Hi, just wondering if anyone has been able to resolve stem tip pain su

Hi @leghurts54
I’m wondering when your mid thigh pain started after your hip replacement?
I’m almost 5 months post op and the last two weeks I have been feeling mid thigh pain and sometimes pain to my knee. I’ve had to get out my cane on occasion also. It feels like a setback but my Orthopedic didn’t seemed concerned. I think I overdid it gardening but not sure. I’ve read where the prosthetic stem is rigid and the femur flexes where the stem ends and can cause pain. Hoping that’s not what it is but interested in hearing other people’s experiences.

I am 1.4 and have been experiencing pain in mid thigh that radiates to my knee. I believe it is coming from my stem but I have had multiple tests and nothing shows. It especially hurts when I lift anything. I also get groin pain on that side so they are injecting my SI joint next week

I also use my cane on bad days and cannot walk far at all.

I am having the exact same issue. I started a discussion here a few hours ago. I started having pain in my thigh for a while and now I have pain in my hip. I thought maybe I was walking too much on the treadmill. I am 76 years old and have been trying to walk 4 miles a day either outdoors or on the treadmill. I was doing 2.3 MPH but had to reduce it to 1.2 due to the pain. If all of this continues I will have to ask for a consult with my orthopedic surgeon. I was terrifed of surgery 2 years ago and I am putting off the phone call to him hoping that if I slow down I will be able to manage the pain by myself. I also think that it might be a stem problem but that might not be the reason for the hip pain.

Hi, so I had a fairly easy initial recovery from my surgery on Halloween 2022. About 6 months later I began experiencing sudden weakness sometimes several times a day where the leg would just buckle with pain above my knee. Fortunately I never fell but came close on multiple occasions. The surgeon was no help. He xrayed my hip and said it looked perfect and showed no interest in figuring out what was going on.
I went four months dealing with this sudden buckling of my leg and finally contacted the physical therapist I had used post surgery. I went in to see her and after doing a few physical tests said she thought my back might be the problem. I have seen a chiropractor for 40 years and he adjusts me at L4/L5. She suggested an adjustment at L3/L4. I had one adjustment there and now nearly two years later have not had another episode of my leg buckling.
I do have pain in my mid thigh if I move fast laterally or walk briskly. Jogging is impossible which is frustrating because it was the main reason I had the hip done. The surgeon had assured me that I would be able to run.
A second orthopedic guy that I see now refers to my problem as stem tip pain. I'm able to do everything I need to do, just can't do what I want to do.
I'm self employed working 7 days most weeks so another hip replacement and the much longer recovery time as well as the fear I could end up worse makes it a very undesirable and unlikely
choice.

My pain is mid thigh basically where the implant ends. I have no pain walking normally or going up stairs most of the time. Walking briskly 3+ physical or moving quickly ie: shooting baskets with my grandkids is a sharper pain that is usually more on the side of my thigh.
After a bone scan the orthopedic guy said the bone never grew properly around the tip of my implant. He says the stresses are not being distributed evenly and I'm feeling everything right at the tip.

@leghurts54 I’m wondering if you just recently got told your bone never grew properly around the tip of your implant from the fall of 2022? That is scary news to find out after all this time especially being told that your X-rays looked okay. Is there anything they can do for that besides a revision?
My mid thigh is still bothering me so I’m going back to my PT and hoping she can evaluate my gait and leg muscles or figure out why I felt so good and now at 5+ months I’m limping.

I was told by new orthopedic doctor about a year ago that he thought it was stem tip pain. So that was about 19 months post surgery. He suggested a bone growth stimulator as a possible help. I used it faithfully for about 6 months (3 hours per day) and thought I was feeling improvement but that was short-lived and I stopped.
What's funny is that I have multiple friends who all said it was the best decision they ever made and I regret having it done or at least having the older style implant which has a longer stem. But at the time I didn't know there were different types of replacements.

I am starting to realize that although surgery is a success, there are things that happen post surgery that present problems later on. For instance, 9 months after a very successful surgery I was at a local park, more like a tourist attraction, when a dog (off leash) rammed head first into the thigh on my operated leg. Then same dog came back around and did it again. There is a sign at the entrance to the park that states dogs have to be on leash. The locals don't care. I was in pain and a bit later was walking down the block to see my daughter when I started to collapse. Long story short, up until that time I had been almost pain free. Anyway, 6 months later I had a follow-up with my surgeon. The x-rays looked fine so I did not mention the incident with the dog. I had been SO good at not falling and doing exactly what I was supposed to do and some entitled person decides that her dog can be off leash whenever she feels like it. It's infuriating. I have not been back to that park in over a year and a half. My point is that we have no control over everything.

I’m sorry to hear about the dog incident, that is so frustrating that someone’s actions with their dog affected your leg so much. I had a similar accident in 2015 where an unleashed dog ran into my bike. It caused a spinal injury I’m still in pain with.
I was told that keeping the leg and hip muscles strong is a lifelong commitment after a hip replacement. I’m a fit person but thinking I possibly have not focused as much on my leg and hip strengthening the last few weeks…but I am now! Best to you.