Comments on: Hip Replacement Recall: Stryker Trident implant parts

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:46:37 +0000

I have 2 Stryker Tridents installed 7-07 & 1-08 and I Hurt all the time !!
I am tring to get a mri on rt side to see whats wrong??

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:29:02 +0000

I originally had the conserve hip in 2002. Since than I have had my left hip replaced two more times. The second time (2004) the upper cup came completely loose. The third time (2006) the metal stem in the conserve actually broke off. They replaced it with the traditional rod down the femor. Two years later after I was cleared to take a spin class “Bike riding”, which is very intense, I developed a large swollen area on my left hip. I now find out that I was alergic to the metal on metal implant and am having to look forward to a 4th surgery, to replace the metal on metal. I feel everyone should should be tested to an allergic reaction to metal on metal before it is inserted into your body. I am looking at the X3 polyethylene liner with a metal head. Has anyone had this type of procedure? I wish there was some accountability for the problems that arise out of negligence.

By: Patti

Patti — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:26:20 +0000

I am turning 39 years old tomorrow. I had my first total hip replacement on my left hip at the age of 35, six months after i graduated nursing school. This hip has done really well. This was what i thought the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. So, i was able to go back to work as an RN 3 months later. Then about 6 months later I started having pain in my right hip, the pain was horrible so I knew there was a major problem. I saw my surgeon and of course he recomended another replacement. So in October 2007 I underwent another replacement. Immediately after surgery I knew something was different from the first surgery.
The pain was worse, the therapy was worse, I immediately noticed my leg was noticeably longer than the left one. I kept calling my surgeon and he kept increasing my pain medicine. I struggled to walk everyday and the therapist told me at every session we are dong all we can your pain is normal. The pain was anything but normal. My therapist finally started taking measurments of my legs and confirmed what i already knew. The leg was over a half an inch longer. My surgeon still to this day will not admit the leg is longer. I travelled to Miami, Florida to see a back specialist, because he said my entire back is ruined because of the leg difference and also my right knee is in a strain because of the difference. I have to have lifts made for every pair of shoes I buy. I went back to work at the hospital about 6 months after this surgery. I was able to work the floor about 1 month 20 hours a week, when I was forced to give it up because i was unable to work because the pain was so bad. I was able to get a job (a lot less pay) where i am not on my feet as much. I am on chronic pain therapy now, and have taken so much pain medicine and ibuprophen (about six 800 mg tabs daily) that I have ulcers. My doctor continues to recommend that I file for disability. My pain that I thought could not get any worse has become absolutely unbearable. The hip is now moving around and causing it to feel unstable and painful, and the femur with every step I take feels like a knife going thru the bone. Now there is a large black and blue bruise that has came up right in the middle of my thigh and my doctor says my femur is going to break where the implant is in it. I can not afford to be off work to have more surgery because I am a single parent of two children. Im not really sure what to do at this point except keep going until the femur breaks or the hip totally dislocates. I am hoping something comes out of these lawsuits so maybe there will be help for me too.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:11:11 +0000

I received my Stryker Hip Implant at the age of 46 in late December of 2004. This was my second hip archopasty. The first one was done in October of 2003 on the same hip due to Avascular Necrosis. The first doctor really messed up the procedure and I had to go to another doctor to get the problem fixed. The first one was a Zimmer Triology Hip System which continued to slip around because the surgeon put in a non matching set. The ball was to large for the cup and the femoral stint was a 14 which is now causing the femur to crack in half. I went in to Houston for my second one and that Dr. was so nice. Unfortunately the Stryker Trident Acetabular System failed to attach the the pelvic bone and I am going to have to go through still another surgery. After the second surgery I ran a high temperature of 104 for the next six days. I was finally discharched on New Years Eve only to have to return to the hospital to go through surgery because the implant dislocated. When the surgeon opened up the incision he found a whole lot of fluid an pus which had forced the prosthesis out of place. I was immediately put on IV antibiotics for the next 3 months for a stapholoccous infection. Since then I have been through two more Diagnostic Hip Aspirations with Lidocaine Injections the last being in early December of 2008 When I went in for the follow up the x-ray confirmed that the implant had never attached to the pelvic wall and it is not rubbing against the pelvic girdle causing exptreme pain when walking. What is even worse I can not get health insurance after the other two surgeries which occured while I was on Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Texas since I was a full time teacher at the time. When my Cobra expired I could not afford to purchase an individual policy and even if I was able I would not have insurance for the pre-exisiting condition. My doctor now says I have to have this fourth hip surgery so I am depending on winning this law suit to cover the expense of the surgery. I hope that it will occur soon otherwise I will have no other choice but to file for permanent disability at the age of 50. The surgery has to be done since I already have fusions in my lumbar spine along with Hunington Rods and Bars to stabilize my fractured spine. The fractured vertebraes were the beginning of this whole mess. Hopefully with God’s help and the help of an attorney I will one day get to have the fourth hip surgery and begin to get my life back together once again.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:24:14 +0000

I`ve had total hip replacement on right 2006. It feel`s fine. 6 mo. before the first one i had to have a left total hip replacement 11-2-05 it never was right I alway`s hurt and I can hear a squeeking noise. that is very terrifying. betwwen the two hips I know there is something that1s not right…. It`s hard to get a DR. to listen..I`m 42 years old

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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:06:16 +0000

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