 Do I regret my leg amputation because now I deal with phantom pain? This is a really good question because the reason I had my ankle cut off was because there was 14 years of pain, limited mobility, being on medication, and I wanted to be done with it. And you think you cut off the body part that's a problem, the pain is gone, but unfortunately phantom pain is a very real thing that I deal with every day. However, I do not for a second regret having my amputation because the kind of pain that I had in my ankle before stopped me from living life. Like I could barely walk every activity I enjoyed was slowly taken away from me. My phantom pain absolutely sucks but it doesn't stop me from living life like my ankle did. Also most days overall the pain is less severe than what I had before. So ankle or no ankle, if I was going to hurt anyways I might as well choose to live it on my own terms and be able to do the things I love.