Complications from a total hip replacement

Hi Brockagain, not sure this is for me but I am not in the St Louis area.

I am in st louis how long and how many Dr's did it take you to find a dr that said it was the hip I've had 2 saying they don't think it's the hip my primary is going to do another CT scan and see if it shows anything my thing is my white blood count is high I hurt all the time right on my hip and groin and now upper thigh it hurts non stop can't walk more than 50 ft without being in severe pain can't stand I'm tired of hurting

My surgeon was dr odegard I've seen dr partenheimer from ssm a dr Simon for arthritis dr greiner for my injections dr Marlboro for pain management dr Fisher my primary have had its mris bone density did therapy 3 times had surgery at mercy south saw a spine Dr don't remember his name I'm sick of drs

Mri CT and bone showing nothing I've asked my primary for referral and she's wanting to do another CT so it's scheduled for next week I've asked her about a neurosurgeon also

Have you been tested for an implant infection with your white blood count so high? I read it was possible to get infected years later.

I wonder if a scope wouldn’t make sense. It the infection is colonized on the apparatus itself and without blood supply, oral or IV won’t touch it.
A hip is different that a disc and I have no idea how they could gain visual access. An artificial disc is small - a hip is large. So I don’t know.

Are you getting sicker?

I just hurt all the time I'm scheduled for a CT on the 11th but it's and x-rays aren't showing anything I wonder the same a CT won't show infection

Don't know of a test they did do blood work to see

I've asked my dr if I should of been taking antibiotics incase it is infection he said that wouldn't take care if problem they would have to take hio out put in antibiotics straps until infection is gone then put in new hip at this point if that's what needs to be done do it but they don't want to say it's infection to do that

Well ok. But a high white blood count might be an infection and it seems logical to rule that out. I have read there are tests they can do but I not a medical professional so I’ll leave it to someone else to respond. However I don’t think an infection will get better on its own if it is that.