I agree! Second opinion is the best! A surgeon doesn’t like to be questioned, it’s their reputation on the line. My wife had a total bilateral, surgeon come to me in waiting room, all went well, recovery should be out to get you in about 15 minutes…..5 hours later, I started getting very upset because no one had come to get me and most staff had gone home for the day. After I got on the phone and made it clear that I wanted to see my wife I was sent to another floor where they said my wife would be, get there, no one knew anything about her, went back to recovery and demanded an explanation, oh! She just went to her room, back to another floor I went and she was there. Black & Blue from head to toe. They attempted to get her up to walk, femur nerves was compressed or severed in left leg, had to place a mobilized brace in order to walk with help from a walker and two people at her side. Seven days in ICU and then transferred to rehab at Fanny Allen in Burlington Vermont. Second day there, dropped onto shower floor because attending physician omitted mobilizer on at all times in his written orders for the nurses. Wife in Constant pain and on heavy pain medication for 9 months. Finally, femur nerve starts to regenerate. Wife has X-ray of right hip, fractured pelvic, revision required ASAP. Her surgeon expresses, “ This Time, I will preform the surgery “‘ wife says, “ Who in the hell did it the first time, why was I black and blue from head to toe, even my breast were all bruised “; never did receive an answer. Well, revision was preformed, pain in groin area was intense, follow up showed Cobalt / Chromium poisoning and loose replacement on left hip; another revision recommended. The surgeon that supposedly did the first two operations had left the facility to another hospital to practice on patients, we followed to that hospital, he gave us the sense that he did not want to provide care to my wife. So, we went back to original hospital with a new surgeon; his last name was “Moschetti”. He preformed a revision on the left hip. Pain was consistent in her groin area; nothing really seemed to help. Four years go by and wife goes in for a routine follow up, blood test was preformed and What, Cobalt / Chromium levels dangerously elevated and two staph infection; complete hip implant removed from right side, port placed, 8 weeks in IV Antibiotics, revision preformed.
Update! Hips do not seem to be an issue…lower back, where they have placed several epidurals, degenerative bone disease. Of course they say it is not from the epidurals! Maybe not, who knows.
I share this for one real reason! You and only You know your body inside and out! My wife often say, had she had this to do all over again, she never would have had it done, I’m not so sure, she was in a lot of pain prior!
Not any one person took any responsibility for all that “WE” went through! I was working a full time job as was my wife prior to her first total Bilateral; which needless to say lead to her employer terminating her position.
You know your body better than anyone! Be loud and strong, you sense something wrong, stay on it until you feel you have been heard! A revision is not the end of the world and in fact, if there is something wrong with your current implant you will not heal completely because your internal organs are designed to reject something that is possibly harming your body!
Best of Luck!