So I’m going to get hip replacement. I’m counting the days and waiting for relief of pain and hope to be regained.
I’m not a negative person. I’m not a glass half empty kind of person. I’m not a pessimist.
I’m a positive, glass half full, optimistic woman.
Sunny outlook on life. Rose tinted glasses most days. Energized to live, to enjoy, to dream.
My story of my hips is mine to tell. My experience that slowly creeped up, progressed and then sneak attacked me. A big blow of a take down.
Doctor’s missing the correct diagnosis. A single medical professional telling me I’m not using my body right and pushing aside my complaints and inquiry on my ailments. Multiple medical professionals dismissing me. All but one then thought outside the box; or rather thought to think and inquire via medical test if the back or the hip (right hip at that time) was the problem. He ruled it the hip. Still I wound up dismissed and overlooked. I was always sent back to Physical Therapy. I would say at this point “I keep doing PT. I keep getting sent to it but it’s not helping.” I’d be told just go and do it. Never getting better and continuing to knock on doors looking for someone who would figure it out and fix it.
Why can’t I walk more than a mile with out debilitating pain? Why can’t I walk like I used to pain free? Why do I have pain in the right groin? I grew up in Brooklyn, Bay Ridge, walking the street everywhere. I’ve walked all my life. I just want to walk.
This pain feels like my lower back, SI joint, sacrum. I have burning coming out from there to the hip, circling around, and down the thigh.
As I said in a previous post, finally a surgeon looked past everything. Looked over the fact that I had been in PT a very long time, couldn’t walk, couldn’t do normal daily life activities as a young healthy woman, suffered pain and he couldn’t touch my right hip including along the thigh without me crying. So, though the MRI showed clear issues, he decided to operate not based off just that, he decided to operate based off my suffering and I had done everything possible on my own to fix my problem and it JUST WOULDN’T / COULDN’T BE FIXED by me alone or with the help of a PT.
It required surgery to repair the issues and give me back my ability to move pain free.
The surgery happened in August 2019 and it was successful. I went through recovery. It was hard but I was committed to healing and doing my PT to walk and be strong.
About 4 weeks after surgery, there were immediate signs that there was something wrong with my left hip but nothing too alarming yet. I received a cortisone injection in the left hip / side of thigh area and was told to check back in a month later.
That month later showed no improvement. It began to tell a story of something wrong and heading down hill – FAST. I was referred to ANOTHER back doctor to evaluate the lumbar spine.
Listen, I get it. There are some lumbar disc issues but I’m over the not thinking outside the box; not evaluating further and just pointing to the obvious. Not wanting to think of the not obvious and be curious.
I’ll let you in on a little secret…
I don’t fall inside the box.
I’m not ordinary and don’t adhere to guidelines, coloring inside the lines (well, actually I do but that would be my type a personality). My body doesn’t cooperate with the textbooks – never has. Maybe I’m an alien.
I saw the newest back surgeon and he refused to operate on my back citing it’s “dangerous and I won’t do it because there is enough space in between the discs.” After some more conversation and questions from me and my husband, this doctor said “has anyone looked at your other hip?” NO.
I was set up to see a hip surgeon in his office for my left hip (from the previous right hip surgeon).
And in there is where all hell continues to unfold.
The story continues…
(2018-2019-2020)
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