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My brother had a hip replacement about 5 years ago, he is a few years older than me so he would have been in his early 50s when he had it done, he says its the best thing he had done for his health, he had been diagnosed as needing the hip replacement when he was in his mid 20s after a work accident, but because of the probability of problems with the replacement and the life of the prosthesis available back in the day, he decided to not get it done. he lived with a hell of a lot of pain over the years, and although partially really quite lopsided in the way he walked he did heaps, he cycles (and still does) 80+ klms every second day, to try to make sure his muscles held a lot of the weight on his hips, and that it just wasn't his bones holding him up. He is also a sailor, and the hip was really becoming a problem, let alone the damage he was having done to his kidneys and the rest of him by the drugs, so he finally went and had the hip replacement done, they got him out of bed the next day, he refused their pain killers, as he said it couldn't be any worse than what he had everyday, really. He was out of hospital in a few days, and got back to riding and sailing in a few months, today you wouldn't know that he had had a limp all those years, he has been to physio and stuff to get rid of the swagger he had. He is a new man, and wishes that the type of prosthesis he now has had been available when he was much younger.

So get better soon and get out of bed and up doing stuff as soon as you can, but don't overdo it, I am sure you are set for physio etc, but do what they tell you and get well soon.