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I'd say its better to be laid up once than to have to go through it all again for the other side.
I would agree, but I can't imagine having a 20LB pressure/weight restriction on both legs at the same time. That is basically limiting you to a wheelchair for up to 8 weeks. One leg/crutches is limiting you as it is. Think about not being able to use crutches at all.....I have done a ton of reading on this and have seen back to back over the course of 10-12 months but never within weeks of each other. I am sure your doc knows what he is doing but I just don't see the logistics of it......I'm curious.
How you feeling? I couldn't imagine having to go in that soon for a second operation.
I'm already up and moving, bud. I'm standing at the computer on a ledge right now. I can walk without the crutches at this point, I'm just on my toes and not putting a ton of weight on it. Also very short strides to not stretch things out too much. I took off the brace because I was starting to get my back again from being at a weird angle.
You have to remember the kind of shape I was in before I was operated on - I was doing things that healthy people can't normally do. There's a video that went up two weeks ago of me deadlifting 445 and I was squatting sets of 315. ...and that's as a 165lb guy.
I also prepared by removing all foods that cause inflammation. No gluten, no beans, limited night shades. Lots of fat, good grass fed beef, and only white rice and sweet potatoes as starches. I stopped working out the week before the surgery, so my body would be well rested and ready to repair itself. I'm taking mass amounts of cod liver oil, collagen protein powder, L-glutamine, whey powder, and alpha brain to speed the recovery too.
painkillers block you up pretty good. if you can't wipe your own ass, keep taking them. lol
Ah that makes sense. I figured there was some sort of reasoning for being able to go "back to back" so quickly. Just don't push it too much I would hate for you to have complications. Glad to hear it didn't put you out too bad.
So you had debridement instead of the anchors/stitches. From what I gather they can't figure out which way they will repair it until they are in there. Glad to see you are up and around. When is your first rehab appt?
@chester - At my follow up appointment, I found out that I had both debridement and the suture anchors. They didn't completely remove the labrum but they shaved off all of the labrum that had ossified/calcified. It was carving a canal in the top of my femur bone - which was the knife like pain that I was feeling in the front of my right hip. The doctor said he could line up the groove that was cut in the bone with the bone spur and the calcified labrum.
This Friday will be 4 weeks since the procedure. I am walking, albeit with a slight limp still, and can do most things. I squatted past parallel last Friday. I was still supposed to be in the brace and on crutches. I ditched the crutches after about 3 days. Slipped on ice with them twice and was hurting myself more than just walking around and keeping most of my weight off of my foot.
Back pain has been tremendous because the surgery and the brace had me hunched forward.
Have you gone under the knife yet?
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just throwing this in here for post op, might want some compression socks to increase blood flow in the feet/lower legs
also, don't take any blood thinner type meds a week before the surgery, aspirin and similar pain relievers comes to mind