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Post by jodygirl on Apr 2, 2018 12:55:02 GMT -7
Hi everyone! Hoping to get a little insight on what I’m experiencing. My leg was amputated 10 weeks ago. Everything is healing well but I am having phantom pains as well as extreme muscle spasms. I’m a below the knee amputee. Has anyone else experienced spasms and how long have you had them?
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Post by cherylm on Apr 3, 2018 0:49:29 GMT -7
Hi, jodygirl, and welcome! You're still a very new amputee, so pains and muscle spasms are not unusual...it's not unusual for both of those to lessen with time, and with a little luck you should start feeling better as you continue to heal and any post-op swelling goes down.
Have you had any work done on a prosthesis yet? Are you wearing anything in the way of a compression sleeve ("shrinker") for swelling? A shrinker and/or a good fitting prosthesis can also help with pain issues. So will things like heat or ice packs or exercise or elevating the leg or even just trying the find something to distract you from focusing on the pain.
I've had two amputation surgeries: my initial amputation was 13 years ago, and then I needed a revision surgery on the same leg a little over a year ago,due to an infection. My first time I had very little pain or spasming...the revision gave me more of both, mainly because I had more post-op swelling and needed to spend more time with my leg elevated.
I hope that gives you a bit of an idea of what's going on...and I hope you get through it soon!
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