Waaay too much pain, back to using a cane quite a bit. I swear, the #*%&@$# doctors and their "normal protocol" can put that protocol where the sun doesn't shine. Three different ortho. drs. have told me I'm not a candidate for hip replacement because I don't have arthritis in my hip joints. Well that's just sweet, so I sit here with no cartilage and constant pain and they tell me I'm not a subject for replacement. OK dumbass, so what do I do to eliminate the pain? Drugs & shots! Well screw that, the shots don't work for more than a few days at best. Wonder if I can get a grease fitting installed and a tube running to the joint, just give it a squirt every couple weeks.
Sorry for venting, but it's really getting to me. After all the shots(eight) over the last 15 months, therapy, drugs, etc., and I'm right back where I was at the beginning. Can't play golf without paying dearly for it for the next few days, bicycle is painful, the Valk is painful and I can barely lift my leg to get it over the saddle, can't take walks and the goofy walking gait now has the knee so messed up it's just as painful as the hip. Guess it's time to jack my butt up and run a new body under it.
