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If Your First 10 Steps Out Of Bed Are The Worst Part Of Your Day, Read This Before You Agree To Hip Surgery.

Been told it's 'just arthritis'? 'Just your age'? While your scans come back clean? The problem was never your hip. It was the one thing every doctor kept missing. And the morning she found it, she cancelled her surgery

Tue. Jul. 29th, 2025 | 11:11 am EST - 251.328 👁

By Margaret P.

Hip Pain Survivor

The first 10 steps out of bed in the morning.

 

For 17 months, those 10 steps told me how my whole day was going to go.

 

Worse than yesterday, or about the same.

 

Could I stand up on my own, or did I have to grab the nightstand first.

 

Would I be limping before I got to the bathroom.

 

Most mornings it was worse. Grab the nightstand. Limp.

 

I'm 54. Both hips. The right one is worse.

 

And little by little, I gave things up without really noticing.

 

I can't get in my car from the driver's side anymore. I get in the passenger side and slide over. 

 

My husband has been getting out to switch sides with me for a year.

 

I take the stairs one flight at a time. The elevator at work for one floor.

 

I bring my own cushion to my son's baseball games. I'm 54 and I bring a cushion.

 

Slip-on shoes only. I can't bend down to tie the others.

 

Then my surgeon put my MRI up on the screen.

 

Cartilage thinning. Tendon damage. A bursa that wouldn't calm down no matter what we tried.

 

"The cartilage loss is significant for your age," he said. "We should start thinking about the next step."

 

The next step was a hip replacement.

 

He said it like it was a haircut.

 

Scheduled for October.

So Why Did My Hip Keep Getting Worse?

First they said it was bursitis. Take some Advil, ice it, it'll settle down.

 

It didn't.

 

Then they said arthritis. Just wear and tear. Normal for your age.

 

Then they did the MRI. Cartilage thinning. Tendon damage. A possible labral tear.

 

And they were all right. The bursa was inflamed. The cartilage was thinning. The MRI wasn't lying.

 

But none of it told me why it kept getting worse.

 

They kept telling me what was wrong with my hip. Nobody told me why it was happening.

 

I had to find that out myself.

What 17 Months In The System Actually Cost Me

Here's what 17 months actually looked like.

 

Two PT clinics. 16 weeks. $2,100 out of pocket.

 

My physical therapist at the second clinic was honest with me at week 10. 

 

She said, "I don't see progress. I don't feel right keeping you coming in if we're not getting results."

 

She was the most honest person I saw in 17 months.

 

Three cortisone shots. The first helped for about two weeks. The second one, less. The third did nothing I could measure.

 

A bursa drain the doctor said was worth trying. It helped for about a week.

 

Dry needling. Twice a week for six weeks.

 

Then the supplements. Glucosamine. Turmeric. Boswellia. Collagen. 

 

Fish oil at double the dose because a woman in a Facebook group said it helped her.

 

I have a whole bathroom shelf of things I tried.

 

$4,800. A year and a half. And my hip was worse than when I started.

The Night Before My Surgery, I Found The Question No Doctor Ever Asked Me

The night before the October surgery date, I was still up reading.

 

I hadn't decided to cancel. I wasn't sure yet. I was just doing what I'd been doing for months. 

 

Trying to understand what was actually wrong with me.

 

That's when I found a post from a woman who'd described her hip to a functional medicine doctor.

 

What he told her was different from anything I'd heard in 17 months of appointments.

 

He said the question isn't what's wrong with your hip.

 

The question is why your cells stopped maintaining it.

 

I'd never heard it put that way.

 

Every doctor treated my hip like it was just wearing out. Old. Worn down. Nothing to do but replace it.

 

This was the first time someone said my body had stopped doing something it used to do.

 

And something that stopped can start again.

 

That's a different question. And for the first time, it had an answer.

Your Hip Didn't Wear Out. Your Cells Stopped Maintaining It.

Your hip isn't a part that just wears down with age.

 

Your body is rebuilding it all the time. The cartilage gets renewed. 

 

The tendons get repaired overnight from the wear of just walking around. 

 

The inflammation in your bursa is supposed to get cleared out by your own repair cells. 

 

The fluid in the joint gets refreshed.

 

All of that upkeep runs on something called NAD+.

 

Think of it as the fuel your repair cells run on.

 

When menopause hits, two things happen at the same time.

 

Your estrogen drops. And your NAD+ drops with it. They're connected.

 

Estrogen doesn't just handle the hot flashes. 

 

It also helps keep that tissue getting repaired. 

 

When there's less of it, less repair happens.

 

And when NAD+ drops, the repair cells lose their power.

 

By age 50, most women have about half the NAD+ they had at 30.

 

Half the fuel. For a hip that's been working without a break for five decades.

 

The repair cells are still there. They still show up. 

 

They just can't finish the job anymore.

 

So the damage builds up faster than the repair.

 

The cartilage thins, month by month. 

 

The tendons stay sore because the repair never finishes. 

 

The bursa stays inflamed because the cells that should clear it don't have the fuel to do it.

 

This isn't wear and tear.

 

It's a fuel problem.

And Suddenly Every Failed Treatment Made Sense

That's why PT failed me.

 

16 weeks of it. You can't strengthen tissue when the repair cells don't have the fuel to recover from the workout. 

 

I was stressing the joint without giving the cells anything to rebuild it with. 

 

I was making it worse every session. 

 

My PT didn't know why, and neither did I.

 

That's why cortisone didn't fix it.

 

Three shots. Cortisone quiets the pain. 

 

But the starving cells in my bursa were still starving when it wore off. 

 

The pain came back because the fuel shortage came back. Nothing was actually fixed.

 

That's why collagen did nothing.

 

You can take all the building material in the world. 

 

The cells that are supposed to use it to rebuild cartilage had no fuel to do the building. So it just sat there.

 

That's why the bursa drain only held for a week.

 

They drained it. But the cells that are supposed to keep it clear didn't have the fuel to keep up. It filled right back in.

 

That's why waiting it out was never going to work.

 

Time doesn't give you your NAD+ back. The fuel shortage doesn't fix itself. It just keeps going.

Why A Hip Replacement Was Fixing The Wrong Thing

And that's why a hip replacement was aimed at the wrong problem.

 

You replace the joint. 

 

But the cells that are supposed to maintain that new joint are still starving. 

 

The other hip is still starving too.

 

30 to 40 percent of women who replace one hip end up scheduling the second one within five years.

 

Because the cause was never in the joint.

 

It was in the cells.

What Your Body Actually Needs To Repair The Damage

Your body needs three things to repair this.

 

First, NAD+ put back to the levels it used to be at.

 

A real dose. Not the trace amount in a multivitamin.

 

Second, a way to actually get that NAD+ to the cells. 

 

Up to 90 percent of what you swallow in a regular pill gets destroyed by stomach acid before it ever reaches your blood. 

 

A pill mostly can't get it where it needs to go.

 

Third, the B vitamins your body needs to actually use the NAD+ once it arrives. Without those, the NAD+ just sits there.

What A Women's Health Podcast Led Me To

I found CelluNAD+ through a women's health podcast.

 

The host is an integrative medicine doctor. 

 

She said it was the only liposomal NAD+ formula she'd seen with all three of those things at a real dose.

 

Liquid drops. Under the tongue.

 

The liposomes protect the NAD+ from your stomach acid and carry it straight into your bloodstream.

 

It's the same delivery they use for the $2,000 NAD+ IV sessions at wellness clinics. 

 

Just a version you do at home.

 

I ordered it on a Tuesday.

 

I cancelled the October surgery date on a Wednesday.

 

Not because I was sure it would work.

 

Because I was sure I owed myself 90 days before I let someone replace my hip.

What Happens In My First 90 Days

Week 1. My energy was different by Thursday. That afternoon crash I'd been blaming on my age lifted on a couple of days.

 

Week 2. Two mornings where the first 10 steps weren't as bad as usual. Not great. But not the same.

 

Week 3. I walked to the end of the block and back without limping the last half of it. My husband watched from the porch. I didn't tell him what I was noticing yet.

 

Week 4. I got out of the car on the driver's side for the first time in a year. I just did it. Didn't realize until I was already standing on the curb.

 

Week 5. I sat through an hour of my son's game on a hard bleacher without my cushion. I'd left it in the car. Sat without it anyway. Got home fine.

 

Week 7. The first 10 steps in the morning were different. Not pain free. But I didn't grab the nightstand. Two days in a row.

 

Week 8. My husband asked if the hip was better. I said I thought so. He said, "you haven't been doing the slide-over thing in the car." I hadn't even noticed I'd stopped.

 

Week 10. I officially took myself off the surgery list. The office asked if I wanted to give a reason. I said I'd reach out if anything changed.

 

I still have stiff mornings. I still have a right hip that spent 17 months piling up damage, and that doesn't undo overnight.

 

But the first 10 steps aren't what I dread anymore.

 

They're just steps now. Most days.

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The Shocking Truth About What Your Pain Is Really Costing You

One night I sat at the kitchen table and added it all up.

 

Two PT clinics. Three cortisone shots. The bursa drain. The dry needling. The shelf of supplements.

 

$4,800. Over 17 months. All of it aimed at the wrong problem.

 

And the next thing on the list was a hip replacement. 

 

Tens of thousands of dollars. Six to twelve months learning to walk again. 

 

On a joint that was never the real cause.

 

CelluNAD+ was $119.95 for the 90-day supply.

 

It was the first thing I'd paid for that was aimed at the actual cause instead of the symptom.

 

After $4,800 on the wrong target, that math wasn't hard.

Just Read Their Stories

Shelly D, Age 54

My surgeon had me scheduled for a hip replacement in November. Started this in August as a last resort. Canceled the surgery in October. My surgeon was surprised but said whatever I was doing, keep doing it. Still on it 5 months later.

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I had the surgery consult already booked. Like the actual date on the calendar. Three weeks into this I pushed it back. Six weeks in I cancelled it. My sister didnt believe me til she saw me walk down her driveway without stopping. She ordered it that night

The Clock Is Ticking...

I waited 18 months. I told myself it would get better on its own. That the next doctor would figure it out. That the next supplement would be the one.

 

It didn't get better. It got worse. Every month.

 

I think about the women who waited longer than me. 

 

The ones whose tendons tore. 

Who can't get out of a car anymore. 

Who are learning to walk again at 58 after a surgery they never needed.

 

I almost became one of them.

 

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Wilma Devon

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Maria Schmidt

My hip kept me up every single night for 8 months. I can finally sleep on my side again. I forgot what that felt like.

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I bought mine at full price and now there's a discount? That's not fair!

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My wife was scheduled for hip surgery. She started this 2 months ago and canceled it. Her doctor couldn't believe the improvement. Now I'm trying it for my knee pain.

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Emma Schulz

Hey Christina, you need something like this instead of those cortisone shots

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Christina Miller

I ordered two bottles after reading this whole thing. The cortisone wore off after 3 weeks every single time and nobody told me why. At least now I know.

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Hank Schneider

 My wife spent almost $5,000 on PT, injections, and a specialist who wanted to schedule surgery. She started this about 2 months ago and her doctor asked what she changed. First time I've seen her walk to the mailbox without stopping in over a year.

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Susan Brown

Same thing with my sister. Close to $4,000 before she found this. Still mad about it honestly.

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Gisella Neumann

My granddaughter told me to try CelluNAD+ after watching me limp around the house for months. I was skeptical, but now I can get up the stairs without gripping the railing every time.

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Paula Rowen

Nobody told me hip pain was connected to menopause. I thought it was just aging. Once I read the explanation about cellular fuel I literally said "thats it" out loud.

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Anna White

It came well packaged and after a few weeks I noticed I could stand up from the couch without bracing myself first. That deep outer-hip ache is finally easing up and I'm sleeping better too.

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Agnes Graeme

Im on HRT. It fixed the hot flashes the sleep the mood swings. My hip still hurt every single morning. This is the first thing that actually touched the hip pain.

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Barbara Kruger

My daughter recommended CelluNAD+ after I complained about my hip pain for months. I'm walking without limping now!

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Mia Krause

I ran out for about 2 weeks waiting for my reorder and my hip started locking up again. Getting out of bed was back to being a whole production. Set up auto ship right away.

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Laura Lehmann

Same thing happened to me. Ran out for 10 days and I could feel it coming back. Never again.

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Emma Shelby

If your friend is dealing with hip pain at night, she'll probably thank you for it. Sleeping on your side again feels like getting part of your life back.

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Harry Keegan

 My wife tried this and she said this is the only thing that actually worked. After 4 weeks she could climb stairs without holding the railing!

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Laura Fuchs

I absolutely love this! No more limping.

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I was skeptical at first... Bought a bottle and was pleasantly surprised. This is worth the money. I've tried PT, injections, everything. This is the first thing that actually helped. Two of my friends bought it immediately after seeing me walk normally again!

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I ended up ordering another one for my sister after she saw me walking normally again. She kept saying, “whatever helped your hip that much, I want to try it too.”

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I almost didnt order it. Ive been burned by so many supplements. But 6 weeks in I walked the whole grocery store without stopping. I used to need those motorized carts. Cried in the parking lot the first time I didnt need one.
 

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Thanks, mine arrived today! Starting tonight.

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