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Loosening of hip after a total hip replacement
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: May 24 7:29am | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
My wife had total bilateral and nine months out had to have a revision on her right hip because it became loose and could have done more damage if not done immediately is what the surgeon shared. You and you alone, know your body and if something does not feel right, be a strong advocate for yourself. Not sure on what materials they used on your implant but my wife also came down with Cobalt and Chromium poisoning from her implants twice! If something honestly doesn’t feel right search and seek until you feel better. We ended up changing orthopedic surgeon because the first one kept declining to do a cobalt blood test and we felt something was wrong, had the test done by or through her primary and found her cobalt level to be over 17.5; very toxic. The second orthopedic surgeon was better to start out with but did not seem to have patients for long term care so my wife now sees a third orthopedic surgeon with hopefully no real complications! Best of luck, stay positive and again, be a strong advocate for yourself!
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I am so sorry to hear this! Absolutely the truth is you have to be your own advocate! I went through 20 years being at the wrong kind of doctor and neurosurgeon, before I was at an orthopedic surgeon; from there, I spent another four years fielding for surgeons before I found my Prince charming. In that delay, I suffered permanent nerve damage from the discs, falling completely out in my lumbar back and the bones grafting together. They had to be saw apart infused. My first orthopedic surgeon got mad at me and wouldn’t do the surgery. By the time I got to the fourth orthopedic surgeon, he told me that he did all the revisions for the surgeon that got mad at me! I carried around upset and insecurity for four years, and it was devastating to me. When a friend told me he was going to that first surgeon who was published, beloved by the local hospital, handsome, so he was on the local hospitals, television commercials-I set out to tell my friend don’t go to this guy, and I found a lawsuit against the first surgeon for neglect! By the grace of God I go and I was very lucky that that first surgeon did not do my surgery. Before that I had to complete hip surgeries after researching types of THR and reviews on surgeons. I had the best materials (which I didn’t even know at the time about materials. I was so busy, researching reviews and types of surgery that I didn’t know. Materials needed to be understood as well). I am very sorry you could not get good care for your wife, but don’t give up and keep going! When you mentioned “loose“ what I thought of was the possibility of not rest strengthening the adjacent muscles, which need to be very strong to help hold everything in place after the surgery. I wish you good luck on finding a great surgeon. If you are near San Diego, Ucsd has a great team of orthopedic surgeons that I can vouch for. They teach future doctors so they have to be good and they have a lot of experience and they’re not in it for the money.
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Thank you for the kind works Danny! Luckily my surgeon did ask me to do all kinda of bloodwork to make sure I had no infection so I'm happy about that! You're absolutely right, I need to advocate for myself because nobody can feel what I'm feeling. I'm hopeful the other surgeons will have some more answers for me 😀