(I'm having some problems with posting here, so this may not be in the best location. However, it's the only place that I could find that would let me post a new topic.)
Thought I'd check here for a possible solution to the pain I've had since my right hip resurfacing in 2009. I read one post and thought, "Hey, that guy has exactly the same symptoms as me!" Turned out it WAS me, from a post back in 2010. Hah!
In any case, I was hoping that by now someone would have come up with a definitive answer to the constant ache I have in the right hip. At times I wonder if the wrong size joint was installed, since the best way I can describe the pain is that it's as if someone is continually trying to press too large a ball into the hip socket, causing an aching pressure. **HERE'S MY PRIMARY QUESTION: I haven't been able to find anything out about this possible scenario: what symptoms would a person experience if the resurfacing was completed with components that were too large?
Relevant details: My pain probably runs from a 2 to a 4 or maybe a 5 at times. It's about the level of pain you feel the day after you sprain an ankle badly, only focused in the hip. The ache seems to be deep in the joint, although pressing on the hip joint from the outside is painful, too. Occasionally I'll get groin pain as some have mentioned. The pain is almost always there, and frequently wakes me up at night. It's a rare night when I can sleep on my left side without the right hip starting to ache badly, and I usually can't sleep on the right side, either. So I end up on my back, sometimes with my right knee bent. If I drive anywhere the hip will start to bother me a lot, and I have to unfold slowly from the car on arrival, as the hip is very stiff and painful. I try to stop every hour or so on a trip just to walk around the car and to ease the pain. It seems to be slowly getting worse, as I've noticed it's increasingly painful to climb stairs, or to hike on a sidehill.
I still work out three or four times a week, including stretching, weight work, and various cardio. Taking NSAIDs and then getting an almost daily workout seems to be the best treatment I've found, as I sometimes feel a little better right after getting home. (I finish up with stationary cycling.) That fades by evening, however, and the pain is back. I don't like to use meds to sleep, because in my experience that creates other sleeplessness problems.
The right hip was resurfaced by an orthopedic surgeon who was kind of a newbie to the hip resurfacing surgery, with only five or six operations prior to mine. He said that he used the largest joint he had. Two years later my left hip was resurfaced by a very reputable doctor in Boise, with some 700 surgeries prior to mine. That surgery went much better; I was back on my feet with only a cane the next day, and taking long hikes just a few weeks later. It has never given me any trouble at all. I had this doctor examine the right hip, look at the X-rays and MRI, and he could come up with no reason for the pain, either.
I'm afraid that if the pain continues to get worse, and that certainly seems to be the case (albeit gradually), I'll have to have a THR done just to alleviate the pain so I can sleep, drive, and fly. This has not been a good experience. If I'd known the hip would be this painful after the surgery, I would have stuck with the pain I was having from the arthritis.
Topic: Hip resurfacing with oversized components? (Read 2422 times)
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