Originally posted by: Babbles
When I was six I had what is called a slipped capital femoral epiphysis, which is essentially where the ball of the femur detached from the rest of the femur at the epiphysis - the growth plate. I had to get my leg in traction and then the surgeon put a few screws in my hip to hold things in place. Afterwards I was on crutches for a good six months with a good amount of physical therapy. Then a few years later when I was ~9 it happened to my right hip, so I had to go through that again and additionally they opened up my left hip to remove the screws they put in there the first round. When I was twelve they went back into my right hip to remove the screws in that one.
The real pain from all of that, though, is the osteoarthritis I suffer now. I was the only six year old kid I knew that had arthritis. So dealing with the constant arthritis in my hips at one particular point in time isn't all that bad, but compound living with a chronic pain in my hips - albeit sometime there is no pain, sometimes in both, but usually just one, which happens to be my right one right now - anyhow living with constant pain for 23 years now isn't too terribly fun. When I was ~25 I just about broke down and cried because the constant throbbing was just particularly bad for a month and nothing - not a single damn thing I did - would make the pain go away. I went back to my orthopedic surgeon, and he took some X-Rays which basically said as a 25 year old my hips (the left one worse) looked like they belong to a 40-something. So the thrilling part of this is I am going to have to have a hip replacement surgery sooner than what may be considered typical.
With all of that being said about my pain, I think Darwin333's asphalt injury sounds entirely more painful than anything I have suffered.
Originally posted by: jadinolf
In 2002 I had a total hip replacement. They get you up on the second day and make you walk. I have never experienced such pain in my life.
If I ever had to have the other hip replaced, they would have to take me kicking and screaming into the operating room.
If you don't mind me asking, how old were you and what type of material did you git for the replacement?