TLDR; the physical pain sucks but I haven’t felt this low mentally/emotionally in forever.

I had a labral repair and femoroplasty on my left hip end of May and everything went so well. I had very few flares and overall felt great.

I scheduled my right hip for 14 weeks after the first hip and felt pretty confident going into it. It wasn’t nearly as bad as the other side so we expected an easy recovery. My surgeon and I decided to add a knee scope at the same time (also on the right leg) to lessen costs and have one recovery period. It was just a fat pad excision and chondroplasty, 15 min cleanup.

Fast forward to today, I’m 3 weeks post op and my knee swelling still won’t go down. No amount of ice, PT, or taping has helped and it’s severely affecting my hip’s recovery. None of my muscles are firing properly and my leg just doesn’t work. My surgeon wants to pull fluid from the joint to give me some relief, but I just don’t really want to go in.

After my last hip, I was driving within 2 weeks and was able to drop to a single crutch by week 3. I am nowhere near that with this one. I’m so tired of being reliant on my husband to drive me places, not being able to work at the office, and just feeling useless. To top it off, my husband is having shoulder surgery in December and I’m anxious that I’m still going to be struggling, and to be honest, I’m so burnt out with medical stuff that I’m scared I won’t be supportive.

Everything hurts. I’m tired. I feel like I suck at PT. I don’t know where I’m screwing up in pissing my knee off. Bleh. Thanks for letting me vent.