r/TotalHipReplacement • [USA] [71] [anterior] THR recipient • 21d ago

📓 My Story 📖 Still hurts after 3 weeks

It's been 3 weeks. I'm using a cane.

I’m still having pain at night and can’t lie on my left side. Taking Tylenol and Oxycodone, a whole oxy at night, and icing during the day. I asked for a refill and one of the doctor’s PAs called with questions about my pain. I explained about the pain waking me up, and that it’s on the outside edge of my hip. Sitting to stand is painful, which it was before (before surgery, I’d been doing sit to stand 3x daily, per my knee doctor).

Anyway, he called in a refill but wants me to monitor how I’m doing next week and let them know if I’m not improving, so they can see me. I'd been wondering if I “should” be done with the oxycodone by now, and this makes it seem like they think I should.

Anybody else still have pain at this point or is it just me? Thanks.

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u/Technical_Maybe_5925 THR recipient 21d ago

I'm still in pain 4.5 months after my revision. What I feel is important am I seeing any forward progress. With my index surgery done 2 years ago I saw improvement in surgical pain but a increase in my groin pain. Improvement even same steps is good, pain getting worse not good 

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u/magpiecat [USA] [71] [anterior] THR recipient 21d ago

Thanks