Thanks for the update, dear trussell.
Sorry it is not working as well as hoped. Check and see if it could be adjusted while you are wearing the temporary one.
Did they do an MRI for your right hip or just an X-ray? You might ask to have them do an MRI — I knew someone who fell, just like you, and was in a lot of pain, doctors told him nothing is broken, but pain persisted, they finally did an MRI and it turned out there were some small fractures that either didn’t show up on the X-ray or the doctors weren’t paying enough attention to look. Once he stayed off his feet for a while, he recovered — but it took a long time before they found it, and of course while he was putting weight on it, it couldn’t heal. Maybe you injured it that way too since you fell, as you said, you sat down on a chair that wasn’t there.
If you have a major pain in a particular place, like your right hip, it would be worth investigating it further, if you can find an intelligent caring doctor and can persuade him.
Good luck with everything and keep us posted.
The device has to come off to do a MRI, and once in place further MRI’s CANNOT be done. There is enough research out there that this Medtronic device is a bad customer for the patient. The glowing reports on their web site are useally fake.
You have to dig into the blogs to find the truth, patients are left in worse condition than before the implant.It does not take long for scar tissue to form over the probe placed in your spine by the Medtronic Rep, not a doctor. . Once that happens it cannot be removed with out much bigger damage. And you are not completely under when they do it either, as they have to check your responses to it as they tune it.
This is a virtual spine, touch a disc and it will tell you what the spinal nerve root controls. The L3-5 control a lot more than people realize, Colon, bladder, legs, etc.
http://www.echiropractic.net/nervechart.htm