I’m sorry you are feeling so down and and have issues now that you didn’t earlier on. Yes, there are problems that can’t be seen on an X-ray. I would think you have a year check up coming up? Hopefully your surgeon will take you seriously and look for a cause. I would ask about possible loosening of the implant, which can sometimes be seen in an X-ray, but not always. I would also ask for some bloodwork to be done to look for an infection. If you‘re not happy with your surgeons efforts you might want to consider a second opinion.
Second opinions don’t always have an answer, I’ve had 2 and they found nothing to fix, even though I had a long list of issues, that I still have now, 5 years later. My second second opinion did order blood work and it came back fine, and he looked carefully at the new X-ray done that day and told me what we’d see if the implant was loose, and we didn’t see that evidence.
I will say, I really did have a lot of improvement in my second year, considering how slow and difficult my first year had been. I’m at a point now that it‘s manageable and I’m living with results that aren’t great.
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