Hip replacement. It's my turn.
 

So, Monday morning I got a shiny new hip bone. It's the most amazing thing - I could put full weight on it, almost immediately. (This is with a walker for safety. Get in line, ladies. I'm a sexy man-beast.)
The progression from surgery to discharge was fast. Surgery Monday morning from 10am to noon, Monday afternoon, I was walking around the hospital room, Tuesday morning I was learning how to navigate steps and learn how to get around my house, Tuesday noon they kicked me out of the hospital to fend for myself. Today is Wednesday, and I've probably gotten out of bed around 10/12 times to pee, walk around, check things out.. It seems like it just gets a little easier each time
(thank you oxycodone - 5mg every 3.5 or 4 hours).
The hospital staff basically just instructed me to let my body tell me how much I can tolerate. I'm not trying to compete, but I'm curious to know how much moving around you guys did the first few days?

My butt's pretty swollen from the surgery, in spite of all the ice, and it's sore, obviously, but I don't really feel like I'm really overdoing it.

Any thoughts? Any advice?

Never had hip replacement, bit other surgery taught me to listen to the old bod during the healing process. Some pain, okay..but if pushing it brings a lot of pain, ease off.

Best fix I ever did for myself. And remember, chicks dig scars. Just drop your pants and show them you scar and they swoon. Yea really. Well maybe they swoon because they are getting nauseous. I thing it is because they think it must be George Clooney they are seeing.

I have no experience with that procedure, Herr Oberst, but glad to hear things are going well so far and wish you the very best for full use of your hip and mobility again!

Please keep us posted..... :)

Saw Herr-O today, he looks good, though I didn't have him drop his pants.

Pictures or it didn't happen........well.....maybe not.
Get well soon.

Heal up!

Went through this a few years ago. I had an in home PT for the first week and his exercises were great. My home also has stairs and the exercises using the stairs helped a lot in terms of getting strength back.

I was back at work in a week.

All the best!

It’s the bionic man! Heal up quickly, Herr-O. SmileWavy

Word of advice .....

Make sure your doc starts checking for cobalt/chromium poisoning every 3 months. Especially if you start to experience 'weird' auto-immune symptoms.

The wife had a hip 10 years ago. All was good for the 1st year. Things went south after that. Hives, heart, nervous system, depression, you name it. Ended up being metal poisoning from her metal hip. Had a revision (serious bone/tissue damage as a result of the metal implant) and symptoms went away for a while but cobalt/chromium will remain in her bloodstream.

Medical device industry is aware of the problem but .... capitalism. They settled her lawsuit but money can not buy good health.

See the Netflix title ... The Bleeding Edge which touches on the problem.

Hers is not the only case. There are thousands and thousands of people with this problem. The tip of this iceberg has not even come on the radar screen yet.

Ooh! Home PT!

(You must have been a young man to have been able to get back up and attem so quickly. That's not going to happen here, I can tell already, but I'm going to do the work to return to life as soon as I can.)

Thanks, Barry, and will do.

SmileWavy

Missed opportunity?

Mine will need to be done within a year so looking forward to your and others' experience.

Do the stuff they tell you to do, don't do the stuff they tell you not to do. Have someone who knows their business measure to make sure you are even.

Shaun, you are far too young to get a total hip.

Careful how far down you reach. My dad had his done back in May, dislocated it last week reaching to put lotion on his foot. It was the most pain he's ever felt in his life, the X-Ray portion of the ordeal. He's 88 BTW.

"(thank you oxycodone - 5mg every 3.5 or 4 hours)."
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Good for you that you're body mends quickly, Herr Oberst. Best of a quick and total recovery.
SmileWavy
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Oxycodone made me nauseous...gave them to a friend.
Luckily I had no debilitating pain after my quad by pass in '11.

Be sure to take a stool softener every day while using Oxycodone. If not, the constipation can be painful!

I wish the shoulder thing was the same walk in the park. Seems like hips and knees are much easier.

Heal up!

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I always thought you were hip...now I think you're artificially hip :). Heal up and giddyup soon...

I have none for you, but since you have gone though this maybe you can share what your doctors may have told you about preventative exercises or diet tips that may delay needing such a procedure done.

Earlier this summer I ran into a guy that I've know for years as a customer of his. He is about 10 year younger than me and was hobbling about like a cripple. Said he had hip problems and thought losing weight would help, but lost so much weight so quickly that it actually made things worse. He was slated to hip replacement surgery when last we spoke.

In my case the cartilage between the socket and the top of the ball was just eaten away. It was rubbing bone on bone. My doc said when he opened it up there was no sign of cartilage, just blood from the bones. No PT, no drugs or magic fairy dust was going to regrow it.

The other hip is fine.

Only surgery and a hip replacement fix my problem.

Did the doctor say if starting 20 years ago you were on a diet of XX or did XX type of exercise regularly the condition could have been managed and not become so critical?

Were you overweight for many years prior?

25 lbs, 50 lbs, 100 lbs?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/avoiding-knee-or-hip-surgery

No, 58...you may be pleasantly surprised. The first 3/4 days really sucked (especially at night) but the pain subsided very quickly. To be honest, my hip was so far gone that the pain was less after the replacement.

The other hip still looks great in the x-rays and has zero issues. No other joints have problems.

My mom had her first hip replacement at age 50. She had her fourth hip replacement at age 75. No she did not have 4 legs, she wore out the original hips. They have improved a lot over the years. My dad never had any joint replacements. I just figure my right hip was from mom's genetics and my left hip is from dad's genetics.

Yeah, yeah, car wreck, still too young to get it done, 58 is too young too, Captain.

Minimally invasive is the way to go, anterior approach I believe.

That's me almost to a tee. The surgeon told me he couldn't believe I was walking around it looked so bad. (Do they say that to everyone, just to make them feel mighty?)

Getting everything facilitated for nighttime really helps. A place for everything. Lots of water. A kindle for the insomnia that comes and goes, just enough extra bedding so it's handy but not in the way. I've got swelling in my hip that would make Kim Kardashian jealous, but I just got off the phone with the Doc and he said that's normal, just continue to work on range of motion and walking.

I showered today for the first time. That's real luxury.

In-house PT would be fancy, but I can't have everything.

How long before you could work the clutch pedal?

I know. I was hit by a car riding my bike to baseball practice in college. I lost over 1/2 inch off my left leg. 40 years and a million games, runs, dicking around later the joint was gone.

I tried injections, creams, Llama spit all to no avail - 58 is too young to be in chronic pain, which I was. Not no mo'.

Thanks! I hope to!

I'm not overweight, 6'1", 180# 59 Y/O. But, I have sort of abnormaly formed hip structure; the bone that connects the femoral head to the femor is longer than normal, and more perpendicular to the spine than normal. When I broke my left kneecap a few years ago my gait changed and began to wear out the cartilage, till pretty soon it was bone on bone.

I guess I wasn't hip enough to hang out here!

Thanks! for the nice thought!

Thanks, Pete! Much appreciated!

I'm sendin' it! Thanks!

Ouch! A cautionary tale! Thank you!

Thanks, I will!

Thanks, Jim! That's the plan!

It's so weird how much latitude they gave me. I had the Anterior Lateral procedure, and the surgeon basically just said listen to your body. He wasn't worried that I would be doing anything that would cause a dislocation. (Bending past 90 or crossing my legs as in a Posterior procedure. (Obviously, he warned against the signs of infection and blood clots)

The surgeon said that measurements post surgery were good. Do you have better advice on who should measure?

Pretty much the doc's advice!

Thanks Don!