The advice you were given today might be okay if you were planning to start the revision process (stage 1) soon. But you are waiting all summer. Or have you decided it's wise to start the process now?
For your own well being, please find an infection specialist or an orthopedic surgeon not connected to this doctor who specializes in infections. While you're in a hold pattern waiting for symptoms to appear, the infection can grow and spread within your body. I don't know why the doctor's office is leaving you with the impression that it will just stay "contained" within the implant. That is not physically possible.
This type of infection is typically contracted in hospitals. That means it's very likely you got it with your first surgery. Then it was not eradicated with the revision and it continued to grow even though you had a new hip implant. It's been there all along in your tissue. There is no way it can be contained in a metal and plastic implant. Infection will eventually cause tissue to die. By the time you have symptoms of that, you're going to be way behind in the treatment of a very serious problem. Should the infection get into your bloodstream, it can travel to all of your body. Post operative joint infection is nothing to mess around with!
I hope you take our advice and speak with someone else about this.
For your own well being, please find an infection specialist or an orthopedic surgeon not connected to this doctor who specializes in infections. While you're in a hold pattern waiting for symptoms to appear, the infection can grow and spread within your body. I don't know why the doctor's office is leaving you with the impression that it will just stay "contained" within the implant. That is not physically possible.
This type of infection is typically contracted in hospitals. That means it's very likely you got it with your first surgery. Then it was not eradicated with the revision and it continued to grow even though you had a new hip implant. It's been there all along in your tissue. There is no way it can be contained in a metal and plastic implant. Infection will eventually cause tissue to die. By the time you have symptoms of that, you're going to be way behind in the treatment of a very serious problem. Should the infection get into your bloodstream, it can travel to all of your body. Post operative joint infection is nothing to mess around with!
I hope you take our advice and speak with someone else about this.
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