I totally agree with that statement.
I started having my first hints of a problem after a car wreck when I was 28. I had hip and neck pain. Since nothing was broken, the doctor didn't take it seriously and I ended up with a chiropractor. His x-rays showed one leg was shorter than the other and my hip joint was deformed.
By my early 40s, my hip started bothering me. At first it was weekends, and anti-inflammatory medicines took care of it. By my late 50s, it hurt horribly and I knew it was time for surgery.
My neck and the hip that wasn't replaced is beginning to bother me. The amazing thing is the hip that was replaced has given me zero pain after a couple of months in. The doctor said all of the nerves in the joint were removed with the original joint, so there is nothing there to hurt.
I was really lucky that I waited on having the joint replacement. I came fairly close to having my hip replaced twenty years ago. At the time, the doctor recommended metal on metal hip replacements. There are a lot of lawsuits against those types of hips now because the metal particles created from wear cause issues with congestive heart failure and pre-mature failure of the joint. By waiting 20 years, I got a better hip that has been absolutely painless for the last four years.
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Originally Posted by Greg Reid
I've said this before and l'm saying it again... Getting old ain't for sissies is it? My knee started barking at me day before yesterday and I can't think of a thing that I have done to aggravate it lately. Just started aching like a toothache and still hurting this morning. Joint pain seems to be the only real health issue I have at 64. Mostly shoulders.
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