Yes, it took a titanium rod and like 9 screws to reattach. They didn’t believe me at first and thought I was being dramatic until they took my boot off.
Edited cause it didn’t make sense. And to add pic https://imgur.com/a/Bk0fdIZ , also it was 11 screws and I can’t count. I thought the really long screw was a rod.
I got mine out only 18 months after having it put in cause my screws were popping out and my plate was grinding against my bone and very painfully pressing in. Got a shiny secondary scar where my wound popped open when they removed the stitches . Apparently I wasn’t done cooking yet.
Youch! Mine is still in there like a decade 17 years later, it’s only sensitive when it gets bumped. I haven’t even asked about getting it removed but apparently it’s “elective” which even in a country with socialised medicare means you can pay through the nose.
It sucked, but everything went as well as it could have and I got all my metal out and both my legs are the same size again, with no lingering pain so I got super lucky there. It’s just an ugly scar and some gruesome pictures now.
Yes, it took a titanium rod and like 9 screws to reattach. They didn’t believe me at first and thought I was being dramatic until they took my boot off.
Edited cause it didn’t make sense. And to add pic https://imgur.com/a/Bk0fdIZ , also it was 11 screws and I can’t count. I thought the really long screw was a rod.
Oooh titanium fibula plate gang!
I got mine out only 18 months after having it put in cause my screws were popping out and my plate was grinding against my bone and very painfully pressing in. Got a shiny secondary scar where my wound popped open when they removed the stitches . Apparently I wasn’t done cooking yet.
Nothing but ugly scars left behind now.
Youch! Mine is still in there like
a decade17 years later, it’s only sensitive when it gets bumped. I haven’t even asked about getting it removed but apparently it’s “elective” which even in a country with socialised medicare means you can pay through the nose.Edit: am old
Yeah, had mine not been popping it would still be in there cause it would be considered elective, but they had to do something before it broke skin.
Ouch!
It sucked, but everything went as well as it could have and I got all my metal out and both my legs are the same size again, with no lingering pain so I got super lucky there. It’s just an ugly scar and some gruesome pictures now.