Allergic to titanium?

[kr4st]

Allergic to titanium? I have had three knee replacements, one a cement/antibiotic one. I am in constant pain and my leg has red spots on the aria of the knee replacement and is always wormer then the other leg. Now I have developed a severe allergy in my sinus, with the tubes plug and water on one ear. No one can tell me what I am allergic to. I read many people having the idea of allergies to titanium and I have read that the medical community say it not possible. The last two night I have had a temperature of 101, that comes and goes.
my meds are:
Mometasone Furoate 50 mcg 120d nasal
Loratadine 10mg
Rifampin 300 mg cap
my Gatofloxacin was discontinued by the VA
replaced with ciprofloxacin 500 mg twice a day.
Are you sure that there are no allergies to knee replacements  jeff graham

[sedgs1u]

***@****      Contact for a person that works in the USA with Melisa organization. She wil be able to give local information/contact numbers for doctors/labs that can perform blood testing in your area.

[lraven]

if you call the number on the site of the test...they will give you a doctor in your area that will do it...sorry it took me so long to answer...good luck..Linda

[Tamjam3]

I broke the head off I meant to say

[Tamjam3]

I broke broke the off my proximal humorus and broke the head in many place and split down the proximal humorus and had a titanium plate and screws put in 7 weeks later I fell over and broke my humorus in half. I am 12 months on and after complaining and being told the pain in my bicep and deltoid is something I have to put up with it until physiotherapy helps to fix my frozen shoulder which happened because I was too long in not being able to move my arm. Well last week I would not leave the surgeons office after speaking with an intern who did another X-ray on my arm to say all the breaks had healed. I said I knew this but the problem is with all the pain I get in the muscles and hot over where the plate is and lumps in my arm which at times harden with the muscle and feel like rocks in under the skin and the muscle feels like a weighted brick and just as hard. He got hold of another doctor and he too said there was nothing but to wait it out until I told them there had to be something that could be done because I was just barely holding on and the pain is becoming worse and to take painkillers is not an option because I need to work and could not afford to fall asleep at my desk. I insisted on finding out more. They then went and got the head orthopaedic surgeon who after asking me a series of questions about if I was allergic to rings etc which I said I could not wear my rings for long because I would get psoriasis from them and I could not have pierced ears because I would get lumps in the holes and they would weep and be sore for days. I told him also over the area of the plate to touch my skin at times feels like someone is slicing my skink open. He stood up and said he was convinced I was allergic to the metal plate and screws and booked me in to have surgery to get the plate out. I am due to have the op 2 weeks from today. I can't wait. I too now know I am not going crazy and I knew something was wrong for months but no one would listen to me. My GP did tell me after 4 months of pain that I should not be having then pain but he himself was unsure as to why and told me to persist with the surgeon. Which I am glad I did. So people please believe in you gut instinct and push hard to find out WHY? Do just stand for BECAUSE IT JUST IS.  I will keep you posted post op. BTW I also tried to tell them about constant pain from my elbow down into my hands but they told me that is just referred pain as the brain thinks there should be pain there when there is not. I had rounds of acupuncture but nothing fixed the pain for very long. Well guess what? I had to have an MRI done on my neck to see why I have carpel tunnel syndrome down my left hand and they found my C5 & C6 have a herniated disc which is what is causing the pain from the elbow down and across my clavical and down between my shoulder blades, and also the pain in my hand which I have complained of since the day after my accident 12 months ago. Funny I have a bike accident but they never checked my neck for injury. A lesson learnt in make sure you are checked for everything when you have an accident, before they operate. I will keep you posted post op.

[louiseolivier]

10 Years ago I had a spinal fusion. Titanium pins and screws were put in. Afterwards I was in more pain than before the op. I went back to the dr that did the op. He said I'll have to wait 9 months before he could remove the implants. 5 ops later the neuro surgen wanted to implant a neuro stimulator. I told him that I am allergic to titanium. He said not to worry he is going to put the stimulator in a pouch. Afterwards I suffered from severe pain in the leg. No painkiller took the pain away. Then he decided to put a morphine pump in. Since I had the morphine pump I was sooooo sick, I thought I was going to die. Then I insisted that he take both the stimulator and the morphine pump (witch was also titanium) out. It is 3 years later and I still suffer from severe back pain and Fibromiagia. Is there anybody out there that can give me advice please????

[SibSmiles]

To Whom it may Concern, Hello there, I am so very interested in your story because I have an implant in my Cervical Spine to fuse two vertebra's together. I have had so many different symptom's ever since and my health has declined in so many ways that it is ruining my life and will to live through this much longer.. The doctors don't want to admit that this is actually happening to me and treating me like a mentally deranged person instead. Even calling me Bi Polar and saying that I am imagining all of this..This is the second time that a doctor had put this into my cervical Spine after five years of hell, the first doctor removed it and I had regained my health again and was working again until my fusion collapsed in 2012.. The doctor that operated on me in 2012 put the Titanium plate back into my neck, even though I had a bracelet on saying allergic to Titanium and Penicillin.. So, I get to live through this hell twice in one lifetime... Seriously, I thought about suicide for three months after this last surgery and it is so hard this time finding a doctor to remove this again so that I can heal again and make my life better..