One year ago in March I was in a car accident. I had to have surgery to replace my ankle with titanium & pins. When I went to my 2 wk check up(and the get the stitches out of both inside and outside of my left ankle. Upon doing so the doctor showed me my post-op surgery x-ray and he stated verbatim " I am not obligated to tell you this but as a physician, I feel in necessary for you to know that 3 of the (I believe 5 or 8) screws/pins that were ALL supposed to be 3 mm were 3 times too big and are pushing into bone and cartilage. Since this I haven't returned to this surgeon and I have a VERY hard time with my leg. Im a very petite, tiny woman now overweight due to restrictions. I asked a lawyer (the only 1 of MANY I tried that would even talk2 me)... He said I have to prove that in the surgery room the Surgeon would have HAD to have been able to NOTICE a difference.I have worked in the medical field periodically and common sense tells me you would HAVE to notice triple sizes! It wasn't 3 mm bigger it was 9 mm's compared to the other 3 mm's. PLEASE HELP! I am in pain every single day now! I can't find help or answers! I'm at a loss and I don't know what to do at this point.