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Circumstances vary, it's true, but the misery should pass. I broke my hip at the end of 2012, three weeks before I was scheduled to start an 18-month cycle tour. The pain was colossal, and the aftermath was painful, tedious and frustrating. The exercises were a repetitive, uncomfortable grind with little tangible benefit, and you may feel that they're taking you nowhere with your recovery. But eventually, you'll notice improvements. Do whatever your doctors and physios tell you to do, however counterproductive their advice might seem.
I got back on my bike about six months after my break, very gingerly, and then set out rather nervously on the postponed bike tour six weeks after that. All of this was roughly in accord with the timeline that the doctors and physios had set out for me immediately after my operation. The tour is still ongoing, and my dynamic hip screw now has about 15,000 cycling miles on the clock. Modern medicine is amazing. Hang in there.