Metal-on-metal hips are made up of multiple metal components, which rub against each other when you walk or move your leg. You sometimes get a metallic taste in your mouth, particularly in the mornings. Problems caused by metal-on-metal hips, like pseudotumors, ALVAL, or infection, make bearing weight on your replaced hip more painful.
You experience difficulty walking or bearing weight on your hip.ĭo you find yourself walking, standing, or leaning in an unusual way to avoid feeling pain in your hip during everyday activities? This is something to bring up to your doctor to see if revision surgery is an option.
Pain, squeaking, popping, or clicking in your hip could be signs that your implant has dislocated, caused bone loss, destroyed muscle tissue, developed a pseudotumor, or some other serious side-effect of metal-on-metal hip implants. Talk to your doctor if you have any concerns about your hip replacement. If it is working correctly, it should be a seamless part of your body, just like any other joint. You really shouldn’t be able to feel (or hear) your implant. In short – anything in your hip that doesn’t feel quite right in your hip is a sign that you might need a new one. You hear squeaking, popping, or clicking in your hip. Pain is a symptom of many metal-on-metal implant side effects, such as dislocation, bone damage, muscle damage, pseudotumors, or infection. If you’re suddenly experiencing pain in your hip or pelvic area during everyday activities, it’s a sign that something could be wrong with your hip replacement. Your hip implant should not cause you pain if it is working correctly. This one might seem obvious, but people often underestimate the importance of listening to your body when it is in pain. You feel pain in your hip or pelvic area. If you’ve experienced any of these symptoms of implant failure, you should speak to your doctor and request to get your blood metal ion levels measured as soon as possible. Here, we’ve put together a list of some of the top 10 most common signs that you may need hip revision surgery. You can search our map of revision surgeons to locate one near you. It can be difficult to find a revision surgeon. Because Metal-on-Metal hip implants have such high rates of failure, hip revisions are a relatively common but complex procedure. This is also called hip replacement failure. Revision surgery is a procedure in which a broken, worn out, or unsafe hip implant is removed and replaced (in whole or in part) by a new implant. But what is revision surgery, and how can you tell if you need it? If you have a Metal-on-Metal (MoM) hip implant, you may have heard the term “revision surgery” before.
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