Before I set the date for my operation I went and saw the surgeon who replaced the right hip. He told me to go and see a Revision Specialist about taking the right hip back out and replacing it again. So I went and met with this other surgeon about doing the revision. The Revision surgeon is the one who just replaced my left hip...so it was a different surgeon. I went to PT yesterday and did everything they had me do and while I am starting to walk out of the building (I'm walking with 2 crutches) every step I made with the left leg...click, click, click. I know its still way to soon to be getting all worried but this one is following the same exact path as the right one. But it hurts so much and I am sure everyone here knows that pain messes with your head and how you think. The right hip hurts all the time.
I do have a large law firm working on all of this for me and I have been reading online about all of the hip recalls, the revision surgerys to fix the problem...and reading about that, talking to the surgeon, and my PT, the revision surgerys are always a mess and dont relieve any pain and it could get worse. Its so hard because I dont know what to think, who to believe. I have been raised to be a worker and I enjoy cutting down trees for firewood, splittling wood, building things...I enjoy working with my hands and I like the physical part of doing all of those things. I feel like I am having my life taken away from me and am being forced to consider sitting behind a desk all day. That isnt who I am nor what I want to do.
Alot of doctors think well your young, and your just here looking for pain meds. Well you walk bone on bone and tell me how you feel. You walk on a replaced hip that is failing and you tell me how you feel. Anyone living with rheumatoid arthritis will tell you it hurts. I already have it in both wrists now also. Everything seems like a constant struggle!