morning, would require me up being on my feet, on concrete, from 6:30 am to @6 pm --in poorly cushioned flat booties, with too little water and next to no real food after breakfast. Because I'd already had right hip hurting at that point -with diagnosed OA on both sides but righty being the worse one -- after about 4-5 hrs of this, angry right hip was growing so sore that I started standing flamingo, on left leg only, to relieve it. On and off when I could, for rest of day. And it allowed me to continue without so much righty pain as left leg was the "good" one then.
Had one 40 min break where I sat down. That evening, driving home I had to pull over twice with killer foot / leg cramps that grew to severe by bedtime. Up all night with new pains and cramps that, for one of the only times I can recall, would not respond to magnesium. Then new deep painful aching in left hip and leg. After that I went to OS and was informed I had a Labral tear on left, the one bearing the added weight that day. And from that day forward, left side was now the pained one, by far, my limp changed to accommodate. I booked it for first surgery.
The morale of the long story is...(and this was really news to me then)...just the act of putting ALL my weight bearing on to that relatively ok-but-still-arthritic hip, for part of a long day, given hard surface and no real rest--- just standing with that double pressure was, in itself, like an actual "sport" or exercise ...to a weakened hip. Sounds stupid or even common-sensical- I should've known, given the double burden on one poor hip...but I'd have never thought that before, in those pre-THR days. There was minimal walking involved, a few blocks here and there, but it was the standing on one leg that broke the hip down to the point of forcing me to get to a surgeon. That was hard to fathom for a mountain hiker at the time. But I've since then confirmed with righty, that an arthritic hip can actually tolerate very little added weight bearing before it will deteriorate further. And I'm not a heavy person.
So ...I'd avoid standing on one leg! Unless that one leg has zero arthritis or hip weakness issues.
Feel better!
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