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Hi there. Gosh this must be scary for you. I’ve had a total hip replacement 1 yr ago and still get a strange feeling if I rest my arm or for examples book on my hip. What the surgeons don’t tell you is there is s lot of mental issues with this operation as well as physical issues. Some people say “ oh I was almost running after 6 weeks”! Once I listened to my own body and not stories from some people I relaxed more into the recovery. About week 12 I hit a wall and had excrutiating pain right under my butt cheek, but it settled after I stopped panicking.
Thank goodness nothing is broken for you, and hope the medication helps you.
Just go slowly at your own pace, you know your body.
Wishing you well and all the best for your recovery. ❤️
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Your post helped me very much especially as I just read it again because I'm having more pain in the right buttock and was wondering if I've injured myself you know like overstretched? I'm not sure how to explain what I'm feeling except that my thighs stinging aching and tingling my knee is hurting again that I'm confess I have had an out of the ordinary past two and a half weeks. My husband was in the hospital for 3 days and I was only two and a half weeks out from surgery and still on my Walker. So needless to say the hospital corridors seemed really long to me and I was trying to push through at times without the Walker because it felt so cumbersome in his room with everything else in there. And I felt a little braver with his bed and a couple chairs close by and then of course the bathroom door everything was within arms reach for me in case I felt unstable. I think because of that 3-day Trek I felt braver when I got home more confident to not use the locker at all and I didn't have a cane and I had been doing pretty well I admit I slacked off my beginning physical therapy exercises they sent home with me during this time because our roles were reversed and I was taking care of him and moving around more stretching reaching and bending. But I was mindful of not pivoting my hip while my leg was stationary. So after my husband was improving it was time for my birthday and my sister came up from Tennessee we had a few days of doing a few things out and about but I was very careful but I also wasn't doing my physical therapy elevating or icing because of a little bit busier schedule. And after she left yesterday started noticing that I'm hurting more in my butt and my thigh top of my thigh where the new hip joint is and trying not to panic like maybe I damaged it somehow? So today I'm being more diligent about icing elevating and unfortunately I'm too sore to do the physical therapy again. So I'm feeling down and guilty! Any advice?
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You seem like a very sweet person. Thank you for such encouraging words of hope and guidance!