I had the opposite response to THR. I had my right side done five years ago and the recovery was a piece of cake. Three days after surgery the OT had me walking around my block with a walker. I also have fifteen stairs inside my house. I was 76 when I had the surgery and it was the first surgery I had ever had. But now I have bursitis in that hip and I can't walk my usual two mile routine because after about a mile it starts to hurt also going up my stairs and sleeping on it. I feel I traded one kind of pain before surgery for another kind of pain.