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Cannot lift my leg after hip replacement
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Aug 18 10:06pm | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
Oh gosh. I’m so sorry. How long has it been since your replacement? Mine will be one year on Sept 7th.
Can you lift your leg to put pants on? Or lift your whole leg up when you’re lying down? Thats what I cannot do. Or getting into the car I have to grab my leg and help it up into the car. Or the top of my thigh hurts. I am so sorry to hear you’re having pain too. And yes it’s super frustrating.
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My R hip was 8/1/23. For about the first 7 weeks it seemed wonderful, minimal pain and then just gradually got worse. PT did deep tissue massage and trigger point to, I think it was ileopsoas muscle and worked on the pirifirmis with different stretches. That allowed me to be able to do some high knee type marches but my R leg would come in and PT worked with me to do the high knee lift and keeping the femur perpendicular to hip and eventually, I could stop it from rotating. Now, i can walk better but if I want to try and ride a bike, i have to practically lay bike down to get leg over…which is how it was prior to having hip replaced. I know for me it was almost 2 yrs exactly for pain to be gone on my L hip which was replaced 8/7/21, and I can still do some things that make it hurt….like gardening and digging a hole with a shovel, pushing/pulling an object. Guess, the expectation for the pain to be gone is a poor expectation?? Or maybe being a farm lady is too much to continue after a hip, but keeping my mobility is why I wanted a hip—never an easy decision and never a guarantee. Hope you can regain/improve your mobility maybe with PT.
Best of luck to you-keep us posted
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Eek all. I'm preop total hip for a torn labrum. I'm 69 with CRPS. Walking isn't really something I do well. I walk with crutches normally but in such pain, no choice. I fell. Took 6 months for a dr to take my pain seriously. Turned out two complex labrum tears. Isn't it great when you csn prove ITS REAL! Now flattened ball of hip. Mishappen acetabulum and arthritis from not getting it fixed sooner. As usual, only the pt pays the price. Drs have no skin in the game. A certain amount of failures are probably "expected." But when its you...
If you need a replacement replaced, find the specialist who replaces replacements. Its very specialized.
I'm having the first one done by the specialist who replaces replacements. I figure I've got the best chance except I live alone, nobody can stay with me and he does 90% of his replacements outpt. I have other things going on but I need two overnights to get into a real rehab hospital. (Not a nursing home with one PT.) I can't do surgery right now. Refused to give me one tramedol a day. I've been in such pain for do long, I'm too stressed, unbalanced, full up on psin, I can't even think about surgery right now. Hsvent barely slept in 6 months.
My PCP ordered them for me. I don't take psin meds tho.I've been in constant pain for 45 years. The one time I ask, they say "take tylenol? I'm on prednisone with no relief. Tylenol? The drs have lost compassion, empathy.
I want to say to them " every bit of food you and your family have eaten in decades has come from patients. Your electric bill, your gas bill, your water bill, every vacation, kids tuition, every single bill you have has been paid by patients. Time to respect the literal hand that feeds your children rib eyes." Respect. Its beyond time. Getting worse in fact.