What is normal recovery time/ progress for total hip replacement?

I'm 2-1/2 years out from anterior total hip and still have left leg and low back pain. I can't walk too far without pain, so shopping is a chore. I found my own exercises to do that help me get rid of the pain unless I sit too long, stand too long, walk too far. I don't give up and do what I can. My left leg still has prickling pain like pins and needles. I'm sorry to be such a downer, but you can't give up. Good luck.

It takes up to one year to totally recover to the trauma of a hip replacement. I have had four on the left hip with actebulum/pubic ramus fracture along with right hip replacement. Mine was due to avascular necrosis and osteoporosis. I still have problems my left one in 2010 the right 2014. I occasionally get injections into both my hips for inflammation.

Hi I have had both hips replaced, 2015 & 2017. (Same Dr) age then 64. Best thing I did. Was working , very active until operation. Did PT religiously- always stretching 3 /4 times a day. Yes I was sore, but pain was going away. I started back playing tennis after 4 months and still play. Still stretch and lift weights every day. Give it time, although a gal friend of mine complains about her hip after 4 yrs- she feels it clicking sometimes. (She is 67 and still working- guess it depends on Dr and body.

There is no “ normal” time. Everyone is different and also has different expectations of what recovery consists of. My surgeon’s PA told me that a typical recovery was 4-6 weeks. I had post op anemia and was not anywhere back to normal at 4-6 weeks. My surgeon told me it would be 12-18 months to get to back to what i considered normal.

Hi, I had both hips replaced, first 2010 posterior and no issues after 1 year recovery time. The second hip, anterior incision 13 months ago. I thought the continued pain was my hip but was informed by a neurosurgeon its not from my hip but L5 and sacrum area.

Hi, i had both hips done, a few months apart. It took 2yrs for each side to fully recover. I wasnt smart and didnt do all the physical therapy needed, so i dont have full extension. But i was out of pain completely after 2yrs each side. Hope that helps.

On x-ray i have severe osteoarthritis, bone on bone, in my left hip. But I have no real pain, just discomfort in certain positions. I walk 30 min every day with no discomfort. I'm 78. The bad hip does not interfere with anything I want to do except that, due to the discomfort, I had to change my mattress and to sleep i can only get comfortable on one side. My hip discomfort has gotten worse since Sept. so I assume i will have real pain in another 6 month...or be unable to sleep without sleeping pills.. Plus my husband's dementia has gotten worse, and I think he will be unable to help me at all in another 6 month. Based on my assessment of the future, I'm having total hip replacement in April. I do not want to ruin the summer when we move to our beach house and, again, in 6 mo. I foresee real pain developing and my husband being unable with surgery recovery. Is this crazy to be having my hip replacement now when i have no real pain? When I had the other one replaced in 2017, I was disabled by the pain although it was not heavy pain despite the hip looking terrible on x-ray.

I’m a 74yo male who just had THR (anterior approach) 6 months after first injection for pain, and 3mo after 2nd injection. I started PT seven days after surgery, and today, 7 weeks after surgery I’ve resumed all normal activities and am barely aware of the hip,

I'm sorry for all you're going through Peggy and wish you and your husband the best.

Your question is best answered by your surgeon. I'm getting my right hip replaced in a few days. It started out as mild pain in my right groin and then just got slowly worse over the last year. I didn't think it was related to the hip, but sure enough, that's where the pain is felt.

All I can say - if I start to feel the same discomfort on my left side, and the xray shows I'm bone on bone, I'm getting it replaced. I'm 70 now and have had both knees replaced. I don't want to wait until the pain is so bad Im suffering every day, as I am now because I didn't seek help earlier.

Everyones's situation is different. My message is this - if your surgeon says the joint will eventually have to be replaced, go ahead and get it replaced as soon as possible and at a time as convenient to you as possible. You may not have that luxury considering what's going on with your husband. Recovery from THR is supposed to be relatively quick, but it would still be good to have someone with you for the first few weeks.

All the best to you Peggy.

Joe

Each of my hip replacement surgeries recoveries were very different. However, once time went by, they became the same. At five months exactly on both I was stiff but moving; at one year they both were in the rearview mirror. One was a very severe recovery for the first three months the other one was very severe for just a month and a half as my surgeon knew my body better in the second surgery. I have met people who are mobile after the first two weeks, which makes me feel like such a loser, L O L! It’s really different with everyone - make sure you’re in physical therapy so somebody’s keeping an eye on you and make sure You follow up with your post recovery surgeon visits informing them of your complaints.