Peace of mind

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from my visit to Dr. Maiers today, but I did walk away with some peace of mind that I'm on the right track. As for my knee, which has been a major pain lately, he thinks that Zumba was a bad idea and stopping that will help with the knee cap pain I am having. He said that people with patellafemoral pain pre and post surgery are always going to have trouble with high intensity activities like that. He also said that I am still in a healing process and my knee pain is going to change through that process. He looked at my X-ray of my hip and had me stand with my shoes and socks off. Then he had me lay on the table and twisted my legs all around. He made both my hips pop a couple times (not good for my pain!). Then he drew all the angles on my X-rays (something that Scheid had never done) to find out my angles of coverage. My right hip is 26 degrees and my left hip is only 15 degrees. He said that would consider it being pretty severe dysplasia. He told me that he could do arthroscopic surgery, but it would only be a bandaide for my enlarged labrum. It wouldn't fix the dysplasia, I would need the PAO done to fix the dysplasia. He said even then I will never have a normal hip and I may never be pain free. He also said that right now is the best time to fix my hip since I do not have children yet. He said if I wait until I have children, I would need to wait till they are 3-4 years old to fix things because of the 3 months I will be on crutches. That would mean waiting another 5 years for surgery and my already horrible pain multiplying. So it looks like the PAO first week of June is my course of action. Maiers said he could do a scope to fix the labrum now, but I can't take the time off work that is needed. So I will probably have a cortisone injection in January to help me survive the 5 months I have to wait for surgery. Overall, I liked how much time Maiers spent going over everything and answering all of my questions honestly. I think I will still have Scheid do my PAO since everyone who has been to him recently has done well. It is still really scary to think about, but I have 6 months to get used to the idea. Thank you for reading!

P.S. I am really going to miss Zumba : (