I wish I was rich! lol These days very few of us are and I am like most, living pay check to pay check. And my employer does not offer health ins benifits so I pay for my health ins out of pocket...and its not cheap! I just dont think hip replacements are made for younger more active people. I am still at that point in my life where its to soon to start slowing down.
My fear of waiting as long as I can is that I have been reading reports from the FDA and other things around the Web that with alot of the metal particials floating around in and around the hip joint its self, it starts to turn the bone soft. Im afraid that if I wait it out as long as I can there will be a lot of soft tissue damage and that will mean more work to fix the problem (less good bone to work with). I would feel better having the same type of replacement on both hips also. The surgeon also said that he wants my left hip at 100% and then I can start putting more of my body weight on that hip to relieve some of the stress on the right one. Umm ok? So that will make the left one start to wear out faster and who knows...doing that for 2 years or so I could be where I am at now, them talking about replacing it again. But I know doing that will buy me time with the right hip..again at what cost though? Then he said for me to start back up on my RA meds and see if that will help the right hip. How is RA meds going to stop metal from wearing?? I know this is going to sound mean (I dont mean for it to!) I am 27 and I would think that they would be alittle more concerned and try to do more because I am young and I still have 50+ years ahead of me....