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Originally Posted by ROYC75
Thanks guys,
This should kill the infection this time, Both knees have a spacer in them. With no metal inside the body that it can attach itself to and build its own defense shield around it.
They are going to use a different antibiotic since we have been using some of the others that has been hard on the kidneys. That 6 months should have gotten the last germ, but somehow a germ cell attached itself to the metal pieces of the knee and covered itself with it's own defense shield.
It's been a pain in my ass, damn infection is hard to beat. One would have thought 2 different antibiotics taken over a 6 month period would have defeated it.
This time, no metal, it's going to increase the chances of defeating it.
Many thanks to you all for the prayers and thoughts.
I will probably be on here more over the next 6 weeks.
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Prosthetic joints are very "sticky" surfaces that enable bacteria to adhere and form a biofilm. As a result, clinicians will prescribe rifampin because it helps break up the biofilm, along with another antibiotic (or two) to do the actual killing.
Were you on vancomycin?