How did the pin feel through your skin?

Undergoing through the llizarov procedure, part of the apparatus are pins the are screwed trough your skin to your bones. These pins hold the apparatus to your bones. They are essential while you are lengthening your tibia.

When you see a patient with the llizarov apparatus on, you will ask yourself - does it hurt now? The pin is nailed through your skin. The answer is no. You skin will get use to it. What hurts mostly is when you start lengthening because the pin will stay in one place while your legs are growing. This means the pin has the cut through (slide through) vertically while your bones lengthen. This may hurt slightly - very slightly because the lengthening is done very very slowly. And advil will remove the pain.

But from my experience, it also depends on the doctor who applied the apparatus to your legs or the type of material used for the apparatus. The cheaper once are solid metal which are very heavy and thus hurt more. Some are light type of metal such as titanium. Of course more expensive.