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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    My latest report, my legs ankles and feet are so swollen I can hardly walk, I went to the doctors and she measured around my calves, and the right one is 50 cms which is about 19.5 inches, normally my legs are quite thin, the pain is tremendous, the doctor told me to take an extra water tablet...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    We didn't know about the cobalt until after the operation when I had patch tests at the hospital, but I have known about the nickle since I was a teenager, and tried wearing clip earrings, also suspenders and the metal rings on bras, they used to have some kind of paint covering them and once...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    I went to see another surgeon today but it was another waste of time, he was so arrogant, he kept firing question at me but wouldn't give me a chance to answer. He said there was no proof it was the nickle or cobalt that was making me ill. I went for an x-ray of my knee, he said it looked fine...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    The solicitors got back to me after three weeks and said they wouldn't take the case. The surgeon I have been seeing sent me to pain clinic and all they gave me was a cream with chilies in it and it almost took the skin off my hands. Also gabapentin capsules but I haven't noticed any...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    Not Stanmore Hospital It's Northampton General Hospital. I have been in hospital three times with Pancreatitis and I am sure the pain I get is it keeps recurring because it feels exactly the same. The Surgeons name is Ms Amanda Rees from a consultancy in Sheffield. The solicitors rang me...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    Thank you, I have lost another stone in the last two weeks. I had a gastroscopy in March because I was being sick and had a lot of pain in my stomach but everything was ok. The surgeon said the operation I had in Oct 2015 had been completely successful but he needed to find out why I had such a...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    Hi all, Just back with an update, the hospital is still thinking whether to do the revision operation or not. I have now been told it needs to go before a committee of three hospitals. I received a letter from the solicitors today and the orthopaedic surgeon that my notes were sent to has said...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    Thank you for your good wishes. No we don't have a social worker, I was put off when both my mother and father had dementia and everything was taken out of our hands and we had no say at all to what happened to them. I have been to three hospitals and all have refused to take it out saying that...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    @Josephine I am halfway through an email to you, but I have been so bad the last week, I am at hospital two days this week and for three days next week different hospitals different illnesses. They keep trying to find what is wrong and I keep telling them it's the nickle and cobalt. It was found...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    Is this the hospital at Stanmore? My son had his back operation there. I used to live there and my sister lives in North Harrow so travelling wouldn't be a problem. I have just noticed that you live in Pinner.
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    I will email you Josephine but I have been ill for the past few days and I just can't concentrate at the moment.
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    I have known I was allergic to nickle since I was a teenager, couldn't wear earrings or any jewellery or fastenings with nickle in. I had my TKR at a private hospital under the NHS then went to Oxford. I had the patch tests done in 2015. I am under a dr for allergies, he is now investigating...
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    TKR Very ill after TKR

    I desperately need help. I filled in an assessment form before I saw the surgeon and stated in the allergies that I was allergic to nickel. I had a TKR on 22/08/2015 and ever since I have been so ill, I have lost nine stone in weight can't keep any solid food down, I hurt from head to foot, I...
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