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BamaRefugee

(3,722 posts)
9. Sounds A LOT like me.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:11 PM
Jul 2019

Turns out I needed a total hip replacement on my left side.
For 2 years I got worse and worse, could only just barely climb stairs, had to walk with a cane, fell down a lot. Finally got the correct diagnosis, had the operation at Christmas 2018, now I can walk, jump, run, anything I want, it's so freaking great. I'm 67.
Might want to ask your doc about it, I also had this awful thing called meralgia paresthetica in the same hip, excruciating, so I was suffering from a double whammy, check with doc about that too. Your outer thigh becomes almost numb, while inside, it burns ike hellfire 24/7. It's an affliction of the femoral nerve. It also went away after the hip replacement.

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