Hey everybody!! Hope it's a good day. I am three months post THR and still having alot of pain. I initially had foot drop after surgery and had major nerve pain, especialy in my foot. Still have the needles sensation in foot and lower calf. I had a really bad charlie horse in my r calf a week or so after surgery and the whole calf is very sore to touch, feels like I'm touching a bruise. Has anyone else had this and if so is it permanent? Still doing stretches and home pt. Thanks for any help(honestly the way the surgeon and pt people treat me it's like it's my fault for the foot drop)
Brian see me previous message to Debbie, you have my sympathy Paul
Hi Brian,
It angers me when patients are treated rudely as if it was the patients fault! I am sorry you have to go through this. All I know to do is to make your doc listen to you and help you by being firm and determined. Getting a second opinion helps to.
Dawn
hi brian sorry to hear your not doing to good i had a tkr 8 yeras ago and still suffering with my foot i have been to have test done but they say it is something i have to live with since then i had my other knee done and my hip that is fine its just my left one it feels as though i am walking on a lump of led it goes really heavy
Thank you for understanding. I awoke from surgery with the foot drop. It wasn't my fault. The shameful feeling I get is very depressing. I had my spinal fusion done by a specialist at the University of Kentucky; he said if I had any problems with the hip he would get me in to see a hip surgeon that fixes hips. Scary to think this happens so much surgeons specialize in fixing them!!! Thanks
Thanks for your help. I'm not very computer savvy so I'm still looking for your post to Debbie. Will read it soon and thanks for the sympathy. I feel alot better knowing there are people that have been through this and are willing to help others. Thanks again!!
I know the feeling well. I walkl with a cane but my right foot is so heavy I think it's high enought to step forward but I fall pretty often because my toes catch the ground and down I go. Sorry you're still dealing with that many years after surgery.
I had both THR's done last year four months apart both anterior approach. Which approach was yours?
My first one was perfect and by 5th week I felt as if I had never had a surgery! It was marvelous! My second one was the exact extreme opposite! A nightmare even now 15 months later. It took away life as I knew it and discovered that my surgeon was not too concerned about my excruciating pain nor with finding out what the cause was.
This is why I encourage second opinions, because I finally went far enough away from my East TN group of golf buddy surgeons to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for my second opinion...sure enough, my surgery was botched! My original surgeon seemed content to leave me crippled for the rest of my life!
It all makes me angry! In less than a month I will undergo a revision surgery using the lateral approach and I am nervous.
You must go to someone far away and new for a second opinion. Large widely known teaching universities are the best places to go in my opinion.
Take care!
Dawn
You will be fine .. You sound like me a year ago but I am doing great now.. I still get nerve pain in my foot but apart from that doing good so don't give up.. I ended up going to private physio coz I also had a leg longer than the other which wasn't good when I was 39 and a nurse.. But it was my pelvis was out so got it out back in place. U defo get what u pay for coz nhs didn't give a stuff really
Thanks for the vote of confidence! My right leg is longer than my left. The doc said it was to get better stability up high. I was a paramedic for eight years and I realize I could have shown alot more empathy with joint and back problem patients. With your foot pain did it almost go away and come back? Some days are better than others; I can tell you if it's going to rain quicker than a meteorologist Thanks!!
Yeah foot pain goes away and comes back. I started off on gabapentin , amitriptlyne , was on top dose as the nerve pain on foot, knee and groin was agony but don't take any of that now.. I always know when it is going to rain too lol.. The pain I get now is no where like it used to be .. Dunno if that will ever go completely but it is bare able when it comes..
Greetings Brian, you said the calf is painful to touch. Does it feel warm? Maybe call your doctor can have a possible blood clot. Get it checked out.
No maam it doesn't feel warm actually the opposite. The whole calf feels cold. I've checked for cap refill in toenails and that's ok. The charlie horse I had was about two weeks out of surgery and now I'm at three months. Talked to doc and he said sometimes it takes a while for the soreness to come out; not sure how long a while is. Thank you!!
Thank you very much. Still on max gabapentin and amitriptlyne. If it was always numb I could bear it. But I still have trouble knowing how high my foot is to step foreward. Maybe rushing things but doing all PT moves and walking alot. Just need swecond opinion and some patience. Thanks!!
Mine never felt numb .. To me it felt like it had been burned to the bone.. Suppose nerve damage hit people differently.. Towards the end it felt like my leg was dripping water ... Strange.. Don't give up though.. People recover at different times . I remember people putting down that they feel great after few months .. I thought why can't I be like that.. I had my right total hip done in aug 2013 and could safely say that now I think I am at full recovery although still can't bwnd but I'm not sore now.. Just my other hip lol
Brian, which type of THR did you have?
Wemdy, which type of THR did you have?
Hi dawn I had a porcelain cement less full hip replacement..
Which way did they cut to go in?
I had bilaterial anterior thr done at the university of tennessee with fantastic results from a trauma surgeon. I was bone on bone, couldn't have anterior in my hometown, so grateful it was offered at UT Knoxville. Where was your good old golf buddy from?