You are doing wonderful. At 8wks post op I'm still using a cane in the house but a walker if I go anywhere. I did not have the pain you experienced, and also had a problem with morphine. At that time they started me on Norco which is just Vicodin. I have 3 ruptured discs and was using walk aids for that purpose before surgery. I knew the surgery would not cure this problem, only back surgery will. I'M ok with the use of aids, whatever it takes. I'm doing P.t. for a few more wks. Then most likely my insurance will stop. I see a big improvement in lifting my leg. I now can sleep on both sides, but to get into the tub need to use the crook of a cane to leg lift. Also to get into the left side of the car. But thats ok, at least I get in and can drive. Using a plastic bag on the car seat helps one to slide in easier.
Yeap I are with all UR theories. E all worked well for u.as in two of my past surgeries Lf & rot hip joint replacement went well. The first surgery the pain pump malfunction I had no pain med for 38 minutes ater I woke from surgery.
Then the bone necrosis was so bas that bovine bone granaoals was used to fill in a hole the size of a pig pong ball. Additional 4 3" screws were used. I was only 42.
The he tendon was full of micro tears and only after 6 months of therapy was I finally able to walk without screaming. I was given pain med for the two weeks after surgery and that was all.
My second hip was done at 45. It was the same type of hip bu DuPrey press fir with cups of strong polyurethane. I did all exercises and was back on my feet in two weeks no help. I did not loose muscle tone like the first one that is was made the difference for me the second time around. I was prepared and did swim mad PT therapy. I hate being on Paine meds they have a lot of miserable side effects. .the third hip joint to replace the one that originally was done almost 13 years ago wore out.mi was young at 42 had a busy life style rode horses skied athletic type bike riding hiking etc.
they both served me well. Until the replacement for the hip was a Stryker AGBll press fit with a small stem onto the joint and the femer bone. These are larger in size than the regional joint replacement size. The metal on metal in the stem very different in size than the other hip. My leg was 1 /116 of an inch longer than before.
my knee stared to give out from the difference in leg length.. Shortly after that I complained to my surgeon that it's extremely painful after 6 months and the other 2 hips replacements did not cause as much pain. I then found out that the manufacturer had a recall on the very same implant I ad done 6 months earlier. Woe some coincidence. I will always know to this day that the dr. Knew. I knew I talked with him asked about MOM later to find out a 2" stem with no protective coating on the stem was used. Hen amazingly the dr. Announced he had already found a home in a new state and was moving. Connected me to another doc who only does revisions. I know that Stryker paid him to use their products. The bottom line $$$$$$.
I had read many articles of this happening I other staes never imagined it could happen to me.
So here I am 2 1/2 yrs later still waiting until I have enough pain which I am in excruciating pain or heavy metal poisonin or pseudo tumors.
Pain & suffering is added in on a class action suit thru the state.it will take years. Yet iamstillwating to be pain free and get my llife back ....
life the past 18 months has been like a jail, I cannot do the things I like to do. Let alone bend over and pick up something I dropped.
getting late. Hope I have some positive feed back. I may start a private law suit to spped things up. There is way more here than I have even youth on. I am angry and I have lost so much due to the self centered surgeon who lied to me then cried to m over the phone apologizing about the joint he put in and the insurance company won't pay for testing because it's a recall. So what's a poor painful hip to doo.
to spread the word that this can happen to u. It happened to me. No matter how much u do UR homework ther is always a slight chance the system will not perform as expected and worse.
Hi the explanation about the tendon explains a lot because if I go to bring my leg up
it hurts right in the groin and some times at the side of my hip it aches