I'm glad that both your surgeries went well. Believe me if my left hip was even half as good as the right I would be the happiest man alive. The only time I get any discomfort in the right is when my left flares up and affects my walking, otherwise it is spot on. As for recovery from original simultaneous op, the hospital physios actually wrote in my notes that my recovery was 'obscenely good'. I had the bilateral on a Thursday, returned to ward on Friday and told I could go home at 9am on Monday, would have been day earlier but don't discharge on a Sunday. It was only after being told I could go home that surgeon looked at x-rays and discovered his mistake. It has all just gone downhill since then. Rehab stopped due to fear the liner may fracture. The two hospital physios (who were superb) actually told me after my revision the following Thursday, that didnt know what to do with me as they had never encountered a patient who had simultaneous bilateral THR followed by revision 7 days later. All they could do was walk with me and try and get me moving.
The movement and rotation on the revised left side is about half of the right and is permanently uncomfortable and the area looks swollen and feels solid. Having since researched simultaneous bilateral THR, according to NJR figures, of 768,000 patients to have had replacements since 2003, only 4,300 (0.6%) had simultaneous. That paints a very different picture to the one given by my surgeon who told me it was common and performed regularly. My mistake seems to be putting total trust in what I was being told. Had I realised this forum and NJR existed before my operation I would have viewed my procedure differently.