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Hi, just wondering if anyone has been able to resolve stem tip pain su
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Hi @leghurts54
I’m wondering when your mid thigh pain started after your hip replacement?
I’m almost 5 months post op and the last two weeks I have been feeling mid thigh pain and sometimes pain to my knee. I’ve had to get out my cane on occasion also. It feels like a setback but my Orthopedic didn’t seemed concerned. I think I overdid it gardening but not sure. I’ve read where the prosthetic stem is rigid and the femur flexes where the stem ends and can cause pain. Hoping that’s not what it is but interested in hearing other people’s experiences.
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Hi, so I had a fairly easy initial recovery from my surgery on Halloween 2022. About 6 months later I began experiencing sudden weakness sometimes several times a day where the leg would just buckle with pain above my knee. Fortunately I never fell but came close on multiple occasions. The surgeon was no help. He xrayed my hip and said it looked perfect and showed no interest in figuring out what was going on.
I went four months dealing with this sudden buckling of my leg and finally contacted the physical therapist I had used post surgery. I went in to see her and after doing a few physical tests said she thought my back might be the problem. I have seen a chiropractor for 40 years and he adjusts me at L4/L5. She suggested an adjustment at L3/L4. I had one adjustment there and now nearly two years later have not had another episode of my leg buckling.
I do have pain in my mid thigh if I move fast laterally or walk briskly. Jogging is impossible which is frustrating because it was the main reason I had the hip done. The surgeon had assured me that I would be able to run.
A second orthopedic guy that I see now refers to my problem as stem tip pain. I'm able to do everything I need to do, just can't do what I want to do.
I'm self employed working 7 days most weeks so another hip replacement and the much longer recovery time as well as the fear I could end up worse makes it a very undesirable and unlikely
choice.
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I am having the exact same issue. I started a discussion here a few hours ago. I started having pain in my thigh for a while and now I have pain in my hip. I thought maybe I was walking too much on the treadmill. I am 76 years old and have been trying to walk 4 miles a day either outdoors or on the treadmill. I was doing 2.3 MPH but had to reduce it to 1.2 due to the pain. If all of this continues I will have to ask for a consult with my orthopedic surgeon. I was terrifed of surgery 2 years ago and I am putting off the phone call to him hoping that if I slow down I will be able to manage the pain by myself. I also think that it might be a stem problem but that might not be the reason for the hip pain.