Extremely wobbled!

Carl, all the very best for the surgery - hip replacements are amongst the most tried and tested procedures performed these day - I'm sure it will go fine and you'll have your mobility back soon afterwards. Chin up. Just think of the cracking summer you'll have when you've recouperated :)

Ratty
 
Wow Carl, best of luck! Scary stuff. Sure you'll checked out the options, make your plan and go ahead with it.
Just let us know when it's going to be, so we can send some good vibs out your way!
 
Ratty said:
Carl, all the very best for the surgery - hip replacements are amongst the most tried and tested procedures performed these day - I'm sure it will go fine and you'll have your mobility back soon afterwards. Chin up. Just think of the cracking summer you'll have when you've recouperated :)

Ratty
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He isn't having a hip replacement.:s
 
I'm guessing that Matthew is a specialist physio right? That's why he is seeing people who need hips doing and people with spinal stenosis.

In which case, he can refer you to a spinal surgeon, but it's the surgeons decision what needs doing, not his.

I assume you've tried the less invasive options such as epidurals and neuropathic painkillers (amitriptyline, gabapentin, pregabalin)?

If it IS surgery, it will almost certainly be a general anaesthetic, so you won't know anything about it.

Finally, good luck. :)
 
I tried to post this as a reply to cruciate but was refused on the grounds it has too many images or attachments in it.

You guess right. A very bored, laid-back, can't be bothered to remember who he is talking to about what specialist nurse physio. He was passing on the decision of the Multi-Disciplinary Team who have decided surgery is the way forward after careful consideration of my MRI Scan results. Discussion with "my surgeon" is next.

My old GP had me on Zapain - 1000/50 as I recall and when I changed GP that was instantly changed to Gabapentin, then some more of that and then a bit more. Zapain became morphine, referrals started to whizz around and stagnation became progress. I've been under Carol a couple of months and I'm knocking on the surgeons door, after months of nothingness under a male GP, my age, knows what's best, gets very huffy if he feels his professionalism is being questioned, which I was doing more and more. Oops! I'm winghing (prizes for the correct spelling of that word).

It will be surgery so I'm much pleased with your assurance it will be a GA!

I've got my head round the whole deal now, so thanks , guys, for your support during my wobble. I'm having surgery, just like the hospitals full of folk having the same, day in day out. Arghhhhhh!
 
Good luck with it Carl. You'll get talk to your anaesthetist at some point but there are a number of advantages to not having a GA like better recovery, pain relief, less bleeding, less risk and so on. Plus they can combine different types of anaesthesia for a lighter effect so don't discount it completely, my Ma had a hip op under a local combined with some sedation and was so relaxed she pretty much slept through it without having to go completely under with the inherent risk that brings.
 
MY 2 carpal tunnel decompressions under local weren't all that bad I think the anticipation of any surgery is probably the worst bit and knowing that I would have to undergo the same thing on the other hand 3 months later. The worst bits of both ops were the local going in- it had to be done in several different areas and depths to ensure a total block as they were operating on and around nerves and the blood pressure cuff being on for 20-30 minutes which made the rest of my arm throb and was hell once released. The rest of it including the sensations of pulling etc were just weird rhythmic breathing and my ipod got me through the worst of it. I guess it all comes down to how long the procedure is scheduled to be as they do say that it takes 24 hours per hour under to get over a general anaesthetic and I hate that I always get a sore throat from the breathing tube.

I had a weird experience at a pre op check up on Friday I've been on the waiting list for ages for surgery to remove a pilonidal sinus: for those with the puzzled looks it's an abscess caused by an ingrowing hair at the top of your arse crack and they have to leave it open to heal from the bottom up literally. Anyway after being sent to the breast unit for the pre op it turns out it's for one of those waiting list clearing initiatives with a private health care provider so instead of being operated on at Chorley or Preston I go to Chorley in the morning they then transport me to Newton Le Willows have the surgery then back to Chorley to be picked up to go home. Seems a crazy waste of money to me.
 
Haven't thus far added to the thread Big Bro B, mainly 'cause I haven't any useful comments to contribute as regards your specific medical challenges. Have to say prior to my last eye surgery I'd have been horrified at the thought of an LA, however after it I'm pretty much a total convert. Post op was ever so much more comfy, no headaches or hungover feeling.
Whatever route you take all the very best my friend and though I have thus far failed to locate a suitably encouraging yet cheery quotation please just accept the hackneyed yet still sincere, get well soon.

Johnny.
 
WiffWaff said:
Don't want to derail the thread, but good luck with the pilonidal sinus, charliej.
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Thanks WiffWaff, haven't got a date for the op yet but I'm gonna be glad to get it over and done with it can be quite embarrassing at times when it flares up badly, not to mention bloody painful.
 
Yeah! Good luck Charlie!

Hijack the thread all you like - I'm done, de-wobbled! And It's interesting to discover what other people suffer from, me thinking I'm all alone with my aches and pains and unabalae to understand why the NHS takes so long. Oh! there are others need care!
 
I understand completely what the journey to get proper pain relief can be like I'm currently comfortable having gone down the scale from Oxycontin at its peak, also was on 125ml fentanyl patches at one point but that made holes in my skin. The worst part can be reducing then coming off high doses of opiate and opioid painkillers. I hope your pain management people get that one right for you Carl I was so ill coming off the Oxycontin that I couldn't even keep the anti nausea drugs down for a while which really sucked. I'm still on a stupid number of different meds though and at doses that would sedate an elephant when all are combined. I still get some pain but would rather have that than be off my face on the NHS 24/7.
 
Bechet45 said:
I'm done, de-wobbled!
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Glad to see those positive waves I sent did the trick....

So tell the Doc there's an extra $50 in the deal if you end up being able to dance like this guy in the video I'm linking to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfGqRUyrWw

As a bonus for afterwards, you will be able to put those magical sticks of yours to good use!
 
Charliej said:
I understand completely what the journey to get proper pain relief can be like I'm currently comfortable having gone down the scale from Oxycontin at its peak, also was on 125ml fentanyl patches at one point but that made holes in my skin. The worst part can be reducing then coming off high doses of opiate and opioid painkillers. I hope your pain management people get that one right for you Carl I was so ill coming off the Oxycontin that I couldn't even keep the anti nausea drugs down for a while which really sucked. I'm still on a stupid number of different meds though and at doses that would sedate an elephant when all are combined. I still get some pain but would rather have that than be off my face on the NHS 24/7.
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See! - there's always someone worse off! I thought I had pain but I'll shut up now in case I get what you got!

I'm not too worried about coming off opioids because I worked for a while supporting drug and alcohol users to get clean/dry - I know the ropes and have a (new) very supportive GP. Famous last words - I've helped folk do it but never done it myself.

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Bechet45 said:
I'm done, de-wobbled!
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Glad to see those positive waves I sent did the trick....

So tell the Doc there's an extra $50 in the deal if you end up being able to dance like this guy in the video I'm linking to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfGqRUyrWw

As a bonus for afterwards, you will be able to put those magical sticks of yours to good use!
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$50? I'd give him $5,000,000 - not that I like to dance that way, y'dig?

Your positive waves, darlin' dodgy, and my magical sticks are what it is all about! I mean! I just so hip with those sticks!
 
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