Hi everyone, I'm at week 8 of my recovery from a lateral right thr and upto a week ago I was doing really well. Had stopped using the crutches at week 5 and surgeon very happy at my 6 week checkup but this week I seem to have taken a huge step backward. My hip and thigh are stiff and painful and I feel very down and feel like I have no energy. Has anybody else gone through this? If so, is there anything I can do?
Hi Joanne, sorry to hear you are feeling down. What you are feeling, I think, is quite common.
I felt "euphoric" that my pain had gone and I was more mobile. I would forget I'd had a new hip, and the major surgery that goes along with it! Then.... I had the aches and pains, stiffness, the initial tiredness I had felt returned and I felt really despondent. At this point my only option was to go back a few steps and take my progress a little slower and return to the mind set of "you've had a major op". This has helped me, others may have a different approach.
I hope you find something to help you get back on track. My best wishes x
You sound exactly like me. I'm at week 9 today and am at the same stage. I think we just have to be patient as, from what I've read, it's not that unusual. Perhaps we've just overdone it as we did so well early on. The healing clearly takes longer than we expect and hope for. Good luck though - we'll get there in the end.
Hi! I think you should take it a little more easey and give it more time to heal. I had both my hips done and my right leg done really good but my left leg has still have pain in it and it's been four months sence my surgery and I have to go back to therapy today. Sometimes it just takes a little longer to heal.just do as your doctor says and you will be ok. Hope you get to feeling better soon. Larry
I'm week 7 and I have also been going quite well, but on and off I get very tight muscles, and have been getting stiff and sore too. My physio says this is normal. After all, everything in your leg is now in a different spot and has been cut and manipulated, so as we exercise more the muscles will get stiff and sore. So I massage it and continue to do gentle exercises. to keep it mobile. I have also had nausea from the toxins that can get into the system from all this, and yes do get very tired as sometimes I feel I am pushing through discomfort al the time. be patient it will get better but there will be ups and downs.
Hi Joanne,
I would say don't worry. My physical therapist told me the healing process consists of steps forward and backward! He said 100% healing takes as long as a year. You're at the beginning and making fantastic progress!! Don't sell yourself short....you're moving toward 100%. Keep going and looking forward. Best of everything to you.
Marie
Hi Joanne, I've just entered week 9 of my recovery from a right thr and feel exactly the same as you. I went back to my part time school bursar's job after 6 weeks and as i am back driving I am back to supporting my 90 year old mother. I felt so well when I started back at work but now my hip, thigh, knee are painful and my back is stiff in the morning. Like you I feel as though I don't have any energy and I feel so despondent. My colleague booked me onto a conference with her this week and I just do not want to go! Would rather sit quietly at work.
I do wonder if I'm doing too much lifting and generally rushing around more than I should. However someone has to and it won't be my son! I'm finding it hard because I've been so inactive over the past couple of years and I can't seem to push myself forward as I expected.
I do feel reassured that there are others in the same position as me and I guess it is a time thing and we have to be very patient. Good luck with it all, I'm sure you will get there soon.
Dear Sylvie
OMG I was feeling sorry fo myself until I read your reply. I am not doing anywhere near as much as you are!!! I think you have to tell your colleagues that you are not strong enough to do a conference otherwise you are going to end up back in hospital. My family feel that it's the driving which is causing some of my problems. Is there no way someone could take over some of your driving errands? I know it is difficult to ask for help as everyone thinks we should be over the "worse" but I hope there is someone you can ask. Sending you all my best wishes and a great big hug xxx
Dear Joanne , that is quite normal, I did feel similar. It will pass.
Take day at the time ,do your excersice, go for short walk . It will get
better with time. If you can go for coffee with frinds, read some books.
That what I try to do. Cheer up next week will be better trust me.
This forum is great and honestly I would not go trough without this site.
Hug Madla💗💗
Dear Joanne
so pleased to receive your reply because driving to my mum this morning I was wondering if part of my problem is driving which is again like you. I have an automatic and I feel very much that my right leg is not happy moving to and fro. I'm widowed with a son who is out all the time but friends were extremely good until of course I told them I was independent again and thanked them for what they had done. i am going to try and keep driving to the bare minimum.
You are right about the conference. It is held within a football stadium and I can remember limping into it last year. It is a vast area as you might imagine. I think my colleague is going on her own this year, I didn't expect her to book me on!
I used to take a fair bit of exercise including off road running, so although I don't expect to go back to that I just long to be able to do a decent length walk but progress has ground to a halt. I wish the NHS allowed more than 3 physio sessions, I still have questions especially as I have a naturally shorter left leg. My right femur is longer I was told some years ago.
Advice seems to be there are steps forwards and steps back so we have to keep positive. Sending my very best wishes to you x