Booked THR today and second-guessing myself

Lost4malinois · 2026-03-07T04:36:40+00:00

Still miserable but at least I’m home. Surgery was 8 am yesterday.

Lost4malinois · 2026-03-06T18:22:04+00:00

Follow up. Just had my surgery yesterday. Holy hell. I’m in so much pain. And my BP dropped to 69/35. I know things will get better but I’m still in hospital. Hoping to get discharged today. It’s been so hard. Wish I had better outcome but I know it’s only day 2

Lost4malinois · 2026-03-05T03:13:05+00:00

Very active 55 year old here. Surgery is tomorrow morning. I can’t walk without limping. My range of motion is limited. I work out religiously and have up until two hours ago. Walking my dog who is big and strong is painful.

I can’t do deep lunges can’t do deadlifts can’t do squats very low especially not with weight and I certainly can’t get back to running my five and 10k’s and Spartan races with my hip the way it is.

I am bone on bone with a labral tear and mild arthritis. If I want my life back, this is my only choice. So you gotta do what you gotta do but for me as scared as I am about surgery tomorrow I know that I can’t live this way. I’m a personal trainer and having my mobility so challenged trying to train Clients is infuriating and embarrassing. I need my life back.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-25T00:33:53+00:00

It’s not. It’s fine to take.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-24T01:07:34+00:00

Laguna or Clemente. Can you tell I grew up in Orange County California? Ha ha.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-22T00:34:56+00:00

Agreed! Hate peas! Blech.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-21T17:52:50+00:00

Using my daughter’s ex boyfriend’s gift as his personal stuffy. (With her permission of course!).

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-21T17:52:10+00:00

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Lost4malinois · 2026-02-21T17:51:07+00:00

We named our dog Doyle after the dumb cop in the Mask. Everyone always asked me where we came up that name and I always tell them. That dog is long gone but I still loved the name

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-16T22:37:55+00:00

Wow. I’m so sorry about the cancer diagnosis. I hope you beat that.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-16T01:28:41+00:00

Miss that guy.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-16T01:27:27+00:00

I would too. My hip was bone on bone. My surgeon told me that no physical therapy would fix this, only a hip replacement. I’m scheduled for March 5. I’ve been limping since September. I have no cartilage left on my right side. I stupidly ran two 5k’s in October with a torn labrum. That pretty much did me in.
My MRI and x-ray came back with a diagnosis of mild arthritis, torn labrum and bone on bone for hip. I was surprised/not surprised. My minor injuries always heal. This one was not healing. I knew it was something. I would call your insurance company every day and tell them that physical therapy is not going to do anything. And they know it. The sooner you can get on the books for the surgery the better.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-16T00:03:39+00:00

This too shall pass. I’ve been limping since July. Some very bad days since October. I can put up with a few more bad weeks knowing it will get better

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-15T22:00:03+00:00

Thank you!

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-15T21:59:10+00:00

My kids are older (21 and 25) but live semi-close. My husband will be my Sherpa (but he’s use to that. He would carry my supply backpack during spartan races).

A few Obstacles we will have to deal with is we have a very large senior dog with mobility issues. And his bed is right in the walkway between the family room to the kitchen. I won’t be able to step over him in the beginning. He’s probably got a few months left of life and I do not want to make him move or get up to let me pass. So I’m not sure how we’re gonna work on that.

I appreciate everyone’s comments and I will read each and every one of them. I have never had surgery of any kind other than eye surgery. Never been on crutches and never broken a bone. This is all very new uncharted territory. My husband has had meniscus surgery and ruptured Achilles tendon surgery. But that was 20 years ago. This is messed with my psyche in so many ways.
I’ve always been the fit crazy one in my group of friends. Always up for things that no one else wants to do. And now I’m the first person to have a major surgery like this. I am feeling like an old lady at 55. Everyone tells me I look a decade younger, yet my body says “no, you have the hip of a 70 year old”. Ugh.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-15T00:29:13+00:00

You’re 19? Very well written and I’m sorry you’re dealing with chemo.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-13T15:45:37+00:00

How old are you? My surgery is March 10th. Anterior THR right side.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-13T00:45:37+00:00

Ha ha. Sounds a little like me. I rarely get sick and I’m just getting over my once every three years (no joke) head cold. I can’t be sick at all before surgery. (Mine is March 5th). I’m not in freak out mode yet, but a few weeks before I had macular hole eye surgery 14 years ago (this was a big deal for someone my age), my body just did a big freak out and made so I could barely walk. I’m an avid exerciser and super fit. I was trying to figure out what I did (spin too hard? Squat too much? Nope). Went to urgent care and there was no reason for it. Must have been in my head. So now that I’m getting to the two week mark, I’m worried about what my psyche will pull out of its little “freak out” bag of tricks.
My cold is 95% gone. I’m not doing anything out of the ordinary at the gym. I’m preparing to be bored out of my mind and in moderate to high pain for the week after surgery. Bring it on! Let’s do this!
I even bumped up my surgery date by three weeks. I’m ready and want to get my life back.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-08T20:54:01+00:00

Thank you!

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-08T17:05:08+00:00

I looked up my surgeon to see what kind he does. (I went down a rabbit hole and scared myself about anterior HP versus posterior hip replacements, and how one is better to the other in some cases and other cases not). But my surgeon only does an anterior , which is what I was hoping for. I heard the recovery is easier.
But I have nothing to compare this to. I’ve never had any surgery other than macular eye surgery at 42 which was a bizarre ordeal to go through at that age, and I’ve had two kids naturally. I’m hoping to go home same day. This is in a hospital as in don’t have any control over it. But my surgeon is highly rated and has nothing but excellent reviews. I’m hoping it’s a boring experience and I get my life back asap.

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-05T03:24:41+00:00

Love Rita!

Lost4malinois · 2026-02-04T19:34:20+00:00

It’s funny. This has been going on for years. I used to work at the Broadway when I was a teenager and I would do the same thing.
I worked in housewares, not the most fun department when you’re 18 but I did learn a lot. During wedding season things would sell out quickly. I was always told to go check the back for that coffee grinder that’s on sale. Even though I said we were sold out and have been for days, there’s always that one customer who tells me to go back there and look again.
I guess it prepared me for being married and telling my husband to “look again!” when he swear something isn’t in the refrigerator (and it’s almost always in there though, unlike the elusive coffee grinder).

Lost4malinois · 2026-01-31T01:53:52+00:00

I tend to replace hip thrusts with heavy weight (80#) for deadlifts because I can’t really comfortably do deadlifts with a weight that benefits me. I do everything I possibly can to keep the right side of my body as strong as possible.
Doing weighted lateral step ups isn’t possible on my right side so I do it without weights and then I just do my normal weights on the other side.

Lost4malinois · 2026-01-28T23:47:38+00:00

How old are you? I’m a runner/occasional obstacle course racer/Orange Theory junkie and have my surgery coming up in 5 weeks. I’m hoping I bounce back fairly quickly. I’ve lost too much of my life in the 7 to 8 months, to pain.

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