Must add here, of course- MY surgeon has just a big an ego. And is just as sure of HIS approach and methodology. Didn’t mean to besmirch our friends’ surgeon up there.
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Nothing to share here, but good luck, Toons!! This getting old and falling apart crap ain’t for the faint of heart. Knock wood, I’ve still got original structure intact, but there’s also family history, so I could end up with new knees one day.
Just be a good, obedient patient, but don’t be afraid to ask questions. Yeah, because you’re so shy… 
Happy hipping!!!
I have a ceramic made for children because I was 5’ 3" when I had it done in 2000. I was on crutches for a week and began using a cane.
From your mouth to God’s ears. 
FCM, thanks for the hip hopes !!!
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Mom got her first total hip replacement in 1969. At that time, it was an experimental procedure in this country and only 3 doctors were licensed to perform it. Pre-surgery, she had 30% motion in one hip, her GOOD hip. So, she went up to NYC for 6 weeks or so. They told her it was a 15 year hip. It lasted 22 years. Now they have you walking the next day. They generally want to do the surgeries on Mondays so they can send folks home on Friday.
So, the summer of 1970 I was getting a pre-surgery exam for an orthopedic procedure. So, the ortho resident is taking my history and examining me and noticed my mother had a cane. He asked her what happened and he told him. Within 30 seconds every ortho surgeon, attending, and resident had surrounded her. Most of them had heard of a Charnley total hip replacement but NONE had ever seen one. So, while I’m sitting there buttoning up my shirt and then waiting, they’re having mom walk a bit so they can watch her gait. They’re quizzing her and they talked her into letting them take an X-ray (free of charge). Actually, by now the residents are just in the background listening and it’s just the senior most doctors talking to mom.
Well, I had never seen a photo of what they did myself. It was educational.
Kaylasmom had emergency replacement of her left hip in 2011 at age 57. Posterior approach. She felt fortunate to be able to attend a concert at the Greek Theatre five weeks later.
I had a scheduled replacement of my right hip in 2015 at age 59. Anterior approach. The surgery was delayed by a few months because the first surgeon I consulted with only knew the posterior approach, so I had to get referred elsewhere. I returned to work about four weeks later, and people had to start learning my name, because they could no longer refer to me as “that guy with the really bad limp.”
A friend of mine had both her hips replaced in her mid-late 40s. She’s since had to replace one of the replacements – as somebody mentioned upthread, there is the caution of the implant “not taking”.
She ramped up her activity during her recovery because, as already stated, she couldn’t sit for very long. She started bike riding, joined the Y to swim, and took up kayaking that summer. In the winter she snowshoes. I remember her saying that her doctor held her up as an example of a model patient, but then again she had relatively “young” age going for her.
When this thread started, one of my friends / neighbors / coworkers was scheduled for a hip replacement. IIRC he’s 63. It’s now been 2 months since it was done.
Pretty much a non-event. Did the PT, swam or walked every day as he was able and 6 weeks later the FAA is satisfied with his strength and range of motion and he’s back at work flying jets. He is quite tall and not overweight so that’s a bad news / better news situation.
“… and now I’m 5’ 9” and that longer hip implant’s given me a whole new perspective on life !!! ". 
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My mother is an active 75-year-old and she has had one hip and one knee replaced. According to her, the hip was a walk in the park (ha!) while the knee was nothing but pain and still bothers her.
She is a model patient and does all the physical therapy that is required of her. She, like you, also has a high pain threshold. I say you’ll be fine; the relief you get will probably mean any pain you have will be negligible.
My wife had both hips replaced, 11 months apart. She was in terrible pain before the surgeries and they had to be postponed for long periods due iron deficiency in her blood.
Been over a year since the last operation and things are pretty good!
I have had both hips resurfaced. You can read about it in this thread.
My operations were a bit different than a total hip replacement, but you have the same large power tools involved. Both my operations were posterior and I was out of the hospital in less than 24 hours for the last one (one year ago). Both of my recoveries were excellent. Basically you should choose a good hospital and a good surgeon and let him decide what is best for you. If the surgeon has done 1000 posterior and 250 anterior, I think I would rather have the posterior.
I interviewed for an engineering position at the Veteran’s Hospital. The guy explained to me that you sometimes had to go into the operating room to show a surgeon how to use equipment. My lack of enthusiasm was apparently evident.
Don’t know about kick boxing, it’s not my thing, but I was back on the golf course in 8 weeks and playing outfield on the softball team in 3 months! Had to make a diving catch the first game. My wife didn’t breathe until I popped up and ran in.
I agree with your points, but anterior was absolutely right for me. Nothing the surgeon told me proved incorrect. The biggest selling points for me were 1) no restrictions in movement from day one and 2) back to walking assisted only by a cane in less than 2 weeks. My main point was to consider all options, which you obviously have. It’s been great for me, no hip pain at all anymore no matter how stupid I get!
LOL- not hardly stupid. I’m pleased to hear you’ve had such great success in recovery.
Incredibly, I came down with pneumonia last week and so the surgeon canceled my surgery. Instead of this Friday I’ll have it some time in February, I hope.
Frustrating to kind of “build up” and be as ready as possible only to have it killed a week out. A compromised immune system is a no-go.
Grrrrrrrr…
Sounds like what my youngest sis went thru with her knee replacement - showed up at the hospital on the morning of surgery only to be told that, oops, she had an infection, so she’d have to be rescheduled. :smack:
Hope you won’t be in too much pain till Feb!
Well. THAT was something. Aside from two very specific negatives, I can say without reserve that the Hospital for Special Surgeries in NYC is a superbly run organization. Every single department I encountered was staffed with focused, attentive professional superb technicians. Just amazing.
The assault on my corpus was…kinda stunning. I didn’t know what to expect. Wow. The surgeon is pleased with how I looked 55 hours post-Op. I’ll see him again in 2 weeks. Visiting Nurse Association has been here with nurses and P.T. folks to evaluate and supervise my P.T. work.
Now, it’s largely up to me. To push gently without rushing the increase in reps and P.T. work overall. I only had it done last Friday morning, and have been home for less than 48 hours, so right now I’m trying to work UP to the reps required. All in good time.
FCM, I was in slowly increasing pain from that last post till day of surgery. Damn. NOW, the pain is all good- because it’s going to be a slowly diminishing curve into pain-free life.
Anyone who has done hip or knee- what was the toughest thing about recovering once at home?
Not personal experience, but working with my Mom through 2 knees and one hip replacement (not all at once! :eek:), it seemed to be about patience with the healing. It’s slow, but the visible progress always made her grumpy that it wasn’t faster. That, and not trying to push beyond current limits at any given time. But she always was The Determinator, so YMMV.
THIS. My surgeon has done hip replacement surgery for a bit more than 35 years. God. Almighty. That’s. A. Lotta. Hips. As he said during our initial visit, as he plucked his starched white dress shirt with conservative necktie, " I’m the old conservative surgeon. With the starched white shirt. If you want Anterior, I can recommend some terrific surgeons. Just superb people I know and respect. I’m not saying anything negative about the process. But what I DO is this, and I’ve done a lot of them, and have had a lot of curveballs thrown my way and it’s what I do. "
For that and a handful of other good reasons, he was my guy.
So I have to ask- what’s involved in Hip Resurfacing??? How do they expose the female socket and femur head enough to…resurface??
I just need to print this out and stencil it on the damned ceiling so I can absorb it by Osmosis. I am in a HURRY to be 100% healed, pain-free, etc. Back to the career. Slow but visible progress. That should be my REALISTIC goal, shouldn’t it??
How do I go about making that the living goal…