Cobalt poisoning

@dannyandebbie I am terribly sorry this has been your experience. Shameful. I went thru 5 surgeons and 20 years until I got to my "prince." While on my way, my countertop guy had one surgery and two revisions because of the Stryker material. I have heard horror stories. I was very lucky with my hip surgeon. I spent a good deal of time learning about the process and determining the surgeon. Dr. Helgager had an amazing reputation! I met people all over town who raved about him. He did the proceeder I wanted and I did surgery with him. I still didn't know anything about the material. When I inquired afterwards he told me the queen of England could not get any better. (I paid for my surgery). Soon after I gave him a check to do the other hip. He did not want to do it. But I was right to force the issue and I was lucky I did because I wouldn't have had the same surgeon if I waited. In the second surgery I healed in half the time and needed no blood transfusion like the first. That is because he "learned my body." I learned that he probably fractured my femur during implanting the replacement. I learned there is no PERFECT doctor nor perfect surgery and its all dependent on various factors - including what they find in the moment when opening you up on the table.
My pain didn't go away - it ended up being my lumbar spine. The doctors are specialists these days, and no one is global, so WE must become our own general contractor on the project! The spine doctor in their office was on TV. Dr. Moazzaz was published, and he was renowned for micro-robotic surgery. I tried to plan my surgery when I was off work, and he got angry. His assistant was a horse's ass who wrote me terribly poor-worded letters, and the doctor divorced me. (that is what it is called.) I then traversed various surgeons - everyone gave me a VERY different opinion! My 20-year neurosurgeon was the worst (he heads up a major university neurology dept!) So I said, "Okay, I'll just go home and take opioids." Then he said, "No, I'll send you to an orthopedic surgeon." (god knows why he never did in 20 years!) I walked into the surgeon's office in a foul mood and banished his fellow with the stupid questions. My surgeon walked in, saying, "You need surgery and need it NOW." (my vertebrates grafted themselves together when the disc fell out!) I said, "Do it." And I was in surgery for one month. After the visit, I said to him: "Why did you roll your eyes when I mentioned Dr. Moazzaz?" (it had been 3 years of me beating myself up because I made him mad at me!) And Dr. Z replied, "Because I do all of his revision surgeries." Dr. Z not only did the world's BEST lumbar surgery on me but 6 years later, he reluctantly did my cervical surgery. My cervical surgery brought unexpected complications when they opened me on the table. My bones fell apart in their hands. I had all the tests known to medicine - no one forecast this problem. Within a month, the screws moved, and I had to return for a much bigger and limited surgery. It has been almost 2 years in healing. My surgeon always sees me when I need him. He never presumes anything, and he gives me the best of his insight. We do this TOGETHER. He is really honest that any future surgery will only bring me to 80% of what I was before surgery as other things are degenerating. Therefore, I use other modalities sparingly and diagnostically, and when I return to surgery, it will be because nothing else is working. In my cervical surgery - he wasn't ready, but I was. I could no longer escape excruciating pain and had done everything and everything. Part of my pain wasn't due to orthopedic problems but muscle fascia. So, I did it backwards MFR AFTER surgery. At two years out, I'm starting to function better finally. I needed surgery, and I needed MFR deep tissue release therapy. I think the point is that I have REALISTIC expectations of the man who holds the scapula over me... "faith" is for spiritual leaders; doctors don't deserve our faith - they deserve clients who come armed to help themselves and patients who want to "collaborate" in their medical journey. I experienced a scary blood clot (PE) after they closed me up from the lumbar surgery. Luckily, I was in the hospital or, I might have had my heart stop and died. I got to stay in the hospital ICU for two weeks. Shit happens. No amount of faith would have bypassed that occurrence. I try to look at the bright side - I had two weeks of intensive heart evaluation tests and went home much more informed of my body and on the way to better health. I am a strong advocate for myself. I can only have "faith" in me. The rest I "expect" the best they can do and I research them out. best of luck.

Thank you. I'll try to open it.

Hopefully it worked! My wife’s first surgery was a total bilateral, compressed the nerve in the left leg, dropped her at rehab and the surgeon put in his notes that she had, had, multiple falls which was not true. Then the rehab said it was an assisted fall, another lie because I was there and witnessed the whole thing. 9 months later, the nerve started to regenerate and the same surgeon said that she needed to complete revision on the right hip because she had a fractured topic, and at this time he would do it! We asked who in hell did it the first time and it was one of his interns! She was black and blue from the top of her head to her feet! My wife asked for operative notes because she felt she had been dropped because of all the black and blue and the toes were broke on her left foot, he never was able to look her in the eye after that and never produced the notes! It’s a learning hospital he said! It’s been a very rough battle ever since that day, lost a good paying job, rehab offered nothing and was on disability until she reached the age of 65; 11 years later!