Sorry for the morbid thread, but i was wondering if any of you have heard of this before, or at least may be able to suggest an alternative option.
Recently i watched a documentary called "The Bleeding Edge"
The general premise of the doc is about a chap that is a highly active mid-40s orthapedic surgeon that has done hip replacements for many years..
He reaches the point in his life that he is cycling a lot and needs a hip replacement himself.. Knowing the industry and the options he decides to go for the Chrome/colbalt replacement as it is the best for younger more active patients.
The replacement goes well and before long he is back cycling and enjoying life again..
That is when things go down hill, he starts to have health changes in his life a few months after, these show up as essential tremors in his hands, similar to early parkinsons meaning he can't write anymore.. He starts to suffer acute memory loss and stages of delirium and apparent mental breakdowns.
As a doctor he does a series of blood test on himself after his family raise concerns, he discovers that he is suffering from colbalt poisoning.. He has the replacement replaced with a non-colbalt joint and all of his symptoms go away and his life returns to normal.
Later in the documentary he interviews dozens of other people who had the exact same experiences with the colbalt replacements and he offers a service for these people reversing the treatments and offering different options.
This brings me to the point of the thread (finally). My dad had a hip replacement about 2 years before he was diagnosed with Diffuse large b cell non-hodgkin lymphoma...
Prior to diagnosis he had started suffering from essential tremors, unable to write his name, memory loss, and delirium... there would be points that we would walk in to a room and he wouldn't know what was going on.. For somone is his mid-50s and normally so switched on it was alarming..
Doing further research in to colbalt poisining it appears that cobalt and chromium have been shown to be carcinogenic and mutagenic, my dads cancer first occured in the lymph-nodes righ next to his replacement site.
Unfortunatley he died of the cancer, but i was wondering whether or not you chaps think i may be on to something here or i am just creating a conspiracy theory in my mind? I am not looking to chase it up, but trying to make some level of sense and find some possible explanations..
Regardless, thought it may be an interesting topic.
Recently i watched a documentary called "The Bleeding Edge"
The general premise of the doc is about a chap that is a highly active mid-40s orthapedic surgeon that has done hip replacements for many years..
He reaches the point in his life that he is cycling a lot and needs a hip replacement himself.. Knowing the industry and the options he decides to go for the Chrome/colbalt replacement as it is the best for younger more active patients.
The replacement goes well and before long he is back cycling and enjoying life again..
That is when things go down hill, he starts to have health changes in his life a few months after, these show up as essential tremors in his hands, similar to early parkinsons meaning he can't write anymore.. He starts to suffer acute memory loss and stages of delirium and apparent mental breakdowns.
As a doctor he does a series of blood test on himself after his family raise concerns, he discovers that he is suffering from colbalt poisoning.. He has the replacement replaced with a non-colbalt joint and all of his symptoms go away and his life returns to normal.
Later in the documentary he interviews dozens of other people who had the exact same experiences with the colbalt replacements and he offers a service for these people reversing the treatments and offering different options.
This brings me to the point of the thread (finally). My dad had a hip replacement about 2 years before he was diagnosed with Diffuse large b cell non-hodgkin lymphoma...
Prior to diagnosis he had started suffering from essential tremors, unable to write his name, memory loss, and delirium... there would be points that we would walk in to a room and he wouldn't know what was going on.. For somone is his mid-50s and normally so switched on it was alarming..
Doing further research in to colbalt poisining it appears that cobalt and chromium have been shown to be carcinogenic and mutagenic, my dads cancer first occured in the lymph-nodes righ next to his replacement site.
Unfortunatley he died of the cancer, but i was wondering whether or not you chaps think i may be on to something here or i am just creating a conspiracy theory in my mind? I am not looking to chase it up, but trying to make some level of sense and find some possible explanations..
Regardless, thought it may be an interesting topic.
