Comments on: Stryker Trident Ceramic Hip Replacement Lawsuits

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:51:08 +0000

I had both hips replaced the first one went fine, the next one has been popping for years but has recently developed a squeak and loug popping sometimes several pops in a row. I went to the doctor and he sent me for a CT scan to see what is going on. The xray shows damage but they won’t tell me what kind. I had a Trident used in the second surgery and now am facing another.

By: Teena

Teena — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:16:41 +0000

I had a hip replacement from hell. Pain, popping, squeeking, I went through every walking device available to man kind.
I ended up back in the hospital with an infection that nearly took my life.
I went to another doctor for a second opinion. At this point.. I was in a fetal position.
I went for a revision and had to have the ab cup replaced.. tons of boney growth and the reason for the fetal postion.. the first Doc put in the wrong part.. it was too small. So, I couldn’t stand up. Over a year later.. I’m still taking pain meds.. I can’t sleep.. I walk with a limp.. my entire life has been turned up side down.. Get this.. I was only 48 yrs. old when I was told that I needed the surgery. Plz. do your reasearch before getting any proceedure done. If it weren’t for my mom coming from Central america and telling the Doc’s to take me off of all of the antibotics.. I would not be alive today. Best to you!

By: charles

charles — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:20:40 +0000

I have had both my hips replaced 2004 and 2005.since then i have had pain and popping.cant sleep ,one of them is ceramic ,stryker,I went to my doctor after the replacement and told him it was popping he sadi it was tendons and muscle.well its now 2009 almost 2010 and the pain and popping is still here,Is there any help?

By: anita

anita — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:05:17 +0000

i had a total R hip on Oct.1st 2008..I ‘m in the hospital now Sept 1 2009 with a revision because of loosing…It never was right..I had pain for 11 months…will i ever know was it the stryker part or the doc? or both I am 58 and still trying to work

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:50:24 +0000

Has anyone fixed a stryker hip. I had a styker ceramic hip put in in 2003 without any pain. I was 50 It worked great until a year ago when it started squeaking.
Dr. said i was 1 in a 100 and it should still last. The squeaking has gotten worse especially under a load. Dr. say’s i should replace it with the stryker triple x polyethelene socket liner keeping the ceramic head. I’m concerned about the plastic as the cermic was supposed to last 40 years. anyone had this fix???

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:38:56 +0000

I had my left hip replaced with a Stryker unit in October of 2004. Recently I have noticed a “squeaking” noise from it when I go up stairs. I went to my Dr. and he took X-rays and said everyrthing looks OK but couldn’t explain the squeaking. It seems to me that it is getting worse and more frequent as time goes by. Some days I don’t hear it much but some days it is very noticeable and embarassing. I am concerned because I don’t know if it is damaging the replacement parts and if I could face another recall because of it. In 2000 I had a Sulzer implant done on my other hip and it was recalled and I had to go through a second hip replacement because of a faulty part in it. Second surgeries for the same thing are no fun what so ever. I ended up in a class action law suit over that one and certainly don’t want to go through that again.

By: Jean

Jean — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:19:23 +0000

I had a complete hip replacment in August 05. I believe it was a year later my hip begun to pop,with every step i make it is a constant pop.it is painful at times. I went to my Dr and he xrayed and said he saw nothing wrong. My hip sometime wants to go a different way that i intent to go,neary throwing me down.
About two years later I started hearing the squeak,sometimes while I am walking,and when I bend down. It has been very uncomfortable.
People that know me will say I know that is Jean I hear her hip poping or if they hear the squeak. Most that don’t know me just looks at me funny when they hear the poping. My Dr. said he would send me somewhere else to have it replaced,but Oh my, I would hate to have to go through that again.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:24:31 +0000

I had my hip replaced in Nov 2004 and it was the best surgery. I never took a pain pill after the surgery and it has never hurt yet. They even released me from PT early as I was doing so well. I did hear a squeaking the following winter. It was gone during the summer and then back again the following winter. I saw my doctor and he said it was a tendon that crossed the replacement. I havent heard the squeaking anymore.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:45:07 +0000

I had this ceramic hip put in on Mar, 06 I am diabetic and it took at least 1 -2 yrs to heal. My hip just didn’t seem right, so I went to my ortho. Dr.he too x-rays and said everything looked fine. In May, 09 I bent over to pick up some clothes and heard this squeaking sound, it took me a couple of times to realize that was my hip. it’s now June and the noise is getting worst and painful, my surgeon has called in a special dr. that will have to do a revision on this ceramic hip that I thought would last for at least 10yrs. I went through hell when the hip was first put in and now a second one, I have heart issues and along with my diabetes I’m not sure I can go through this again. I pray to God that I will be alright, I can’t stop thinking about this defective hip that is in my body and the health risk involved to took it out!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: FRANCIS

FRANCIS — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:14:59 +0000

I HAD BOTH OF MY HIPS REPLACRED IN 2005 FIRST MY RIGHT HIP,THEN MY LEFT.GOING FROM OPERATING TABLE TO MY ROOM I HEARD SOMEONE SAY THEY DIDNT LIKE THE WAY IT WENT SURGERY.AS SOON AS I STARTED REHABN I COULD FEEL & HEAR MY LEFT HIP MAKING NOISE & FEELING DISCOMFORT. I REPORTED THIS TO MY DOCTOR WITHIN THE FIRST TWO VISITS & AT FIRST HE ADMITTED SOMETHING WAS WRONG BUT LATER DENIED IT.HE CLAIMED JACK NICHALAUS HAD IT DONE SO THATS WHY I AGREED.WELL MY DOCTOR QUIT SEEING ME THAT SAME YEAR AFTER INSURANCE & MONEY RAN OUT.HE NO LONGER WORKS THERE ALSO CANT GET ANOTHER DOCTOR SINCE THEN TO TOUCH ME WITH A TENFOOT POLE BY THE WAY I WAS 44 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME……..