Stupid hip joint, 'NOT A MEDICAL THREAD'

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In January 2005 I had my hip resurfaced, I was damn pleased with it too.

Fast forward to August 2010 and.

More than two years after the Food and Drug Administration began receiving complaints about the failure of a hip replacement implant made by the DePuy Orthopaedics unit of Johnson & Johnson, the company said Thursday that it was recalling two kinds of hip implants.
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As I already have a type of muscular dystrophy called CMTX type 1 this complicates life more than a little, I have enough problems being paralysed from the knee down and being held up by carbon-fibre AFO's.

As a first step I had my hip joint x-rayed on Tuesday because DePuy and Johnson and Johnson are recalling the devices as said above. Secondly I need to have a whole host of tests and scans to make sure no debris from the joint has entered my blood poisoning me.

DePuy's reaction before the recall to the mounting evidence of serious problems with its ASR XL Modular Acetabular Cup System and the DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing System appears less than forthright," stated attorney Shapiro, adding, "DePuy's questionable pre-recall conduct should certainly make anyone with a DePuy hip implant device think twice about further trusting DePuy to voluntarily pay for all costs of a second surgery and related damages
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This is what I might be looking at,

The personal injury attorneys say that in addition to intense pain from the failure of the device which caused a decline in walking and other physical abilities, the client may still suffer from potential metal poisoning and other complications
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Already get the pain, im real angry if this go's the way it might its lawyer time, have to be tested for cobalt metal poisoning and so many other related things yet.

Anyway besides that, I thought people might like to see my hip X-ray just for reference, and if anyone spots the quick photoshop edit its due to the x-ray being more than a little revealing and I sprayed over my name and details that were on the doctors screen I took a picture of.

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I am annoyed and so hope my joint is ok, I was told it should be good for life
now the damn thing might make me ill and I might need a new hip again a real nightmare operation for me combined with my muscular dystrophy.

Has anyone else here had one of these or know anyone that has?.
 
I work in Clinical Negligence at a Trust and I've been waiting for claims to come in involving this but nothing yet.
Then again who is to blame?
Surgeons just fit parts and don't know how stuff is made.

Hope everything goes OK
 
I don't blame the hospital or the surgeon who is a real gentlemen and the other staff who are all outstanding.

It's the company who held back on giving the details of failures and issues reported with the hip joint parts, from what is being said it looks like they carried on pushing a defective solution.

Too true Raymond, nothing at all to do with the NHS, in fact it looks like they UK joint registry helped uncover the problems as the US dose not have such a body to record and analyse failures and such.

Thanks Dimple, I hope that I don't have a problem and the pain is just a par for the course muscle strain that is taking a long while to heal, I really don't want another hip joint fitted.
 
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Off on a tangent, are you aware of the Acceleron trials for a possible treatment for muscular dystrophy? Very early days, but it might be something that might be of interest to you. I've no idea if it's relevant to the type you have and I'm not saying anything medical. It's just something that might be of interest to you.
 
Its always on my mind and I follow the news for research that I notice, more for my daughters than anything else, both my daughters have muscular dystrophy (CMTX-1).

Thanks for that, I had not actually seen that one, I usually pick up the news about research from a US site MDA.org but not seen that one before.
 
Oddthing someone told you itwould be good for life.
My understanding that with hip joints they hope for a ten year lifespan.
Clearly five is less than this.
But no joint is ever expected to last for life.
 
I have a friend in Ireland who has one of these implants, he's suffering with it quite severely :(.

The hospital refuses to remove the implant until authorised by DePuy :rolleyes:
 
IF they find issues, do they just replace it with another hip joint?

At least it'd be slightly sorted then :S

Problem will no doubt be the NHS cost will increase massively, but yeah, I think surely it'll be the company that has to pay out to those impacted.

kd
 
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