Post by redheadedscardycat on Mar 21, 2021 23:45:44 GMT -7
Hi,
I am new here. I am having my surgery today, below the knee amputation. I probably should’ve joined earlier, but I’ve been busy the last two weeks trying to come to terms with the surgery I’m having done. I have muscular dystrophy, unfortunately my feet keep deforming back to club feet.; and the pain is no longer being managed by tramadol. So, I am having my left foot done today and once I learn to walk on the left, I will be going in for amputation on the right foot.
This might seem like a weird question, and Lord knows that Google likes to put the fear of God into people, but it says that amputees have a lower life expectancy within the first five years And I’m wondering if that’s For those with complications or in general? I am overweight, not morbidly obese but about a hundred more than I should be. I’m hoping after the amputation I can start being active and lose the weight. I’m always in pain, so I’m always laying or sitting. I’ve been a pain level 10 on my feet for 15 years. I was an experiment for Shriners as a kid, and sadly; the experimental surgeries deformed my feet instead of fixed them. Car accident at 25 crushed my right foot and had to be reconstructed. I’ve had a world renounced surgeon do reconstruction after and they still clubbed again. I was on norco for 12 of those years, then tramadol the last 3. I quit it, then I was put back on tramadol because my dr told me I’m going to end up with a stoke; pain raised my bp through the roof. Now it’s a normal bp thanks to the lisinopril and tramadol.
Truthfully, I’m scared out of my mind. Not because I’m afraid of dying; I’ve been to that point before, it’s peaceful; but what will happen after. I need to be around for my mom. I know this is the right path for me, even though it feels like I’m second guessing; I just want to live and it seems this is holding me back.
Any advice or information anyone can offer? I’m 36 years old - I forgot to mention that.
I am new here. I am having my surgery today, below the knee amputation. I probably should’ve joined earlier, but I’ve been busy the last two weeks trying to come to terms with the surgery I’m having done. I have muscular dystrophy, unfortunately my feet keep deforming back to club feet.; and the pain is no longer being managed by tramadol. So, I am having my left foot done today and once I learn to walk on the left, I will be going in for amputation on the right foot.
This might seem like a weird question, and Lord knows that Google likes to put the fear of God into people, but it says that amputees have a lower life expectancy within the first five years And I’m wondering if that’s For those with complications or in general? I am overweight, not morbidly obese but about a hundred more than I should be. I’m hoping after the amputation I can start being active and lose the weight. I’m always in pain, so I’m always laying or sitting. I’ve been a pain level 10 on my feet for 15 years. I was an experiment for Shriners as a kid, and sadly; the experimental surgeries deformed my feet instead of fixed them. Car accident at 25 crushed my right foot and had to be reconstructed. I’ve had a world renounced surgeon do reconstruction after and they still clubbed again. I was on norco for 12 of those years, then tramadol the last 3. I quit it, then I was put back on tramadol because my dr told me I’m going to end up with a stoke; pain raised my bp through the roof. Now it’s a normal bp thanks to the lisinopril and tramadol.
Truthfully, I’m scared out of my mind. Not because I’m afraid of dying; I’ve been to that point before, it’s peaceful; but what will happen after. I need to be around for my mom. I know this is the right path for me, even though it feels like I’m second guessing; I just want to live and it seems this is holding me back.
Any advice or information anyone can offer? I’m 36 years old - I forgot to mention that.
