Total hip replacement

Living with secondary breast cancer Treatments and medical issues
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Hi all I’m 48 and just finished breast Cancer treatment in October 2018 and I’ve just had a total hip replacement, 3 months ago I started getting extreme pain and discomfort in my hip joints which I still contributed to affects from chemo and radiotherapy, I had an xray which showed nothing so I carried on taking alot of painkillers but it wasn’t getting better, any way on Monday 23 April I went to see a specialist who took an xray and delivered the bad news that I had been walking around with a fractured right hip from then on I wasn’t aloud to drive walk or anything, I was admitted straight my local hospital were i had a mri and ct scan which confirmed that I had cancer in my right hip and in my left, I had a hip replacement Thursday, at the moment feeling a bit scared and worried about the future, not sure if I will have to have the other hip done yet waiting on results taken from bone, it would be nice to talk to anyone that has gone or going through the same thing
From a scared mum of 3

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Morning Tracy

Welcome to the forum. Just wondering did they not CT scan you before you had any treatment?

I was diagnoised with breast cancer and bone mets at same time back in 2009. Had mastomy in September then before starting chemo I had CT scan and bone scan that is when it was discovered it had already spread to bones. Fortunately upto now I have had very little pain.

Alot of people hang out on the bone thread. Please join in. Comes under living with secondary cancer.

You are so young having to cope with this.

Hope your hip replacement surgery has gone well.

Linda

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Hello Tracey

Welcome to the forum …phew what a shock for you but hospital have certainly got things moving quickly.
I had severe hip pain and a hole in my femur in October 2015 I had a femur pinning …this was to protect the hip too …but mine wasent broken just like Swiss cheese due to cancer.

I hope other ladies reading here will be a bit more helpful but I’m sure that as you are young you will soon be on the move with the new hip .

Xxx

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Thank you Linda, they never offered me a mri or ct scan till this week x

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Thanx nicky x

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I worked with a lady who broke her hip ski ing …it was secondary cancer but they never found the primary. …she was on herceptin and as far as I know. .still going strong 7 years later.

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Thanx Carol I’m triple negative x

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Hi, 

I’m Lori, 45 yrs old, diagnosed at 37 in 2011. I finished chemo in 2012. Around my 40th birthday I started having hip pain. I suffered with it, thinking it would go away, for 3 yrs… until limping was the only way I could walk. In January 2017 I had my first hip replacement with the other side following the same year in November. When I’ve asked doctors about the connection or possible connection between the chemo & the joint issues, I really never get a straight answer. I started to do some googling & found other women who’ve had similar issues. Now a friend of mine that is about 3-4 yrs out of chemo, is having hip pain. I’m glad I had the replacements. I can walk much better. Fyi my xrays did not show the amount of damage that was actually there. Doc told me after the surgery that my hips were awful & that sometimes xrays are deceiving.