I have club foot, congenital hip dysplasia and sciatic nerve palsy. I always walked with a limp they didn’t know about the hip dysplasia until I was 17 years old, they couldnt do a totla hip replacementthey had to do a fusion of my hip. I’ve never met anyone with hip dysplasia.
I unfortunately can’t take prescription meds since I have a hole in my brain. I was trying to find more natural ways for pain relief…. I don’t know when you wrote this but I hope having your surgery gave you some relief

Just found this now, thankfully it’s not just me feeling this way, 3 weeks post op, have found the last 2 weeks hard, feeling I should be doing better. (Listening to other people who knew someone etc etc)
I’ve weaned off the strong painkillers which was awful as I’m on them so long. I’m now getting really sharp pain in my wound, I presume it’s from muscles etc being cut. Back sleeping is the worst, but having no hip pain is the best after 2yrs of agony, living like a 90yr old.

I hope your recovery is going well, I found that once people knew I was having a replacement EVERYONE knew someone and had advice. Ultimately, we’re all built different, heal in our own ways and struggle with different things. So please you found this space helpful!

Not sure where everyone is from, so I’ll mention I’m in the UK 🙂

Today is exactly 4 weeks since my hip replacement. I wasn’t given time limits except for using crutches for 6 weeks (although that could just be one crutch – which I’ve used for about a week now) and I am obviously being careful with certain things. However I am able to put my own socks on now which felt amazing the first time! 😂 (I have long arms which helps!!!!).

My biggest problem was that I listened to too many people beforehand – those who had relatives who had the same op and “were up and about really quickly”. Yes I was up and about quickly but it’s the discomfort that got me down (can’t say I’ve been in mega pain, but the discomfort was off the charts!)….it started me worrying i was being weak or a wimp because of what others had said.

I also work in admin and had so many people say “well you’ll still be able to work from home won’t you”. So yep, I also worried that people would think I was faking because I wasn’t working from home!

My anxiety went through the roof the first two weeks – everything I did I questioned – was I trying to do too much, or too little, that kind of thing. I did do 2.5 hours of work, where I sat in one position on a laptop …not a good idea! After that I followed my GP’s advice and stuck to the sick note I was given!

If I ever get anyone asking me for advice should they be about to have a hip replacement, I’ll tell them to make sure they do their exercises and follow all instructions given by the hospital. Apart from that I’d say not to listen to how other people coped as everyone is different!

I do know that this blog and the comments have made me feel quite a bit better about it all so thanks guys! (Sorry for the long post!)