Thank you for accepting me to this site. I’m a 64 year old retired family GP from Kent in England. I have always loved running, but had to stop about 18 years ago due to unresolving left knee problems. My brother introduced our family to parkrun ( a regular free to enter 5km run/walk at over 500 sites in the UK, and about 460 elsewhere in the world. ) My wife & daughter started doing them regularly, and I used to go along to support. I was convinced I would be able to walk faster than some of those taking part, so tried a couple & wasn’t last!
Over the next weeks I went every Saturday and gradually ran more & walked less, until a few weeks later I was running all the way. I have now done 145. Because of my knee i decided not to run in between. About 5 months ago I started getting odd inner thigh pains, at rest & at night. I went to see our family doctor & an X-ray showed advanced OA. Symptoms seemed atypical as I could still run, walk any distance & play golf without symptoms. Physio made no difference, so I was referred to an orthopaedic surgeon, who advised surgery was the only realistic option when I was ready for it. I told him returning to my weekly 5km run would be a top priority for me, but he wasn’t keen.
At this stage I did an Internet search and found / joined this group, heartened by the many positive stories I read.
My symptoms rapidly deteriorated, with nights increasingly becoming a nightmare having to get up several times each night and only getting 2-4 hours sleep maximum. At times I would get severe spasms of pain, unresponsive to paracetamol & NSAIs. Looking back I’m surprised how severe my pain was at times.
I had a posterior uncemented LTHR on 17/4. Immediately the pre op arthritic pains went, and I have now had no analgesics for 48 hours. I’m walking with 2 sticks ( but only as my wife says … (Click Here to View Full Post and Comments)