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allergic reaction to bone cement
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Had TKR in January and Manual Manipulation in March. Always had pain since surgery. Pain getting worse on outside of knee. Where was your pain located. Wondering if I’m allergic also. My surgeon retired and the surgeon who took over ignored my pain concerns and said “stop think about your knee all the time and just live with it”.
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Hi Ardis, see if you can get in with Dr Mark Tuttle at PSL in Denver. Get tested first- it's quick and will give you more information. I'm so sorry you are having a bad outcome. I am doing great now after getting a revision with Dr. Tuttle. I am allergic to the bone cement used in the first TKR>
Hello, sorry I just saw your post. My pain has been 85% of time on the outer side of rt. Knee by the joint. But would also get pain behind my knee. My knee is still swollen, some days it is very hot to touch, other days not too bad, but it ALWAYS wakes me during the night. I also had my surgeon say, “well, you may be just one of those people that it takes longer to recover or maybe not”. I am so angry. I have seen five other doctors since my last visit with surgeon April 29, 2020. He blew me off taking his phone out of his pocket, saying it was the wife! I wasn’t done asking him questions. None of the five doctors agreed on exactly my issue was, but they all said I needed a revision. The very last dr. Immediately said he wanted allergy testing done! Blew me away when I tested positive!
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Hello, this is Irish283. My pain was most Of time on the outer right side of rt. Knee by joint I had pain, swelling it felt hot to touch.
At about one month after surgery I was taken by ambulance to ER. The pain came on very suddenly and the severity was about 20 on a scale of 1-10! They checked for infection, loose prosthetic,. They didn’t find anything. This keeps me up at night. I usually wake up from pain always on the outer right side and sometimes it is also on the back of knee. I put ice pack on it and it helps.
I’m grateful knowing that it’s not in my head.....I have never been allergic to ANYTHING,
When I went to the allergist they tested me for metals, cements and other things that I don’t remember what ....I also had a reaction to neomycin, which is an antibiotic. I don’t know what to do, this stuff is dangerous. If it breaks down due to my body rejecting this it could get into my blood and then I could possibly have an embolism, which could kill me, or my heart could be affected.
They need to manufacture another type of cement without this methyl methacrylate. I between a rock and a hard place!
Go get tested!