Artificial Hips and triple TX

I'm just full of questions today but I'm wondering if anyone has heard anything specific about TX and artificial joints and the like?  I have a total hip replacement and I know there is always an infection risk with these things, even at the dentist office.  For teeth cleaning you are supposed to take a dose of antibiotic an hour before they work on your teeth but this is only for the first 12 moths after the implant is put in.  Mine has been in six years and is very well "set" so the risk is lower.  

[TripleCrown]

I'm on week 10 of tx w victrelis and we had our hips replaced about the same time. Other than my 1st injection of interferon where I experienced some bone pain in the femur of my replaced hip ... I've had no other pain. They say procrit can cause bone pain but haven't experienced that either. Mainly just super tired from the anaemia, a horrible taste in my mouth, headache and some rash...nothing too crazy.
Some weight loss has helped with extra stress on my joints and feet.
Good luck.

[lapis]

I finished tx with Incivek over 2 years ago.  Knee replacement was 8 years ago.  No problems at all with that during my tx.  Good luck to you.

Lapis

[slagle2]

When I first treated with SOC eight years ago it had only been about five months since I broke my hip in a workplace accident.  No artificial hip then, it was put back together with pins and screws.  I didn't walk on it for three months but after that I still got some slight bone pain.  

Once I began TX with Pegasys and ribavirin I noticed that if I gave myself the weekly interferon shot in that leg or anywhere near it the bone pain was much worse.  So I always injected in the stomach on the opposite side from my bad leg.  Now that I have the artificial hip there is no pain but there was for the first year after it was put in.  We will see how it behaves with treatment.

[lapis]

Good point.  Now I remember that I also avoided injecting in the thigh of the knee (left) which had been replaced.  Here was my rotation:  R abdomen, L abdomen, R thigh, repeat.  But for me, the operated leg tissues remain very different from the other side, and it just made sense for me to avoid the "less fluffy" leg.