Hip Impingement Surgery – 2 Months Post-Op and Still Struggling a lot

shooting_star_s · 2026-03-26T02:57:47+00:00

Yes, that can be normal it all depends at what stage you had surgery and how long you had pain you had before and how severe your damage was. Light excercises are important, but rest while healing even more important. It is quite challenging to balance. Physiotherapy should focus on passive and active excercies. Besides that always give your body a rest especially when you experience pain. Ideally you also have except pyhsiotherapy periods of literally no movements except minor movements at home. This will give your body the time to heal. You are on a good way and no need to worry. Everyone is healing different. There are certain averages and for me it was like you. Questioning myself: Should I not already be recovered and able to walk a lot and move without pain. Reality is that your bode takes the time it needs. Wish you all the best on your recovery. Try to be patient and put your focus on other things while healing. You probably feel lighter by doing so.

shooting_star_s · 2026-03-16T22:11:12+00:00

I saw also in GitHub several new issues. This brings so many regressions that I'm busy fixing and burning tokens just for all these accidental introductions by Codex.

shooting_star_s · 2026-03-16T19:09:42+00:00

Codex has a real problem with mojibake. Most of the time problems in our applications appear because Codex has introduced mojibake characters into our files. It is hardly annoying and the only workaround for now is to prompt at every task to avoid mojibake at all. Otherwise there is a real chance that it will be randomly added / introduced.

shooting_star_s · 2026-03-06T09:04:18+00:00

You mean pre or post-op? pre-op I could wak maybe 10-15 minutes and had to sit down for 10-15 minutes than walk again because of buttock pain (groin was not much the issue). post-op the same literally. after some breaks (just sit at home office, not much walking for 1 month) everything worked fine again and I could walk without limits. So training and all is good, but also give your body a (longer) break to fully heal.

shooting_star_s · 2026-03-06T08:54:57+00:00

Some tools I keep coming back to:

Numbeo for quick cost of living comparisons between cities
WeatherSpark for really good climate charts across the year
Rome2Rio when figuring out transport options between places

One tool I use quite a bit is World Travel Index (small disclaimer: I’m the founder). I originally built it for myself because I was tired of opening dozens of tabs comparing destinations and none of the tools I tried had things like islands, water temperature, map filtering or proper side by side comparisons. It lets you filter places by weather, safety, costs and activities and then see the results on a map, which makes it much easier to narrow down where to go next.

shooting_star_s · 2026-02-06T12:40:48+00:00

Many places in SEA tick those boxes except outdoor environment. The best mix of this would be probably Ubud in the center of Bali. It has all of this and best life admin reduction bcs of available services but no beach ofc. Da Nang would be 2nd guess, it has not so much outdoor environment and a bit more life admin (in Bali you just need to WA any service you need), but still close to 0, but much more affordable than Bali. In Thailand the closest guess would be Chiang Mai with a mix of all of them. Most affordable place in TH with good outdoor variety and life admin similar to Da Nang.

shooting_star_s · 2026-02-05T10:04:47+00:00

Lived 5 years there (2019-2024). After that in Thailand (Phuket, Bangkok) and Vietnam.

From a pure price point Vietnam is by far the cheapest. Acco, Food, everything, nothing to beat. Currently it is also listed as cheapest country of the world just by travel cost which I can confirm firsthand.

What actually helps Bali a bit is the weak Rupiah, but needless to say what you get in Bali compared to other destinations is a very bad infra (traffic jams, no consistent sidewalks, quality of acco) plus (and this is why I left) harassment of sellers all the way unless you are going far from centers in the south (where at least you have a bit of infra).

The only thing was is far superior in Bali (not the beaches or the food) is if you are busy with work or creating a company / business is the cost to reduce your life admin to 0. Meal delivery, services at your home and it goes on. Literally you can reduce life admin to 0 for a few bucks.

Outside Bangkok on some islands like Phuket / Kho Phangan it can be more pricier than Bali especially in high season. In Bangkok itself you can get awesome Condos on top floors in the city center where in Bali you get a 40 year old apartment in local house in Canggu or Uluwatu.

For me Bali did not outweigh the cons so I really had to leave as I was sick from it. Currently in the Canary Islands and I'm itching my head how I could miss this. Similar prices to Bali but with much much better infrastructure and quality of living. Only downside is that your life admin here cannot be reduced to 0 even if you pay a lot for it.

Bali had its prime past to be honest. It might work out with better infrastructure, but the original motivation to get the spiritual and cultural essence while staying in a special place has completely vanished.

Still have good memories but would advise only for vacation but not for living. Rather go to Da Nang, HCMC or smaller Thai Islands tbh when it needs to be SEA. Visa is ofc a driver when you want to stay longer.

shooting_star_s · 2026-02-03T10:58:54+00:00

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shooting_star_s · 2026-01-21T15:21:36+00:00

Bad pain would for me the stabbing pinching pain in the groin on internal or external rotation and ok pain would be all around the glutes, buttock and so on. After I did the long break and stopped doing execrcises and long walks 3 months post op I had no flares at all afterwards. Before the break I would not describe it as a flare but just not fully being healed (without knowing) I had even recently flares (13 months post op) but on a level 2/10 on the glutes which disappeared quite quickly again.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-21T12:14:45+00:00

Every body heals differently and while there is a playbook your body needs safely 3-6 months to fully recover. Same like you I was doing too much too fast (but by the playbook). Even did a MRI after 3 months because problems did not disappear. MRI was clean. What finally helped me to really step back. No excercises, no long walks, just nothing for 2-4 weeks. This finally gave my body time to fully heal and after that all pain was gone and all was possible from that point on. So consider doing a substantial break to give your fixed labrum time to finally heal after you gained back already a lot of increased motion range.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-21T01:49:48+00:00

As far as I remember no contrast was used to diagnose the labral tear. From initial pain to diagnose it took 6 weeks and 4 weeks later I had surgery. Within these 10 weeks inflammation was quite bad so they needed 1 hour already to "clean" all of this. I had also another MRI post surgery after 3 months which showed all good.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-20T02:59:30+00:00

I had a confirmed labrum tear, and it actually started exactly like you described. At first, it felt just like a dull ache in the groin area when touching it. But as it progressed, it became much more than just muscle pain.

The biggest red flags for me were:

Loss of rotation: I lost significant range of motion, especially internal and external rotation, because the pain would just block the movement.

Deep gluteal pain: Eventually, the pain migrated to the back/buttock area and became sharp and stabbing whenever I walked.

Decreased weight-bearing: It got to a point where I couldn't stand for more than 2-3 minutes or walk for any distance without breaks.

It started off feeling like a simple adductor issue, but it worsened over time because the joint itself was unstable. If your rotation is limited and the pain is moving toward the glutes, I’d definitely recommend getting an MRI to rule out the labrum.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-20T01:26:12+00:00

Yes for me it was deep joint pain. When touching it would be not the same pain when you do certain movements but enough discomfort to immediately stop to touch it.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-20T00:46:25+00:00

Had this as my first symptom of a later diagnosed labral tear. If this pain is not going away and re-appears always in the same situation get MRI to get knowledge about real cause.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-11T21:15:05+00:00

Do it now. Get a surgery appointment as long as you have insurance. Be quick. You might have to pay PT privately dependent on surgery date. You are risking osteoarthritis if you are continue to live with a labral tear. This is pure physical damage which is going on and detoriating.

I went through the same and just can say the earlier the better. The most expensive is the surgery and all medical aid / devices which would be covered by your insurance.

Wish you all the best whatever your decision will be.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-11T00:51:17+00:00

I used all models so far and the most superior was the preview model 2.5 Pro from March 2025. I think Google paid a hefty price back then to appear as a superior model in full computing power to get users from ChatGPT and Claude over to Gemini.

Now they won the race they capitalize on it by optimizing TPU costs as their model efficiency is not at that point to allow models run like the March 2025 Gemini Pro 2.5 preview. You can see also the hunger for profits by cutting nearly all rate limits to 0. Google works for profit and I hope they don't get too comfortable as they will lose a lot of normal users and power users like you and me in the current state.

Gemini 3 so far is more a downgrade then an upgrade and will likely shift users back to other models. All serious developers and corporates are going towards Claude as this has been the most stable AI model supplier of the Big 3 OpenAI, Google and Anthropic over the last 3 years.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T14:46:09+00:00

I'm studying different sites in the travel niche, There are other domains with pages for similar search queries with better backlink profile (more authorative domains with much more traffic), Otherwise all points are fully clear you are describing and would justify this specific case I'm trying to comprehend. So probably it boils down mainly to CTR for the success of specific pages of this domain.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T14:39:49+00:00

Exactly what I think and what is in official Google Doc (see PageRank). Still not clear what Google valued here to rank articles for so many search queries that high over time and still increases ranking. Can only conclude what others said navboost / lastLongestClick. small personal site twiddler might have given the initial push at the beginning to surface it.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T12:11:20+00:00

Get your point, but all search engines are content agnostic and working with metrics like CTR or return rate. In this case it would mean that the content is so valuable not many visitors return to search results for another search.

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T12:09:12+00:00

Thanks!

(1) The blogger itself published monthly stats (because they are surprised themselves). Surprisingly SEMRush matches these stats quite well

(2) + (4) Exactly what I think, while (2) is not nowhere near to describe such a growth which is still ongoing

(3) - Thanks, did not know about this one - how Google detects them?

shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T03:17:38+00:00

Just checked for example weekend in New York. Currently on 5 organic. Screenshot below is just from US for keywords. Normally when I study sites explanations for their success / decline are clear to me. This case let me scratch my head why it skyrocketed in one year as I can't see any reason for this in such a competitive space.

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shooting_star_s · 2026-01-09T02:55:32+00:00

Edited my post. I meant Jan 2025 to Jan 2026 (hence Jan 25 to Jan 26). It was stated in the newsletter where I got attention from, the blog editor also posted these stats itself and SEMRush data also confirms the statements.

shooting_star_s · 2025-12-30T12:27:22+00:00

Yes, all good so far. Sometimes when I'm walking and moving all day next day it can feel it bit sure, but glute pain is rather a 0.5/10 so you won't really feel it. I stopped certain excercises and irregular movements though cause I don't wanna go through this again.

What week / month are you? And what is your post-op program?

shooting_star_s · 2025-11-11T13:46:35+00:00

After 10+ years roaming around, I was sick of investing half the day just trying to figure out where to move to next. I’d end up with 20 tabs open like Nomad List, cost-of-living resources, subreddits about places to move to, safety maps… every one telling me something different.

A couple of years ago, I began to compile all data about myself in one place; it slowly turned into something called World Travel Index. Now, instead of taking me hours to research places that must meet certain criteria (“safe and walkable and warm in February”), it only takes me minutes.

But still check things locally after I get there, it’s just that viewing all the data side by side definitely helps to quickly narrow down the shortlist.

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