YorkieSimon
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- Joined
- Jan 18, 2022
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Hi All
Simon here in the UK (Harrogate in Yorkshire for any of you that know this part of the world). I had my left hip replaced on Saturday - I was coming out of surgery 72 hours ago - and am now at home beginning the journey to recovery.
Not surprisingly, my left leg is pretty swollen from the knee up, and I have quite a bit of pain and discomfort. I can see from all the helpful advice and comments on the site that I need to get some gels so I can ice my leg. I have codeine and paracetamol to help with the pain, but I am missing the OxyContin that they gave me in the hospital! Hopefully, I'm just a few weeks away from being relatively pain free.
This has all been a bit of a rush - I was still in denial in December about whether or not I even needed THR, but my specialist (who I had not been able to see because of Covid) told me a month ago that I needed the op, and then gave me a surgery date of 15th Jan... I had bone growth around my hip socket ("I'll need to take a chisel to that!" in the words of Mr Conroy, my consultant), and the operation was pretty brutal. My abiding memory is of the sound of something (my skeleton!) being hit hard with a hammer - and that is certainly what my leg feels like it has experienced.
Looking forward to sharing my journey with the forum, and I am so pleased I have found somewhere I can find some lived experience of all this. Health websites are all very well, but too often it is from the medics not those who have been through it!
Take care all
Simon
Simon here in the UK (Harrogate in Yorkshire for any of you that know this part of the world). I had my left hip replaced on Saturday - I was coming out of surgery 72 hours ago - and am now at home beginning the journey to recovery.
Not surprisingly, my left leg is pretty swollen from the knee up, and I have quite a bit of pain and discomfort. I can see from all the helpful advice and comments on the site that I need to get some gels so I can ice my leg. I have codeine and paracetamol to help with the pain, but I am missing the OxyContin that they gave me in the hospital! Hopefully, I'm just a few weeks away from being relatively pain free.
This has all been a bit of a rush - I was still in denial in December about whether or not I even needed THR, but my specialist (who I had not been able to see because of Covid) told me a month ago that I needed the op, and then gave me a surgery date of 15th Jan... I had bone growth around my hip socket ("I'll need to take a chisel to that!" in the words of Mr Conroy, my consultant), and the operation was pretty brutal. My abiding memory is of the sound of something (my skeleton!) being hit hard with a hammer - and that is certainly what my leg feels like it has experienced.
Looking forward to sharing my journey with the forum, and I am so pleased I have found somewhere I can find some lived experience of all this. Health websites are all very well, but too often it is from the medics not those who have been through it!
Take care all
Simon