I can sure vouch for hip replacement. Made a 100% huge difference and took away my leg pain. My right hip is jealous now but only has moderate arthritis so it can’t be replaced (yet) smile. I only wish that back surgery wasn’t as complex. I’ve managed to stay away from it despite a recent radiologist’s comment on a pelvic x-ray about my “seriously degenerating spine.” Yes, I know that but stretching, physical therapy and chair yoga, (Yoga Vista online-created especially for the over 50 crowd) along with using the Swedish Trionic Veloped all terrain rollator to walk my dog with each day and go on trails with, and not being embarrassed to use a cane lightly for longer in town forays, has kept me out of back surgery. I was given a 33% chance of a spinal fusion making things better with the same percentage chance of it not doing anything or making it worse. So if I do eventually try surgery, I will go to the Barrows Institute in PHX if they can (probably can) give me a better prognosis than the neurosurgeon did in my small town. At least I appreciate his honesty as to what he feels can be done for me. I have spinal stenosis, spondylothesis, severe arthritis and scoliosis in the lumbar region. I was always very physically active all my life until back issues started in earnest in mid 60s. I’m 73 now. The aging process is difficult but I’m still kicking. Well, maybe not kicking anymore but adapting.

I would embrace the hip replacement. My life improved tremendously after mine and the recovery was quite short and easy. Or at least it seemed that way , perhaps due to the two years of pain that led up to it. Absence of pain makes a world of difference.