Thread: Need some new fun - total hip replacement

Just read, how do you handle getting old? thread, brings me to this Q regarding quality of life. I am used to going fast, jumping off shit, recreational drinking and related activities:

WTF can I do with a new hips - that is fun? Yep, total hip replacement coming in 2 weeks, just took the "You and your new hip" class yesterday. @ 48, i was the youngest and best looking of the bunch, fo sho. Put me in a TERRIBLE FUNK.

Dr has said: NO running, and NO pounding of the new joint. So any ideas on what I can do? Swimming is advised, but fuck that boring shit.

also - Splat: How would Homeopath help me in recovery? ideas?

Get a road bike for sure. Ask your doc about mountain biking, no impact as long as you stay on the bike but there is a lot more fall potential than road riding.

Motorsports?

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Motorsports?

The dude raced in the Indy 500.. Serious.

Skiing - just don't huck shit or ski bumps.

Originally Posted by 4matic

The dude raced in the Indy 500.. Serious.

lolz. No i am not PT, but the motorsports thing is in my blood fo sho. sounds like that is an option. Hello sissy miata. :thumbsdown: if its a good year, may buy a porsche, see how that works...cayman or 911.


the road bike thing sounds even more promising - intense cardio, ziggin and zaggin, only hold back is city living...indy is not really bike friendly.

anyway - am i missing out on anything more? anyone else? buehler?

and much easier rehab than ACL or tib-fib,ankle,or femur

THR peeps in good shape are usually doing very well by 6- 8 weeks and are done seeing me at rehab by 3-4 months.

skiing, golf, biking, swimming, fly fishing, tennis are all things I've help folks get back to doing with THR/TKR/PKR surgeries.

Definitly ask about doing some pol rehab after your incisions are healed. We try to get these folks in the pool at ~3wks post op.

Guns!!!!!!

fencing, archery, shooting targets, game shows, etc?

how about lighter side of hiking? no impact, right?

fuck, this sucks.

Just stay away from impact sports. And car racing is fine, just don't crash that is really bad for your hip.

Ski, just stay on the ground. So take up backcountry so you can enjoy more powder.

May be time to step up from recreational to professional level drinking...it's low impact as long as you don't fall

Seriously, good luck with this.

Curious PT . . . what was the journey of pain to require surgery - injury, bursitis . . . ??? Thanks.

Originally Posted by PTracy P1

also - Splat: How would Homeopath help me in recovery? ideas?

Healing up, I imagine. I have a friend attending an big essential oils seminar in SF next week. That stuff is moving up in healing and preventative stature. They're going after viruses with oils these days. Homepath would likely have some frog balls and bat hair that would help after he throws some chicken bones on the floor to read your condition.
Seriously, though, he would evaluate you and then prolly give you his take on whatever he thinks you would benefit by.
It could be something as simple as a comfrey root tea to some natural antibiotic.
Won't know unless you go. I say go.

Originally Posted by GimpToo

Curious PT . . . what was the journey of pain to require surgery - injury, bursitis . . . ??? Thanks.

Osteonecrosis. got it in both hips. Did a L hip "Core Decompression" (drilled 4 holes in the hip to attempt to save it my allowing bloodflow) in early Sept. , and on the 27th Oct. there is the R hip total replacement.

Been suffering bad for about a year, was thinking it was back, back, maybe a tear of some kind. Finally whined enuf to Doc and sent me to Hip MRI, then BAM! "Son, you're fukt!"

Trying alot of Yoga, limited Pilates, making my wife rub me. Salt bath, Fosomax, Relfen, occasional lorezapam to quell the Twackies. Sorta freakin out, as I just got diagnosed last week of August, then straight to surgery, crutches, etc.

Osteonecrosis is a bitch, you don't find it until you are completely fukt. not very common, and unbelievably, strikes people for realtively NO REASON. likely age of sufferers is 25-45.

Wow PT, that is fukt . . . best of luck in your continued recovery . . . I've had pain on and off for years in my left hip, seems to be getting worse and looking for some ideas. Good luck - I'll be watching your progress and other's suggestions

Originally Posted by GimpToo

Wow PT, that is fukt . . . best of luck in your continued recovery . . . I've had pain on and off for years in my left hip, seems to be getting worse and looking for some ideas. Good luck - I'll be watching your progress and other's suggestions

if you even SUSPECT it could be ON, or shomething with your hips, then get an MRI, asap. They think mines been developing for years, and coulda done more had they found it....

Yep, willupdate.

Helluva thing to get done fast. Like, not much time to digest it all. Wow.
Best of luck in your healing.

Originally Posted by splat

Helluva thing to get done fast. Like, not much time to digest it all. Wow.
Best of luck in your healing.

Right on splat, that is the big mental thing for me. One day I think I tore a muscle, next thing you know I'm gettin a new soup bone. Was/is really tough on the wifey. After all - she gets no Hydrocodone or whatever that shit is.

bo jackson played pro football on a thr and played better with that thr than before. but i'm no football fan and you ain't bo jackson but there are plenty of action sports funhogs that have had thrs and got back into pretty much everything or at least most things prior to surgery.
people get back into surfing, skiing, boating, climing...
i got a friend that took a monster fall while climbing and got busted up really good. wheelchair, then crutches, can over 1.5 years. then, back into tele, boating, climbing. eventually they found out he needed one hip replaced due to the massive fracture he previously substained and a month and a half later running class 4/5 again.
and he's not a big fella like bo jackson either.

so you will pull off lots if good times with a thr. get yourself a beach cruiser, rehab.
i gotta get fai/labral tear surgeries, and that is supposed to be a rougher comeback than a thr, but most fai people get to do dangerous things for fun again afterwards. so you will rock again.
in the meantime just kick back and take it slow and be glad that necrosis didn't get worse.

Originally Posted by mysteryzombie

bo jackson played pro football on a thr and played better with that thr than before. but i'm no football fan and you ain't bo jackson but there are plenty of action sports funhogs that have had thrs and got back into pretty much everything or at least most things prior to surgery.
people get back into surfing, skiing, boating, climing...
i got a friend that took a monster fall while climbing and got busted up really good. wheelchair, then crutches, can over 1.5 years. then, back into tele, boating, climbing. eventually they found out he needed one hip replaced due to the massive fracture he previously substained and a month and a half later running class 4/5 again.
and he's not a big fella like bo jackson either.

so you will pull off lots if good times with a thr. get yourself a beach cruiser, rehab.
i gotta get fai/labral tear surgeries, and that is supposed to be a rougher comeback than a thr, but most fai people get to do dangerous things for fun again afterwards. so you will rock again.
in the meantime just kick back and take it slow and be glad that necrosis didn't get worse.

MZ, thanks bunches. So much of this shit is mental. 4 days to go.

no sweat- i've been there and am still there, again.
during my downtime i have found other things to occupy my time, like eating more, exploring better beers, and upping the thc intake.
oh, and i decided to go back to school. and that has been a blessing in disguise, since i swore i'd never go back, and this time around, i am actually enjoying it even though it is really difficult stuff to grasp.

Tomorrow - knife day!

good luck...just remember to not be so nervous and you won't make an ass of yourself to the docs like i did in the last surgery i had-
i have a high tolerance, for some reason, for anesthesia, and it took them forever to knock me out. i apparently was just enjoying being stoned out of my mind, babbling on with my eyes crossed/closed...i invited all of the or staff over to my house for dinner, etc...
apparently they had to use more than twice the normal amount to get me to finally knock out.
i don't remember any of this. the wife told me after the fact. sort of like college.

It is a blast, huge fear factor and untill you can roll you get to swim!

Originally Posted by PTracy P1

Just read, how do you handle getting old? thread, brings me to this Q regarding quality of life. I am used to going fast, jumping off shit, recreational drinking and related activities:

WTF can I do with a new hips - that is fun? Yep, total hip replacement coming in 2 weeks, just took the "You and your new hip" class yesterday. @ 48, i was the youngest and best looking of the bunch, fo sho. Put me in a TERRIBLE FUNK.

Dr has said: NO running, and NO pounding of the new joint. So any ideas on what I can do? Swimming is advised, but fuck that boring shit.

also - Splat: How would Homeopath help me in recovery? ideas?

Originally Posted by mysteryzombie

good luck...just remember to not be so nervous and you won't make an ass of yourself to the docs like i did in the last surgery i had-
i have a high tolerance, for some reason, for anesthesia, and it took them forever to knock me out. i apparently was just enjoying being stoned out of my mind, babbling on with my eyes crossed/closed...i invited all of the or staff over to my house for dinner, etc...
apparently they had to use more than twice the normal amount to get me to finally knock out.
i don't remember any of this. the wife told me after the fact. sort of like college.

i haven't had a drink or a toke for a long time now, so i imagine i will be pretty easy to knock out.


funny story tho - last surgery i was talking about bong hits.