Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 I stood straight up the next morning after surgery. They tried to make me stand up the day of surgery but the epidural kept me from feeling my legs. My guess is that you've had the traditional approach complete with all the restrictions. This means they may have cut some muscle and ligaments. My guess is that your really tight right now and that is why you can't stand straight. This is what physical therapy is for, they will work with you three times a week to help strengthen the muscles to support your body weight. For those who opt out of PT, you will most likely have a rough road ahead. They won't let me stop my PT until I can walk solidly without a limp and have full strength back in that leg. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. CC: Joint Replacement Joint Replacement From: tschwarz@... Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:31:04 -0500 Subject: Re: forgot to post How long before u could stand straight up flatfooted? I am still having to lean forward because I can not stand completely straight up. Had complete hip replacement with long incision on May 2nd. I'm getting around well except for having to lean over. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Barbara Horton <bhort2000@...> wrote: > same feeling here, but at 8 weeks I didn't think anything of it as it is just part of the healing,,,, one day you will say.. gone, hang in there. I still have issues and I just do what I can, some of it just comes back with time. I would like faster but can't rush the body it will do what it will do. > > Barbara > > ________________________________ > From: BARB <barbmch@...> > Joint Replacement > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: forgot to post > > > , I felt like I was carrying the baseball bat around in my thigh....... > Maybe it was my imagination visualizing the stem at the top of my thigh > bone. > The mind works in mysterious ways......BARB in Florida > > forgot to post > > I forgot to mention that my appointment went really well, and the surgeon > and I are thrilled with my new hip. I don't have to see him for another year > for that joint. > > He was a little concerned about the right which is starting to hurt, but > nothing horrid yet, its ceramic on ceramic, and I had forgotten that !!! so > thats why I had the MRI better results from that. although I haven't had the > results yet. > > Andre Rieu was spectacular. well worth the journey and the cost. > > hope every-one is doing okay. > > what about you Jeff ?? hanging in there. > > also I hope every-one is safe from the storms I have just watched on TV. > Horrid. > > xx > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 This is why I say each person is different. I had the anterior approach the first time, it was great, but the other hip was fusing to the bone, so I had to wait a until the next month to get the other one done and it was posterior. The first one I would have been able to walk unaided if my right hip was a good hip. After the second hip I had to do therapy again etc. Home health came to my house PT would see how I was doing and give me more things to do, left to my own, I know me, it would have been hit and miss, but as he was coming to my home 3 times a week I had to do well. I have been told by 2 different Drs. that you have to walk, walk, and walk. Same with knees. You do what you can. Barbara ________________________________ From: RENEE WEAL <goddessrenee@...> Joint Replacement Surgery Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:22 AM Subject: RE: forgot to post I stood straight up the next morning after surgery. They tried to make me stand up the day of surgery but the epidural kept me from feeling my legs. My guess is that you've had the traditional approach complete with all the restrictions. This means they may have cut some muscle and ligaments. My guess is that your really tight right now and that is why you can't stand straight. This is what physical therapy is for, they will work with you three times a week to help strengthen the muscles to support your body weight. For those who opt out of PT, you will most likely have a rough road ahead. They won't let me stop my PT until I can walk solidly without a limp and have full strength back in that leg. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. CC: Joint Replacement Joint Replacement From: tschwarz@... Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:31:04 -0500 Subject: Re: forgot to post How long before u could stand straight up flatfooted? I am still having to lean forward because I can not stand completely straight up. Had complete hip replacement with long incision on May 2nd. I'm getting around well except for having to lean over. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Barbara Horton <bhort2000@...> wrote: > same feeling here, but at 8 weeks I didn't think anything of it as it is just part of the healing,,,, one day you will say.. gone, hang in there. I still have issues and I just do what I can, some of it just comes back with time. I would like faster but can't rush the body it will do what it will do. > > Barbara > > ________________________________ > From: BARB <barbmch@...> > Joint Replacement > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: forgot to post > > > , I felt like I was carrying the baseball bat around in my thigh....... > Maybe it was my imagination visualizing the stem at the top of my thigh > bone. > The mind works in mysterious ways......BARB in Florida > > forgot to post > > I forgot to mention that my appointment went really well, and the surgeon > and I are thrilled with my new hip. I don't have to see him for another year > for that joint. > > He was a little concerned about the right which is starting to hurt, but > nothing horrid yet, its ceramic on ceramic, and I had forgotten that !!! so > thats why I had the MRI better results from that. although I haven't had the > results yet. > > Andre Rieu was spectacular. well worth the journey and the cost. > > hope every-one is doing okay. > > what about you Jeff ?? hanging in there. > > also I hope every-one is safe from the storms I have just watched on TV. > Horrid. > > xx > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 So true! I too was in good hands with the home PT, she helped me with all my questions and also felt like a friend as she was my sole visitor during those rough first couple weeks. I have outpatient PT now and agree that if I sit for any length of time at work or at home, I become completely stiffened up. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Joint Replacement From: bhort2000@... Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 06:59:05 -0700 Subject: Re: forgot to post This is why I say each person is different. I had the anterior approach the first time, it was great, but the other hip was fusing to the bone, so I had to wait a until the next month to get the other one done and it was posterior. The first one I would have been able to walk unaided if my right hip was a good hip. After the second hip I had to do therapy again etc. Home health came to my house PT would see how I was doing and give me more things to do, left to my own, I know me, it would have been hit and miss, but as he was coming to my home 3 times a week I had to do well. I have been told by 2 different Drs. that you have to walk, walk, and walk. Same with knees. You do what you can. Barbara ________________________________ From: RENEE WEAL <goddessrenee@...> Joint Replacement Surgery Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:22 AM Subject: RE: forgot to post I stood straight up the next morning after surgery. They tried to make me stand up the day of surgery but the epidural kept me from feeling my legs. My guess is that you've had the traditional approach complete with all the restrictions. This means they may have cut some muscle and ligaments. My guess is that your really tight right now and that is why you can't stand straight. This is what physical therapy is for, they will work with you three times a week to help strengthen the muscles to support your body weight. For those who opt out of PT, you will most likely have a rough road ahead. They won't let me stop my PT until I can walk solidly without a limp and have full strength back in that leg. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. CC: Joint Replacement Joint Replacement From: tschwarz@... Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:31:04 -0500 Subject: Re: forgot to post How long before u could stand straight up flatfooted? I am still having to lean forward because I can not stand completely straight up. Had complete hip replacement with long incision on May 2nd. I'm getting around well except for having to lean over. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Barbara Horton <bhort2000@...> wrote: > same feeling here, but at 8 weeks I didn't think anything of it as it is just part of the healing,,,, one day you will say.. gone, hang in there. I still have issues and I just do what I can, some of it just comes back with time. I would like faster but can't rush the body it will do what it will do. > > Barbara > > ________________________________ > From: BARB <barbmch@...> > Joint Replacement > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: forgot to post > > > , I felt like I was carrying the baseball bat around in my thigh....... > Maybe it was my imagination visualizing the stem at the top of my thigh > bone. > The mind works in mysterious ways......BARB in Florida > > forgot to post > > I forgot to mention that my appointment went really well, and the surgeon > and I are thrilled with my new hip. I don't have to see him for another year > for that joint. > > He was a little concerned about the right which is starting to hurt, but > nothing horrid yet, its ceramic on ceramic, and I had forgotten that !!! so > thats why I had the MRI better results from that. although I haven't had the > results yet. > > Andre Rieu was spectacular. well worth the journey and the cost. > > hope every-one is doing okay. > > what about you Jeff ?? hanging in there. > > also I hope every-one is safe from the storms I have just watched on TV. > Horrid. > > xx > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 hi Barb, thanks, the surgery went well and i'm home from the hospital. just lots of pain, jeff From: BARB <barbmch@...> Joint Replacement Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:59 PM Subject: Re: forgot to post Now that's a new one. Don't think I have ever heard of that happening before. So sorry. How did your repair work go? BARB in Florida forgot to post I forgot to mention that my appointment went really well, and the surgeon and I are thrilled with my new hip. I don't have to see him for another year for that joint. He was a little concerned about the right which is starting to hurt, but nothing horrid yet, its ceramic on ceramic, and I had forgotten that !!! so thats why I had the MRI better results from that. although I haven't had the results yet. Andre Rieu was spectacular. well worth the journey and the cost. hope every-one is doing okay. what about you Jeff ?? hanging in there. also I hope every-one is safe from the storms I have just watched on TV. Horrid. xx ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 In a message dated 5/27/2011 6:22:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, goddessrenee@... writes: They tried to make me stand up the day of surgery but the epidural kept me from feeling my legs. My guess is that you've I was kept in the recovery room from the earliest surgery 6:30 until 2 PM because of no feeling in my legs they said from the epidural. Do you know why the epidural does that? The next morning when I was asked to bend my knee I did 111 degrees a hospital record. I think this was because the epidural was still reducing the pain even the next day. I tried to start some Louisiana crayfish in my fish pond. They were in shock with the cold water. I put them on the beach and let them enter the water at their own pace which took like up to 30 minutes. Brickey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 My epidural was still connected intil the next morning so they were keeping me out of pain. This is what the epidural is supposed to do, it disables all the nerves feeding the lower body so that there is no feeling at all. Crawfish like muddy warm waters. We call them mudbugs here. You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Joint Replacement From: Skippyfj@... Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:46:27 -0400 Subject: Re: forgot to post In a message dated 5/27/2011 6:22:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, goddessrenee@... writes: They tried to make me stand up the day of surgery but the epidural kept me from feeling my legs. My guess is that you've I was kept in the recovery room from the earliest surgery 6:30 until 2 PM because of no feeling in my legs they said from the epidural. Do you know why the epidural does that? The next morning when I was asked to bend my knee I did 111 degrees a hospital record. I think this was because the epidural was still reducing the pain even the next day. I tried to start some Louisiana crayfish in my fish pond. They were in shock with the cold water. I put them on the beach and let them enter the water at their own pace which took like up to 30 minutes. Brickey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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