Has anyone undergone hip replacement surgery and did it go ok. What problems did you encounter. I expect to go through it in 2/3 months and have mild Parkinson’s but I suffer from orthostatic hypotension and constipation and the effects of these worry me.
I had a hip replacement about 18 months ago and it went absolutely fine. The surgeon did have a couple of goes at dissuading me from going ahead because he said muscle rigidity might make dislocation more likely and exercises more difficult. It made a massive difference to my life! I have PD but no other conditions.
Clare
Thanks Clare thats really helpful.
Probably depends how old you are. My husband (now 79) had a back operation in 2018 which caused him to have prostate problems and he had to have a catheter for about 9 months. Then had to have lazer surgery on the prostate before he could go without a catheter. 2020 had to have a left hip operation, it went well. 2022 had the right hip replaced. The operation went well but the physio immediately picked up on him having PD and 8 months later he got to see a consultant to confirm PD. Since the right hip his muscles have wasted and he can only walk with a walker.
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Hi Rob28.
I had my second hip replacement in July last year.
I’d woken up with a tremor in my right hand in early April, I talk in my sleep, and was waiting to see a neurologist, so no official diagnosis by then. The medical team were relatively dismissive of it. I wasn’t on meds for it so they didn’t have to think about it.
The op was supposed to have gone well, but I really struggled to mobilise, with awful pain, my vision blurring, my hearing being muffled, feeling like I was about to pass out, and vomiting. My two days in hospital turned into two weeks. It turned out I wasn’t being given pain meds.
My recovery from this surgery has taken longer than my other hip, but whether it’s related to PD, I don’t know.
The orthostatic hypotension may well present more of a problem getting you on your feet. I went into shock after my first surgery, and had problems with hypotension for a week afterwards. Lots of intravenous fluids and a blood transfusion later, and I was finallly able to get out of bed. Next day, I was home.
They will be offering you laxatives regularly anyway(lactulose?).
Hopefully, all will go really well, and you’ll be up and out quickly.
Lynn
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I got my PD diagnosis 4 years ago. In mid-December last year I had a right hip replacement for severe arthritis.
Early January I dislocated it. Not due to the PD so much as vague advice from a physio which I interpreted as being able to do things I shouldn’t ie bending forward to adjust a sock. Not an experience I want to repeat but once they got me on oromorph things were fine and resetting the joint went smoothly.
Most of 2024 I could barely walk at all due to the arthritis,even to get a drink from the kitchen. That pain vanished immediately post surgery and within 48 hours was mobile on crutches indoors.
As of now I’m still recovering and doing intensive physio: a year of barely moving has left my legs weak and rebuilding strength/endurance with PD takes longer and involves more work.
Bottom line: despite the complication of dislocating the new hip, and regardless that recovery is taking much longer than I expected, I’ve still not at all regretted having it done.
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