10 weeks /Pain

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As of today it's 10 weeks since my surgery. At 6 weeks I went from 2 to

1 crutch. Later that week my hip started hurting again when I would stand for

any amount of time. I guess the extra weight from only using 1 crutch affected

it. I called Dr Mont and he had me get another xray. The xray looked fine

according to my local OS and I'm assuming Dr Mont found it fine being he didn't

call. In the first phone conversation he said it's probably soft tissue and

that I needed more aggressive physical therapy. Today started the 4th week of

physio. When I told him the pain started in the hip and moved down the leg to

tingling in my foot he said that sounds like a back problem. That seemed strange

to me. Why would my back all of a sudden act up to coincide with my surgery.

Oh well.

The thing that scares me is that the pain starts to hurt and feels the

same way it did before the surgery. Late in the afternoon at work I feel it

start and by the end of the day the hip is killing me. It starts in the incision

area and then moves to the inner hip and down the leg. I try not to stand very

much late in the day. I need to sit for awhile so it will go away before I

walk to the parking lot.

Has anyone else had this happen? Is the soft tissue or hip capsule still

too weak? The therapist thinks it's nerve damage that needs to heal. I

figured by now I'd get some relief. I'm going to call Dr Mont again but wanted

to

ask fellow hippies if they had any experience with this type of thing. I figured

by week 10 I'd be walking fine with no real pain except that around the

incision area. It's very frustrating.

Tom in San Fran.

C+ Mont 10/29/03