Store-bought hips?

kenner · 2016-11-02T01:00:55+00:00

Doc told me yesterday that I may need a hip implant soon, due to bone-on-bone arthritis. Anyone have any experience with this, good bad or indifferent? How...

Typhoon

LBlack14

I'm voting to Legalize!

LBlack14

Typhoon I'm voting to Legalize!

I already did. Medical's s'posedly legal here now, but you can't get a damn script. They say it'll be a couple years. Total bullshit.

johnnydoom

Not sure how much the brand matters. Find a surgeon with a good reputation if your insurance or budget allows for it and follow the rehab program religiously. I used to work for Smith & Nephew and (during the time I worked there) felt their product quality was top notch. However, most surgeons and hospitals are trained on, and aligned with, specific brands and you are almost certainly best off finding the best surgeon rather than focus on the brand.

gllama

Another thing that is helping me is doing a series of stretching exercises at least four times a week. It's called "Egoscue Pain Free Workout" on a DVD. It's a quasi-yoga type exercise series that not only targets the hips but also the rest of your body. It's definitely helping to make me stronger and more flexible. There are some mornings when I get out of bed and can't walk due to the sharp pain in my hip. I have to stretch it out for a couple of minutes before I can go. It seems like the muscles around the hip bunch up and tighten during the night, causing the nerves to fry. But these exercises are helping to stretch out those muscles/tendons. There's still pain, but less so than before. I've also found putting a heating pad on my hip helps, too. It's all about managing the pain until I go get a new hip. I admit that when I first started going though this ordeal I got pretty depressed. But the combination of exercising, meds, cannabis lotion and most importantly a positive attitude is making it at least tolerable. I feel your pain...literally.

mulegolf

-My wife (68) just got a new hip on Sept. 20th and it's been a long recovery so far. Her problem was that because she had a blood clot behind her knee when she had a knee replace a few years ago, the Dr. prescribed warfarin to thin her blood. It was supposed to help avoid another blood clot. On the other hand it caused her to bleed internally at the incision site. Her whole leg swelled up with fluid and caused so much pain that I ended up taking her to the emergency room. The emergency room Dr. was worried that her incision may burst. Luckily, it didn't and her surgeon decided she should quit the warfarin. She didn't have that type of reaction when she took warfarin after the blood clot behind her knee and her surgeon said that knees rarely do that because they don't have as much tissue and muscle around them where the blood and fluid can settle. In any case, she is slowly getting better as the body absorbs the blood/fluid. It's a slow process and she is just now approaching walking with only a cane instead of a walker.

kenner

Interesting, mulegolf. Warfarin has kept me alive for the past six years - DVT from too many long road trips. Don't know if I want to sacrifice the ole rat poison for any extended period.

You've all been very helpful, and thanks for your responses.

LBlack14

Well, went to the specialist this morning. Went over my xrays with me. Total hip replacement on tap.

Headed to the hospital in a few for doppler scan on my leg. They think I have a dvt in my right leg (not the 1st time). Started gut injections yesterday.
I've had this done a few times so nothing new, but I lost a good friend in February. While having said scan done, they broke loose a clot and he died right on the table.

PA-PLAYA

LBlack14

Positive thoughts headed your way. You can manage a couple more months to get the dvt taken care of, then a better quality of life awaits once they get your new hip installed.

Keep your chin up!

Orlimar1

Yes good luck Landon. Soon you'll be running around like your former 25 years old self.

ZWExton

New hips and a healthy lifestyle can make the next couple decades of your life the best you've ever had. Stay strong. Medical science is amazing - be around to benefit from it.

LBlack14

Well, hip's gonna have to wait, at least, 6 months. Found 2 DVT's in my right leg this morning.

sdandrea1

LBlack14 Well, hip's gonna have to wait, at least, 6 months. Found 2 DVT's in my right leg this morning.

Prayers coming your way, nephew. Hang tough.

PA-PLAYA

LBlack14

It's good you know. Can't fix it if you don't know about it. Might be a good thing you went in to have your hip checked out.

Six months... you can make it.

FauxAmish

sdandrea1

Ditto Son.

We'll keep the knees touching the ground. 😎

LBlack14

Thanks all.

LBlack14

FauxAmish
Thanks Pop.

FauxAmish

LBlack14

😷😦✌

rsvman

Hang in there, Landon. Praying for you.

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