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@jojo58

I’m sorry, it didn’t pick up my whole comment for some reason. It depends on age, what kind of shape your body is in. I was about 48 when I had my first hip replaced. I have arthritis everywhere and it caused the ball in the joint to wear away. It was an inch shorter right before I had surgery. I ride motorcycles, work retail on my feet all day and I was in pretty good shape. 6 weeks light duty, which meant being on a register. No bending over either. I worked the truck before. I wasn’t supposed to be lifting anything either. That’s standard. I couldn’t ride (or wasn’t supposed to) my motorcycle for 3 months

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Good for you that you got through it. That's encouraging. For some reason my knee area is killing me, I hope not literally but you never know. Right now I have an ice pack on it, managed to get some sleep, my dear husband massaged my leg (not my hip area) a little and that felt good. If he's not too tired I'll ask him to give me a leg massage today -- he's also handicapped, had hip surgery, the surgeon fouled up and he doesn't want to go through the painful aftermath again, which is one reason I decided to go through with this to show my husband it can be done. But it's hard. And of course, I hope it works. The physical therapist is coming again today -- I'll see if he can give me a printout of the exercises. Take care. Thanks for communicating.