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Walking without a hip joint

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@hirachohan

My mother 59yo now had THR surgery in 2016. Within a few weeks she accidentally dislocated her hip joint but the doctor managed to locate it in its place and suggested full bed rest for 3 to 4 months after that she was allowed to start walking using a walker. A year and half forward she started getting infectious wounds, painful leg. dr would dress up the wound and prescribe antibiotics. He once did debridement surgery and after that she didn't really get any wound but severe pain. He said we usually remove the implant but because her body isn't that strong to survive two more major surgeries he refused to do anything except for painkillers. We consult a few other orthopaedic surgeons for pain management all suggested to wait unless the removal surgery is the last resort which was performed in Jan 2019 shortly after her boil around the incsision explode. We got her implant removed it was a hip joint and femoral rod hybrid after the surgery there was a long time *months* of her incsision draining fluids *foul smelling blood, puss* i would dress it up thrice a day her stitches took way too long to heal. After her incsision was healed she was able to walk with lose leg using a walker. In feb 2020 i found a boil around the femoral area where the rod was placed in the femoral bone. The boil explode oozing pus the dr got the pus tested it was staphylococcus aureus bacteria and prescribed different sensitive antibiotics for a month the wound was different than what ive seen on her previously with its spreading patern it spread to be a bigger wound with multiple acne like boil burting into forming a wound. Dr stopped antibiotics and suggested to just do the dressing with fusidin and yusol. A month and half into dressing the wound multiple times a day the wound started to shrink with high hopes we thought its healing now until a bigger boil formed around the hip removal surgery incsision bursting into a hole full of pus. There are currently two active wounds on my mother's hip area, she's taking painkillers, multivitamins. She's also diabetic but her glucose lvls are 100-110 in fasting. The dr asked to wait 3 to 4 days and see if the oozing reduces. If not, he would have to perform debridement surgery again. Its been a year since she's without a hip joint but how is it possible to develop a mrsa infection without any foreign implant in her body.

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Hi @hirachohan and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. It sounds like you and your mom are going through a horrible ordeal with infection, possibly MRSA. I'm bringing fellow members @heaven4me8 @nicoleb21809 @gibbler and @lynzze into this discussion as they too have had issues with hip replacement and infection.

Hirachohan, has the oozing become less over the past 4 days? Did your mom see the doctor again?