The last two days I have done the following car boot stall . (Made £34)which entailed a lot of standing, walking round other stalls, going crab catching with grand daughter's but didn't catch a thing but lost a keep net, climbed down to two flights of steps because was told it would be quicker - for whom!!!! But climbed a slope coming back from amusements and pier, and finally took dog out, now I have pain in left hip( which I am waiting to have replaced, ) and in groin it's carnival week here in Cromer all I can say is thank goodness for pain killers lol
That is an phenomenal amount of exercise you did. No wonder you have aches and pains. Please rest yourself and do take a pain pill.
You are doing too much my lovely friend. Slooow down an rest a bit too. I cleaned my car yesterday and today hurt in places I didn't know existed lol. Taken it easy today apart from a walk in Sandringham Country Park. Hope you feel better tomorrow xxxx
Hi Marilyn,Please slow down! Listen to your body! You will do more damage! Regards Amanda
The hip I had replaced feels lovely , it is the one that I am waiting to have done that is causing the pain, it can't get any worse lol but please don't worry I have been taking the coveralls
Coveralls should be codyromols
Gotta love the pain killers....get us through the good and the bad 😜
Keep an eye on the groin pain. If it continues, Google Tendonitis of the Psoas Muscle. Tendonitis is very serious, if you don't lay off the muscle/tendons you can have that for the rest of your life. Tendonitis is little rips/tears in the tendons usually (sometimes the muscles but typically the tendons), if you have it you want to not do any activity movement that will cause pain in that tendon, you want the tendon to heal up. If you ignore it and do not make any changes you make the rips deeper and add more tears. Eventually they cover over with scar tissue and then you are really sunk, gonna have that the rest of your life unless you go for surgery.
So jsut really pay attention to your body, especially your groin area. I had tendonosis of the IT band which runs on the outside of your leg from the hip to the knee. I can tell you exactly where that tendon is. I had never had tendonitis before and first got it at the age of 57 doing some repetitive sittting down and getting up off a short foot stool. Like all day long I did that for a month. We own a business and have one period of the year we have a busy time and I needed to do that as part of our business. Silly me though, I could have used a regular height stool it's jsut for a few years I had always used that low foot stool. If you have never had tendonitis before just be aware and pay attention to your body. Hope you get better.
whoa ... that is a lot ... I feel your pain just by reading all the things you did -
I hear you in regards tonthe operated hip doing good but the other one (also my left one) that definitely does not like the activity - it sucks a buit, doesn't it ..but kudos to you Marilyn ... for trying .. okay, now give yourself a couple of days rest ..
warm hug
love
renee
Interesting, Jodi.
I'm 3 months now. Was doing v v well and delighted. Started walking reasonable distance about 7 weeks and physio upped exercises. Sure that's what has caused my severe groin pain. At times, can't weight-bear on that side. Instinctively reduce activity when it's bad but concerned I might be doing wrong thing, resting things so much.
Should I be trying to 'push through' this pain? (it really can be bad.)
Have gone back onto 3 x codeine, as well as ibuprofen, a day, which seems to help, but again concerned that's going backwards.
Help??? 😨
After a restful evening and some pain killers it has settled down again, I will be glad when the next one is done xx
oh boy, oh boy, no your initial instincts are right. Rest the tendon don't make movements that hurt it. Any good physical therapist will be able to put his/her hand on your psoas musclen (it's in your groin). They should be able to push down on that and ask, "Is this where it hurts?"
It is a really serious condition that you should not take lightly.
One woman on here had her THR and about 5 weeks in she extended her leg from the pier to get into a boat and she pulled that Psoas Muscle. I had tendonitis of the Psoas muscle about 2 weeks after my surgery. Since I was having a physical therapist to my house 3 times a week, he identified it right away and he took me off all exercises that hurt me in the Psoas muscle. You gotta let it heal. For example, I could not sit for very long and upon rising after sitting I got the groin pain so I simoly laid on the sofa or laid in bed until it healed, but I caught mine practically immediately. It took about 3 1/2 to 4 weeks to heal, but heal it did and then I was just fine.
Google Tendonitis of the Psoas Muscle after a Total Hip Replacement.
Can you do sdtraight leg lifts? Lay on your bed, flat on your back and not bending the knee, raise your heel off the bed only using your hip muscles. (A straight leg lift) if you can't do this at all, and I could not lift my leg AT ALL, or you can do it a little but only with severe paing you have tendonitis of the Psoas Muscle.
Contrairily you should be ably to lay flat on your bed and drag your heel up to your butt, keeping the heel in contact with the mattress and bending your kneee.
If you can't do straight leg lifys but you can drag your heel up to your but you certainly do have tendonitis of the Psoas Musle. Print of an article from the internet and take it with you to see yur physical therapist.
Ginger who comments on here, she read my comment and did exactly that, I suggested she print up an artic;le and bring it with her to her surgeon's and the surgeon admitted it was true she had that. Hey physica therapy was changed to not further injure that muscle.
I have perment scar tissue all along my IT Band tendon, I can feel it, it is thick and bumpy. The IT Band goes from your hip to your knee on the outside of the leg. I was in terrible terrible pain from Tendonosis of my iT Band. If you do NOT rest the tendon and let it heal (like I didn't!) your condition changes from tendonitis to tendonosis. Actually the tendonosis of my IT Band was much more painful than my bad hip. I was basically handicapped for 2 years with it. Really. Thankfully my surgen did something during my THR and fixed it, but I can still feel that scar tissue all up and down that IT Band on the outside of my leg. It only hurts just a little now, but it is still ther and always will be there, I will have this for the rest of my life. This is why you see me frequently comment on tendonitis, as I do not want anyone else to have it be a permenet condition, that you have groin pain for the rest of your life. Or you have to have another surgery to go in and fix it.
JF
Thanks so v much for prompt and detailed response.
As I thought, really: something wrong. So have just done 2 diagnostic exercises you suggested. Straight leg lift = can raise about 1" and is v v painful. No problem bringing sliding foot up to knee bend. Bugger.
My son in law has suggested I invest in private physio, since I've just been put into general group and physio doesn't touch my body, just handed out sheet of exercises and made me go through them.
Certainly will be continuing to rest up and do research.most disappointed but from what you say, probably have caught it in time.
Thank you so very much.
Elaine
Oh thank God you caught it early. If sitting bothers you then don't sit, lay down instead. You really do have tendonitis of the Psoas Muscle. There is nothing you can do about it other than let it heal. It is gonna take some time but you can have a full recovery.
Don't push it at ALL. Once it is healed up you will be fine, you ought to see how fast and how high I can do straight leg lifts now. If you think after 3 weeks it is healed up, try a straight leg lift. If it hurts, back off and wait another week beofre you try it again. Depnding on how badly you injured it, it can even take 6 weeks to heal. But on the good side, you can continue doing everything else that doesn't hurt that muscle & give you groin pain.
Elaine, I would not invest in any private physical therapy right now. I would wait until that Psoas Muscle has healed up. Actually because of the tendonitis in the psoas muscle I hardly did any exercizes at all, my physical therapist just came 3 times a week and brought massage oil and massaged my leg. He was absolutly right, just have to wait for that psoas muscle to heal. So instead of exercizing I got leg massages. I turned out just fine, went from a walker to walking unaided in about 4 or 5 days right around week 4 or 5.
My French physical therapist was very insistant that I keep correct posture, s using no canes or crutches he really forced me to keep perfevt posture and when I could no longer walk with perfect posture I was to stop. So obvioulsy that was just around the house, then a bit outside but always always with perfect posture as he wanted the right ligaments and muscles to work, not the wrong ones. He never pushed distance, distance was not the most important thing, correct posture, shoulders back, back straight, heel-toe, heel-toe. He said distance will come later and it did. Once that psoas muscle healed up it was like a snap of the fingers how quicly I transitioned to being fine.
Best of luck to you. And once you stop any activity that aggravates that Psoas muscle you should not need any pain killers. Just don't make the pain and then you won't need the pain killers, makes sense, right?
Yes, JF. It all sounds instinctively right to me. I was persuaded to try a walking machine yesterday and, even at the slowest speed, I couldn't archive the right posture. I was off it within about 2 minutes. Felt all wrong.
I have actually been walking unaided since very early days. This only came on with increased exercise/walking.
Should add that this is 3rd THR on this leg. Major complications with last two. Severe nerve damage and pain after first. V late diagnosis of device coming totally detached with second. So early 'success' was like a miracle for me after last 8 years. Quite dejected.
Will take on everything you say and post updates.
E x
Why are you exercizing? You are walking fine, well up until you injured your psoas muscle, right? I didn't exercize at all, just resumed my normal life which did not include exercizing. For me ging grocery shopping and pushing the cart around a big store, hey that is exercizing. You should see me 15 months later, I have been painting practically non stop since may. Up the laddr, down the laddr, move the ladder, back up the ladder repeat.
I guess I am more of a believer of work instead of exercizing, LOL. I'm not a big fan f exercizing at all. I didn't do any and it didn't hurt me any. Gradually, just naturally over time without doing anything special you just get better. I wish you well and I am so happy I was able to help you. Maybe some other person will read this and they can be helped also.
Sorry about your first 2 THR's on the same hip, hopefully fingers crossed this one works out for you. Don't be discouraged about your tendonitis of the psoas muscle, it will heal, just gotta baby it and give it time. A LOT of people get tendonitis of the psoas muscle after a THR. And it is odd to me how it happens sometime after the surgery, not like you wake up from surgery and you have it. It appears later. Mine set in after about 2 weeks just when I was getting p and starting to move around.
Ginger who posts on here, she got hers if I rember right the same way you did, overly aggressive physical therapist pushing her with exercizes.
i wish I had read this thread amd all the advice before I decided to try out my static bike yesterday. Been awake since 3:30 am with excruitiation groin pain. I only did a few minutes here and there but boy has it set things off.
Today I planned some other pre-op exercises I found on youtube, looks like I will be sitting with my feet up.
Hope you are feeling better Marilyn and rested.
dear Jodi, i found your message very hard to understand, there were too many medical references, all i know is that my muscle ached and had groin pain, and it is not tendonitis, it is because my left hip is bone on bone and and going down the steps made the bones rub together, i didn't have any swellinf of the it band as you put it, it just ached, and my right hip where i had the op i didnt have any pain in that
Marilyn, so sorry if I rambled on. I was trying to say that I had tendonitis of the iT Band that I did not take care of and it was really bad. The iT Bank goes from your hip to your knee on the outside of your leg. It was the first time I had ever had tendonitis and I didn't treat it until it was to lat.
Thus after my THR when I got groin pain about 2 weeks after my surgery and my physical therapist told me that was tendonitis of the Psoas muscle I took it very seriously as I had that other tendonitis.
That is all I was trying to say. A lot of people get tendonitis of the Psoas Muscle after a THR and don't realize it. They just think, "Oh this muscle hurts, it must be tight, I'll work on stretching it more" and actually that is the last thing you want to do, as that just adds more rips/ tears into the tendon.
There is a difference between being merely sore from overdoing, and having groin pain from tendonitis. It is kind of a difference in degree.
I was merely alerting you to pay attention to your groin soreness. Just pay attention and notice if you start to have real pain with it and it doesn't get better and you find you cannot do straight leg lifts.
So glad you are feeling better though. Glad I was able to help edarlingb who most assuredly does have tendonitis of the psoas muscle and she was not aware of that until reading my comment. I am SO GLAD from what you wrote you don't.