My LTHR surgery was past monday june 19th i walked the day of the surgery and came home the next day ,I did not experienced any pain thanks to god and my amazing doctor Nirva Shah in providence tarzana medical center.
HaygazEivazian
Hi I'm really pleased for you, just don't try to do too much or you will undo all the good work your Dr has done for you.
What great news. I looked at your profile to see how old you were etc but nothing there. Sounds as if you had the sort if recovery I enjoyed twenty years ago when I was fifty-five.
Keep up the good work and take care you do not snag your leg over the next three or so months.
Cheers Richard
Wow - did you have a special procedure? I would be interested to know how you escaped the following day - I was desperate to leave but was kept in for two days after my operation. Did you have a minimally invasive procedure?
Well done with your recovery and wishing you the best!
How are you Richard? I have had a busy few weeks so haven't had the chance to come on, did you have your revision? I hope everything went well for you and you are well x
Yes the procdure name is minimal invasive anterior approch and i am 67 years old.
I have another hip replacement coming up, I had THP in Dec 15. Could you please tell me the difference between a 'normal' hip replacement and yours? It sounds much better and the recovery is clearly faster too. I was 40 when I had mine done, so expected the recovery to be quicker than it was...
What pain relief are you taking? It sounds like they gave you wonderful care!
I am not especialist but as my reserch there are 2 approches one of them is traditional (posterior) in this approch the surgeon cuts more mousles big incision,mine style is anterior it is minimal incision the surgeon do this with the aid of huna table.
Dear Rose
Thanks for asking. I hope you are doing well. I've had a very difficult few weeks and only now feel that I've started my recovery process.
I will try to keep this as brief as possible. May 11th surgery which I gather went well. The surgeon was happy with the original stem and after removing the ball put on an adapter to take the new larger ball and replaced the old collapsed cup fitting and just to be on the safe side secured it with three screws.
I had a difficult night and needed morphine on top of Paracetamol tablets but by the morning was fine. I felt pretty good and less grotty than when I had the original THR twenty years ago. Day two started walking with the Zimmer frame and crutches the next day. Muscles very painful quite unlike twenty years ago. Day three did stairs and was moving very confidently on the crutches but had to drink lots of water to try to increase my blood pressure.
Hospital wanted me out but I told them that I did not feel up to it and I was starting to have discomfort when walking. They were not prepared to sanction the use of hospital transport back home but were only prepared to send me by taxi to the ferry port leaving me to somehow deal with the ferry and getting a taxi home after the crossing.
I created quite a stink and the next morning I was told that I would be leaving shortly and was to be taken all the way home in a passenger ambulance. I had most of my stuff put into my rucksack whilst I spent a penny and when I emerged a couple of minutes later the ambulance driver was just pushing a wheelchair into the ward.
We flew down the corridors at breakneck speed to the ambulance and I was put onto the back left seat and before I had time to put on my seat belt he pulled off sharply to the left which threw me onto the floor. He stopped and asked if I wanted to go back into the hospital but as I thought I was only shaken I said no...big error-
On arriving home I felt bruised and later tried to get stronger pain meds but the outcome was that next day a doctor from my local practice called to check me over and insisted on my going to my local hospital for x rays. Nothing was found so late that night I was back home feeling pretty exhausted and very bruised.
Two days later as I was sitting in a swivel chair I moved around to my right hand side to move a small bottle of water to the table I was sitting at and felt a horrible solid clonk from my hip and pain. I could hardly move so back into hospital and they thought that they could see a small crack in my pelvis and .y surgeon when he saw the x rays insisted on no weight bearing until my appointment with him on the 19th of June.
It was a month or so of being on.my bed upstairs with a local care agency visiting each day to get me an evening meal of sorts and getting sandwiches together for lunch. It was so restricting and boring with the highlight of each week doing an online Tesco food order!
Fast forward to June 19th an my check up with my surgeon who looked at the latest x ray and said that whatever was showing up on the earlier x rays was no longer visible and that w could now fully weight bear. Fantastic! I've been walking each day and today went for two walks taking well over an hour.
I feel pretty good but my muscles need time to recover their original strength of course to support the revised joint. Sorry for the long post!
Cheers Richard
Thank you Richardken i am 67 years old.
Congratulations haygaz!! I had a very easy surgery as well. Thank you Lord. 6 mos post I still have stiffness and some groin pain but it's nothing like the pain prior. I hope my other THR is as easy as this one was.
Take care of yourself
dear haygaz,
Thank you for sharing such an encouraging story ... I am sure this will help many people -
Please keep us posted on your progress, okay ? you mmust be so happy !!!
big warm hug
renee
Richard, my goodness I actually gasped in horror when I read your message. It made me shudder to think of you falling in the ambulance taxi, what the hell where they thinking?? I would have said a few other expletives but being a lady and knowing the moderator won't stand for it, I shall leave it to your imagination.
Heavens above...
Why did it take so long for the surgeon to see you? Surely you were an emergency or were you unable to get there? I am so sorry you have been through this....did the agency look after you well? Oh it is just awful, I can't bear to think this has been your experience.
I am glad you are getting better now, but rather wish I had been a better support you when you needed it, I am sorry for that. I hope the forum rallied as only the forum can!
I know you will come through this, you are strong and resilient man and it will take far more than this to take you down. Please stay in touch and let me know how you are....
Dear Rose
Thank you so much for your concern for me. Yes it has been a very difficult, frustrating and expensive time for me but it is so wonderful to be able to get back to my recovery. It is so good to take a walk and feel in just a few days that I'm getting my mobility back even though it is just a prelude to an impending very difficult ankle revision of my total ankle replacement on the other side....but one thing at a time!
I had an appointment already fixed to see my surgeon on June 19th. and this fitted the anticipated time for the healing of the damage to my pelvis.
My partner who lives three doors away has been quite ill but pushed herself to bring me meals for the first two weeks but could not cope so I arranged with a local care agency to come in for 3/4 hr ever evening to get me a scrappy meal and make me sandwiches for my lunch the next day.
Yes the forum has been very supportive thanks.
Having lost my earlier reply I had better hit the reply button before loosing this one two!
Best wishes Richard