Newly diagnosed

mandb

Hi. I've just been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in hips and degenerative hip disease. I don't have a clue what to expect or what to do! Anyone else with any advice please?

noddingtonpete

Hello @mandb and welcome to the Online Community forum. We are a friendly and supportive group and I hope that will be your experience as well.

On our website you will find a lot of useful information about arthritis, treatments and hints and tips and I've put a couple of links in below which are hopefully of some use.

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/conditions/osteoarthritis-oa-of-the-hip/

and

https://www.versusarthritis.org/news/2021/november/ways-to-help-manage-hip-pain/

I hope there is something of use. Please keep posting and let us know how you are getting on.

Best wishes

Peter