Cobalt Poisoning from MoM hip replacements

You shouldn't suffer. What makes you think you are past revision surgery? I just had my right knee replaced. I am not 87 but I am 80. Have you consulted a revision surgeon and been told that you are past the revision stage?

Try taking a supplement called NAC. It has been shown to reduce cobalt and chromium levels in your blood. I have 2 resurfaced hips and a partial knee replacement that are all made of cobalt and chromiumrecently. I started taking it daily with breakfast. My levels dropped in a month to near normal levels. Good luck!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7183002/

My wife had toxic levels of both cobalt and chromium at 64 years of age, she ended up with two staff infection infections as well. They had removed the whole implant., install a medicated spacer with antibiotics for eight weeks, and then put in a new complete replacement. Her levels now are down to normal.. if you’re experiencing any pain discomfort, and as you said vision, you still might want to consider having it done. A lot of people are in and out in a matter of a day or two where my wife it was a week because she had total bilateral. Wish you a lot of luck

So good the revision worked for your wife. Unfortunately there can be a big difference in reaction to anesthesia at age 64 and age 86. Based on my reaction to it 10 months ago when I had to have surgery to repair a double compound fracture to my right wrist neither the surgeons nor I want to risk the time I would be under anesthesia to remove and replace two hips. Will look into possible NAC therapy. Sounds like a good possibility.
It seems to have had positive results for some. Irony is I do not have hip pain, just many other possible side effects which could or could not be caused by Cobalt. Thanks for your response

@closer0043
Going to check with doctor and toxicologist about NAC. Sounds like it might be something to try. Irony is I do not have pain in hips but numerous other symptoms that could or could not be due to cobalt. Having blood work to see if the numbers have gone up since first reading and go from there. Being 86 years old could be the cause of some of the symptoms. One of the verses I hold onto I have quoted below. My daughter who lived in Thailand for many years tells me they use NAC for several different conditions successfully.
" Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." 2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV I feel that is a good description of my condition now. Thanks very much for your suggestion.

@gigi86
Before my RTKR I was not afraid of the knee surgery, I was afraid of anesthesia. My surgeon, like many, used a combination of an epidural, a nerve block and light sedation and it was fine. No gas and no intubation.

I had a surgeon who put MoM hips bilaterally in my body in 2009. He lied to me and told me that they were perfectly safe and that any reports of them leaking metal was a bunch of bunk. By 2012, I was toxic with cobalt and chromium. I had revisions on both sides, the right in 2012 and the left in 2013. I then acted like a lunatic for the next twelve years as the metal was slowly eradicated from my system through my fingernails and my kidneys. I at now at Stage 4 kidney failure. I ruined my professional and personal reputation. No one will believe me that I had metal poisoning which caused my erratic behavior. I have stopped talking to everyone I used to know. I no longer am able to work. I hate Biomet, the maker of my MoM hips, and I hope they burn in hell for what they've done to all of us in the name of capitalism. Screw them and screw the US government for not protecting us. That is all. AC

I am distressed to hear about this complication. I believe that is what is happening to me post TKR 1 ½ yr ago.
I have noticed visual changes, and have effusion around the replacement. I have also had further painful bone changes around the metal joint that have not been explained to me. I had Smith & Nephew GENESIS II implant, which is mainly oxinium, but some cobalt as well.
I am not having a revision, nor needed surgery on the other knee.
My orthopedic surgeon does not seem to be concerned with my discomfort, has not suggested that I might have metallosis, and I feel abandoned.

@gigi86 it would be nice if you could share the results with the NAC. I do hope if that is what you end up doing, it works! Lots of luck!

Will do so. Spoke with a toxicologist at the Poison Control Center of Georgia who said I should consult my PCP and then have him recommend a toxicologist and go from there. The NAC sounds like my only option as there is no way after 14 years with them, having the hips replaced again. Also not an option in my mind because of my age (86) and the reaction to anesthesia after my last surgery in January this year for a double compound fracture of my right wrist. My daughter lived in Thailand for about 10 years and she said they use NAC for several things there and it seems to work. Thanks for the encouragement. Will keep you posted.