Long time stalker of this thread but first time poster. I broke my femur in a rather freak and unspectacular fall whilst setting off on my bicycle, rounding a corner slowly, suddenly losing balance and landing directly on my side. Both myself and the doctors were very surprised I could break a hip from a such low impact fall at 32 years old but had been on prednisone for the year prior which can mess with your bone density.
I remember reading this thread lying in the hospital bed, waiting for my dynamic hip screw surgery, overwhelmed by the seriousness of the injury, being both optimistic of my recovery but scared of the complications.
That was four months ago and luckily feels like long time ago. At the three month mark the bone was declared healed and was back on the bicycle. I remember that first ride vividly, it had only meant to be a short cycle up and down the road but was turned into a 5mile jaunt. Since then I've been able to return to former levels of activity, averaging 25+ miles a day, perhaps with a little less power and speed.
Want to thank everyone that posted on this thread as some of the advice really helped. My advice is listen to your surgeon and physio, do all the exercises they say and then some. During my recovery and even now my friends say I over do it, but I always ran everything I did past the specialists. I could have got away with cycling probably much earlier but I was patient and waited for the bone to fully heal.
Still not out of the woods yet, got a slight limp still to lose and a lot of strength to recover, but I feel like I finally have my life back as can manage everything I did before the injury.