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Mamie,
Your surgeon or someone in the office should have called you back ASAP, go to the ER your leg should not be like this at one month out.
Just because your culture came back negative, does not mean there is no infection, there are pathogens that take 2 weeks to grow out to where they are detectable.
Such as Acne pathogen implicated in peri-prosthetic infections .
Sorry to scare you, but you need to take action and go to the ER, now!
Your surgeon or someone in the office should have called you back ASAP, go to the ER your leg should not be like this at one month out.
Just because your culture came back negative, does not mean there is no infection, there are pathogens that take 2 weeks to grow out to where they are detectable.
Such as Acne pathogen implicated in peri-prosthetic infections .
Sorry to scare you, but you need to take action and go to the ER, now!