Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Dear folks..I had the spurs too...As a 1and half yr. BHR...I can commisserate with you Will Your story sounded very close to mine...Could not get out of bed the first day...Had bone spurs and then as soon as I could tell the Baboon thing on the back of my butt happened. It was especially noticiable as Im 5ft4 and usually 120 pounds. It felt as though my hip weighed the 120 and there was a loaf of really good sourdough on my the side of my thigh for about two to three months...Some of us just are a little more imflmmatory than others ... I too was very fit going in to surgery and the muscle pain was beyond.. belief and I kept trying to compare with others....wrong!!!! .... and only at that point could give incredible thanks for my upper body strength which you need because you can not move your lower ... I in that hospital bed and watched two people that had the same surgery same day right after me... stroll down the hall in crutches the next day with big smiles and waving at me as I lie there in indescribable pain... The good news is though...it was over quick and I was on my way to the stairs as you the next day... It was all worth it. I have returned to all my acitivites and give thanks every day. ....I know that the next hip is coming long ...same ugly pain stuff coming back with alot more lower back pain this time.... Stay tuned... Love to this group and all the continued support.... Sue in CA 3/11/03 Koen De Smet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Dear folks..I had the spurs too...As a 1and half yr. BHR...I can commisserate with you Will Your story sounded very close to mine...Could not get out of bed the first day...Had bone spurs and then as soon as I could tell the Baboon thing on the back of my butt happened. It was especially noticiable as Im 5ft4 and usually 120 pounds. It felt as though my hip weighed the 120 and there was a loaf of really good sourdough on my the side of my thigh for about two to three months...Some of us just are a little more imflmmatory than others ... I too was very fit going in to surgery and the muscle pain was beyond.. belief and I kept trying to compare with others....wrong!!!! .... and only at that point could give incredible thanks for my upper body strength which you need because you can not move your lower ... I in that hospital bed and watched two people that had the same surgery same day right after me... stroll down the hall in crutches the next day with big smiles and waving at me as I lie there in indescribable pain... The good news is though...it was over quick and I was on my way to the stairs as you the next day... It was all worth it. I have returned to all my acitivites and give thanks every day. ....I know that the next hip is coming long ...same ugly pain stuff coming back with alot more lower back pain this time.... Stay tuned... Love to this group and all the continued support.... Sue in CA 3/11/03 Koen De Smet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Alright, Will. Now you've touched some nerves. Those weren't " sophites " , they were bone spurs and growths called Osteophytes. I wonder if perhaps I may not be looking forward to the same kinds of complications you had. A question: did the resurfed hip look swollen before the surgery? Mine actually looks like it came from another body. Muscle growth around the damaged joint, and I do know I have a number of osteophytes, as well. Like you, I qualify as " fit " ...though I'm nine years older. Do keep us posted. How strange that being in good condition actually becomes a liability. Alan > Hi all > > well I am 4 days post op. Nobody seemed to mention previously about > ending up with a rear end that looked like a baboons. Initially > things did not go well at all. Being a fit fairly young(46) > sportsman my surgeeon expected me to leave on Sunday (3days post op) > maybe needing 1 stick. How wrong he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Welcome aboard the encouragement wagon, Steve. It's so great to see this happen. What a nurturing community we have here. Des In a message dated 6/7/2004 10:02:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, sog@... writes: It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Welcome aboard the encouragement wagon, Steve. It's so great to see this happen. What a nurturing community we have here. Des In a message dated 6/7/2004 10:02:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, sog@... writes: It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Welcome aboard the encouragement wagon, Steve. It's so great to see this happen. What a nurturing community we have here. Des In a message dated 6/7/2004 10:02:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, sog@... writes: It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 At 09:50 AM 6/7/2004 -0400, you wrote: > It felt as though my hip weighed the 120 and there >was a loaf of really good sourdough on my the side of my thigh for about >two to >three months...Some of us just are a little more imflmmatory than others ... My left hip was so swollen that I thought it was some kind of huge pillowed bandage that they had wrapped around my leg. I had to raise the bed table nearly to my chin to get my left thigh under the thing. I had some nerve issues, so I couldn't feel anything anyway, therefore, that COULDN'T be my leg. I about died when they changed the dressing and I discovered there was nothing more on my leg but the ace bandage and a dressing. The rest of it was all ME! Gave a whole new definition to the term " thunder thighs " . It took at least a couple of months to go down, and the two now match. Cindy C+ 5/25/01 and 6/28/01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 At 09:50 AM 6/7/2004 -0400, you wrote: > It felt as though my hip weighed the 120 and there >was a loaf of really good sourdough on my the side of my thigh for about >two to >three months...Some of us just are a little more imflmmatory than others ... My left hip was so swollen that I thought it was some kind of huge pillowed bandage that they had wrapped around my leg. I had to raise the bed table nearly to my chin to get my left thigh under the thing. I had some nerve issues, so I couldn't feel anything anyway, therefore, that COULDN'T be my leg. I about died when they changed the dressing and I discovered there was nothing more on my leg but the ace bandage and a dressing. The rest of it was all ME! Gave a whole new definition to the term " thunder thighs " . It took at least a couple of months to go down, and the two now match. Cindy C+ 5/25/01 and 6/28/01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Hi Alan I knew they were some sort of 'phites' but you have got the right name. I am sure you will be OK though, first couple of days were pretty horrible but as I said improving rapidly now. As I said the one problem is the brace, we really dont see eye to eye. But I am sure my surgeon is right o I will do my 3 week penance and then hopefully go for it. When is your Op by the way? Whenever, best of luck with it, hopefully you will not have the same initial prob and bad couple of days I had. No way of getting away from the Baboons rear I think. Good Luck. Will --- Alan Ray redace_us@...> wrote: --------------------------------- Alright, Will. Now you've touched some nerves. Those weren't " sophites " , they were bone spurs and growths called Osteophytes. I wonder if perhaps I may not be looking forward to the same kinds of complications you had. A question: did the resurfed hip look swollen before the surgery? Mine actually looks like it came from another body. Muscle growth around the damaged joint, and I do know I have a number of osteophytes, as well. Like you, I qualify as " fit " ...though I'm nine years older. Do keep us posted. How strange that being in good condition actually becomes a liability. Alan > Hi all > > well I am 4 days post op. Nobody seemed to mention previously about > ending up with a rear end that looked like a baboons. Initially > things did not go well at all. Being a fit fairly young(46) > sportsman my surgeeon expected me to leave on Sunday (3days post op) > maybe needing 1 stick. How wrong he was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 > He explained that due to my high level of > activity pre op my body had tried to protect itself by restricting > the ROM in my hip. This it did by growing Sophites(I think, which is > bone growth) " Osteophytes " , informally known as " bone spurs " . I had a ton of them - that's why my surgery took twice as long as they expected It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Steve (bilat C+ 4/20/04, Amstutz) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Will I also had numerous osteophytes and neophytes on the femur neck and around the acetabulum. They do distort the geometry of the hip joint. In my case they did not stretch the tendons/muscles but made the op quite long (1:47) though without any significant blood loss (no transfusions). He surgeon did state that I had lots of osteophytes, that my hip was very stiff, and that I had very hard bones. The damage to the hip was so advanced (bone-on-bone with cysts) that the femur had shifted 2/3 of an inch upwards into the acetabulum. Hence the psoas and iliac muscles shrunk significantly and that explains the initial limited ROM after the op and during the physiotherapy. So, in my case, the key muscle/tendon groups shrunk and were stretched by nearly an inch by the op inserting the resurfacing prosthesis there. So, some of us were very tight in that area after the op and you are very loose. Can’t say I know which I prefer, but I think that your ROM recovery will be quicker as you won’t need to stretch those muscles. Good luck Dan * +44 (0)7974 981-407 @ dan.milosevic@... _____ From: sog1927 Sent: 07 June 2004 18:01 To: surfacehippy Subject: Re: 4 days post op > He explained that due to my high level of > activity pre op my body had tried to protect itself by restricting > the ROM in my hip. This it did by growing Sophites(I think, which is > bone growth) " Osteophytes " , informally known as " bone spurs " . I had a ton of them - that's why my surgery took twice as long as they expected It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Steve (bilat C+ 4/20/04, Amstutz) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Will I also had numerous osteophytes and neophytes on the femur neck and around the acetabulum. They do distort the geometry of the hip joint. In my case they did not stretch the tendons/muscles but made the op quite long (1:47) though without any significant blood loss (no transfusions). He surgeon did state that I had lots of osteophytes, that my hip was very stiff, and that I had very hard bones. The damage to the hip was so advanced (bone-on-bone with cysts) that the femur had shifted 2/3 of an inch upwards into the acetabulum. Hence the psoas and iliac muscles shrunk significantly and that explains the initial limited ROM after the op and during the physiotherapy. So, in my case, the key muscle/tendon groups shrunk and were stretched by nearly an inch by the op inserting the resurfacing prosthesis there. So, some of us were very tight in that area after the op and you are very loose. Can’t say I know which I prefer, but I think that your ROM recovery will be quicker as you won’t need to stretch those muscles. Good luck Dan * +44 (0)7974 981-407 @ dan.milosevic@... _____ From: sog1927 Sent: 07 June 2004 18:01 To: surfacehippy Subject: Re: 4 days post op > He explained that due to my high level of > activity pre op my body had tried to protect itself by restricting > the ROM in my hip. This it did by growing Sophites(I think, which is > bone growth) " Osteophytes " , informally known as " bone spurs " . I had a ton of them - that's why my surgery took twice as long as they expected It sounds like yours were even worse than mine, becaue nobody mentioned anything to me about my joint being " too loose " postop or about needing a brace. You're through the worst of it. It'll only get better from here! Steve (bilat C+ 4/20/04, Amstutz) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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