Metallosis patients / heavy metal poisoning specialist
To those of you who have experienced metallosis, did you seek out a heavy metal poisoning specialist to help you through? Or did your ortho know the procedure to follow?
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I've done the things you've suggested. Unfortunately the my original surgeon isn't fond of me because I ask questions, he is retiring and was very flippant and condescending this last visit though he agreed to do the surgery. My trepedation that I won't get an unbiased opinion from the two surgeons in his group that I have upcoming consultations with is because he's the head huncho there. I can only go and hopefully come away with a better outcome.
I have out-of-network coverage, may I ask who and where your revision surgery is? Thank you for your response.
I got my surgical reports more than 10 yrs later…it wasn’t easy. The moved them from the hospital where I had surgery to their main campus in Houston. The still, it was a matter of following up with the same person for quite some time..She was the one that made it happen
My revision surgeon is in Minnesota. But I know you have some fabulous orthos in Seattle. My nephew was sent there because there is even a doc who specializes in replacing hips in people with avascular necrosis (bone death). Find a local listing of the "top orthopedic surgeons in the Seattle area." Then use it to track down a listing of their bios with education and skill sets listed.
I became aware of the effects of metalosis through my wife. My ortho never brought it up. My PCP was aware of it and the doctor my wife was seeing for chelation. To be honest, I didn't heed my wife's advice to have chelation until I began to read many of the related posts on this forum. Thank you all for sharing.
Thanks, yes I have a list. I have two consults this month, working on a third. I turned to my cities FB group. Many suggested the same surgeons I'm going to see! Plus one more that I asked my PCP to give me a referral to. Now it's just being patient while I do strengthening exercises. ❤️🩹
Hi, I'm new here just figured out how to use this site. Thank you! I'll call overlake to ask where else the 2007 records might be. 💕
So instead of having the offending implant removed, you are doing chelation? To what end? Are you waiting for surgery? TIA ⚘️
I don't mean to intrude here but I didn't know about the two methods for determining CO & CR levels. I need to check because my ankle surgeon looked at my hip X-rays and then ordered a blood draw that came back CO 10.9 CR 4.6. I had my PCP order another 3 months later CO 4.5 CR 1. The latter was from Quest the former was done at Labcorp.
As I mentioned on a previous post, my implant shattered. Most of the pieces were removed; however a couple are too close to critical nerves for my surgeon to risk taking them out, also, my humerus had to be cut 7.5 inches and pryed open to remove the stem from my prior revision. Any time bones are broken, there's a risk of toxins being released. I won't know the full extent of my metalosis until my blood and stool tests come back.