A YOUNG woman who suffered chronic pain in her finger has spoken of her delight after cutting it off herself in a DIY amputation.

Megan Cullen, 25, from Co Cork, in Ireland, has had agonising pain in her right index finger since jamming it in a car door eight years ago.

She's spent years begging doctors to amputate the finger and went through two failed surgeries to help the pain.

Four years ago she failed in her efforts to chop the digit off with an axe.

But Megan – who has been on morphine and a cocktail of drugs to help her cope with the endless aching – is finally pain-free for the first time since 2011 following her home operation over the weekend.

HOW SHE DID IT

The full-time carer said: "On Friday, I had enough. I planned it for about a week.

"I'm not saying exactly how I did it because I don't want people copying it.

"I tied a tourniquet again. I made sure the thing I used was Dettolled, I was Dettolled. I took it off. I screamed. I called for my mother to call an ambulance.

"I threw the finger away so the (paramedics) couldn't grab it and try sew it back on again at the CUH (Cork University Hospital)."

I threw the finger away so the (paramedics) couldn't grab it

Megan told how she felt immediate relief after getting rid of the finger, admitting she lit a fag as she waited for the ambulance.

Speaking to Neil Prendeville's radio show on Red FM, she said: "They don't know how I did such a clean cut. I got rid of it. I threw it in the bin. I made sure it was nowhere to be seen.

"The ambulance had to come from Castletownbere so we were waiting about 45 minutes. It wasn't bleeding because I had torniquet.

"I sat there and had a fag. Mam was like 'Are you ok' and I said 'I have no pain'. We just sat there and chatted, the ambulance came, I was brought to CUH and ever since I've been brilliant.

"I have a little bit of pain – obviously I chopped off my own finger so it's not painless but I'm not on painkillers."

SHE WANTS ANSWERS

Megan said that she now wants answers from doctors as to why they refused to operate on her when she begged them for help.

She said: "I'm the first person ever to do what I did, to do it so cleanly. Everything was monitored, I did it as best as I could.

"I was assessed many times but they figured out I wasn't insane, I did it for a viable reason. No one would listen, no surgeon would listen, I begged.

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"I said, fine, 'if you’re not going to listen, I'll do it myself'."

She added: "I feel I could run a marathon because it was the first time in nearly 8 years that I have no pain.

"I feel like I'm in a bubble of brilliantness. It's amazing. I would like answers as to why I wasn't listened to."

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