Help! Hip horror!

Oh have been in that situation recently. Can offer sympathy and suggest ice packs fo 10 mins ( wrapped in a cloth) to reduce any swelling.

You can self refer yourself to physio,just go on nhs website, it’s a nice personal way of getting help.

Do you wear trainer socks, I find I can get these on with a bit of wriggling from the other foot.

I have this problem - I've found the 'sockon' gadget helpful, what defeats me is pulling on shoes and keeping my toenails trimmed.

I'm going to try sitting on the step and seeing if that helps.

Acupuncture helped me a lot. And quickly. But is quite expensive if you self pay.

Socks for diabetics do not have a tight rib and may be easier to put on although they mat not stay up so well - or cut the rib on an old pair for now. OR once on don't take them off for two days?

I so need to have a moan, with all the sensible advice about visiting one's GP. I went recently and saw a lady doctor who I hadn't seen before. She didn't take her eyes off the computer screen the whole time I was there. It was rush rush, rush and I felt guilty for being there. It was awful and has put me off going to the doctors about anything now. How rude? I know this doesn't relate to the post, but just brought back a very bad memory. Rant over.

I so need to have a moan, with all the sensible advice about visiting one's GP.

My GPs used to be great, but I do feel the same about recent visits. I suspect I am written off as suffering from FOLS - Fat Old Lady Syndrome. Lifestyle changes are in hand, but they take a while to take effect!

I have chronic pain in multiple areass and can recommend voltarol emulsigel. Also turmeric, bromelain and ginger caps which work well for me and have also done away with the need for surgery on my wrist. My SIL also takes them and she has had brilliant effects for her chronic and long standing pain from disc problems. Worth a try. Im not saying they work for everyone but definitely worth a go

Sounds mad and don't mean to be patronising, but can you cross your leg over the other one to get your socks on?

Try the Soxon Sock aid from Amazon (cheapest one I just saw was £10) they look weird but do work - I used it before and after my hip replacement. Lent one to my Dad who was having trouble -best present I ever gave him he said, didn't tell him I'd only lent it to him and bought myself another grin. It's not plastic, but material with long tabs for pulling up.

sorry this was supposed to on another post

mixing up posts - must be going mad

Shizam
Those thingys with the pincer ends would do the trick. The ones you can pick things up with. Grab each side of the sock with a grabber then pull them on and...Hey Presto!

I find tbe best way of cutting my toenails is right after a shower or bath, getting dry then standing on one leg (on the floor not in the bath) put the other foot on the lip of the bath, knee bent, and I can clip away and sluice the clippings down the drain.

I do that Gabriella, after a shower , but instead of the rim of the bath I place my foot on the rim of the toilet seat ?

your surgery may be able to recommend a nerve block - a friend of mine has had several ..... they last for some time. she had to be referred to hospital for this but i know it helped her tremendously.
if you have problems with cutting your toenails perhaps a visit to a chiropidist - or maybe finding one that comes to you - will help.
i have one comes to me every 6/7 weeks and, in the i don't know how many years, she's been able to tame all my hard skin and i feel like i'm walking on air at the end. thankfully she's not expensive - only £22 a visit - and it's well worth it.
i found a pain relieving spray which helped me with arthritis in my knee - deepfreeze. you can get it from supermarkets. a blue metal spray can.
hope you can get to see your gp very soon. arthritis pain is awful.

Ugg type slippers or boots. Slip them on. They are lined so lovely and warm and comfortable without socks. Sorry if someone has already suggested this, not read full thread.

How about trying Actipatch you can buy a free trail for 4.99 for a week.I wear one as have a dodgy hip and it works wonders,if you have facebook you can read about it or look on Amazon.

Shizam A million sympathies, re. need for warmth for feet, need to reach feet, and impossibility of getting a Doctor. I just don't go to them now either and sometimes I'm in excruciating pain.
Last Winter, living alone, I hatched up a warm boot idea I could step into. I filled the boot with an extra warm fluffy insole. At one point I lined the boots with the stuff you but behind radiators, with the aluminium foil on. I used same to stand on at the sink and to put under my feet where I sit. As I said I live alone so my eccentricities are all my own. Well, and the dogs'.
Now, this hip; I may be wrong so please get some good help like a Chiropractor if you can, but, I wonder if it's like when I started trying to do the right thing for my very dodgy back. I followed the "Back Bible" book by a Physiotherapist and even had her hand-bag sized copy. I felt I had to be responsible and do my bit. A week after I started, very slowly as advised, I was taken into hospital with the worst sciatic nerve pain ever had. Screaming if I as much as blinked.
My message is, could your very sensible and laudable exercises be causing the pain?
Sending you lots of love and do keep your hips warm as well as your feet. I also wrap my feet in anything available, scarves, blankets, bags with warm things in like those microwave heated seed-filled things.... ??

Kerenhappuch I have to agree. I have a friend who is kindly and a little too persistently trying to make me go to the GP. I just know that, to get the good Doctor, there will be over two weeks delay or no appointments at all and then if I do go to him he won't really do anything anyway. I think when we are old it doesn't matter to them. I mean, I am sure I would have had investigations for a symptom I have if I were in my 40s or if I had a husband sitting beside me saying how I am up three hours at night not able to move for the pain. Indeed a friend my age whose husband went to the doctor with her with a less painful version of the same was given a lot of investigations and an operation to remove the affliction. But my GP just looks at me and says "well you got here now all right...". Other Doctors at the same practice are in a terrible hurry. One there would not let me speak! I think it's really more upsetting going there than suffering alone at home.

this is something that would help you. available from Amazon or from any place that sells disability aids

I’m so moved and grateful by all your lovely input and ideas here. Think the reason the sock crisis had me in tears was that I felt so alone with it! Thank you so much for letting me know that I’m not. Also symbolic of where I am. Things going wrong and facing it alone.
I’m managing with painkillers, which I don’t let taking, but they definitely help. Have just bought some generic rub in volteral-like cream and Deep Heat. Remember my Dad doing that for an aching elbow. And yes, second step of stair is helping.
Have yet to phone GP, as my local surgery is a mess. Can’t face it. Last time we interacted, was diagnosed with menopause. It turned out to be appendicitis! But am on case of finding a good local physio. Think they will be more use. Take vit D and zinc. Maybe fish oils might help. Stretching is low key. Can still walk no probs, if a bit achey. Hoping it’s just ligaments tight etc. Onwards and sockwards!
Thanks again and love to you for your brilliant support. ?

I am tempted to suggest my surgery leaves a writing pad somewhere near the exit so we can anonymously leave a report of our experience with the treatment we have just received. Doctor's attitude, manner, general interest in helping, etc. I'm sure it would make very interesting reading and show that the over 60's are much more disillusioned with the way they were treated. Should we vote?

Maybe a stupid thing dea but buy some very large Woolley men’s socks - look like sh!t but keep the toes warm, and slippers maybe