I'm now 5 1/2 months post reverse shoulder replacement. For the past 6 weeks the shoulder has been red and physio advised me to see GP who sent me for an ultrasound and blood test which didn't show up anything. It got worse in the next few days so he put me onto antibiotics. The redness would almost disappear in the morning but come back during the day. Then on Monday I woke up with a large red lump on the shoulder, so headed into A & E. They admitted me straight away and I had an ultrasound and CT scan yesterday, and an aspiration under ultrasound and they got 15 (?) ml out of it but the rest was too thick to get out.
As I have no real issues apart from the shoulder, they've let me go home, and am booked in next Thursday for a wash out and clean up. The ortho registrar told me they will change the replaceable parts of the implant which surprised me as I didn't thought it was just two solid parts.
The hard part is that I will have to start again with 6 weeks immobilisation again. Also I'll have to convince the surgeon that I'm OK to go skiing mid January (might have to promise not to do bumps).