Upper Thigh Pain Months After Hip Replacement

Posted by juliepoolie71 @juliepoolie71, Mar 2 11:34pm

I had a hip replacement 4 months ago and from the day after surgery I have horrible pain in my upper front thigh/groin area. Come to find out the surgeon fractured my femur but didn’t tell us, I found out a month after when I ended up in the er with horrible pain they thought was an infection in the hip, they found the fracture in a ct scan. My surgeon won’t see me I only see his PA, and the last thing the PA said was the pain was psychological, and he’s sending me for a nerve conduction study.
It hurts to sit in the recliner, lift my leg when standing, I can’t lift it to get in the passenger side of the car (was my left hip that was replaced) and laying in bed is awful and I’m in pain and unable to sleep all night. Could they have injured something else when they broke through the back of my femur? Has this happened to anyone else? I’m only 52 and needed the replacement from a bad accident that tore the labrum and cartilage beyond fixing.
Thanks for your help, I can’t take this and the surgeons pa anymore.

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julesg | @julesg | Sep 12 8:14am

I'm sorry to hear you're going through that too. Did you get any help yet?
I had hip surgery 3 years ago and been stuck on a rollator walker since. In May and June this year I had back to back hip revisions on it. Now I'm worse. I can't put any weight on that leg and it's so painful even with pain meds. Yesterday, I had an injection in the SI joint. I can't tell too much yet but I think it helped with some of the pain in the buttock but not around the leg, groin and down my leg. It keeps me awake, even with sleep pills, and has totally taken my life away as far as being able to do anything for myself hardly. Everything is so hard. Now I'm wondering if I'll ever be able to walk again. I've been asking so many Dr's and pain management is the first to say he thinks it's the SI joint.