BrundleJosh

There is no such as a final fit. You can see atrophy for a couple years depending on the limb. I get new sockets every two years and each one is significantly different from the one before. I got a new one a few weeks ago and now that I'm used to it, the other one hurts to wear. But it'll still work should happen to lose my current one.

I had an emergency amputation. I nearly lost my leg after a motorcycle accident and ended up getting an infection when I was in the hospital. I was in an induced coma during all of this so as far as I remember, I turned onto the highway and woke up in a hospital with no leg. The phantom pains were the worst part of it all. I had several broken bones, torn muscles, internal bleeding etc. and I had almost zero pain eight days later when they woke me up. I never had issues with the loss of the limb as far as depression would go, I didn't grieve my loss. However, since the phantom pain was so intense, morphine wouldn't do anything for it, I though of suicide several times just to get away from the pain.

It took about three months to find a medication that helped. It's little orange pill for the OP, I can't remember the name of it but if I could I would mention it. Maybe three more months down the road it became manageable. It slowly went almost away. I usually have spurts of phantom pain that last 10 seconds to 5 minutes and it and can be so bad that I sit there have uncontrollable spasms in my leg and I can't do anything to stop it. Although punching my leg seems to help most the time, literally start hitting it pretty hard and it stops hurting.

If they cut it too low you'll lose out on some really great options for your feet. The best feet that I have had are all tall. You have very limited options when they take the foot only.

The VA may not pay for those and you'll get the shaft on your first one for sure. You'll get a stupid SACH foot and a prosthetic you'll shrink out of in two weeks. It's all part of the process. The weird part is that the SACH foot has outlasted all my other feet that I have broken at one point or another. I wear it around the house when I don't want to have shoes on, it's also good as a shower foot if you feel the need to wear your prosthetic when you bathe. My piece of advice, get a sturdy stool to sit on. I've had the same one for five years and it's still going strong. My SO won't take showers now without it even though she said she'd never resort to sitting in the shower.