I'm having shoulder surgery next week for a non-union clavicle fracture. We are going to graft bone?We are grafting bone from my hip. The Doctor says the high use and stress of the shoulder make cadaver bone a bad choice. I'm really worried about the pain. I've heard the hip really hurts bad afterward. Anyone had this done?
Anyone had bone graft from hip - how bad is the pain afterwards?
Question posted by surge98b on 4 Nov 2010
Last updated on 19 March 2021
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I've had two bone grafts; one from each hip! One was to help correct my cleft palate and the other was during my bimaxillary osteotomy ((double jaw surgery)) to correct my underbite. I don't remember much from the first bone graft but I do for the second. When I awoke I was unsure of whether they ended up taking the bone in the end as I had absoloutely no pain! I had a tube directly into my hip and to the bone site which was delivering local anaesthetic, so I had no immediate pain. I was able to walk the day after and am well on the mend after 3 weeks. With my older and completely healed bone graft, I have a little numbness on the surface on and around the scar. I also find that it is a tad more sensitive when I knock it on things but apart from that I have had no issues with it!
I had scoliosis surgery in 1993 when I was 10yrs old. They did a bone graft on my left hip and I've always had issues with it. Some days are worse than others, but as I age the pain is increasing and it seems that I'm constantly adjusting how I'm sitting and even when in bed. I've been trying to walk a lot thinking that might ease some of the pain, but it doesn't help. I've even been waking up in the middle of the night by it hurting so bad. My ortho dr thinks I'm crazy and my family dr basically keeps me medicated to keep me comfortable. Has anyone tried shots or anything? Any good alternatives to help with the pain?
I had a Spinal Decompression/Fusion. L4 L5 S1 in 1996 and I still have pain in my left hip. Hurts to touch the area, sleep on my left side, walk, sit, stand, just normal things people do everyday. There is really nothing that can be done other than pain meds to keep the edge off
I now have pain in my left butt cheek going to my groin.
Hi; I had my bone grafting from hib for tibia surgery just 4 days ago. This is my 2nd surgery after 6 weeks. My Ortho could not do bone grafting immediately because I had wounds and my fracture was open compound. Like you all even I was worried about the pain from graft side. But the pain was actually for 3 to 4 days. Slowly it will decrease. I was discharged from the hospital in the next day of surgery. So nothing to worry about it. Go ahead for the surgery if required. Good luck to all those who are going to undergo bone graft surgery.
I'm having mine done for tibial graft also - have had a recurring ganglion cyst post anterior cruciate reconstruction (allergy to biodegradable screw dammit) and after reading the horror stories of hip bone being used in graft and starting to change my mind! How is yours now??
Hi there! It was good to read yours and others comment on bone grafts. I had a terrible accident and injured myself badly. This week Wed. I will be having my 7th surgery with a graft from the upper tibia in my leg. My surgeries have involved my elbow where i had a large amount of bone loss, multiple staph infections. so my leg has a fracture that has not healed since accident 6 months ago, hence bone graft. Pain from surgeries and infections have caused me to be on narcotics this whole time so i am afraid that what they give me for pain after surgery wont be enough. But i have a fantastic surgeon.
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Your post makes me feel much better. Your situation sounds just like mine. I have the exact surgery coming up in 7 Days. It’s been a very long road. My wreck was 6 months ago and had to wait for my wound to heal then have ext fixator removed before I could have surgery. Are you having any problems now?
I'm quite worried now after reading these posts as I'm having a bone graft from my hip to be used in my hand on Wednesday this week.
I had my hip bone grafted last week. The pain was so intense first day i could barely walk. But the second day it was already much better. But reading that pain remains for 14 years sounds really scary.
I am almost at 12 weeks ( bone graft right hip) and the first 9 weeks or so were fine then I went back to work and now the pain is horrific- somedays it's so bad I can't even stand up without flinching - forget about walking
Hello DovileBus. I understand you had a hip bone graft 6 years ago. Did the hip pain totally subside? How long before you felt 100%. I was told I needed a hip bone graft for major jawbone rebuilding for dental plants and a sinus lift all in one surgery. I am reading only negative long term effects occur after hip bone graft. Any information is greatly appreciated. Hope you are 100% well.
Thank you, TCeleste
Hello DovileBus. I understand you had a hip bone graft 6 years ago. Did the hip pain totally subside after the bone graft? How long before you felt 100%. I was told I needed a hip bone graft for major jawbone rebuilding for dental plants and a sinus lift all in one surgery. I am reading only negative long term effects occur after hip bone graft. Any information is greatly appreciated. Hope you are 100% well. Thank you, TCeleste
I had bone grafted from my hip to use in my spine in 2000. I am not able to lay on that side anymore. In the past yr I have had such and intense pain in butt that it is painful to sit. I now am having pain with every step coming from the graft site. My scar is very tender also even after 14 yrs. Nothing seems to help the pain (heat or alleve).
Wow, 14 years! Finally someone like mine. It has taken a very long search to find someone past a couple years reported. 15 years for me and no relief in sight from the nagging hip and iliac pain. When I mention it to my surgeon, he scoffs, like it's impossible. Then again, he didn't believe me about the abdominal cyst either until I demanded a C.T. to prove it. He still doesn't Think I could possibly feel it but obviously I do and have had to prove it each time it reoccurs following some type of surgical eradication procedure. Doctor's should do 10 and 20 year post surgical survey's to Properly inform new patients of the possible long term to life time pain.
I had cervical fusion in 2008 the bone graft was harvested from the front of my left hip and I too am unable to lay on that side. This is the first I have ever heard of others having this problem. It does help to know I am not the only one (ie I am not imagining it.)
I have had 4 spinal surgeries, the last 2 were spinal fusions. The first fusion failed because I was allergic to the material the surgeon used to fuse, so the second was to take that out and use a bone graft from my iliac crest. That was one year ago. I am in excruciating pain from that bone harvest. It has caused a very painful condition in the sacroiliac joint next to the graft site. I cannot lay on that side, sleep on my back, nor move my leg without a very sharp, throbbing pain. My surgeon is very cautious when he talks to me about it, as if not wanting to acknowledge the lingering pain. But of all the extensive research I've done, every source clearly remarks on how negatively the sacroiliac joint responds to an iliac crest bone harvest. My surgeries needed to be done, and obviously I can't turn back the clock. I'm writing this so that others know a bone graft can cause residual pain that may or may not ever go away. It's real. It's not just in your head.
I had a spinal decompression/fusion at L4 L5 S1 I also used bone from my left hip that was in 1996, to this day I live with chronic back pain, my hip is sore to the touch, sit up against a chair, seat in a car,hurts to lay on my back anything I do. The longer I am on my feet doing some walking the more that area hurts and it travels across my back and into my let butt area and now getting pain outside of my left leg to the knee and across to my groin.
I have been on so many different pain meds and I am never ever pain free,and to find information on this is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Can somebody else comment.
Thanks
I had a spinal fusion in 2015, bone graft taken from my right side. I have had horrible pain since, I would now classify it as debilitating. I can't stand long enough to make dinner, let alone walk any distance. I prefer to lay on my right side. For the last two months, when I get up the pain is so intense that I get dry heaves. Not pretty. I can't believe they can't do something to give us some relief! Good Luck to all that suffer, you are not alone and not crazy! The pain is real!
I'm having much of the same problem after bone being grafted from my right hip to fuse my left wrist. Wrist is fine but after 6 yrs I'm still having problems with my hip. Sore to touch and it just aches!!!
I had the procedure during the Astros World Series Shut out. As to the question The bone graft from my hip made me forget all about the graft in my neck. To be honest it hurt like hell. I had to learn to walk again. The pain subsided quickly. I would still do it again with confidence. The thought of a dead person inside me freaked me out. The up side... Healing time is reduced, because it is your stuff. I was back dancing two to three weeks later. The learning to walk again, came back quickly. Remember it is two surgeries, I am still going strong with no problems, years later.
I had scoliosis and they grafted bone from my hip and fused it to the Rod and my spine. That was in 1988. I am have alot of pain in the hip where they grafted. As I get older the pain is getting worse. Putting alot of restrictions on my daily life. They do say this is only a rare occurance, so hopefully you do not have to worry about this issue. Good luck
I had an anterior posterior L5 to S1 grade 4 spondylo fusion in 2003. I have had continued pain from the graft site on the left hip and iliac region ever since. That's 15 years!! It seems that some days are worse than others and there is no correlation known. I cannot stand Any Pressure put on it, even as light as a pair of underwear elastic. Everything I can find on graft pain, is not Near This Long a problem and is very rare to be this acute... But It Does Happen I Assure you! I also developed an abdominal wall cyst, directly following this surgery. I have had multiple attempts too aspirate it but it comes back. Within two weeks I feel it retuned with a vengeance.
I have also had 3 laparoscopic attempts to marsupialize the cyst but again 3 attempts by different surgeons have failed. They seem to always knick it and the fluid runs out and the emptied cyst gets away from them, shrunken and hidden... only to return filled and causing a nagging pain in my abdomen once again. I have resolved to attempt just living with it rather then repeated risky surgeries. All the surgeons Swore it would not come back... following aspiration or by the accidental perforation's. It has now been 9 years since the last attempt and I have definite cyst growth back, with continued pain of no relief in sight. Hope this helps some of you to understand that grafting processes with lingered long term pain Does exist, it is simply that the surgeons don't do the continued follow ups survey's past a couple years to track it. I would like to know if anyone else has had reoccurring abdominal cysts following anterior abdominal surgeries.
I have had 5 back surgeries. The surgery of February 2004 required my left hip bone be grafted for the L4 to S1 fusion. I didn't get pain then. However, when I had revision surgery July 2005 or infection removal surgery August 2005 was when I experienced awful pain in the left hip area. I became very cold in the area within 24 hours after surgery. I requested warm blankets to warm up the area.
This cold sensitivity and pain is still with me. I have tried several treatments for the cold sensitivity pain. None have helped.
When I go into an environment that is below 50 degrees my left side freezes up like I'm paralyzed.
Dr. Lloyd Hey in Raleigh did all 5 of my back surgeries. He was employed by Duke Hospital in Durham for the first surgery. He opened his own practice. He does surgeries at Duke Raleigh now in Raleigh.
I don't know how rare it is! I had bone grafted from my right hip to fuse my left wrist after having to remove a wrist replacement thing which failed terrible. Its been around 6 yrs and my right hip is still sore to touch and aches terrible. At times its hard to bend over or raise my knee. Very discouraging after all this time. God bless you honey
I've had six back surgeries. After the second iliac harvest, right hip, I ended up with MRSA. Spent three months on pic line antibiotics, ended up with c diff. I've had intense pain in that hip since, twelve years. My left hip hurts on occasion but my right hip is constantly in pain and is dreadful 50% of the time. Does anyone know if it's possible to have a continuing infection that has stayed in the bone? Thank you
I have had back surgery twice. Once with cadaver bones put in to support two titanium rods and another one that they put a platelet screw system over the first one. So coming from my output, surgery would be the last resort. I wish you luck and find a common ground that you can live with. Best of luck to you. Let me know what you decide, just curious... kim
I am also having bone graft from the hip to fix a none union clavical, I am worried about the pain from the hip. I have already had 2 surgeries on my clavical so not so worried about that. I am already on the fentynal patch for pain in my shoulder and I'm worried that whatever they give me after surgery wont be enough to stop the pain in my hip. I should be up for surgery the end of the month. Please if anyone knows anything about this let me know.
I wound up having a large enough gap in the clavicle that they could not use the hip. I wound up getting a graft material using collagen and denatured bone material, (technically non cadaver), that worked very well. I did have marrow leak out a month later and getting a pulmonary embolism. The PE hurt more than any of my many fractures, chest tubes and ortho surgeries I have had ove my life. Dilaudid took care of that pain fine, so don't worry about that. Even with the complications I am very happy now that I'm all healed and rehabbed.
I just had a bone graft done to replace bone in my clavicle.. which is held in by plates and screws.. my pain from 1-10.. reached a 30 no joke! I'll be a week in tomorrow.. I have the ugliest scar now
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