Hi,
I had an anterior total hip replacement five weeks ago and the pain in my hip is gone completely and no really bad side effects from the surgery except now my right leg is shorter than my left leg.
I do get a clicking sometimes when I walk and I do get something like a popping sensation or something moving in my hip area when I lean on my thigh muscle I can feel it in the hip. Both the doctor and the PA told me it’s a muscular thing and it should go away. As long as it’s not painful I was told not to worry about it.
I went for an x-ray yesterday, full standing on both feet flagger and they did a measurement from somewhere in my hip to somewhere in my ankle and there was .1 cm different between the two. What they failed to realize was that while I was standing there flat footed and both feet my right leg was straight and my left knee was bent quite a bit . The x-ray that they took did not show any leg length difference which I’m not surprised so I asked them to redo the x-ray. The reason I’m doing this is my left hip my left thigh muscle my lower back left side is very painful because of the mismatch in my legs. My point is never ever believe the doctors 100% because they will blow you off any chance they get.
Best of luck,
SM