Coping With Charcot Foot

just wanted to say thank you to this website. i was diagnosed with charcot joint disease. looked everywhere, was misdiagnosed with osteomyelitis bone infection and was told amputation was the only way to go. saw a post from a couple of months ago about a Dr. david Gitlin, had a hard time finding him i didnt see the manhattan office that was posted on here actually saw him in queens office off of francis lewis blvd. i think he works at the old booth memorial hospital on main street now new york hospital of queens. anyway found him online. took a stack of tests mris ctscans emgtest ive had over the past few months. he went over everything even gave me a quick lesson on how to read MRis. then gave me and my family a powerpoint lecture on everything about how to fix charcot feet-was interesting and informative. then told us the history of external fixation, he actually goes to russia to the hospital in siberia where they invented the stuff. had us feel different fixators in our hands. we came with a list of questions, we didnt need the list at the end of the conversation. had my procedure 2 weeks later. was in fixator for 2.5 months. frame was removed in the hospital, then i had a cast for 1week then back into surgical shoe until i got new diabetic shoes. happy so far but he explained that i never actually ‘out of the woods’.i would recommend him without any reservation to anyone , even for a second opinion or a third opinion, or like in m case a 5th opinioin.