how many hip replacements in the crowd?

[onethatcares]

asking for my SO. She's had pain in it and suffers from osteoarthritis and a bakers cyst in her knee.

Am wondering what alternatives have been successful for any of you.

Thanks.

[Croney]

1. Both hips replaced 20 years ago when I was 54.

There was no alternative, it was bone on bone, like my shoulder 5 years ago and my knee 3 years ago. Arthritis loves me! I don't love it back.

I LOVE my hips. (Shakira, Shakira) I did a lot of downhill skiing until my knee announced it was done. They say hip replacements might have to be redone after 20 years, but so far I'm golden.

I highly recommend hip replacements if you need them.

[akraven]

2. My mom-in-love had to undergo it.

She mostly used the doc's drugs, but supplemented with calcium tablets. Seemed to help some.

[Tikki]

3. Two hip replacements here...going on two years now.

My life has improved exponentially and I feel grand. Up and at them every day.

I wish the best for your SO..chronic pain is so debilitating.


Tikki

[DFW]

4. Howard Dean had it done in 2010

I had lunch with him a few weeks later, and he wasn't quite walking right yet, and he was still recovering from the operation. But he said it had been absolutely necessary, and the next time I saw him (maybe 6 months later) he was walking like a 25 year old gymnast. As a physician himself, I guess he knew when the time had come for him to get it done.

[snacker]

5. I have not had one

but attended a joint camp with my Mom when she had knee replacement surgery about 5 years ago. There were hip replacement people in attendance too, and I remember the nurse highly recommending anterior hip replacement rather than posterior. I'm certainly no expert, but she said the recovery time is so much quicker with the anterior replacement. You and your SO might want to research this.