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Bone on bone in hip and inflammation and excess fluid buildup?
I have had some difficulty walking without limping and with an unsteady gait for several months. One day while pulling weeds and carrying water, it started to hurt more, but in my groin and upper thigh. Went to Urgent Care then x-Ray, an orthopedic surgeon, an MRI. He showed me slides from the MRI that showed no cartilage left in the hip bones and swelling and excess fluid on the inside of the bone. All because of arthritic changes as I am 74 years old. My right hip was replaced in 2016.
I have a total hip replacement scheduled for August 8. In the 2 weeks I have been waiting, the pain has increased and I am now using a walker.
Has anyone else had such a quick decline in walking, increased pain to an 8, can’t bend to put on my shoes, can sleep for 2 hours then pain wakes me up. I can’t lift my foot off the floor, need help getting in or out of the car, getting into bed. I can walk about 10 steps with the walker, then it hurts so bad all the way down my leg.
I am calling the dr tomorrow to see if there could be more involved. But has anyone else been unable to walk or get up and down from furniture with only a bone on bone hip? I don’t have a fever, and no stress fractures showed up on the MRI done 4 days after I had trouble with pain.
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Yes, my bone on bone hip deteriorated a lot while waiting a month for my surgery date. It felt like it was breaking apart in the 2 weeks prior to surgery. I had total replacement a year ago and am now pain free. The surgeon spent 3 and a half hours cleaning out bone fragments during my surgery. I learned not to wait if possible.
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1 ReactionSounds like you are on the right road. I've had both hips replaced and in the state, you are in the only thing that will help is surgery. Actually, being able to sleep only sporadically provides the big push you need to have it done.
To date I have had 8 replacement surgeries, none are repeats. Rest and amuse yourself as best you can until the date arrives. Good Luck!
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1 ReactionThanks for your encouragement. I went in immediately when it started to hurt so much.
6 more days and it will be done. I am just surprised it came on so quickly and that I couldn’t walk.
I was the same way. My MRI showed synovitis fluid around my hip joint. I could now walk without a walker or crutches and even then my pain was an 11. I had my hip replacement on the right side in September 2023 so almost a year now and I still cannot lift my leg from a seated position or onto my bed, unless I manually help lift it. It’s worrying me. I will have to have my left side replaced soon also.
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1 ReactionWow, That is tough. You go through the hip replacement surgery and it doesn’t completely live up to what you expected.
My right hip replacement in 2016 was completely successful. I didn’t even think about my hip after that. It was bone on bone also, but I was able to walk without assistance before the surgery. I was also 8 years younger.
This left side has the ravages of arthritis and the pain even with a walker is horrible.
I hope you find a physical therapist or a consult to help you.
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1 ReactionYes, I can't walk now. First hip replacement 3 years ago. Stuck on a walker and pain. Been asking Dr's for years. Finally, pain management Dr said he thinks it's the SI joint. I got an injection yesterday but don't feel a difference yet. Actually I do feel something different in the buttocks but not the hip, around the leg, groin and down my leg. I had back to back hip revision in May and July and now I can't walk at all on that leg and it keeps me awake too. It's so painful. I have no quality of life now and no answers. I'm 58.
Were you able to find any solution? I'm the same way after 3 hip replacements.
How are you doing now, a month after surgery?
Is the pain decreasing, and how is therapy going?