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Recurring staph infection after ankle replacement.
Infectious Diseases | Last Active: Sep 1, 2025 | Replies (2)Comment receiving replies
Wow…it sounds awful what you are going thru. I hope your reaching out can help solve your problems. I also have a recurring staph infection where the culture comes back with staph only. My history: 5 years ago had my first knee replacement. No open cuts, except the knee was swollen for a long time and hard to bend….we tested and discovered i had a staph infection 2 years after the first surgery. Since then i have had 3 revisions and one wash out Also had two 6-8 weeks of iv drugs of vicomicin in between the surgeries. What is frustrating is that all of the fluid draws, which there have been many, shows staph and no other kinds of infections. There was bone damage when we did the wash out so I’m scheduled for a 5th surgery and another total revision in a few weeks. But i;m at my wits end as to why nothing shows but staph.
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Update. I spoke with the surgeon who did the total ankle replacement on August 12th. Explained how the wound looked and he asked if I could be at the Little Rock hospital on the 12th. Of course I said yes. He took to surgery, cut 3 places on the side of the thigh/leg where the infected area was. He said he cleaned out a lot of yucky stuff. He said almost none of that would have come through a needle aspiration. When I went back to get the stitches out, he told me had to cut very deep to remove what was there, then he washed it thoroughly with antibiotics. Said he felt certain he got all the infection. Also told me the culture showed strep as well as the staph. It took the culture several days to show the strep. I know it took more than 5 days, because when I left the hospital it only showed strep