Paul - I would never have come to this forum unless i had problems, and Dr's fobbing me off with excuses.
My first hip, my Right, totally worn out, bone on bone, eaten away with cystic action and even drilling a hole in my pelvis, although not serious enough for a bone graft, although was warned that I might wake up with a bone graft, and explained very carfully where it would come from, and that patch may be more sore than the hip.
Perfect - first time I was stood up 12 hours after my surgery, found I could weight bear on new hip, physio's encourged me to do so, and walking the ward later that same afternoon.
Only problem I had with that right hip was they gave me morphine, I am horribly sick on morphine and was really not very well, sick bag constantly at hand, even after I warned them not to give me morphine.
2nd hip left, recognised problem as soon as I stood up, had a lot more leg on left side post surgery, dismissed by physios and Dr's as swelling and my imagination, also could not balance on leg, just gave way, soooo different to right side, really scary.
End result with my own research and investigations, with Gp's help, sometimes begging for that help, 22mm or 3/4 inch difference.
Surgeons still considered not their problem and I would adjust, no I didn't ruptered discs in my back, just to complicate the issue, never having had a back problem previously, thought the pain in leg was coming from hip, just didn't make sense to me, pain from hip replacemnt just never went away, soooo different to other side.
After 12 months, the Dr's were right I did adjust, sort of, with a shoe lift, I have worked it out, and even back has come right, but I really feel the surgeons let me down badly, did not explain carefully enough for me to understand, ''it will come right is not good enough''.