I am a very active (hiking, biking) 67 year old female who had bilateral resurfacing--right 6 years ago, left 5 years ago. The right has been trouble free, but the left was a problem at time of surgery (nerve damage, swelling, significantly more pain, etc.) and often "clicked" when walking, right from the beginning.

Recently I am consistently experiencing groin pain on exertion as when raising this leg straight from a recumbant position, or when upright and bending it more than 90 degrees, e.g., when stepping up a higher than typical stair step.  MD basically says "not to worry" (this is a typical response, even when pressed) but, needless to say, I am.  Does anyone have information or experience with this phenomonon?  Does anyone know whether I should increase or decrease activity, or target this area with exercise?  This is my first time on this site and I would appreciate your help/advice.  Thank you.

Hi PJ?

Who was your hip resufacing surgeon?  Is it your hip resurfacing surgeon telling you no problem - or you general medical doctor?

If it is your hip resurfacing surgeon, I would press the issue to find out what is causing the problem.  If they did a bi-lat for you, they certainly should be a little more responsive to you.  I would think they would do an x-ray to make sure the bone around the hip resurfacing is OK.

This Discussion Group is a fairly new group and does not have too many people with hip resurfacings.  By far, there are more people looking into the surgery or just had surgery done. 

If you want to get more response, you might want to joint the large Yahoo Surface Hippy Discussion Group of over 6000+ people.  There are may more older hip resurfacing patients there. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/surfacehippy/

I am 20 months post op and haven't had any problems, fortunately. 

I think I would push my resurf doctors more and also ask on the large Yahoo group if anyone has a similar problem.

I am sorry I can't help you more.  If you find out what is causing your problem, would you please post a note for us so we can learn.  That way we will have some reference for someone who asks the same question in the future.

Good Luck.

Pat Webmaster/Owner Surface Hippy

Did you have osteoarthritis?  Could you have OA of the pelvis?  Talk with the OS who did the surgery and find out the reason re: "not to worry" and possibly ask for more x-rays.

Vickie

Quote from: pjmwings on November 26, 2007, 11:43:14 AM
I am a very active (hiking, biking) 67 year old female who had bilateral resurfacing--right 6 years ago, left 5 years ago. The right has been trouble free, but the left was a problem at time of surgery (nerve damage, swelling, significantly more pain, etc.) and often "clicked" when walking, right from the beginning.

Recently I am consistently experiencing groin pain on exertion as when raising this leg straight from a recumbant position, or when upright and bending it more than 90 degrees, e.g., when stepping up a higher than typical stair step.  MD basically says "not to worry" (this is a typical response, even when pressed) but, needless to say, I am.  Does anyone have information or experience with this phenomonon?  Does anyone know whether I should increase or decrease activity, or target this area with exercise?  This is my first time on this site and I would appreciate your help/advice.  Thank you.

plz check up from docter