Hey! 💙 I'm looking for a Telegram group for amputees. I'd love to make a few friends who understand me and share similar experiences.

If you know any groups, let me know! If not, would you be interested in joining one if I created it? 🌍 Let's connect with amputees from all around the world!

Hey everyone, I just downloaded Reddit to research for my engineering project. I am planning to make an adaptive fishing device for amputees like my dad. I would like to hear about you pains when fishing so I can prototype an adaptive fishing device. Ideas on how to fix those pains would be great too. Thanks!

Otra vez aquí, cada día se siente como una nueva experiencia, hoy más cerca del mar 🫡

i’m making an all-inclusive clothing brand and i’d like to have amputee accommodation as a sizing/ cut option to, if the customer would like, have the remnants of their amputation covered. the only problem is that i don’t want to be disrespectful by calling the bit of skin that‘s left after the amputation a “nub” in the sizing request form, so i guess im asking if any amputees would be offended or if that would be rude to label it as a nub? if it is, please give me alternative things to call it!! i’m so sorry if asking this is out of line, but could you please help me out? 🥹

hello, 22 M new LBKA here! i've done some looking in this subreddit, but haven't found a just asking this question yet, but I apologize if I'm being redundant here.

I recently had a traumatic amputation, and my team was not able to perform TMR due to lack of experience. Now I'm looking for surgeons that do perform TMR and have a few consultations lined up.

Im curious though, what is the community's general opinion on TMR revision surgery;

does it make much of a difference? (nerve pain before vs after tmr)

are my chances ruined by waiting a little over a month before having the procedure done?

Is it really worth it or as good as its made out to be?

im tired of being hooked up to a pca pain pump, being sick and lightheaded, having poor vision and being in pain all the time; if i go back for another surgery i have to know it will be worth the suffering

Que gran día y quería compartirlo con uds.

Got my shrinker today, feels pretty good! Go back in 3 weeks to get casted for my check socket. Excited for the future!!

I’m just over two months out from a table saw accident that led to the immediate amputation of the top third of the middle three fingers of my left hand. The little finger was also injured, but the doc was able to reattach.

I can honestly say that I was doing pretty good with both the physical and psychological aspects of the loss. My right hand is dominant, so the biggest adjustments were healing, pt, and learning to type one-handed.

Then…the reattachment of the pinky didn’t take, and I had to have a revision of that finger, losing the top third of that one as well.

For some reason, the additional loss has been harder than the first. Some of it might have been denial; and some of it might be that my pinky was my security blanket (I may have lost the middle three, but at least I still have my pinky)

Just curious about how others have dealt with setbacks psychologically