@Layla , sweet of you to check in!
I had my year check-up with an OS here in Rochester. X-rays look fine. I asked him about the slight pop I heard when I tried stretching my legs, straight, one at a time in a supine position (something the PT used to do pre-operations). He said things are always moving around in there but you don’t notice or hear it with a natural hip.
For the longest time I have been saying, the only thing I still noticed was a semi-numb sore feeling on the fronts of my thighs, and that I’d be fine with it never going away, considering what a boon the THRs have been. But I had not thought about that sensation for a while and today I checked both thighs and realized it was pretty much gone.
I took a trip to CA last month, my first in quite a while, work and social. I took the train from Burbank to Camarillo to meet up with one of my colleagues, who’s my closest friend, and when I got off the train and walked toward him he said, “My God, look at you! You’re not limping anymore.” That’s right, and what an amazing feeling to be able to walk fast again.
I had read somewhere that full healing may well take up to a year and a half. For me, a year almost on the dot, though the second/left hip sometimes aches faintly. It seems odd that the tingly thing continued on the side I had done first for an extra two months, like the two sides stayed in tandem; in any case, I am grateful to be living in the golden age of joint replacement and glad I jumped on having this done, and the two ops seven weeks apart.
Also. Since moving here I’ve lost 10 pounds. I was not overweight, but at the top of the BMI zone for my height. I feel physically more comfortable with less pressure on my hips.