hip replacement

aussie · #1 03-30-2011, 04:13 PM

hi has anyone had a hip replacement how did u go

THEFERMANATOR · #2 03-30-2011, 04:38 PM

I had a hip repair with the 2 rods, but my actual hip is still mine. Having your hip area cut on isn't that bad, but the swelling in your knee and such afterwards is pretty bad due to it being below your heart.

aussie · #3 03-30-2011, 05:31 PM

well i need 2 hip joint replacements people have said its a fast recovery just wondering if anyone had problems with doing one

aussie · #4 03-30-2011, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

I had a hip repair with the 2 rods, but my actual hip is still mine. Having your hip area cut on isn't that bad, but the swelling in your knee and such afterwards is pretty bad due to it being below your heart.

hi u have disabled on your profile please explain

THEFERMANATOR · #5 03-30-2011, 08:50 PM

Car wreck 10 years ago. The short story was alchol was involved as well as a KIA, 60MPH head on into a tree and I was the passenger. Broke my left leg right at the hip ball and crushed my right shoulder at the socket. Sent bone fragments into my left kidney as well. 3 surgeries to my shoulder and 2 to my hip and I can walk and function in a somewhat normal fashion, but at 30 I'm riddled with severe arthritis of teh hands and forearms, bad back, bad hip, and 2 bad shoulders(I had another car accident 11 years ago where I was on foot and got hit by a truck in a parking lot and tore my left shoulder blade out of my back). I would say half the time anymore arthritis has me to the point where I can't hardly function, and 25% of the time I have good days where I can function and work as fast as anybody out there. The other 25% of the time is in between and pretty unpredicteable.

aussie · #6 03-30-2011, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

Car wreck 10 years ago. The short story was alchol was involved as well as a KIA, 60MPH head on into a tree and I was the passenger. Broke my left leg right at the hip ball and crushed my right shoulder at the socket. Sent bone fragments into my left kidney as well. 3 surgeries to my shoulder and 2 to my hip and I can walk and function in a somewhat normal fashion, but at 30 I'm riddled with severe arthritis of teh hands and forearms, bad back, bad hip, and 2 bad shoulders(I had another car accident 11 years ago where I was on foot and got hit by a truck in a parking lot and tore my left shoulder blade out of my back). I would say half the time anymore arthritis has me to the point where I can't hardly function, and 25% of the time I have good days where I can function and work as fast as anybody out there. The other 25% of the time is in between and pretty unpredicteable.

how do u manage the pain what drugs do u take

THEFERMANATOR · #7 03-30-2011, 10:11 PM

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how do u manage the pain what drugs do u take

For awhile I was taking about 12 vivodin a day, then it was 6-8 darvocet, and followed up by alot of soma. I ended up with a stomach infection, ulcers, and a large portion of my stomach lining was eaten away. Now the only thing I can take without alot of problems is tyelenol arthritis. Even aleve makes me bleed internally after just 3 pills of it. I built up a tolerance to pain meds in general as well from it, so they don't really work anyways. I'm a tough one to put under anastesia due to my tolerance of pain meds. I'm also allergic to demerol due to my stomach as it makes me go into violent vomiting. basically I have just learned how to deal with it on the regular days, work smartly on the good days, and DON'T work on the bad days.