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Upper Thigh Pain Months After Hip Replacement
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I had a right hip replacement 8-9 months ago. Went fine, no problems. Until now. I had significant pain in right thigh - which has been mostly numb since thr. I don’t know whether the nerves are waking up and now I have pain or if it’s some other diagnosis? If the nerves are waking up, do I have this pain forever? It could also be osteoarthritis which I have, but it’s only on right side. Any thoughts from the hip replacement People?
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Hello @susanfalcon52 - I moved your discussion and combined it with @juliepoolie71's conversation on upper thigh pain after hip replacement, https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/upper-thigh-pain-4-months-after-hip-replacement/.
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It’s not an exact science but when I worked in EMG and nerve conduction in the 70’s -80’s, when a nerve was damaged but not severed,
My observation was that the nerve recovered - if it did recover - at the rate of about half an inch to an inch a month from proximal point to distal point. So in your case, is the point of injury at the surgical site about 9 inches from the point where you are getting new nerve sensations?
Again I have no idea if that makes a lick of scientific sense. Just an observation based on what I saw in patients with peripheral nerve injury.
You could talk with your doc about gabapentin which is specifically for nerve pain and see if that helps.