I am struggling. I am struggling, physically, mentally and emotionally. This is not the way that this recovery was supposed to go. 10 months ago I went into the OR to have an arthroscopic hip surgery on my right hip to shave bone off of my acetabulum and to fix a labral tear. By six months I should have been starting a return to running program... instead, I can barely make it through an 8 hour shift at work. By 2 months post op on my right hip, I knew that something was horribly wrong with my left hip. It has continued to get worse and worse over the past 8 months. As you may have read in my previous post, I had an MRI in December and the surgeon believes that my left hip labrum is torn now. The pain that I feel in my left hip is worse than any pain I have ever felt in my right hip (both pre and post operatively). I honestly never imagined that I would need to go through the same surgery again on my left hip. As the months have passed by my left hip continues ...
a blog about my journey with femoral acetabular impingement