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Chronic pain years after hip replacement

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@aaronhurts.. My husband is going through much the same thing. He slipped and broke his hip 2 1/2 years ago. He had a hip replacement and developed an infection almost immediately. They had to remove the hip and put in a temporary antibiotic concrete spacer until the infection cleared up. After a couple of months they tried a revision. Infection developed then too. After a few weeks they tried to debride it, but it didn't help so they removed the new hip and put back another concrete spacer. His complication is that after the first surgery they had to leave the catheter in due to an inflamed prostrate. Catheter is still in and he is continuously getting UTIs and even went septic back in September. They discovered then that he had another infection in the hip and debrided again. This is a total of 6 surgeries on the same hip and he has been in constant pain. The incision from the September surgery is still not healed over completely and requires dressing changes every 2nd day as it is still seeping. He still has to use a walker around the house and if we go out to appointments he has to use a wheelchair. He is in constant pain from the hip. The surgeon does not want to do another surgery because he feels the same thing is going to happen again. And we don't want that either! The next step is hopefully to get the prostrate issue fixed and the catheter removed. We will then see what can be done about the hip. Good luck to you!!!

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@towser I am so sorry for the both of you. That’s a lot of suffering. We are all in the same boat it seems. 🙁 I was awake most of the night, half worried and half symptomatic. My hip hurts, but the worst part is my aorta now has an aneurism and I am waiting to see how bad it’s getting, the CT scan is still 3 weeks away. I have no family history of it at all. I fear it was caused by the low grade infection in my hip. I already had heart surgery and I feel it’s infection moving to the valves. I think I’m a dead man. I can’t get help.

I was perfectly fine taking amoxicillin daily, and 28 days after I stopped it, I again became a cripple. And now my aorta. And the radiologist report says my pelvis has fractures healing. How the hell is my pelvis fractured! Except the infection is weakening the bone.

I don’t think I survive this, because the doctors and the system are rigid in their approach and my case is non standard. People like me, we just die. And they hand around my autopsy report to satisfy their curiosity.