@beachbabe sorry for the delay in answering. I was in CA to attend my grandson’s high school graduation and spend time with family. I have some pretty great grandkids and a wonderful son and daughter in law to boot!

My surgery was posterior, not mini posterior. Regular anesthesia although the spinal block (for lack of a better word, I don’t think that it’s an actual spinal block) was also offered if I wanted. My doctor didn’t care which I chose and I’d had the spinal block when I had my ACL repaired 25 years ago. Back then the anesthesiologist gave me too much and I had to wait forever to get un-numb so that I could go home. My anesthesiologist for the hip surgery promised that would not happen under his watch but I chose regular anesthesia anyway. I had surgery very early in the morning, around 8 AM and was home by 3:30 PM the same day. They had me up and walking several times before they released me, with the walker of course. NO pain while walking, I was ecstatic since I had had a lot of pain in my left leg before the surgery. Dr. Carrothers made me a perfect match in length to my other leg, no issues there. I started physical therapy about 5 days after the surgery with a PT that I’ve had for my spinal issues for 10 years. I have always had sleep issues. I had some really bad restless legs afterwards so I spent a lot of time walking with my rollator/walker for several days after surgery. I’ve had restless leg syndrome for years and I suspect that a combination of the wearing off of anesthesia and maybe the tramadol I took in the beginning, exacerbated the restless leg syndrome. Interestingly enough, now I only get restless legs in my leg that does NOT have the hip replacement. I asked my doctor if Medicare would pay for the other hip to be replaced to cure me of my RLS, lol.

I followed the rules for post-op that the doctor gave me and didn’t have any problems following them. I had a really good experience but I’m a data point of one. I went into it with a positive, expectant attitude that it would be a positive experience and that’s a good part of how well one’s surgery and recovery goes I think.

Best of luck to you in whatever you choose to do.