Comments on: Zimmer Durom Cup Lawsuits

By: William

William — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:40:47 +0000

I am 59 years old when on July 23, 2007 I had a hip replacement with the Zimmer Trilogy. Within 2 weeks I was taken back to the hospital because it became dislocated. I have had pain since. I have returned to the surgeon many times to tell me everything is fine just to exercise more. I use a cane daily. Can’t get up without sitting for a few minutes first and it is hard to walk, sleep, or sit. I know there is something wrong and I plan on going to another surgeon. Maybe he will listen to what I am saying.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:02:36 +0000

At the age of 50, in Jan of 06′ I was one of the first to have this procedure using the European style technique. My surgeon was very skilled at this procedure prior it being approved in 06′. He had over 500 in a trails to help get this into the main stream of the US. The complaints I read are mostly related to the surgery not the product and proves to me again that we will jump to action prior to thinking.
This hip replacement is so, so far advanced and my recovery so complete I don’t even think about it while playing tennis, Golf or Jet skiing. It is more important to have the proper surgeon then just a REGular hip surgeon who has not the time invested or the expertise to accomplish the correct fit.
Finally, you as the patient must take care to research your doctor and then take the proper steps to a full recovery to insure the hips success. Brad

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:58:15 +0000

As I read thru the many comments posted, I cant help but notice the large number of people reporting that although they do not have the Zimmer ‘Durom Cup’ post op problems….they DO have problems with the Trilogy. I had a Zimmer Trilogy placed in May ‘04 and by July ‘06, after two yrs of constant pain had a revision. At the time of the revision, only ‘a few chunks’ of the liner was left from the original liner. This means the majority of the plastic liner is somewhere inside my hip, or my body. Now I am 45 yrs old and 6yrs out from the original surgery, and still have pain every day, every hour in my hip.Is the plastic a problem?

By: Dionne

Dionne — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:08:53 +0000

I had a left hip revision in March, 2008 using a Zimmer Trilogy cup. I have had pain in my groin since my surgery. It has been alleviated by physical therapy and a cortisone shot, but after the treatments the pain always returns. I just went to a different orthopedic surgeon yesterday who said it looks as though my cup has possibly slipped out of position.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:41:38 +0000

I had a THR with the Zimmer Trilogy cup in July 2007 and have never had one pain free day since. I have been back numerous times, also to pain drs and other drs to no avail. Since I got off the addictive pain meds post surgery, I have constant pain in the left joint area where the hip replacement is. Shots do nothing to help it. Surgeon says the surgery was fine, xrays show nothing. All I know is I hurt and my other hip now hurts too because the surgery left my left leg longer than my right and I think my alignment is all messed up or something. I can’t sleep without waking 2-3 times from the pain and that is after taking Tylenol pm. I have no idea where to go from here but if these devices are causing other’s problems I would like to know if my situation is connected. Thanks for any comments or suggestions out there.

By: J

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:11:11 +0000

My mother had a Zimmer hip replacement a few years ago and it was Trilogy Cup. Ever since, she’s lived in constant pain. I heard of the Zimmer Durom lawsuits and started researching the Trilogy cup. The stories I am seeing and hearing are eerily similar to what she’s told me since the surgery: she lives in “constant pain”; doctor has said “nothing is wrong”.. she was starting to think it was “all in her head”, and on and on… WHERE THERE IS SMOKE, there is Usuall FIRE>.. THERE MAY BE SERIOUS ISSUES WITH ZIMMER TRILOGY CUP IMPLANTS TOO

By: Lynette

Lynette — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:48:03 +0000

I had right hip surgery in 2005. After about I year I started having severe knee,hip and back pain. On numerous occasions I could not walk. I am not a complainer but I knew something was wrong. My surgeon retired right after my hip replacement. His partners wanted nothing to do with me. My Md tried to find out what the problems were. Numerous XRay’s, special scans were done. The result was always the same-nothing wrong! After several trips to the ER. a physician informed me that I had a loose joint and as a ER physician he sees lots of this after hip surgery. I was not looking for pain pills.I am an RN and I know how often that happens and how the medical field practitioners tend to label chronic pain sufferers. I just wanted an answer. I got my surgical report and found out I had a Zimmer Trilogy Cup inplanted during surgery. Is there a problem with these cup too? I have suffered misery for three years and began to think it was all in my head. I have just gone to an ortho.surgeon in another town. They took XRays from my knees to above my hips. It took them about 5 mins to inform me that my hip joint had slipped about 2 inches, all the cement was loosened. What’s worse is that my right femur is so thin the physician is afraid it will break. I am back on a walker until I have a revision done.. On top of this my left hip needs surgery pretty quickly. I really am afaid to go through all this again.

By: JIm

JIm — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:59:07 +0000

My husband had a Zimmer Trilogy Cup as well. His surgery was February 2007 and starting about the six month he has had ongoing consistent pain in his thigh and back. He has had PT, nuclear scan and finally the last time he had X-ray it showed that the appliance has not adhered to the bone. We need to have the attorneys that persistent into medical malpractive of the Durom Cup failure look into the commonalities of both appliances. I really believe we have two Zimmer implant problems.

By: Jacque

Jacque — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:39:34 +0000

I had a left hip replacement in 6/2006 with the Zimmer Trilogy cup. I have had constant back and leg pain. I have also been told that my pelvic bone continues to be out of alignment. I went back to m6y surgeon numerous times with complaints to no avail. I was told by one of his nurses that lots of people are having the same problems and back and leg pain. Is there anything wrong with the trilogy cup?

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