Hi everyone,
I tune in on here most days and like you all have found so much useful info and support and occasionally I have contributed a bit too.
I am 10 weeks post LTHR and up to press I have been doing great.
For the past couple of days I feel like I've taken a huge step back. To be honest I haven't even got dressed today and feel pathetic and weepy.
I have been walking albeit with a limp, pretty well for about 4 weeks without any aid, but now I am literally hobbling around the furniture. It's not pain from my hip it seems to be everywhere else.
I am wondering if I have simply been pushing myself too much, but I do take shortish walks, often, and rest when I need to. Just feel so bl**dy down. My knee on my good leg is crunching and snatching, never had that before. Plus I keep getting sharp pains in other areas that really pull me up.
Sorry to moan, I really am, nobody wants to hear this but if anyone has been in the same boat, I could really do with some help and a sympathetic ear.
Just read this prior to posting and I can't believe how upset I sound. Going to have a nice bath and try pull myself together before better half comes home tonight!
Jane x
Hi Jane. This is spooky and I don't mean to be flippant I too am ten weeks and today I feel rubbish. Exhausted and weepy. We have had building works for a couple of weeks and I have done lots of shopping and socialising so I asumed I had overdone it. My good knee is giving me gyp too and I feel achey. I have my physio tomorrow so today I am taking it easy. I would say you are doing well. I still haven't had a bath - just showers and I still use a crutch outside. I can't really help but just say you are not alone. I am just going with "it" in the hope of feeling better tomorrow. You take care.
Catrin
Hi Jane!
i am 5 weeks post op and still not feeling as good as some people say I should feel but I'm trying to take it in small steps. I have OA in the majority of my joints with another THR to go. I know the pain you feel. My arthritis pain is gone in my hip but I feel like I traded one pain for the other. I would check with your doctor to rule out any possibilites and take your pain meds when you need to. There is no reason to suffer the pain.
Good luck to you and a speedy recovery!
Hi there, Sorry you are having these problems and feeling so low. I am having problems with my knee on my non op side.
Had my left hip replacement on Dec 11th last year. Op was to relieve the severe pain in my knees, referred from my hips. Pain was so bad I had to give my job up. Was told op would cure both knees.
But it hasn't! My right knee still gets bad pain and locks up often too. So I am mostly hobbling about like a fool and people think the hip replacement didn't work! It did, but only on my left side.
I saw my surgeon at end of February and he examined both legs, moving them this way and that. Left leg fine with new hip. Right leg had restricted movement and pain in knee. Surgeon said that that was because of my right hip dysplasia! I wish they had told me about this before the left hip op.
So its ended up with me needing that hip replacing too! I'm not walking well at all. And I'm permanently scared of my knee locking up or of the painful spasms starting. Darent go so far from home like this. Certainly wasn't expecting this, the day they operated.
Don't be sorry about having a moan. We all do. We all get fed up. I am fed up too. You are not alone.
Shirley
Hi Jane
Moan away. I have felt similar today, and I think that this recovery is so slow. I'm nearly nine weeks and feel sort of stuck. definitely feel less able and weary. Is it anything to do with the bank holiday do you think?
I socialised a bit and have spent more time sitting on hard chairs and in cars. Sort of out of the routine I'm used to.
It's difficult to put on a brave front when you don't feel like it.
I'm genuinely concerned that in about 3 weeks I am supposed to be fit and able to return to work. Unless my recovery speeds up drastically I'm not sure I can.
I do hope the bath does the trick, Bad days should be written off and remember there will be a good one just around the corner
Xx
Hi Jane I had it too I got a real downer about three weeks ago, my chin was wobbleing like a childs, and it was so infectious my wife also started to blub up and all because I was wondering why it had to be me after leading quite a healthy lifestyle but all the training I did on the beach and roads and in the gyms, wore me out, and this is where I am now, gosh life is full of surprises and we have to deal with them as they come along, and they dont go away by themselves, I got cross with myself afterwards but told my friends about it, like you have done here, and the answer that I got was just accept that you are human, and have feelings, that can get hurt or upset, even if you upset yourself like I did and it still hurts to think that I am, quite responsible fot the mess I am in now in older life, I was a bitof a loony with Karate and weight training, but the rest of me is in great shape so I am lookiing forward to the future and not making the same mistake twice, I will concentrate on my photography and Hiking in the lakes getting a normal life back together again is what I am focusing on and I also have knee pains that hurt, but one thing at a time..Hope you had a nice bath and chiled out afternoon. Kind regards Ian.
Come on girls this is the time to break open the chocolates and indulge yourselves... I am still waiting and waiting and waiting would just love to be in the same boat as all of you, but my time will come and boy am I stocking up on the choccies lol.
I am also 10 weeks post op and feeling very down. Went back to work a week and a half ago and it has taken its toll. Still limping and still in pain as other hip needs replacing but have to go back through referal/waiting list route. Sometimes feels as if I' m no better off and its all been a waste of time - although actually the new hip is great. Wonder how much is just a reaction to everything the body has gone through. Think I just hoped for too much - I knew other hip was bad. Just keep telling myself when that one is done I can get properly back on track. hugs to everyone feeling low at the moment. X
Really sorry to hear that Shirley.
Going back to work must be hard so early on. Does being back at work take your mind off things a little or is it just making you feel worse?
Barbara x
Shirley20506, You sound just like me in as much that you need your other hip replacing and sometimes it feels like you are no better off and its been a waste of time. Same here too, new left hip is actually great, apart from the strange feelings I get in it. My right hip is dysplastic and affecting my right knee too. That's why it needs replacing. I've got an appointment with surgeon at end Aug approx. I think he will put me on waiting list and I will be going through pre op test again that day too. So yes when we get other hip done, hopefully we can get back on track. Hugs to you too.
Hi Shirley ,
I had Right hip full replacement on Novemeber 12 th last year . Tomorrow I go to see the Consultant who done the operation (wasnt due to go back till June but in so much pain and rang up hospital ) but I feel much the same as you . My operated leg is perfect but is now approx one inch longer than the non operated" good" leg .As time has gone by my limp has got worse and now in considerable pain on the "theory good leg " . Went to physio and they kept saying it would be ok but how at 57 years old is my leg going to "grow" .Totally dismayed and now probably got to go through it all again as the pain is becoming as bad as before .
Richard .
Mixed Barbara. Would be nice to not be back, but in a way is nice to feel I'm getting back to normal.
Shirley - Here's to 2016 then. Hopefully a better year then.
Hi Richard, I see you had your op just a month before me. Really sorry to hear about your problems. I hope you get the answers you want from your surgeon tomorrow. Yes my operated leg is long than the other one too. I got told the same as you in Physio too, that my non op leg would get better with time but it never has done. I am still wondering why they said that when surgeon said I had got hip dysplasia and need the hip replaced. And yes I'm 57 too. Its not easy is it. My op will be between end of August and new year I think. Struggling every day with this.
Yes here's to 2006. Hopefully a better year. After my next hip replacement, I don't want another big op if it can be avoided. Not unless its absolutely necessary anyway.
Hi Shirley ,
All to similiar for comfort and I wonder how many others are in the same situation . Will update you on my "news " after tomorrows meeting .
Richard .
Yes very similar. I bet there are a lot in a similar situation. Yes do update on the "News" after tomorrows meeting. :-)
It seems about right in your recovery to feel down.plus your other body parts are having to make up for the hip healing.probably causing pain else ware. Maybe take a break in walking.don't over do.things will get better each day.Hugs
Hi Ferret'swife:
I had a total hip replacement March 9, 2015, and I have been through a bit of hell, myself. I was expecting to be a physio-long after. And when I did the PT saw that my incision scar was still quite red and had my daughter take me to the emerge to find out after 3 doses of I.V. that my surgeon wanted me to go back to his hosp. 2 hours away and I was admitted for four days and put on a stronger anti-biotic I.V. and when they sent me home it was for 6 more weeks of I.V. I had a P.I.C.C. inserted in my arm (Peripherally Inserted Central Catherter) and my I.V. is carried in a waist pouch and I have it 24 hrs. a day for another 6 more weeks. I can't do very much although it's only been the last few days I've been as if I could do something normal again! Family is having a hard time keeping not doing things, ie. lifting, stairs alone. I can't drive yet! I have to be taken every where. I can't do my laundry, ( hve to put up with other's doing laundry when and how they feel) UGH.
I now can do dishes, some cooking, I did enjoy others helping but why can't they just let me do things how and when I want to!
11 weeks today for me and in my 4th week back at work - although monday was bank holiday and yesterday i was off with a cold (something i would never have done a few months ago but theres more to life than shouting at other peoples kids!)
i have still had ups and downs emotionally and random pains in ankles and knees which i put down to their surprise at being level on the ground now, I still limp a bit and tend to use my crutch at work to avoid being mown down but we have to remember how much better we really are and what a giant shock our bodies have had - someone on here said it takes between 9-12 months to fully recover - my target is to be ok to go to graduate fashion week with my 6th formers on june 2nd which means a lot of walking and going up and down escalators on the tube - and if it takes a bucket of chocolate to manage - so be it!!!!