Back Pain with hip replacement - another update

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I agree straight to the surgeon don't bother with ER they will just patch

you up, and send you on your way

GP is too busy. This is an urgent issue that your surgeon should be sorting,

In my opinion any way

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-- Re: {Disarmed} Re: Back Pain with hip

replacement - another update

AMEN, dash!

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on 9/20/10 4:49 PM, dash at dash4@... wrote:

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> Your surgeon should see you NOW. Call and ask for his personal nurse or

> assistant, tell her what is going on and get communicating with HIM. I

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> not sit still for anyone putting me off. Remember YOU are the customer

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> you pay the bills. You deserve better service.....I would not bother with

ER

> or the family doc, but get in touch with that surgeon pronto! My opinion

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> what I would do.....dash

> Back Pain with hip replacement -

another

> update

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> Hi all! I was at the ER yet again a few nights ago and had a CT scan

> done where they found that I have a right lateral disc protrusion

> extending posteriorly for a distance of 7 mm and displacment of the S-1

> nerve root - the exact wording from the report. This is on top of the

> fact that my fake hip on my left side keeps trying to dislocate

> everytime I get up from or while sitting.

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> My family doctor is overbooked and the earliest he can see me is Oct 7th

> and the ER doctor wants me to tell him to look into a pain clinc- which

> I have never heard of I suppose it has to do with pain management. Also

> they keep taking xrays of the hip but see no difference but they can

> tell something is going on because the inflammantion keeps getting worst

> I am at the point that I am on an anti-inflammory that my mother took a

> few years ago when she had cancer.

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> My question is with all the new info and more inflamation and 3 ER

> visits by ambluance this month alone should I contact my surgeon again?

> I understand that he wants it to dislocate by itself or something - long

> story short my last hip replacement had to be redone due to loosen head

> and stuff at the time all thought it was a fluke but now around the same

> time that the other one failed he is beginning to wonder if there is

> something else going on. But I really don't know how much more I can

> take between the hip and back I can barely sit at the dinner table for

> 20 minutes and then I am in bed for hours afterwards. The worst thing is

> my last ER visit happened at 2am because after sleeping for an hour I

> had to get up and couldn't no matter what I did after trying for an hour

> my mom called 911 just to help me get up because afterwards I can't

> stand

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