Hi hipsters.
After 3+ years of hip pain, I finally became mostly pain free in December 2017. My hip story is a long one – in brief, 7 hips surgeries in 11ish years (stress fracture surgery, hardware removal, hip scopes/labral repairs/debridement, and the final frontier – THRs). I had my R THR in August 2016 and L THR in July 2017. Unfortunately I had a calcar fracture intra-op on the L and had a cerclage wire placed. I continued to have bad intermittent pain and my surgeon took the wire out in November 2017. After a few weeks, I was finally pain free! I had given up on the idea of running again and had accepted it for the most part. As a result of a car accident in my 20s and resultant knee injury/surgeries, I got really into cycling, sprint triathlons, and raced mountain bikes for years and, as a result, haven’t run a ton over the years. Five years ago found I was able to run more and trained (still was only running 20ish miles/week at most) and completed my first 1/2 marathon at 49 years old in 1:47. I was thrilled. Then the next year my hip labrum retore and the rest is history as they say. Thanks to my new hips, I can cycle pain free again and just recently started doing 1 minute jogging intervals while walking. Talk about feeling free again! I never thought I would get to experience that amazing feeling again. I want my new hips to last but my surgeon said with the current components being used (ceramic on cross-linked polyethylene) some running should not cause excessive wear and that these hips could last my lifetime. Ear to ear ?. I have not run in over 2 years. I never thought I would have the indescribable pleasure of running again or would ever purchase new runnings shoes again, but a new pair is arriving today! This is an exciting day indeed. Hip hip hooray!… (Click Here to View Full Post and Comments)