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THR Dislocation mid flight

Hi @Annie M
While I'm unfamiliar with your issues I am sorry for any discomfort and pain you're suffering.
Best wishes the problem is soon identified, corrected and your healing can begin.
To brighter days...
 
Thank you again. I can see my information page when I click on it but no option to add or change info. My OA is not confined to my hips. Having right trapeziectomy tomorrow. Had left one done March 2013. Rt shoulder AC joint resection, SA decrompression and rotator cuff repair Aug 2013. Lt midfoot fusion and artroscopic Rt knee debridement Jan 2017......I am being rebuilt bit by bit
 
Well @Annie M all I can really say is wow. You are indeed getting rebuilt. Good luck tomorrow.
 
Hi @Annie M
You've experienced a lot. We'll add your other info to your signature.
Good luck with your MRI this week. Keep us posted.
A great week to you!
 
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Poor Annie. You are not a horse.
Hope procedure goes well today.
Your signature certainly is getting beefed up...you know this isn't a competition?:heehee:
 
Agree she isn’t a horse @Mojo333. However, there have been times in my life when I know exactly how @Annie M feels. I’m just glad they have come up with a few more options for humans!
 
Are you doing OK, Annie?
Hope you are home and procedure went well.:wave:
 
Glad trapeziectomy went well. Hope hip is feeling well.
 
Hi @Annie M
Great news your surgery went well. I'm happy to hear you're pain is well managed.
Possibly ice will also aid in pain relief....if it's tolerable.
Best wishes for comfort as you heal!
 
Annie, who are you seeing at the Wrightington? I know most of the chaps there, some personally but most just by name.
 
Update from appointment today.....

More questions than answers I am afraid.

Seems there is some fluid at the back of the hip joint (behind the greater trochanter) which may have caused some loosening of the femoral stem. But not quite sure if this is causing the dislocation.

Also some talk about the stem being maybe narrow or tilted back. I now have to go for a bone scan and then be reviewed again. Also had some blood tests for infection/inflammation as he said any infection can spread to the joint. I had a particularly nasty chest infection around Sept 2016. The consultant was on holiday but his registrar was also lovely and even though they were an hour behind he spent a good 20 mins with us and emailed me the scan results so definitely the right place to be!

Also have atrophy of some of the muscles in the hip too. Namely the hip abductors and the piriformis. I do have GTPS (Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome) in my other hip and have had a couple of injections in that.

Shoot me now as always your comments/opinions would be welcome x x
 
Oh my stars, poor Annie. I'm confused too.
@Josephine might make sense of some of this?
So sorry it seems you are getting more problems. Did they happen to say what the plan might be?
 
Annie M said:
Seems there is some fluid at the back of the hip joint (behind the greater trochanter) which may have caused some loosening of the femoral stem. But not quite sure if this is causing the dislocation.
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The fluid behind the greater trochanter will simply be Trochanteric bursitis. It is a very common condition and will certainly NOT have anything to do with loosening or dislocation.
Annie M said:
Also some talk about the stem being maybe narrow or tilted back.
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That's much more likely but it has nothing to do with the trochanteric bursa.
Annie M said:
he said any infection can spread to the joint.
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Actually that's not the case. You should read this to understand it Peri-prosthetic infection - also known as late onset infection. But it's nothing to do with any other common or garden infection such as respiratory infections, coughs and colds, sore throats and so on. The body's immune system sees to all that.
Annie M said:
I do have GTPS (Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome)
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Oh what a pompous way to describe a perfectly simple condition! 'Greater trochanteric pain syndrome' is also known as Trochanteric bursitis, a very common condition.
 
Thanks again. I knew about trochanteric bursitis as I had it injected pre op.

They also said it could be a seroma (is this the same as bursitis? The radiologist recommended confirmation by ultrasound but now I have to have a bone scan but I am unsure of what this will show that a CT or MRI will not

Another anomaly is that every x ray I have ever had says I have moderate OA in my right hip but the CT report says there is no OA there......very confusing

While all this is going on our lives are on hold and we should be going on holiday in 6 weeks so looks like that will have to be cancelled

Would it be useful to upload the reports here?
 
What you've told me is sufficient. I don't need the reports. But if it were me, I'd sooner depend upon the xrays!

And 'seroma' is just a medical word for bursitis!
 
Thank you Josephine. Thing is I have a life to get on with so don't want to keep hanging on for more tests. Due to go to India in 6 weeks! I did read an interesting article about the "dead space" after hip replacement and repair of tissues.

I wonder if my problem had anything to do with flying as the subluxation was a week after coming back from Greece and the the dislocation mid flight.

Just thinking if there is a 1.4 x 7cm seroma/bursitis behind the greater trochanter then surely there is more room for movement???

I also read that when the space has been eliminated then atmospheric pressure helps stabilise the joint. May be clutching at straws but I am getting desperate now
 
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