FAO Anyone who has had a hip replacement

[gness]

Pre treatment, apart from hip pain, did you have leg problems? I can dig, lift and move heavy weights and bend easily but I am having great difficulty walking and climbing stairs....a real nuisance for a rambler and bird watcher!
My legs will suddenly feel incredibly heavy, seize up and refuse to work after walking a few yards....there are only so many times I can stand still pretending to admire the view. :-) No great pain except in one calf.....they just won't work!
I will, of course see a GP when I have worked out our new appointment system but wouldn`t mind some AB input first.
I'm miffed too because I'm never ill but I'm giving in now and admitting I may have a problem. Damn!

[gness]

Promised Ed I would try to stay on topic....I can't can I? :-( I end up with leg over and nobbly bits.
However!!! I have just belted down the garden to answer the phone that wasn`t there....I can run like the clappers but can't walk from a standing start????? Urgh!!!

[tonyav]

Very strange, gness.

[gness]

Well it'll annoy the other bird watchers if I go running around the woods. x

Maybe it's a penance and I am destined to run everywhere for ever???

[Psybbo]

And all the men will be running scared!
Just a suggestion, stretches in the morning? xx

[gness]

Strangely I can leap out of bed in the morning.....well unless there is anything to keep me there. :-)

Just sitting to walking more than a few hundred yards....I stop dead now. Of course I don't walk far when I get up.....a trot round the block in my nightie perhaps.