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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,501
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Had a new Ti femur with a ceramic hip socket installed July 30 2018. Best thing I ever did. Walking around the block with a cane in a week, running up stairs in 8 weeks, I've been back to cycling to work for over 6 weeks now.
I watched a s#it ton of YouTube videos on it, even watched a video of the procedure.
Do it! (The brand I had installed was a Zimer Biomet)
(I'm 59, and I wish I would have done it 2 or three years ago. Kaiser had me doing cortisone and PT that wasn't working. My surgeon said he was mystified that I could even walk, with the damage he saw. I guess I'm a sucker for chronic pain.)
(Tip: Try and keep some semblance of an erection when they're taking x-rays. There is nothing left to the imagination when the doc and his nurse and your significant other are looking at the pictures, so you might as well go ahead and show off a little!)
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Last edited by herr_oberst; 11-07-2018 at 06:20 PM..
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