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Just something interesting that happened to me after my surgery! I have never in my life had a regular menstrual cycle and never sought medical attention purely because it’s convenient to only bleed once every few months. Since I had my left PAO in June, I have had my period every month on the dot. I didn’t expect this to happen but I guess the PAO relieving some of the inflammation in my pelvis area may have onset this? I wasn’t on birth control prior to or after the surgery, and haven’t made any changes to my diet. I just thought it was interesting! Have any of you guys also experienced this or have any better reasoning for why this may have happened?

Anybody who’s had a PAO and is now pain-free, how long did it take to get to that point? I’m a little over 3 months post-op and still experiencing frequent, dull pain in my hip that was operated on. Of course, this is still pretty soon after the surgery, so I know that some pain is expected still at this point in my recovery. It’s just so hard to shake that feeling that something wasn’t quite where it needed to be during the operation, and I’ll never really be ‘pain-free’. I would love some input from anybody who’s also been here about what your long-term recovery looked like to get to where you are now. Also, if anyone has advice for getting over that mental hurdle of thinking something must’ve gone wrong during surgery, I would love if you could share!

For good news— I graduated from PT last week(yay!), and it helped me SO much rebuilding strength and mobility!! I go to school on a pretty large campus, and at the beginning of the semester, I felt like a baby because I would be so put out going from class to class. Now it’s pretty much how it was prior to my surgery, but with less pain in that hip! I also have my surgery consultation for the other side in about a month, so I should be able to get it done before the year is over! I’m nervous for what next semester holds- if I’ll just be condemned to online classes or maybe withdrawing for the semester, but either way I’m glad to be getting this done asap so I can (hopefully) get to living life again!

I’m about 9 weeks post op from my first PAO. Struggled with pretty severe depression for as long as I can remember, medicated on and off with little success. I feel like my mood has improved so much without the constant hip pain. I’m hesitant to say anything so definitive just because I’ve absolutely had my fair share of highs and lows. It’s weird to be happy and detach myself from any habits I’ve formed over the years relating to my depression so suddenly. It’s also weird to mourn all the time I lost to it thinking something was fundamentally wrong with my brain, only to find out that a large factor was likely just due to the pain from my hip. So many of my burdens were resolved seemingly overnight, and I don’t know how to process that. Of course I’m happy about these new developments! It’s just such a large change from everything I’ve known. I’m curious to hear if anybody on this sub has had a similar experience, and if so, what you did to navigate through all of these new feelings. Thanks!

I work at a Target and have had a bunch of IU students come through buying stuff for dorms and apartments. There’s a 20% off deal that you can use! It’s a little bit tricky because it requires you to submit a document to verify your student status, and the Crimson Cards don’t have expiration dates on them, so target doesn’t accept them. Here’s what works:

Open the IU mobile app or IU.edu, and go to IGPS to see your full schedule. The schedule that’s just on the IU app won’t work because it doesn’t have all the information they need on it. This is maybe common sense for returning students, but freshmen probably aren’t super familiar with this program because their schedules are pretty much built for them at NSO. That’s who this post is geared toward.

Download the page as a pdf (act like you’re going to print it, and the option to save as a pdf should appear).

Download the Target app or go to the target website and sign up for Target Circle if you haven’t already. You can cancel it after, but you do have to sign up to get the discount. It’s free.

Go to the settings page under the ‘my Target’ tab and scroll down until you see the ‘student’ button under discount verification. Click on it and begin filling out what it prompts you to. You’ll upload the document you just downloaded when you get to the file upload stage.

It will process the document(and hopefully approve it), and email you when it’s done. It says up to 20 minutes, but I haven’t seen anybody’s take more than 5.

You then have to apply the discount to your cart. It should be on the ‘explore discounts’ page that should now pop up when you go back to settings and look at discount verification. If it’s not there, it’s probably on the ‘wallet’ tab at the top. You may need to scroll through the coupons on there to see it.

Save your cashier and your parents some grief and do it before you shop. Good luck moving in! See ya’ll on Monday!

8weeks post op from my PAO. Recovery was going super well, and I was walking with no assistance, no limp, no pain. Of course I have not yet been doing all the things I was doing before surgery, but still getting back out there and being way more active than I had been the past several weeks during recovery. I’ve even been working a little bit(seated) at the checkout at my retail job.

2 days ago, I did the most activity yet since surgery where in total I probably walked a mile, some of it over terrain that was definitely not flat. Now I’m having more pain and feeling less stable. I went back to using both crutches for the time being. I also feel like the numb spot on my upper thigh has expanded?

I’m super paranoid that I gave myself a stress fracture. I don’t have another appointment for ~2 weeks, and I still have some shifts that I picked up between now and then. I’m also moving into a new apartment(luckily my family is helping a lot to carry everything) and starting school soon. I’m just a nervous wreck about this, and I’m mad at myself for rushing my recovery. I was so happy to be feeling so good so quickly! Does anybody have advice?

I(19F) just hit 6 weeks post op for my PAO on my left hip 🥳🎉 I’ve had hip pain as long as I can remember, and I was honestly so glad to get diagnosed with bilateral hip dysplasia in May because that meant I could get treatment. My left hip was a lot more symptomatic than my right but I will likely have to have the other side done eventually. My left hip LCEA and ACEA were both 15 prior to the surgery, and my right is still LCEA 11 + ACEA 13.

ANYWAY my recovery has gone so well, and I’m so grateful they were able to get me in so soon after my diagnosis. I still have some dull pain on days where I’m more active, but overall it’s been such significant improvement from how it was before! I’ve begun weight bearing on the operated leg, and it’s been great! I know I’m probably rushing recovery a bit, but I’ve been walking very short distances without crutches with no notable limp and also no pain on the operated side.

I was really nervous to go back to school(3rd year college student) because my school is very large and doesn’t have amazing accessibility—I’m also living in an apartment off campus which kind of complicates things. But I’m way more confident now, and I think I’ll be able to get by with just one crutch which I’m super happy about!!

One thing that I have noticed since I started weight bearing is how insanely unstable my right side is now in comparison to the left, which is mind blowing because the left is still clearly recovering from a hardcore surgery. I can’t believe I’ve been living my whole life like that! I’ve always loved to run and hike; I did cross country and track in high school, but I really sucked at it. I know that in part it was due to my hip pain, but I’m curious now to see if I improve in these activities not only because I’m experiencing less pain, but because my bones literally work better!

I’d love to hear how everybody else is doing with recoveries!!

I want to feel like I am standing with the whole world sprawled out in front of me. It’s terrifying and exciting. Moving on to something new in a very grand and dramatic way while also mourning the life I once knew.

The one song I’ve found that fits this for me(and what inspired this post) is Smokey by Red House Painters. I love this song and want to make a playlist titled ‘expanses’ but I have no idea what else to put on it. I’d love to hear any recommendations!

This is totally too late to be asking this, but I’m on the GenCon event staff this year and super nervous about parking. I have really limited mobility at the moment and parking for the staff(or at least those of us hired by the third party staffing agency) is kind of just at our own discretion with no reimbursement. Last year I just parked about a mile away and walked to avoid dealing super high parking fees, however I can’t really walk more than a few blocks right now. I was kind of just planning on parking a little while away and getting an Uber over to the event center, but I’m curious if there are other options. This is only my second year involved with the convention, so I figured maybe some more experienced GenCon-goers might have tips! Can’t wait!

At least a third of our team is either planning on quitting within the month or has already put their two weeks in. It’s making me consider some things. I’ve been at my store for about 5 years, and nobody has moved up during that time. Is that normal? We’ve had plenty of vacancies in TL positions, but they just get filled by leads coming from other stores. I definitely have coworkers who are very capable and have expressed interest in moving up and developing but nothing has come of it. I feel like that sounds crazy on paper but is that just the way Target operates?
Also- Is the mass quitting just a thing at our store or a larger phenomenon? The retention for any new hires has been TERRIBLE as well. Prayers for everybody who’s staying on our team and will be stuck training new people who will just quit in a week all the while shouldering the workload of four people. Yikes.