'I chose to have my leg amputated' - BBC London

Good morning Lady! What a brave and logical decision you had to make! I had to have my left leg amputated above the knee due to diabetes and getting gangrene! I've adapted very well too it AND it's NOT the end of the world! My wife's friend is living with a spider bitten leg for about twenty years now..but she's refusing amputation and prefers to drag this useless leg around with her! I must use your video to try and motivate her! I'm very agile with mine while I patiently wait for a prosthetic leg! It's just another way of life to adapt to! Strongs and best wishes to you! 💪👍🤝

At least she had a valid reason. Instead of "I just feel like I need to have 1 leg instead of 2"

Did she try yoga before amputation??

First of all, hats off to this beautiful brave soul. To live your dreams, by any means possible, faced with the prospect of a life of pain and loss of passions and freedom, or a dive into the unknown, waking up to this new life , without your leg, but without the physical pain that you had before, you knew it would be challenging to say the least, but you chose your life. And if losing your leg was the price of freedom and happiness, you were willing to pay that price. I think you’re so brave.
I have strangely been in a similar situation. Although you’re innocent. I’m guilty of inflicting this on myself by using drugs and getting a severe bone infection in my left leg. I’m clean now and have been for a couple of years apart from maybe one or two little lapses! Anyway! I’ve been left with surgical scars, one of which, I’m told, would never heal. So I constantly use dressings and my leg is permanently disfigured. As well as that, it now started to smell. And the antibiotics are making me so ill. My surgeons at Addenbrookes are very used to skirting round the topic of amputation. It simply was not something that they would ever bring up again unless they needed to, to save my life. I said well I’d like to have a DNR order.
My thoughts have changed. I personally feel strangely ok about having my leg amputated. The one thing that scares me is always being judged, or laughed at, or never being beautiful again. Maybe life would be better if I could finally swim in my sisters pool and play with my nephew without actually having to worry about the gaping, oozing wound! And maybe now, I could go on holiday without worrying about this stuff. Maybe I’ll finally feel at peace, I think I’ll feel less ill, it must be having at least some effect on my body generally if I didn’t have a chronic bone infection. Maybe this means my biggest fear is something that could be a powerful change for the better, i gain more than I lose.
Anyone wanna give me an opinion? What would you do?! ♥️🦕 nice to meet you all. 😊🙂🦕🦖♥️

Madness

The title is quite misleading she has a medical condition which led her to either be in pain or “choose” amputation

I stepped in a Rutt in my driveway and broke my ankle in 1991. I had 7 surgeries trying to fix it with no luck. I was tired of taking all the narcotics for pain so I decided to have my left leg amputated below the knee in 1999. I don't regret doing it but I wouldn't make that same choice again.

I've tried everything. I have been wheelchair bound though my crps, I now have to beg the nhs to take my lower leg off as the way I see it, if its not successful and I'm still in pain, I'm already in a wheelchair so it's definitely worth the risk, it's nickname is the "suicide disease" due to countless hours and days crying in pain in bed, even on a pain meds cocktail that could sedate an elephant, it doesn't touch it, I now live alone on the sofa when I used to be an outgoing hardworking guy. I really hope the nhs start taking patient's seriously that want... no need an amputation to save their lives in more ways then one...

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I got my right leg amputated above the knee due to PAD vascular disease 2 years still don't like it

I've had the privilege to know this young lady through our Athletics club. Helena is inspirational especially as I'm a full time carer for my mum who had her left arm amputated as a result of a car accident. Another brave & inspirational woman.

I think she got screwed.

G'day Helena,
I think what you decided to do is incredibly brave.
I have CRPS due to a work accident 11.5 years ago. I put a drill through my left hand.
Subsequently my fingers have become all disfigured plus pain throughout my body.
Q. Do you get fantom pain due to your amputation.
Thanks for sharing ✌️ Peace from Melbourne Australia.

do a give away

Fantastic propaganda BBC

Can they not do physical therapy for this?

I hope you advocate for a needle to change blood temperature to prevent imputations from circulation issues where I live they are allowing children to use street drugs which is causing the blood circulation issues that changes their leg purple and when this happens they amputate the child's leg instead of giving them a needle to change blood temperature to push the blood in the place of the heart to stop leg amputation please advocate for a needle to change blood temperature

You can still have a great and full life Helena. I would think this is nowhere near the worst thing that can happen to a person.

I didn't think it was going to be a good decision but it actually looks like the best decision someone could make

can she still do her sport? If not why?

Hello I am James I had job work injury riple fractures and had operation metal screws and plate a devolep into complex regional pain syndrome and no foot feeling a movement I am wanting lower leg Amputation did you go private or NHS as need some advice

Brave lady 💯 👏🏻

The problem with amputating CRPS limbs is that it never leaves you CRPS-free. The disease is still there and it will eventually strike another limb. So you’ve lost a limb for nothing in the end.

Signed,

Someone who’s had CRPS for 18 years, severe full body for 8 of those

Look most people don’t understand why people with BIID are into having a disability, it’s not because they think it’s cool but because they kinda sexualize it in a way, over the helplessness over it or the inability to do something.

Body integrity disorder should be called Abraham's disorder instead of apotemophilia. Since that word sounds more like a sexual kink and confuses people, but everyone knows how Abraham was sick, he thought the foreskin was useless and needed to be amputated, despite being totally functional and necessary to protect the glans of a male.

This is like someone changing their gender, and choose to do it because of their desire

Was misleading. Made us think it was cause she has body dysphoria . Not out of medical need. There was a woman who was mental clawed her own eyes out cause she thought she would be better off blind. Stupid woman

Is it me or are all these people struggling with gender identity issues too? All the BIID people I’ve seen!

I'd rather die any day rather than have a limb amputated.

Hello i have crps or rsd as well and after 17 years of living with a leg what doesnt work at the knee turns red purple hot cold and is nothing but pain all the time but much worst at night . I am having an above the knee amputation. Thank you for your story it helped me make the choice. But i do need to ask a few thing. How is the pain after? Can you use a prosthetic? Do you feel this made it better or worst? Here in the state pain management has become difficult to get as people abused the system so real pain patients suffer

I would think that with all the surgical mistakes you hear about being made these days, as a man, the worse mistake a doctor could make with me would be if he were to amputate the wrong head.

I recently heard of a belgian paraplegic guy who asked to have his legs amputated - and he obtained the amputation - the surgery was paid by social services ...

my moms having an amputation and i’m very worried about her

Not was what I was looking for. Brave woman go kick ass

do a give away 😊

Stop writing all that she is brave, nothing brave here.

Brave girl ❤️❤️

What a misleading an exploitative video. I expect nothing less from The Anything But Learning Channel.

You can still go in the Olympics. Don't give up on your dreams.

My concern with CRS amputation is whether the pain is centrally neuropathic or locally- if the pain is localised, then removal helps. If the pain is from miscommunication between the nervous system and brain, amputation could do nothing to stop the pain.

Obvs it's got to be assessed case by case

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My heart goes out for her. ❤❤❤ Good for her for taking the steps she needed. ❤❤❤ She is so so so brave. ❤❤❤ Keep going!❤❤❤ You are such an inspiration!!! ❤❤❤ Have a great day!!! ❤❤❤

Why make the title so misleading?

She's so brave!❤

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yeah makes sense - wasnt working and was debilitating
thought at the start they got it amputated just because they preferred having one leg as opposed to two functioning ones

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shes hot

What happens to your body parts after it’s cut off