jaminhealth
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- Santa Monica CA
Since I've had so much misery with hip replacement a friend on another group sent me this info today, so thought I'd share it here. Beware of replacement parts world.
((((I don't blame you for resisting a knee replacement.
The medical device industry is much more powerful than even the pharma industry. They rush devices to market with practically no testing. The approval process is so lenient that it's ridiculous.
I recently watched a documentary about it called "The Bleeding Edge". One person featured is an orthopedic surgeon who had to get a hip replacement. He began having serious health problems after that, seemingly unrelated to the hip. Long story short, he had to investigate it himself. He traced the problem to the metal in his hip replacement. Metal content in his blood was very high. He had to get his replacement replaced and when they opened him up, they found that the metal in the joint was leaking a sludge that had dissolved some of his tendons.
He was seeing unexplained symptoms in his patients too, and now he helps people get their replacements replaced with a safer alternative. Not ideal, but the best that can be done.
The doc, "The Bleeding Edge" is on Netflix. If you don't have that service, maybe someone you know has it and would allow you to sign into their account to watch it --- or you could do a free 7 day trial and watch it. You can watch it on your computer. I wish everyone would watch this. Most of us don't know what is going on in the device industry. It's disgusting.
I don't doubt that some of your issues could be related to your hip replacement device, and why you are reluctant to get another one.))))
((((I don't blame you for resisting a knee replacement.
The medical device industry is much more powerful than even the pharma industry. They rush devices to market with practically no testing. The approval process is so lenient that it's ridiculous.
I recently watched a documentary about it called "The Bleeding Edge". One person featured is an orthopedic surgeon who had to get a hip replacement. He began having serious health problems after that, seemingly unrelated to the hip. Long story short, he had to investigate it himself. He traced the problem to the metal in his hip replacement. Metal content in his blood was very high. He had to get his replacement replaced and when they opened him up, they found that the metal in the joint was leaking a sludge that had dissolved some of his tendons.
He was seeing unexplained symptoms in his patients too, and now he helps people get their replacements replaced with a safer alternative. Not ideal, but the best that can be done.
The doc, "The Bleeding Edge" is on Netflix. If you don't have that service, maybe someone you know has it and would allow you to sign into their account to watch it --- or you could do a free 7 day trial and watch it. You can watch it on your computer. I wish everyone would watch this. Most of us don't know what is going on in the device industry. It's disgusting.
I don't doubt that some of your issues could be related to your hip replacement device, and why you are reluctant to get another one.))))