Thigh pain after 6 months, I am having the same problem after 5 months. After an MRI, and all other tests related to veins and blood flow, my investigation leads to damaged nerves. Swiss Doctors have investigated this and say that about 3% of patients develop nerve damage in the thigh and sometimes, knees. Type burning in thigh after hip operation/Swiss physicians and read.
Your symptoms are similar to what I have had much of my life. My son, a very active police officer, began to have similar problems in his 20s. Numerous tests turned up nothing, though auto-immune disease is the diagnosis. What both my son and I have found is that certain substances trigger the auto-immune response, and that avoiding those substances has been key to our being able to live normal lives. I'd be glad to share more if you are interested.
I had anterior total hip replacement 10 months ago. I was doing great at first then just leveled off. My Dr put me in auquatic therapy. I would highly recommend it! I still have numbness along the side of my thigh and some pain as well. My Dr said it was due to in injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. They have to retract this nerve during surgery and it takes some time to heal. I will likely have the numbness forever, but the pain is better. Do your leg lifts and exercise.
2008 I had the same anterior hip replacement left leg and in 2010 had the right hip done. Left leg leg still a problem severe pain inner thigh. Most of the time cant walk or have to use cruthches to get around. Have had every test run and rerunned. MRI, CT scan x rays 3 different orthopedic surgeons, pain manager doctors, laser surgeon tests all more than once and to no avail. At 61 I'm wondering if this will ever let me be normal again. Have driven my primary care physician to the brink. Going to have a spinal cord stimulator installed in my back next week. This is suppose to kill the pain signals with signals of pleasure as pleasure signals are the stronger of the two. Or so I have been told. Well Im done whinning now guess I will go back to my med bottles and wait. Best of luck on your end.
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THR in left hip 9 months ago. Over the past few weeks, I started getting what I could best describe as "growing pains" in my THR thigh in early evening....lasting until I get to sleep. Throughout the day not a problem, but then I get this dull constant pain a few hours prior to going to bed. Uncomfortable in whatever position...causing tossing and turning until it subsides after taking medication (ibuprofin)
Sounds like. You are over loading on a fake hip , which makes you guilty of abuse of a hip implant!! Sorry !! But I am trembling reading these threads as I am 4 weeks into recovery and my femur has not stopped hurting, my surgeon told me " I have patients running marathons on my hip implants" ????? Like to see ? Anyways I have had significant lumbar surgeries and issues possibly you could be exp. the same , but I would bet dollar to doughnuts you have worn out your hip and need revision not good , and this scares me BC it seems all to common as we are some what young and need these to last verse a 80 year old who wants to live there golden years out walking? !! Wish the surgeons are mor honest I am only 40. And disabled I know boo hoo but it sucks , the key thing is I hope your educated unlike me as you can probably tell by the way I write and express my self threw words!! My point is life style change appears to be a must , but not what I was told three weeks ago!!
My husband has suffered with fybromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, chronic fatigue, for nearly 8 years.Debilitated It is very severe. He is on 200 mcg of fyntenal patches every 72 hours has dilaudid for break through pain. Although he doesn't have break through pain, because he is never pain relieved. He fell and had fractured his hip and laid there for nearly 2 hours until he finally called me st work. He stayed home the weekend and finally called EMS. He had partial hip replacement. That has been 2 months ago. He still cannot put but 50% weight on his leg and has extreme pain 24/7. He does the exercises given in home, but there just is no improvement. Has anyone experienced this or close to this. He is to begin water therapy. Hopefully this will help. any comments please? I just want to know if this is near normal.
I am having the same thing. My replacement was re-xrayed and all is well. This pain is in the muscles. am going to therapy 3 times a week but wonder if I will ever be pain free.Your pain going down to the knee sounds like my pain. Have you been to therapy?
Did it ever resolve? I have the same thing now
Tanya -
Do you have any update on your situation? The burning pain sounds like nerve pain. Your situation sounds very similar to mine. I also had a congenital dysplasia in the left hip. I had a leg lengthening during my first hip replacement. Although my x-rays proved that the hip replacement was "perfect" I have severe nerve pain from the surgery and have been in pain management therapy ever since. Eventually the cup came loose and had to have a revision. The revision caused even more nerve damage. Now, in addition to having severe burning pain, I also have a certain amount of numbness, which drives me crazy.I can lay down or stand up, but I can find very few sitting positions that don't result in aching numbness in my leg and foot.
The pain management helps me to be able to tolerate the pain, it brings it down to a level that I can handle, but the numbness is extremely difficult to deal with as it interferes with my ability to sit. I appears that my second implant didn''t go as well as the first - I had the surgery less than 6 months ago and I have pain when I walk that is similar to the pain I started having when my first implant started coming loose. Anyway, I digress - I am really interested in knowing how you are getting along and if you think you are having the same problem that I had with the first surgery - nerve damage. I also had nerve conduction that didn't show damage - however, I have learned that there are many nerves in the body in the area of the hip and you can have very severe damage to nerves that are not involved in the conduction testing, so it can be useless as a tool to detect damage in many cases, such as mine, and, I suspect yours as well.
Best regards to you.
my father has the same EXACT thing happening right now to him. He had a double hip replacement 7 months ago and is in so much pain now its unbearable. He went to the dr and he told him he has bursitis in his right leg tendon that runs from his hip down to his knee. They gave him a cortizone shot and it seems to have made the pain worse and didn't help at all. We are at a loss as to what to do? He is now severely depressed and wishes he never had his hips replaced in the first place now. He would have just lived with that pain, it was better then this. No doctors are helping us. His surgeon says this is "all normal" after the surgery but nobody else that we know has ever had this happen to them and they had the same surgery done. PLEASE HELP!!!!
My problem is much the same, except that I am completely unable to walk as severe pain in the thigh/hip area causes me to immediately fall after taking the first step on the operated leg. Consequently I was unable to do any post-surgery PT. A prominent NYC neurological surgeon examined the operated hip after the first year and opined that the problem was "prediabetic neuropathy," which Google and WebMD suggest is most unlikely. After 2 years in a lift chair and doing nothing but watching TV reruns, I am desperate. Has anyone found a doctor in the NY Metro area who offers any hope for this issue?