u/ThirdOne38

I am 2 weeks out and I started getting a very sharp pain on the outside of my thigh, at the top. It feels like I ripped a muscle. Most other pain has gone away but this muscle tear feeling is just as intense as when it started. I can't really straighten my leg all the way when I stand up so it prevents me from walking normally. It spikes quite often every time I walk. I thought we're supposed to do a lot of walking.

I really think something is off but they keep dismissing it as normal. Did anyone else have something similar?​

My friend and I are friends with a couple with one college aged kid (Family). The parents in the family have a combined income of 80k and support the kid while in college, and live in a large metropolitan area. They are struggling to get by paycheck to paycheck and have no savings. Friend says oh they do not budget well and should be able to do better. He thinks $80k sounds like so much (he's older so $80k back then went farther)

I'm trying to estimate what that budget might be to help him understand. All I know is the rent is ~$1800 and they have a car payment on a Hyundai. I think he shouldn't be so harsh.

How long did you continue to

1.use ice?

2. elevate the leg for an extended period of time?

3. use crutches or walker? ( or before graduating to a cane)

4. wear compression socks

The reason I'm asking is I've been having a lot of difficulty with pain and trying to walk. I was very athletic pre op so I expected to have a somewhat smooth recovery.

But in this past week (operation was exactly 1 week ago) I've had a few incidences of severe pain in different areas. So I can barely walk at all, even today is no better than the evening of the surgery

Two other friends have had recent THR, also anterior, and neither had pain anything like I was describing. Both acknowledge they had weak lower body strength and never really worked out.

So one theorized that the more muscles and strength you have preop, the more muscles that get yanked about and pulled and stretched, so more pain and recovery.

I wonder if there's anything to this. They both feel a bit guilty with their easy recoveries so maybe its all just talk. (We're all near 60 and normal BMI)

I was getting along ok after an anterior procedure, first just the quads were hurting but loosened up w PT. Then suddenly I got this spiking pain at the top of the femur outside of the incision, around the evening of day 4. Everytime I straightened up when I stood. Like I was tearing something . Or ehrn my leg was at the end of the walking stride ( was using crutches).

I wrote to the dr.s and it was just, rest and put ice on it, not much help.

Then yesterday, end of day 6, I started moving around again and got another really sharp pain, this time in the groin area. Like I pulled a muscle or something.

Did anyone else have these experiences? Is this normal?

We had some chicken and vegetables, from which everyone ate the chicken. I want to eat the remainder, which if just vegetables I wouldn't be concerned, but there's leftover chicken "juice" in the sauce. Is it still safe after 4 days?

Last month we traveled in southeast Asia and had to use the squat toilets. But here (USA) the bathrooms get hand rails and raised seats. So how do the people manage with those low toilets right after a hip replacement? Especially posterior when you're not supposed to bend more than 90 degrees?

I broke my ankle once when I was running and it hurt but I kept running and didn't find out till a day later. Could something like that happen with your hip? Either a break or dislocation?

I know its ridiculous but this hurts so much (day 3, anterior) so you start imaging all sorts of things. (I did do PT today so that could be the cause of the bad pain. Or the fact that I just had surgery....)

I was just watching an old Batman and it reminded me of how deliciously evil Christopher Walken could be. The James Bond movie is up there too.

Gary Oldman in Fifth Element is another enjoyable evil performance.

I am interested in how they do the reattachment of the tendons and muscles on the new hip. I can't find any detail on that and all the videos I see are mostly those animations of them cutting the bone and adding the new capsule. I want to understand the next part of what they reattach, but I can't find much about it. Any ideas?

What were your restrictions for anterior? Some people are saying no "4" crossing of your legs, some say don't bend past 90 degrees, like reaching to put on your socks. My dr says "no restrictions." I'm like, none? None at all? I didn't drill him yet on this but is that how it is nowadays? Surgery is in a few days

Do you ever get annoyed when you post an offer, but they just return with the original price? There was a used item for $55. There was the option to make an offer (which I understand you can decide not to have that option), so I offer $45, not ridiculously low. But then the counter offer is $55. So why do they include the option to make an offer? It just seems like they're jerking you around.

So now I don't even want to buy it from them, except I need it and it's the only one available and I would have paid the $55 originally if I didn't see the "make offer" button, but now I'm soured on it, which I know is ridiculous, geez at least counter at $52 or something, but now I'm like is the guy a jerk and maybe he even lied on the listing if he's going to post like that......

Maybe I should just go to the store

Getting THR on Friday. What were the most important aids you had? Grabber, raised toilet seat and rails, cold water/ice machine thing? My friend said the most useless thing was the grabber because he kept dropping it and then couldn't bend over to pick it up 😄

I realized I don't have a regular dining type chair with armrests. We mostly congregate in the kitchen at a large island with chairs that are 24" (not 18" standard, but not full barstool height).

Would you think those would be OK or should I make sure to have a setup somewhere other than the island? I thought maybe those higher chairs would make it easier to sit down and get up.

We had a bunch of gift cards from over the years, including a mastercard gift card, so I typed them all into Amazon since we use that a lot. Well I tossed out the actual card, now I don't know the balance. I can't find out the balance since you need the 3 digit code to use the balance website, which I don't have anymore. So I've tried to use it on Amazon and it failed for a few purchases, so I try to use like a dollar at a time until it fails. But this is tedious and stupid. I just can't figure out any other way.

I love sports and tend to sweat a ton. Also my face will get very red and splotchy if it's humid out and it's been that way my whole life. I never used to wear makeup but I'm in a competition now where lots of people are watching, so I want something to cover that splotchy red look but of course it has to withstand a lot of sweating.

I read a bit and people mentioned "primer." Is that just foundation? My old routine was foundation with powder on top but that gets wiped off easily when sweating. Any suggestions?