Thanks for the advice. I see my doctor again this Friday to take a course
of action. I'm going to go for it. I've had this pain for about 7 months
now.
I want to start playing basketball again. :) Pure weight lifting isn't doing
it for me
anymore. I was on heavy doses of the steroids for about a month in the
hospital,
then I was tapering off of them for about a month at home. Then I took some
different kind of steroids a month after that for some weird skin rash I
had.
I'm allergic to Skin-So-Soft, who knew? I guess that was enough to mess up
the
hip. The bad part is I have to get a schedule together with my job, because
it
looks like I will be out for a month. I'm the main software developer at my
company,
so they are all waiting to hear what I have to say what I'm going to do.
Thanks again,
- Rudy.
raceves(AT)vengrp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Alton <A.Ryder(AT)ix.netcom.com>
To: Rudy Aceves <raceves(AT)vengrp.com>
Cc: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: Replacing the rear end suspension
>Rudy Aceves wrote:
>> [hip joint damage] from all the steroids ..
>> Has anyone heard of this happening before?
>
>Rudy, from someone who has had a total hip
>replacement, my advice is to have it done.
>
>Long term, heavy use of steroids does indeed
>cause degenerative joint disease, as well as
>several other nasty problems. But I don't
>believe several days of even massive doses
>can do significant damage to the joints.
>
>I have had severe asthma for over sixty years,
>and until recently I had been on a heavy dose
>of prednisone (40 mg/day) for decades. It did
>a job on one hip [the other hip is normal.]
>I had it replaced five years ago. The operation
>is routine; the pain goes away.
>
>>From your other note, I assume you are young.
>You will be getting a bone growth attachment,
>not a cemented attachment. Someone seventy
>years old has the leg part cemented in place
>and can put weight on it immediately; the
>cement will usually outlast the patient. For
>someone young, heavy, and/or active they put
>in a fuzzy or porous device and let the bone
>merge with the device. That joint is stronger,
>but you have to avoid weight bearing for six
>weeks while the bone grows.
>
>Thereafter that hip will not constrain your
>activities. A neighbor with two new hips goes
>skiing in the alps each winter. But he doesn't
>have TM. I have not yet read how your TM has
>affected you.
>
>Again, if you have pain, get it replaced pronto.
>
>Alton, who will never again pass through the
>airport metal detector
>