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[DeviceGuy]

Hey Beth,
Just a thought......You're going in for your revision with Dr. Brooks.  Hopefully that will resolve those issues.  Your 6/19/15 LBHR is cancelled.  As part of your due diligence, might you not call Dr. Gross in So. Carolina to see what his take is on your next hip HRA?  As I've said, I believe he will do a cemented Biomet device if that is your wish, and, the geometry and metallurgy is very similar to the S&N BHR.  So in essence you are getting a "like" implant.
Dr. Gross is not that far from the Clinic in Ohio if that is in fact where you live.  Pat went to India on her dime, I went to So. Carolina from California twice.  Then and now I realize it was a no-brainer!! 
Do your research and make your best educated decision.

[Pat Walter]

Please read Beth's report here with her long story about her diffiuclt journey to find out where her pain was coming from.  I split this post to help people find the new topic.

http://surfacehippy.info/hiptalk/index.php?topic=5691.0



UPDATE:  I felt I should share with all of you my experience the past few months.
I was prepared to have my BHR revised and backed out at the last minute. When I asked Dr Brooks if we knew with absolute certainty that my BHR was the source of my pain his answer was simple and honest, “No”.  I appreciated his honesty and decided to get a few other opinions. 
Side story: And if I wasn’t in enough pain, while trying to get around my house without crutches, I tore the cartilage in the opposite knee. I will be having knee surgery to fix that problem next month.
I sought out an opinion of an ortho doc in Cleveland who happens to be the Cleveland Brown’s team physician. I also set up an opinion of a physician in Dallas,Texas who is leading the research into posterior hip arthroscopy. The Cleveland ortho doc felt I had a posterior hip issue and that my BHR was likely NOT the source of my pain. It was his opinion that having the resurfacing not necessary and that my pain all along was the result of a problem in the posterior hip. Problems in the posterior hip can cause symptoms such as groin pain, etc. I was told.  He agreed that the person with the most expertise would be the physician in Dallas.
I traveled to Dallas to see Dr Martin and now (I hope) I have some answers. I was diagnosis with a chronic avulsed hamstring. He showed my husband and I the findings on the MRI and asked my permission to take pictures of my MRI and videotaped my exam to take to a conference where he was teaching in the upcoming week. Dr Martin also said he felt I probably had not needed the BHR and likely most, if not all of my pain, was from my hamstring that was completely torn away from the ischium. Yes, missed by the radiologists on 2 MRI’s prior to my BHR. Dr Martin said he sees patients every week where the radiologist and/or physician has missed a problem.  I don’t know if my orthopedic physician at the time (NOT Dr Brooks) even looked at the MRI but he told me the MRI showed no abnormalties and had nothing more to offer me. He said my pain was likely from the small area of arthritis he saw on my hip athroscopy and recommended I have a BHR or THR. The rest is history. I am scheduled for surgery on my knee in October and then my hamstring Dec 1st. Another rehab to look forward to.So what is the one thing I have learned?  If you feel something is wrong, don’t give up looking for an answer.

[lori.36]

I am nearly at 3 weeks post op and purchased the Kodiak from Dr Gross for $250.
I highly recommend it, not as good as the game ready, by I would say 955 as good.
I rented the game read for $350 for 2 weeks and I purchased the Kodiak for $250.


If anyone wants to buy my Kodiak, please message me an offer, I could mail it to you.  Please take into account that shipping fees with the offer.