RE:question for bionic hip people

August 28, 1999

Hi Group and ,

I haven't had a problem with my bionic hip (4yrs ?) but do find if I sit

for a long time at my computer and then go for my afternoon walk I have pain

in the hip (outside area) which goes away during the walk. I also have

bionic knees and if I am laying down and go to get up the right one will

catch (out side of knee area). I have to rub out the knot that is there and

carefully stand up to stretch everything back into place. This doesn't

happen all the time but does if I move wrong when trying to get up. This has

been a new problem with the knee which were replaced 41/2 yrs.(?) ago. After

13 surgeries in the past 9 years one forgets the time and type of surgery

done. )

Earlier posts on erosion of joints was of interest as I have lost both knees,

hip, finger joints, and shoulder during the AP. (Was on Plaqunal for one

year prior to AP) The shoulder I haven't dealt with, (no pain at this time)

as I found having so many surgeries set me back in recovery. Since I haven't

had any surgeries in the past 4 years I am now pain free most days. The

weather changes seem to cause me minor joint pain now.

Although I still have very active RA factor of 300 all other blood work are

in normal range. I tried Tetracycline for several months, than switched to

Doxcy, and finally to minocin for past 7 years. I have just gone back to

Doxcy again to see if this will help my continue recovery of RA..

Unfortunately I only had the M P test run for the mycoplasma with a positive

past infection so am wondering now if I have other mycoplasma to deal with.

But am to scared to go off AP for testing for others. I don't want to

endure any more pain than what I have had to go through so many years. So

will experiement by changing antibiotics for now.

Sorry for the long post but this may be of interest to others in the

group.

RA: 14yrs AP:11yrs

Original Post:

Do any of you have this happen? Lately my hip has been catching and

really hurting for a while almost like it did before the operation. I

dont know if its muscle or what. It happened once when I got in my truck

in town today and I was really in pain and looking for place to pull

over but there was none and finally it let up. Ive only had this

replacement two years.

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