I had 1 hip put in a couple years back. In two weeks I was walking in the creek deer hunting. Riding my quad the first week after surgery. Never took no therapy at all. My other hip is pretty bad now... probably someday it will have to be replaced... along with a bone on bone knee that is starting to bother. I used to be a man as tough as steel.... now I really am a man of steel. New knee, new hip, rods and cages and screws in the back, stents in a heart artery ... SS mesh and screws in both shoulders.....when does it end???

Good luck Dale.!!!!

The drug protocol my surgeon uses is a pain pill every 8 hours, with Tylenol every 4 hours to keep ahead of the pain, and lots of icing.
No aspirin or ibuprofen cause they're blood thinners and he already has that in your med list,

I only took the pain pills for about a week, with one before PT for another week. Nothing wrong with a little pain!, reminds us we're still alive!...

If you do everything the doctor says to do it is going to be a big relief in the end. Hip replacements are very successful nowadays!

You'll like the new porcelain chair.

I"d get the cushion toilet seat riser don't know how much it helps but I know how it feels when I didn't Also get one of those handles that slide between the matteress and box spring make getting out of bed a lot easier takes awhile for the strength to come back

Keep it up, you’ll be worth a fortune at the scrap yard some day.

My beds upstairs so was figuring a few nights on the recliner. 13 steps upstairs and I have a railing.

How did others deal with steps for a couple days?

Hey, Turtledale!

Both of my parents had hip replacements and recovered quickly, living in a trilevel. They started using stairs with a walker on day one. Bedrooms and a bathroom on one level and kitchen on a different level (with no bathroom). They needed to do stairs all the time. It did not take them long to recover!

One kind of encouraging thing I've noticed is that as each year passes, the surgery gets better, the incisions get smaller, the "parts" are improved and the patients recover more quickly. In two weeks, I forgot my mom had her hip replaced recently. She had to remind me!

Good luck on a smooth surgery!
Patrice

Thank you Patrice

I slept in a recliner first week, with the knees...