Morag

[Guest guest]

Hi Morag:

I know where you are coming from. The NHS is a great institution, but the

bureaucracy between GPS, consultalts, where you live, (post code lottery) is

highly frustrating. Even the sending of letters. This amazes be, cant the NHS

afford, fax machines and email. My concern is that giving the deterioration rate

and the time taken getting on the pre waiting list (17 wks) to getting to

surgery, my hip will be to bad fro a resurface.

Keep me posted on your progress.

Phil

Pre Waiting list

Devon UK

Re: Running out of ammo

I'm in EXACTLY the same situation!

I'm 22 and came to the conclusion that resurfacing was by far the

better option for me at this point in my life. - Aside from anything

else to have a THR I'd have to get the pins out of my femur, wait a

couple of years at least for my bones to heal, then have a THR. And

at the moment I can't walk more than 100 metres!

I'm tall and female and specialists treat me like I'm daft - My

first doc - a complete THR fan before even discussing the idea of a

resurfacing (which I'd never heard of before) was telling me that

it's a ridiculous idea, is far too new, doesn't work in the long

term...I could go on. AND friends who know nothing about either

procedure have been erm...advising me...that I should definitley

have a THR simply because resurfacings have only been on the market

for a short period of time.

I don't even bother arguing with them. I just tell them to go and do

thier own research and come back to me and give me a valid arguement

of why a THR is better. - None of them have been able to.

I just wish I could get it dne soon. I'm getting it done on the NHS

so I have to wait till November (

Morag

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> > Hello fellow hipsters -

> >

> > As a newbie, I continue to have multiple questions.

> >

> > Finally, I get to the point where I am feeling confident in my

> > decision to go with hip resurfacing v. a total hip replacement*,

&

> > now everyone around me is freaking out.

> >

> > I'm only 35. My local OS, & my family are trying to talk me out

of

> > resurfacing, because I am a small female, & because they say,

there

> > is not enough research yet.

> >

> > Any advice?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > * Scheduled with Dr. Gross, SC May 12.

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