Cannot lift my leg after hip replacement

Switch surgeons. Get a proper orthopod who checks on you regularly. What kind of doctor sees you once and then a second time a year later? A fantasizer.

I had my left TKR anterior at the end of Feb this year. I have seen both doctors several times who operated on me and I am continuing PT since for scar and mobilization. My leg is still problematic with some of the things you describe but I tell my PT and I tell my doctors so that we can together figure out what to do next.

I was lucky to find an article and a blog on anterior THR muscle weakness and pain and glad to see I am not alone.

Each person is different and doctors who think everyone fits a formula should be avoided no matter how good they tell you they are.

It’s all about how good YOU will be. You are the patient, the customer, the client. The surgeon probably has never had a joint replacement in his or her lifetime. So all their info is anecdotal and not from personal experience.

Good luck. Go to a PT and orthopedic surgeon for PT and surgery who cares. Not who tells you why you should be doing this or that.

Oh gosh. I’m so sorry. How long has it been since your replacement? Mine will be one year on Sept 7th.
Can you lift your leg to put pants on? Or lift your whole leg up when you’re lying down? Thats what I cannot do. Or getting into the car I have to grab my leg and help it up into the car. Or the top of my thigh hurts. I am so sorry to hear you’re having pain too. And yes it’s super frustrating.

My R hip was 8/1/23. For about the first 7 weeks it seemed wonderful, minimal pain and then just gradually got worse. PT did deep tissue massage and trigger point to, I think it was ileopsoas muscle and worked on the pirifirmis with different stretches. That allowed me to be able to do some high knee type marches but my R leg would come in and PT worked with me to do the high knee lift and keeping the femur perpendicular to hip and eventually, I could stop it from rotating. Now, i can walk better but if I want to try and ride a bike, i have to practically lay bike down to get leg over…which is how it was prior to having hip replaced. I know for me it was almost 2 yrs exactly for pain to be gone on my L hip which was replaced 8/7/21, and I can still do some things that make it hurt….like gardening and digging a hole with a shovel, pushing/pulling an object. Guess, the expectation for the pain to be gone is a poor expectation?? Or maybe being a farm lady is too much to continue after a hip, but keeping my mobility is why I wanted a hip—never an easy decision and never a guarantee. Hope you can regain/improve your mobility maybe with PT.
Best of luck to you-keep us posted

Oh my, this is exactly a description of my experience - after my second round of hip replacements 12 years ago " I know for me it was almost 2 yrs exactly for pain to be gone on my L hip which was replaced 8/7/21, and I can still do some things that make it hurt….like gardening and digging a hole with a shovel, pushing/pulling an object."
All of a sudden, one day almost 4 years later, it occurred to me that I was able to dig - maybe not post holes, but definitely removing large plants and even some shrubs, without thinking about it. And I could pull the big hauling wagon across uneven surfaces...

Now I am a decade older, my arthritis is worse almost everywhere, I can't lift hay bales or 50 pound sacks of salt anymore, but my hips are good as new - some days the only body parts that don't hurt.

Oh my, this is exactly a description of my experience - after my second round of hip replacements 12 years ago " I know for me it was almost 2 yrs exactly for pain to be gone on my L hip which was replaced 8/7/21, and I can still do some things that make it hurt….like gardening and digging a hole with a shovel, pushing/pulling an object."
All of a sudden, one day almost 4 years later, it occurred to me that I was able to dig - maybe not post holes, but definitely removing large plants and even some shrubs, without thinking about it. And I could pull the big hauling wagon across uneven surfaces...

Now I am a decade older, my arthritis is worse almost everywhere, I can't lift hay bales or 50 pound sacks of salt anymore, but my hips are good as new - some days the only body parts that don't hurt.