So excited! Wanted to share my good news. I can go home from hospital a day early after my left hip replacement op on Monday at 6 - 9 pm! Now Thursday 9 am and dressing changed, dissolvable stitch ends clipped and ready for home. Physios happy, pharmacist happy, me so happy....just surgeon to convince. He needs to know that replaced right hip in May can ' take the strain'.
Just PMR to sort out now.........slowly, slowly, I know.
Valerie
So glad it’s all gone well. Take it easy when you get home!
Susan x
Thanks
Two in one year, great going. There'll be no stopping you now..... well in a while!
Bravo. Stay on top of the pain is my only advice! Harder to stop once everything hurts than to prevent! Good for you.
Rattling more than usual!!
Wow! you were quick to have the second hip done. It just goes to show that just because we have PMR and are on Pred. doesn't make us worse candidates for surgery.
I had my right hip done 4 months ago and am still noticing it getting stronger and stronger which is lovely! Now, it's my knees that need attention but I'm not sure if they need surgery just yet. I am hoping that the left one still has some recovering to do from being over used because my right side has been so bad. Trouble is, I know I can't have this done on the NHS in my area because I have to be a certain BMI which I'm not and don't seem able to get to- they make no exceptions either.
Hope you recover as well from this hip as you did from the last one!
Thanks for your wishes. I was lucky to be accepted by NHS for 2 rapid replacements at a private hospital, as my wonderful surgeon was worried the first was compromised if we couldn't do the second.
I have struggled with my weight forever, at present under the required BMI for surgery. With PMR weight gain I got the pre diabetes risk and went really strict to avoid more medicines. My daughter works at Newcastle Uni where they do the research on strict 600 calorie diets for 6 weeks to "cure" diabetes by using a controlled liquid diet ( been programmes on UK TV covering this). Obviously we cannot do this at a distance, as liquids were provided, and I found I could not do 600, but managed 800 calories for 10 weeks. Bought a digital scale, used a calorie counter programme on my iPad which gave each food / weight/ and calories. It was hard. But I lost 22 lbs. I've gained a bit back as I got less mobile with bad hips but still weigh less than pre PMR. When my hips are better enough to exercise, about 4 months they reckon, I intend to add exercise and healthy eating regime together.......want to be healthy enough to enjoy my 70s. My knees ache too, but as you think, I think mine are aching due to bad posture and not enough use.
Let's go forward together. Keep in touch. Valerie
Great news Val. Easy does it for a while no rushing. ATB
So pleased that you will soon be home,take care xx.
Fantastic news, take care.
Wow. Very impressive. Follow your doctor's orders and rest up as much as you can. Well done 💐
That all sounds good Valnvaughan! Don’t go doing too much at home. 🌷
Night one at home without problems.....very attentative Hubbie. The expected awful anaesthesia constipation has arrived, so lots of prunes and Lactulose. So calm and organised that I'm in bed in reach of iPad, radio, books, drugs, flask of tea and hubbie's gone to play golf! Daughter expected later today to spoil me.
As you say, gently does it for 2 weeks.
Thanks for all the good wishes. Valerie
The constipation is nasty I found. Interestingly enough I had to have another op three weeks later for something else also with a spinal and that was OK. I assume they must use strong pain killers such as fentanol when doing hips which I did not need for the other op. How nice to be relaxing in bed, my sister dragged me out to lunch my first day home. My friends said typical of my sister.
Woooow out of the house day one sounds awful. We live in a flat up a flight of stairs and I'm not tackling them again for a couple of days. At least I can relax with a sea view....wild and windy today. Constipation is horrible but it will pass! Apparently, there is a lot of tugging your leg around during the op. I have severe bruising to my inner thigh. All the bestValerie
I had bruising on my leg and a blister appeared, it grew to eight inches long and one and a half inches deep. I had the district nurse coming in three times a week. That is why I had the second op three weeks later as it became infected and they thought I had that flesh eating disease, so I had emergency surgery.
Yuk! Will keep an eye on bruising then. Did not have it last time. Cheers.....what would we do without this forum? Valerie
I have had two blisters since so currently visiting the surgery every week. My GP thinks it is because I have thin skin.
Poor you. I have skin that's very dry and prone to bruising when knocked. I also have a rash of minute warts on my face that do not respond to any treatment. ( gosh......warty old face sounds dreadful, but others do not notice and GP needs a magnifying glass to see them) . Sometimes I wonder if I just stopped taking all these meds it would be better. I could then reintroduce one at a time to respond to symptoms. At present the medics just load one on top of another, without knowing the interactions, I fear. But I know I need the painkillers just now. The blood thinning injections in my stomach are horrible too...........but not worse than the osteo pain.
Thank goodness I did not have blood thinning injections, I had a new anti coagulant called rivaroxaban. My sister was checking to see if I could drink alcohol with them and then read out the side effects, number one was death, then the next three made death seem preferable!! The trouble is you take a med then have to take another to sort out the side effects.
I have not got warts but get purpura, purplish blood spots, mainly on my arms from the pred. Sometimes it looks as if I have been in a fight with wild animals. They are not painful unless they burst and make a real mess of the sheets.
These conditions we share are a whole lifestyle. Glad to say the bruising on inner thigh is fading, but definitely looks like a hand print. It's a long time since anyone's been there and I slept thru it!! A bit of a shock this morning as my chair at breakfast table was too low and when I tried to stand pain shot up my leg. Agh! It now has a cushion on it. Being pampered by daughter today, always a treat as a good chef.
Have a good day. Valerie
Do be careful sitting, it is very easy to forget. I had lateral posterior approach and the physios said there were no restrictions. I am not sure if they were right or not. Where did you have your op done?
My sister was not the best chef, but she used to go to a French delicattesan and get some fantastic food from there. I quite miss it, as it is pretty expensive!
I had a side cut.....now have a matching pair. So must not push leg sideward for 6 weeks. Exercise is knee raising and swinging leg forward and backward. I have a riser chair in the lounge which is fantastic but other furniture has to be carefully assessed, a few cams makes all the difference.
My daughter has brought me a book "our house" after she met the author at a signing and we are going to read it in our respective homes for discussion. What a thoughtful idea......our own book group.
Superb sunny and warm on south coast of UK. Time to close the balcony to retain the heat. Another day nearer mobility! Valerie
What is a side cut? I bought a recliner chair specially, it cost a fortune and I never use it as I prefer my normal chair after all that.
The cut is down outside of my hip. I adore my riser chair, burgundy leather and not too big and not at all "old person" looking. Mine was only £600 and Hubbie chose to have one to match ......preparing for the future. I sleep in it quite well too, tho not at night. We chose one on Internet but when we viewed in shop it was far too wide so glad we viewed it rather than just studied dimensions. Our normal chairs are Stressless burgundy leather so match somewhat and cost twice as much years ago!
There is an awful lot of hauling and pulling going on in a hip replacement!!!
I heard it, I was awake!! The worst was the drilling and my whole body vibrated. The banging just sounded like the builders next door.
I had my 2nd daughter under GA (they were too scared to do the epidural I'd signed up for) - I felt all the pulling, no pain though, and and heard her cry!
Oh my! I'm glad I was asleep but not anaesthetised.
I wanted to know what was going on, I think the anaesthetist would have liked me asleep! At the end they showed me the old hip,they had cut out. Also the surgeon was able to talk to me.
I was chatting to the anaesthetists and surgeon when my broken leg was glued back together - quite amusing listening to the drills and screwdrivers... Fully awake, not even tranquillisers as in the UK the following year. It didn't seem to bother them at all, the time flew by and no post-anaesthetic recovery either,
What sort of anaesthetic was it? After my op I had to have a blood transfusion and then was taken back to the ward having to go outside to get there!
All they said was "spinal" - they came in to do the pre-op talk and blethered on about GA and stuff and right at the end just mentioned, as if in passing, "or you could have a spinal..." I can only assume that most patients refused emphatically as they were so surprised when I said "Spinal? Absolutely!!!" and in a couple of minutes I was on my side being prepared. No idea if they differentiate here between spinal and epidural - I think technically there is. I'd had an epidural when Nat was born and wanted one when Esca was born. I asked for one when the metalwork was removed in Dundee - the anaesthetist said no problem but seemed surprised. I don't undertand why anyone would choose GA if there was a choice. The recovery is so much easier.
I agree I found a spinal brilliant. After the op I was incredibly sick though, I think that was to do with the fentinol and all the other stuff they used. When I had my leg done three weeks later I had no sickness at all. They only offered a GA and so I asked for a spinal and they said fine. I was really worried they would insist on a GA. I believe they may use epidurals if they think the op may take longer as the spinal is for a limited time while and epidural can be souped up.
Hi piglet the and Pro.
I had both my babies using breathing exercises alone, not even gas and air.....it was fine......what I called " useful pain".
I wanted to see my old hip but not possible these days to remove from operating theatre ( post Alderhay scandal) and I did not wake up in theatre enough. I woke a little and there was lots of busy people and I was having my own blood re- transfused back in, as agreed beforehand. There is a difference between epidural for birth and spinal. We noticed my spinal injection was much lower down my back this second time, don't know why. After first op I was sick as they asked me to walk 36 hrs after op. And was sick every time I moved for 3 days, not nice. My heart was racing and BP all over the place. They thought the problem was that I was not absorbing any of the meds. They suspected blood clots in the bronchus and AF it was all very dramatic, tests, scans , doctors and permanently wired up and sat with. All proved negative 3 days later. But this time I got the room next to nurses station and my wrist band had EVENT and a ref number on it. But all was smooth no sickness or anything.
I know someone who took a photo of their hip, I don't know how they had a camera in the operating theatre, she did go privately though. I think I walked less than 24 hours after my op, using a Zimmer frame, then they gave me crutches and the following day having passed all the tests including climbing stairs they said I could go home. However they discovered my CRP was 415 and so the surgeon said I had to stay in hospital which was really boring. I was there for another two days. I was desperately sick and it went on for several days even after I got home. The nurses kept saying you must eat something. Apparently it is not that uncommon after hip ops.
You wouldn't have had my babies just with breathing - I had c-sections both times. Once was because my BP was 200+++/180 the day Nat was born 8+ weeks early and the second time Esca was 1090g at 35+ weeks. So not "too posh to push" sections - it was potentially "might not survive" sections.
The only nausea I had was in the UK metalwork removal where they gave me morphine for post-op pain - all I had said when asked was I had some pain. My BP fell onto the floor so I declined any more. I was using homeopathic arnica and had almost no pain and no bruising at all. The nurses and physios were amazed as normally removing metalwork is worse than the original op.
Essential C sections are life savers. What biggies and both early. I was in hospital with raised BP for 8 weeks before no 1 who was induced at 38weeks, a healthy 7lb 10 oz, with 2nd and raised BP again I was on total rest at home, with a 3 yr old???, for last 8 weeks and induced again at 38weeks to produce another girl at 7lb 10 oz. Both really good peaceful healthy babies........till the teens eh?
Funnily, I had an ectopic pregnancy 2 years before no1 and had emergency GA op with lots of sickness after. When Hubbie arrived from work the curtains were pulled round and the first words I heard him say were " is she dead?" !! Never let him forget that he never even phoned from his job to see how I was after an emergency evening admission.
He's doing really well on the caring front today, helping me shower after a really painful night even on max painkillers. Daughter has Prep'd brunch......smells great.
Yes, I'd been in for 4 weeks before Nat I think - it's a long time ago! BP was high, fell a bit on bedrest, stabilised and then rose once a week and stabilised. She was a whole 1300g. I was in for over a month with No 2 - also with a nearly 3 year old but a colleague of OH's had her and she had a crash course in German which stood her in good stead for Kindergarten. Trouble was, they had 4 children who all spoilt her stupid so coming home to mummy and this boring baby wasn't greeted with enthusiasm! When the gynae decided he wasn't waiting longer he called OH and told him "get here now, I need you in surgery" (they had done research together) - had to be a epidural and he really wasn't sure either of us would get through it which was a bit of a shock to OH.
I wouldn't describe either of mine as good or peaceful! Esca especially as a toddler - the terrible 2s started at age 14 months and lasted... Five mins sleep while fetching Nat from KG and that was her until midnight!
Lovely memories. Valerie
.....at least. You sound very “ comfy cozy” as we say in my family.
Well done! Don't overdo things at home, though.
Great news. ATB
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