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I am looking into Kruss Law & Generations Estate Law. Any others to consider? Also would like to hear if either of these would not be recommended.

Also, has anyone ever done estate planning through their EAP benefits?

Struggling with the decision to have surgery or not. My urogynecologist recommends a hysterectomy with mesh (sacrocolpopexy), but I am really unsure.

I've had uterine prolapse since my daughter was born 11 years ago. It progressed to a stage 3 within a couple years and my cervix has elongated over that time. I tried pelvic floor PT initially, nominal difference. Tried a pessary, it was uncomfortable and pushed on my colon causing blocked gas and stool. While it's not exactly painful it is uncomfortable and annoying. I also have adenomyosis but avoided hysterectomy because I am afraid of more prolapse. I am still worried about this and possibility of failed mesh or complications from the mesh. Or making everything worse (pain) by having the surgery. I plan to meet with my urogynecologist again to go over more questions.

If you have gone through hysterectomy with sacrocolpopexy please share you experience. Or if you opted to just live with the prolapse, I'd like to hear your reasons.

Other things to mention: I am also seeing my primary doctor for possible diagnosis of hypermobility disorder, I have hypermobile SI joints...not sure if mesh attached to sacrum would bother that.

I am finding conflicting information about the success rate of THR for patients whove had failed arthroscopies. There are discussions scattered here on this topic so I am hoping to try and consolidate those experiences with this poll.

I know there's a lot of nuance (age, various hip conditions such a dysplasia, variety procedures performed via arthroscopy, other conditions such as EDS/hypermobility) that all factor in but this is a simple poll.

For this poll I am measuring success as substantially pain free AND improved function...Basically did you get your quality of life back? Even if THR recovery took a year.

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9 weeks post labral debridement. I have not a day without some sort of pain that reaches at least a level 7 by the end of the day. It effects different areas on my op side (groin, calf, knee, heel, outer quad, SI). Each flares up at different times but SI joint, outer quad has been every day for the past 5 weeks. Heel pain keeps coming back too. Pain is usually a deep burning ache, but no numbness. I have been trying to increase my walking endurance, as recommended by PT, adding 5 minutes a week and now at 25 mins. Walking mostly goes ok but have noticed my op side experiences some drop foot issues, where the bottom of my foot drags.

Did anyone else experience this? I am seriously confused by the multitude of pain and flares I have post op that are not just isolated to hip. I feel my hip is less stable now than pre op and had some inhibition of the glutes medius that has gotten better.

Has anyone here had septoplasty with turbinate reduction and their surgeon only uses quilting sutures with 1 day of packing - no stents?

I have seen 2 ENTs. One uses stents but I was not as impressed by him because my appointment was breif and he was too eager to get surgery scheduled. The other does not use stents or traditional packing. He uses quilting sutures because they are more comfortable for the patient and as effective. I prefer this ENT because he was very easy to talk to and open to discuss questions, no pressure to move forward with surgery. I am curious about success rates between the two. My septoplasty is pretty straight forward. I have a bone spur and deviated septum that is higher up my nose.

I am feeling less and less confident with my PT and wanted to check in on what it looked like for others. My surgeon has a post op guide but nothing close to a detailed protocol for PT, outside of early restrictions he really leaves it up to the PT. I had labral debridement, on crutches 2 weeks 50% weight bearing, had 1 day on 1 crutch then my PT said to go without them.

Here are my issues:

1. Lack of concern about pain: I continue to complain about my SI joint and surrounding hip area flare ups getting worse rather than better and it's like talking to a wall. They just keep saying so long as it's not sharp pain and goes down within 24 hrs it's fine. My baseline is a consistent level 5 pain, so for me I am cycling from level 5 to an 8 on a daily basis. Pain increases throughout the day.

2. Number of exercises: I have 22 exercises, 2 sets each, I am supposed to do at home. 9 of which are various stretches. And this does not include 30 mins of stationary bike (split between 10min & 20min session) and 15 min walking I am to do

• supine SI joint self correction
• soleus stretch on wall
• gastroc stretch on wall
• modified thomas stretch
• seated hamstring stretch
• child's pose stretch
• seated piriformis stretch
• seated active figure 4 hip flexion and external rotation
• prone quadricep stretch with strap
• supine heel slide with strap
• bent knee fall outs
• marching bridge
• clamshell ladder
• quadruped leg extension slide out
• seated pelvic tilt
• single leg heel raises
• standing hip abduction with counter support
• squat with chair touch
• single leg balance with weight shift
• isometric gluteus medius at well
• tandem balance with head turn on foam pad
• staggered sit-to-stand

3. Inconsistent progression: Some of the exercises on my routine I've had since week 2 (supine heel slides, bent knee fall outs, calf raises) and I feel they are too easy. Yet others I feel they advanced me too quickly. For example, they had me doing sit to stand squats since week 2 using a taller surface, advanced it to chair touch by week 4 (normal chair height), and keep lowering the squat surface and have now added staggered sit-to-stands. The lower the squat goes the more it aggravates my SI joint and groin get because I have to hinge forward a lot due to long femurs. Also just as I start to get the right muscles fired up with banded clamshells they have advanced me to clamshell ladders which also flare up the SI joint badly.

Does this all appear par-for-course at 8 weeks post op?

On the flip side sometimes they do manual work when I am really flared up, which helps tremendously. Just wish it could be more often, in the meantime I'm looking to add massage to my rehab.