In July 2020 I had a bad auto mobile wreck, I ended up in the hospital for 15 days. Long story short my hip went through my pelvis. One year and a day later my bone died on my hip. Now I have to have a total hip replacement July 9 2021. Recover was awesome till 3 weeks later when I ran a fever all week end the week I was going back to work. It ended up being an infection in my hip, I was admitted that day and did surgery the next morning.
He found staph in my leg, I guess I got it from the implant or something, so he changed out all the removable parts. That was august 19 2021. Recovery was rough for that one from all the work he did in surgery.8 week with I.V. Antibiotics and oral.Now it’s December and started having pain when I was walking. Doc.did blood work and found my white blood cell count was high so he put me back on 2 oral antibiotics till January by then I was using a cane again and still hurting. He told me he we was going back to surgery to remove everything and put in a antibiotic hip spacer in, during surgery he removed my cup in my pelvis and he said it started oozing puss out, staph again or it has been there since 2nd surgery. So now I’m on I. V. antibiotics again for at least 8 weeks. This is almost week 5, never have been this miserable till this surgery. The recovery is taking forever, my incision closed up except for a a 1/2” hole that is taking its time closing up. This time the fluid draining out of my leg is finally down to 2 small dressings a day. I’m using a cane to get around but it’s still painful and not a lot of range of motion. All this started when was 45 now going on 48. Just wanted to see if anyone else is still in pain with spacer. That makes 4 hip surgeries since the wreck, still have one more to go hopefully soon.
He found staph in my leg, I guess I got it from the implant or something, so he changed out all the removable parts. That was august 19 2021. Recovery was rough for that one from all the work he did in surgery.8 week with I.V. Antibiotics and oral.Now it’s December and started having pain when I was walking. Doc.did blood work and found my white blood cell count was high so he put me back on 2 oral antibiotics till January by then I was using a cane again and still hurting. He told me he we was going back to surgery to remove everything and put in a antibiotic hip spacer in, during surgery he removed my cup in my pelvis and he said it started oozing puss out, staph again or it has been there since 2nd surgery. So now I’m on I. V. antibiotics again for at least 8 weeks. This is almost week 5, never have been this miserable till this surgery. The recovery is taking forever, my incision closed up except for a a 1/2” hole that is taking its time closing up. This time the fluid draining out of my leg is finally down to 2 small dressings a day. I’m using a cane to get around but it’s still painful and not a lot of range of motion. All this started when was 45 now going on 48. Just wanted to see if anyone else is still in pain with spacer. That makes 4 hip surgeries since the wreck, still have one more to go hopefully soon.