👯‍♀️ 👯‍♀️ 👯‍♀️ 👯‍♀️ Hips and knees part 6 👯‍♀️ 👯‍♀️

I’m still here and reading your posts, but feel as though I’m always complaining! After I’d had my second hip done last November, it seemed as though I had osteoarthritis in every other joint in my body. Gradually some joints have improved now, but I do still have OA in my feet and ankles. Exercises are helping and as maybee says, sometimes they don’t hurt at all. grammargran touch wood my hips are fine, although I sometimes do too much bending and they object for a few hours! My back is still a problem and always will be.
bea a decent night’s sleep makes a world of difference doesn’t it! I always ache more if I’ve slept badly.
Today is a bit cooler but it looks as though we’ll roast again at the weekend!

teabagwoman

This heat seems to be making my joint pain worse and just to top it off I’ve developed a very nasty corn and can’t do anything about it as my knee won’t bend sufficiently. Thank heaven the chiropodist is coming soon. I’ve also developed quite bad gastric reflux and have been told not to bend over but bend at the knees. My knees don’t agree! I’m getting quite handy with a litter picker but there’s only so much it will do. Sorry if this sounds moaney but I need to let off steam.

I’ve had a corn on my left foot for decades. Being on the outside of my little toe nothing I do has ever removed it and I’m limited in what shoes I can wear ( not helped by the fact that I have a bunion on the other foot). However, when it’s hurting ( again, not all of the time, just every now and again) the pain actually detracts from the pain in my other joints! As my doctor once said, if someone comes to me with pain in their right foot I will stamp on the left foot and the right foot no longer hurts…

Thanks charley. Memo to self - read posts properly before chipping in .

I’m getting a new pain which I hope isn’t hip related, it goes from my buttock along the outside of my spine and twinges each time I take a step. I’m hoping it’s the spine and not the beginning of hip deterioration. Don’t want to add another issue to my collection. If it worsens I’ll book an assessment appointment with a surgery physio, they’re pretty good and very understanding, it’s also possible to go back again. Although our surgery has its share of down sides the physio provision is pretty good.

Thinking spines has anyone been referred to the escape pain course for spinal issues? I’d appreciate knowing whether it was found to be helpful. As spinal neurology bounced me back to the pain clinic which was unable to offer anything useful I’m clutching at straws here before I ask to go back on the MSK merryground.

Redcar 😀 I thought I was the no1 moaning Minnie on this thread .. always share how you’re feeling that’s how we learn👌
MayBee70 hope your GP was just joking.. and hope you get your feet sorted 🤞
I’m getting a pedi on Friday so looking forward to getting my hard skin removed and toenails cut as they resemble trotters ATM 😩

cornergran It sounds to me more like a spinal than a hip problem. With a hip problem, the pain usually starts in the groin, and as the arthritis worsens, you end up with pain in that hip if you are lying on that side in bed for any length of time.

I am aware you do not want back pain but you also do not want additional hip problems.

How and when did this old age lark start? I was fine in my 40's, I even had a working brain then.

Hello all. Something that made me smile.
It was my birthday yesterday and one of my cards said

your youth is like an Aldi special buy.
When it’s gone, it’s gone.

Too true, getting used to get my heard round my new age, it is quite a high number……. So make take a while.

Enjoy today and I send you all my very best wishes. X

Getting my head round … can’t even think straight. Eeek! 😦

silverlining I doubt if you have reached my age, nearly 82. I know there is one of "us lot" who surpasses me by a few years.

Happy birthday. I prefer to forget about them quietly.

Happy belated Birthday silverlining48! Hope you enjoyed your day.

No I havnt reached your age Charley but I am not too far behind. The years fly don’t they.
The clue is part of my GN nom de plume ( de ma tante). I have friends in their 60 s and when I speak of them to friends of my age, I call them my young friends. They don’t feel they are young though, it’s all relative isn’t it.
Yes thanks, I had a nice day, nothing too exciting but it didn’t rain and we had lunch out.

I am sure that somewhere on this long thread people have said what I am about to write! But I want to cheer people who are soon to have hip replacement and who may be anxious. I had my new hip 4 weeks ago and am amazed at finding that after 2 weeks, I could stop taking pain killlers. This is itself I hope encouraging! And I have not had much swelling and think it likely that this is because I used ice packs a lot in the first days after surgery. In hospital I had to keep asking for ice packs - nurses did not tend to suggest it - so I encourage you to ask. And of course, doing all the exercises makes a huge difference - I am impressed by the fact that exercises I could hardly do, become relatively easy quite quickly, if I stick to them. Be of good cheer if you are soon to have this surgery - its wonderful to have no arthritic hip pain!

Applegran I am so pleased to read your encouraging words. I also think you have been incredibly lucky because some people on here have been to hell and back through no fault of their own, having had a hip or knee replaced.

I never want another knee replaced, so having had both done, it is putting me off hip surgery.

silverlining48 belated greetings and hope you had the day you deserve!

Charleygirl5 my groin pain/ache started with physio more than 2 wks ago and has not gone away...even when I lift my leg or try to straighten leg when lying flat, its there...is this normal for it to carry on ...it makes my abdomen feel full...very weird sensation...

Bea No, definitely not. When is your next appointment with a surgeon? I hope sooner rather than later.

I have had another think and you should make an appointment to be seen. It could be something like Ileo-psoas tendinitis but it should be diagnosed and treatment started if needed.

T hanks Bea. Hope you start to feel better soon.

A belated Happy Birthday for yesterday silverlining.
applegran I’m pleased your surgery has gone so well.
bea that pain doesn’t sound too good, definitely speak to a healthcare professional about it.
Take care in the heatwave, if you have it!

Thank you Redcar. Hope you are doing well,

Happy belated birthday silverlining. If I’ve interpreted your use name correctly we’re the same age. 1948 was a very good year. .

corner my first year at school!

It was indeed Cornergran.

Thank you to the kind people who have celebrated with me my successful hip replacement.
I look forward to sleeping on my side! Who knew that this is a luxury?! This day will come. And I have found a good mattress topper which helps a lot - from a really good family firm (no connection with me) called Putnams. Good pillows and cushions and this really good mattress topper among many other similar products.

Delighted to have been of help Applegran. Do stay around to help and advise others with your hip op experience.

Oh Lordy, sooo cross with GN, not notifying again when posts pop up on this thread, so have a few to catch up on. Firstly, belated birthday greetings silverlining hope it was a good one. You're miles behind me, I'm looking at 86 in August, but amazingly, I'm around my middle 50s in my head so quite incompatible with my outside. Well done Applegran you've done good - coming up to eight months since my new hip & it's still stiff if I sit too long & back ache if I stand too long but I'm still able to go to my exercise classes, drive my car & live a relatively normal life - but at a much slower pace which is frustrating. But heigh ho, I'm still here to tell the tale & it's great to hear from all you lovely people still. Bea as ever, I hope you can get yourself sorted sooner rather than later.

PS - thanks for the update on your hip Redcar