👯‍♀️👯‍♀️Hips and Knees part 4 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Thanks silverlining48. My unoperated hip has begun to be very sore....maybe here I go again!

Just wanted to wish all hipsters and kneesters a merry Christmas and a healthy happy and peaceful new year.
Here’s to lots of pain free joyful walking dancing leaping around.
Happy daze x

Thank you all! I shall keep my fingers crossed!

Twiglet. You have had a wait but your hip injection WORKED.
There you go Siope, Twiglet and fflur had successful injections 🥳 you will be ok too. Dont forget to let us know,

I had a guided injection into my hip in November 2022, under general anaesthetic as a day patient. The relief was pretty much immediate and I had no negative after-effects.

The consultant said I’d get a phone call after about six weeks. Today I have been sent an appointment for a telephone consultation with the orthopaedic clinic, in January - a YEAR and six weeks after the injection.

I needed to start using some OTC pain relief again after about 4-5 months, and my prescribed pain killers by summer, though much reduced from the amount I’d needed previously. I can walk in relative comfort, and seldom need my stick, but it’s increasingly painful after I’ve been sitting down. I hope they offer to repeat the injection, I was on the waiting list for 9 months last time.

I had a cortisone injection with a dr without ultrasound and that was wonderful for about 3 months. I then had the other knee done privately with ultrasound and that made very little difference.

Some appear to work, you were unlucky Siope coming across two of us who were in pain a few days later. Still, you may be very lucky and at least you are not expecting a small miracle but if it works, superb.

No reason why you won’t be third time lucky Siope. I am sure most injections work. I hope yours does.

Thank you, Charleygirl. I shall adjust my expectations downwards!

Seems we were both unlucky with the injections Charleygirl. .

Siope I had it injected into my knee and the relief was instant but unfortunately it only lasted a few days but those days were sheer bliss.

I have had both knees replaced and I am ever hopeful my own hips will "see me out". I live in hope!

I got mine in tk Maxx not expensive, but most do pretty much the same. Always use two
to keep straight.
They can all be shortened/lengthened, the right height should be when your arm is 90 degree to the stick.
Happy wandering

Looking at getting some walking poles. Which ones are people using? They are all sorts of prices. I like the idea of the telescopic ones.

Call not Cal

Cal the two flights exercise Redcar just take it easy.
Siope hope all goes well with your procedure.
Let us know how it all goes .

Thank you for your encouragement Ginny and Silverlining. I’m staying with one of my DDs and her family, and they are looking after me very well. I do have a long handled shoe horn and it’s excellent. I also have a grabber, and things that clip to my trousers so I can pull them up! The downside to the living arrangements is the two flight of steep stairs to get to my bedroom, so am only going up & down once a day!

Thanks, silverlining. I hope I’m not expecting too much of this. I had a non-ultrasound jab for the original injury, and that only lasted a week (but a lovely pain free week), but I’m told this is more likely to be successful. We shall see!

Oh Siope yes I had that. It really didn’t hurt at all and was interesting watching it progress on the tv screen. All good. I had a week without pain. Wonderful.
However, after a week the hip pain returned with a vengeance and was far worse than it had been before the injection. I had a complication of necrosis which didn’t help.
Sorry not to be able to be more positive and I may have just been unlucky but until I got a new hip 6 months later I really struggled.

You are very welcome Redcar.
Congratulations on your new hip, and it is new so will be sore but you will be surprised how quickly you recover amd once the stitches etc are out you will be much more comfortable and best of all, pain free.
Hope you have some help at home for now and if there is anything you want to ask there’s heaps of good advice and experience on here. Just ask,
Finally if you havnt got one already put a long handled shoe horn in your Christmas list. There’s probably still time.
I still use mine.

Hello Redcar. Glad your pain has gone. My hip replacement was 12 weeks ago and I’m feeling good. Did a 5 mile walk on Saturday.
I had soreness around the wound for about 10 weeks, fairly normal really when you think of how your leg has been pulled around and don’t forget it is a major op’.
Onward and upward with your recovery.

I have not read the whole thread, so apologies if I’m asking you to repeat yourselves.

Does anyone have any experience of ultrasound guided cortisone injections in the hip? I have one scheduled for early January, so am curious about what to expect.

Please can I join the club? I had a THR last Wednesday and although the grinding bone on bone pain has gone, the wound is sore. I walked badly for years so am having to learn how to walk properly again.

Oh dear silverlining I too crash landed a couple of weeks ago walking home in the dark early one evening . I was very cross with myself as I was offered a lift but declined as the “walk would do me good” !! I ended up the next day for 7 hours in A+E waiting for X-rays of my very painful wrist and a CT scan of my bruised face . Fortunately just bruised and badly sprained and wrist is improving slowly. Two outcomes : I obviously don’t have osteoporosis and I will carry a torch at night ! Not too sure why I am falling over more but I have an appointment with the surgeon to discuss possible other hip replacement after Christmas .

I will, next time I walk through a desert. ;)
I left a message yesterday and had a call from physio first thing this morning.
Wish our surgery was as easy to contact.

Please be careful of heat stroke silverlining.

Where I live it is not possible to refer myself anywhere.