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Originally Posted by matthewb0051
I am 60, but still feel like 30 in my mind.
The hip is a result of milage more than age, 22 years in the Army. I had a ski wreck in 2002 in Austria. It was an epic day and I fell out of bounds in some deep powder, ski didn't come off and leg was behind me and twisted. The result was a knee scope and torn hip labrum. Add to that, a natural fusion of S4 and S5, and the nearly fused S5 to S1. Plus a butt ton of arthritis in the SI joint. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the torn labrum in the other hip. Hard living...
So Doc #2 is interested in a clean up job vice straight replacement. He's done 3 other family members, to include my 91 yo FIL's knee about 4 years ago. Imagine being in your late 80s and your knee replacement blows up and you have to get a new one, that's exactly what happened.
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Quit patching that old tire and get a new one. If your insurance is requiring an all out looksee, then do what you gotta do. At our age scoping a joint, that has seen trauma like you describe don't put it off another 3 years when you can get a new one now and recover once. We ain't getting younger and recovery at 60 is better than 66 IMO.
Don't get me started on the posterior vs. anterior methods....
