I have had 8 surgeries for my hip in the last 17 months. 1st was a hip revision followed by 2 interior pop outs. Excruciatingly painful. 2nd surgery was to redo what he had just put in. I forgot to mention I have a lot of bone loss at the top of the femur so some things were wired in. In May they did a debridement of the incision as it was not looking good. In July they found I had an infection, not Staph,in the wound and was put on IV antibiotics. Developed an allergic reaction to the antibiotics and had to go oral. In November I still had 2 holes in the incision but they were finally closing. After Thanksgiving my husband noticed a new hole had opened and back to Dr. MRI AND CAT SCAN showed a pocket of fluid had developed. In for surgery to clean everything. Sample of hip fluid showed no infection. 10 days after surgery my thigh and hip started having great pain. Went to ER and the holes broke open with disgusting fluid. I had STAPH. My Dr. Decided to go the heavy duty antibiotic route instead of taking everything out. For Christmas into the 2nd week of January I was very sick from the antibiotics. Finally got picc line removed but was on oral. Infection numbers came down. In June I started having pain in hip thigh again. Blood work showed that inflammation was 200. Went in for surgery and had everything removed and spacer put in. Was in pain always with the spacer. Last week went to Dr. To plan next step as was ending another picc line. Made plans to have hip replacement done in late. September. On the way home getting out car the spacer popped out. Back to ER and another surgery to redo spacer. No sign of infection and Dr will take me off antibiotics in 2 weeks. 2 weeks later do an aspiration. If all cultures come back negative he will do real replacement. After 3 pop outs I am now scared to death to do anything for fear of hip pop out. Sorry this is long but glad I found this forum.