Fears Over Hip Replacement 'Poisoning'

Are the NHS trying to scare people off their waiting lists or what? First it's breast implants (after losing breasts due to breast cancer etc, not talking about the private 'boob jobs') then it's this. What next, will pace makers cause your brain to dysfunction?

Replacement is just that---an aid not a cure.
I had a 'new' hip last year to ease extreme pain and improve mobility: it can never be considered a 'cure'. it is up to the individual to weigh up the pros and cons.
Bone donation is common---it is a much needed commodity.

its obvious metal on metal or any friction between two objects without a lubrication will erode !!

I went for a brain transplant, but they said I had to have one to replace...........I don't get it...?

I got metal fillings 40 years old.Whats next? The news media as always compounding what already is known by jumping on the band wagon for there greed. The NHS ought to have a sign at the entrances of all there premises saying ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK this could save the tax payers from all the claims.

are health services going to get in touch with patients who could be at risk and belay their fears or are they going to do something about it.

With stem cell research advancing the way it is and the use of artificial scaffolds such as recently used for the recent windpipe replacement, maybe our own cells can be used to rebuild spare parts even for load bearing areas and not just softer things such as bladders.

It's time the NHS stopped fitting cheaper metal hips and started fitting ceramic hips on any patients under 75 years old. Hip replacent should be a once in a lifetime job but with metal hips it isn't.

We have been/are being treated with what the NHS thinks is best at the time.Why sue ?

This happened to me and a year after my right hip replacement I had to have it re-done using a metal on ceramic joint. The rubbing of metal on metal caused much debris to be floating in my bloodstream, as described in the article, and I had bad inflammation and pain. The hip also squeaked when I walked and made a terrible noise when I bent down. If I had not had it replaced, my surgeon informed me that eventually it would have snapped causing real problems!

Since the second operation both this and my left hip (also replaced) have given no problems whatsoever!

Robert B in Brighton - compensation was not even considered, as an agreement had been signed accepting that there may be a risk of something going wrong during this operation, including the possibility of not actually coming round from the anaesthetic and so in this case medical negligence did not apply.

Why do you lump everybody together into the category of being part of a sad society - in some cases medical negligence does happen and therefore compensation is deserved.

I find it a sad society that people make negative and vitriolic comments on Yahoo news items without actually knowing what they are talking about.

I have a titanium hip and it `s been fine for 6 years now.

The plastic ones also give off debris, this causes the pelvis to grow away from the plastic and you end up with a massive "hole" where the plastic cup sat in the pelvis. Takes about 20 years though, and can be sorted with a bone graft and oversized cup on revision.

I went to the doctors and he said I need a pacemaker I have now got this annoying little kenyan man walking 3ft in front of me everywhere I go

Nothing is without risk..........if you need a new hip then you have two choices, do nothing or use the technology available at the time.

Who are these expert clowns that gave the go ahead for metal to metal hip joints.Have they ever had basic education? who gave them the job and what university conferred a degree on them?

And these so-called medical professionals are the ones who presume to tell us what we should and what we shouldn't do, smoke, eat and drink.

Experts?

I've schat 'em.

French Company by the sound of it.
However. Metal on Metal implants made hip replacements available to the masses. New materials and techniques will always improve the implants. I think we are lucky to live in an age where worn out body parts can be replaced. This gets rid of so much pain and extends our high quality life span.

You're a bit of out date Yahoo, this has been ongoing for some time! My sister has already had both her hips replaced due to the metal poisoning and damage caused by the De Puy hips. The damage caused in the years she had those hips and stems was pretty severe. Her walking gait is "wobbly" and the long term consequences do not bear thinking about giving her young age and the expected lifespan of these joints.

I have a Titanium metal plate spinal fushion never been any good worn the upper and lower dics away worse now than before

Very concerned to read the article on hip replacements, as I had one fitted in 2008 and the other in 2010, until it's proved beyond a reasonable doubt why scare thousands of people