Labral Hip Tear and surgery

I was just diagnoised with a labral tear of my right hip, was not told exactly where but was told by my orthopedic that I had to go to another specialist that does the arthroscopic surgery.  I have been dealing with my hip pain for over 3 years and was always told it was from bursitis until I found this doctor that finally diagnoised me with my tear.  Over  a year ago he had just done a regular MRI and found cysts in my hip joing and said there was mild arthroitis and told me to try a shot in my hip and if that did  not work then to come back.  Well the shot only lasted a month and I was so afraid of having surgery on my hip that I put off going back to the doctor until this month becuase I can hardly sit or stand with out having some type of pain and when I drive it really hurts.  The doctor said that usually the cysts that are in my hip joint are caused by a labaral tear so he had me get a MRI Arthorgram and found out that I had a tear.  I have been trying to find out some information about the surgery he said I was going to need and have found so much mixed information to recovery only being about 2 weeks to several months.  I am so afraid of having the surgery but I am afraid of not having the surgery also do to how much pain I am in now and knowing that I already have arthraits in my hip from this tear and it will only get worse.  Is there any one out there that can tell me what to expect and how long to  expect to be out of work I sit all day in a chair at a computer doing data entry.

Thank you all
TNT97

[Dr Vinod]

Hello!

Refer the earlier post in med help: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Orthopedics/Hip-Labral-Tear-Surgery/show/617605

Surgical operation remains to be the last reserve for treatment where the orthopedician sees no other choice after medications and conservative therapy fails. Surgical operation for hip labral tear (acetabular labral tear ) is called hip arthroscopy.

Ask your surgeon to explain the whole procedure and dos and don't before proceeding.

Take care!