No, none with hardware. They might xray on friday, supposed to get the staples (stitches?) out. I was told if the plate bothers me I can get it removed. I just relish the thought of air travel now, I think I will just let them try and figure it out, take my full body search with a smile Maybe get an ankle holster once they figure out I'm just messin with them.
I had 2 plates and a bunch of screws in my left ankle. My doctor told me the same thing. He said lots of folks don't even know it's there but that some people find it uncomfortable. I tried to suck it up and just deal with it but it wasn't happening for me. I got mine removed a little less than 2 years later. Best thing I ever did for myself.
Got some hardware and a plate in my left ankle and it is pretty bad with aches etc. I was thinking about getting removed but was not sure if it would be worth it. Any thoughts before and after? Love to hear about it to help decide etc. Thx
Totally worth it to get it out as soon as you possibly can I had no intention of getting mine removed as I didn't want to endure yet another surgery if I didn't have to. It was pretty painful, though. I could never forget it was there. I had to wear size 7 moto boots as my regular 6's were too tight on my ankle. The plate curved down over the little bone that sticks out the side and my hiking boots were out of the question. My Chuck Taylor hi-tops weren't so bad and I could handle my Justin cowboy boots for an evening but any other sort of hi-top or boot was just too painful to wear. If I was sleeping on my side the pain would wake me up eventually and I'd have to roll over onto my other side or figure something else out. I had very limited range of motion, too. Total drag each and every day. I talked to everyone I could find (not too hard, what with all my friends being riders ) that had hardware and had it removed. Not a one of them regretted it. They all said it was totally worth it. I went ahead and did it and I am so glad I did! I think I was totally focused on the benefits of having it removed, though, and really didn't think much about the actual procedure and the recovery time. I thought it would be no big deal, really, but it was almost as gnarly as it was when it got installed. Of course my ankle wasn't broken so I didn't have that pain and swelling to deal with but it was still really uncomfortable and it looked like swiss cheese due to all the holes. I had to be really cautious about weight-bearing, and I had incisions and staples again. Yay. But like I said, worth it. And I got to keep the hardware and add it to my collection
It hurts, doesn't it? I was taking photos while they did it and I had to put the camera down () and lay my head back on the pillow to keep from ralphing my breakfast all over. I'm usually pretty tough but for some reason the staple thing really got to me. I didn't even do that when Eric pulled the screws out of my arm with pliers.
Easy Peasey. I thought about taking a movie and he said by the time I got the camera out he'd be done, and he was. The guy had a special plier that removed em. The first few removed I didn't even notice, but by the last one, it stung a bit. They put me in a fiberglass cast, and this thing does not breath. My foot is sweating, and I don't know how this will work out for the next three weeks. Man that is some cool hardware. I have one small plate, and 7 screws. They xrayed it after surgery, and I saw that today. Those plates look mighty thick, I can see why they would be a nuisance.
Why Thank You! I was thinking of a tattoo to dress it up. I have a dilemma however. Do I make the tat viewable standing or sitting? As it is posted, I could make RR tracks and have the Terra pulling a wheelie down the tracks etc. If I opt for standing, I do not have adequate canvas for a good scene. It kindof looks like a centipede as is.
Thanks a bunch for input. I am going to pursue. I had other hardware removed but nothing like this, so close to the skin so to speak. I was worried that my ankle might be weekend and prone to re-breaking it down the road. Damn thing is just too painful at times and can almost "feel" the hardware. Thanks again.
(sorry for the thread hijack, magoo!) I could totally feel the hardware. Take a look at the shape of my ankle with the hardware in it. Now that ain't right no matter how you look at it! This is looking at my left ankle straight on. The longer of the 2 plates covers the ankle bone on the inside of my ankle...
Don't be sorry for me argentina, this is good stuff. Would be better in heels though ... I find this quite informative and gives me better info on options such as letting the iron in or getting it out quickly. I saw the xray, and my hardware is nowhere as invasive as your stuff. Still, I am rather skinny, so the metal will most likely cause some discomfort. So with the plates out, did it make a big visual difference? Did they open you back up using the previous incision spot? Did that heal ok? Did they bondo the holes where the screws were?
Yeah, my ankle looks much more normal now without that weird-looking sharp protrusion over the bone. It looked like they went in through the same incisions as before, 2 on the left side and 2 on the right. There was a hole in the back where a lone screw had gone in, too. I hardly even noticed that one. They healed up nicely. And, no, no bondo I had to be real cool, though, until those holes started filling in with bone. If you took an x-ray now you wouldn't even be able to tell where the holes were. I had an external fixator once, and I thought it was horrific. 4 screws through my skin and bone on my arm. Given the choice now, I'd go external in a heartbeat before getting internal hardware. I have a feeling that one of these days mankind is going to look back at the era of medical procedures like chemotherapy and metal plates and such as incredibly barbaric.
Says WoodsChick on her "Hover Terra"with her brain in a jar. I was not offered the choice of a fixator. (I need to look it up) OMG, I did not need to look that up. I count my blessings daily on this one. If I was driving like the morons in shorts and tennis shoes, I would have a hamburger foot like in some of the pictures.
Mine is plated like that one the outside of my ankle, but seems to much the same. One thing that I was told a couple of years ago by an Orthopedic surgeon and forgot was that hardware is installed only long enough for you to heal and is prone to breaking. I had some that did. Not sure why I was thinking this to be different. I am going in for consult as soon as I can get seen. As always thanks for sharing. I am convinced. The ankle is giving me the biggest problem of all of my "Buick allergies". :-)
Cast comes off tomorrow, Yippie. What a horrible boring month this has been. Wonder if I'll be able to push the bike out and go for a ride. Hmm, one can hope.
