Thursday, September 24, 2009

Day 17 Post Surgery Day 10 At Home

Pretty much an uneventful day today. I am walking only with the assistance of one crutch.

Since I went off the Lovinox yesterday I can now take more traditional NSAID medications for the minor pain which still remains. I took two Advil in the morning which took about half the pain away. What was left I could deal with. As the Advil wore off I took a Mobic which is similar to Advil but lasts about 15 hours.

My exercise consisted of  running around (in the car) doing a lot of errands. So it was in and out of the car probably 6 or 7 times. I  also did the 7 exercises the therapist gave me with a little more intensity and repetitions.

Like a newborn baby I counted and documented my progress on a daily basis. As the baby gets older the days turn into weeks. So as I will soon arrive at three weeks I will be posting weekly for the most part. If anybody has any questions or would like some additional information between posts please email me at;
gerry_w@hotmail.com

2 comments:

  1. Is the pain you have now from the incision or muscular? The pain I have with the hip is muscular pain in the groin, hamstrings and buttocks. I don't have any actual joint pain. My fear is not to have relief after hip surgery.

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  2. Not really sure the source of the pain although it is not from the incision. It is a general ache deep within the leg from the knee up to the hip.

    That said, today I have the least amount of pain so far. It was a little sore in the morning but now 10:30 at night I hardly feel anything. The pain might be due to doing too much because today except for driving around and getting in and out of the car I haven't really done anything. At week two I walked about 8 blocks and last night around this time I did the 7 exercises the therapist gave me some of which are pretty hard. Last night I was in a lot of pain after. I think there is a balance between doing too much and giving yourself a day of mostly rest.

    Getting back to your current pain. Hip arthritis where you need to get it replaced typically presents itself as upper groin pain.
    That is what I had. I just thought it was some kind of muscle pull or inflammation. As it got worse it started to hurt around the butt area. At that point I realised it was something about the hip but thought a simple cortisone shot would fix it. I was shocked when the doctor told me it needed to be replaced.

    I have done a lot of research on hip replacement. If there is a common theme from everyone that has had it is that they are glad they had it done and wish they did it sooner. That is why I did mine right away and am glad I did.

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