Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016

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Pili/Catagni.


Before getting out of bed, Dr. Pili told me that about 1/4 of patients feel dizzy/faint when trying to walk for the first time.

I had surgery Thursday morning, lay in bed for over 24 hours until Friday afternoon when Doctor Pili came in and tried to get me to walk with crutches. I didn't fall to the ground, no, Dr. Pili and several nurses were there with me in the room.

 I managed to walk out into the hallway and back later that afternoon with the physical therapist and have been walking around my apartment since I got back on Saturday.

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I actually passed out the first time I tried to take a dump. They set up the portable toilet by my bed and left the room once I was sitting on it. Shortly after I fell on my face. Luckily my head broke the fall and I didn't land on my knees. This is when I did my Tibias. They basically blamed me for it.

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Quote from: Iamready on June 29, 2016, 04:44:57 PMI actually passed out the first time I tried to take a dump. They set up the portable toilet by my bed and left the room once I was sitting on it. Shortly after I fell on my face. Luckily my head broke the fall and I didn't land on my knees. This is when I did my Tibias. They basically blamed me for it.

From pain or the shock/stress of the operation?

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Quote from: dream_catcher on June 28, 2016, 06:35:02 AMLike Yellospike, I slept at most 2 hours a day since the surgery, but I slept 3-4 hours last night, though I woke up a couple of times in the middle of my sleep. I don't know how have survived so far with such liitle sleep and heavy workout.

Waking up in the morning, the inner side of my left knee hurts sharply like hell with the slightest muscle contraction. So basicly I couldn't move it at all. It has been two hours since then and doesn't improve much even with 4 pills painkillers. I also put an ice bag on the spot that hurts most and massage my left thigh with another ice bag. I guess I'll just have to wait patiently for the pain to reduce to a tolerable level before I can stretch and click.

Yeah...sleep was next to impossible during lengthening, but got better very soon after I stopped clicking. So at least take solace in knowing sleep will come back very soon after you stop lengthening (like within a few days).

You are waking up in the middle of the night primarily due to muscle tightness. If you have a bike, even though it BLOWS to do so while half asleep, biking for like 10 minutes will loosen you up enough so you can get back to sleep at least for a bit. That, or what I would do when I was really lazy was just lift my legs and do the cycling motion while in bed. That helped me too.

Hang in there bud.

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My left knee had the same pain this morning and again I had to take 4 painkillers and waited 3 hours before I could start stretching my left leg. I called Dr.Guichet in the afternoon on this, but one of his nurses texted me that he was operating a patient and will call me back when the operating is done.

A few hours later Dr. Guichet called me back and, after knowing that I rarely rode the bike, but mainly imitated the biking movement on bed, he said that the pain might be caused by my lying on the bed all the time, so I must ride the real bike for an hour and half today and let him know how is my knee pain tomorrow.

Ok, I guess all my arrangements to try to make my need to get up as little as possible for the first few days after the surgery actually have a negative impact on the progress of my recovery

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Quote from: YellowSpike on June 29, 2016, 07:46:34 PMYeah...sleep was next to impossible during lengthening, but got better very soon after I stopped clicking. So at least take solace in knowing sleep will come back very soon after you stop lengthening (like within a few days).

You are waking up in the middle of the night primarily due to muscle tightness. If you have a bike, even though it BLOWS to do so while half asleep, biking for like 10 minutes will loosen you up enough so you can get back to sleep at least for a bit. That, or what I would do when I was really lazy was just lift my legs and do the cycling motion while in bed. That helped me too.

Hang in there bud.

Yes, I agree that the unconscious contractions of my thigh muscles is probably the cause of my bad sleeping. The contractions also made clickings difficult even when my legs were warmed up with exercises.

I've rode my bike for 35 minutes tonight and I'll ride another 35 minutes before sleep.

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How goes it?

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Riding bike for 90 minutes indeed did the trick to relieve my pain at knee! Overall things seemed to get better, except one major challenge, clicking and sleeping.

From the very beginning, I was quite stressful doing the clicks. I didn't bother to understand the key points of the technique, as illustrated in our brochure, I just tried my best to immitate how Dr. Guichet and Francisca did it. To be honest, I hated it, the weird and painful posture required to initiate it, the unrest stress that the nail or my leg might broken (which is partly true), and the aftermath pain. No wonder doing the clicking laregly became a game of luck for me.

Everytime I tried to recall how last time someone else or myself successfully did it and if one attempt failed I just made another try. Initialy it could take 5-6 attempts for me to do one click. But I just kept trying after each failed attempts, by changing my posture here or there, almost randomly. This kind of blindly trial-and error behavior had a serious impact on my daily life. As some of you know, we divide the total number of clicks for day into three sets, so we do a small number of clicks in each set to avoid too much brokage each time, and set apart the time to do each set to 8 hours to let our legs heal properky. Dr. Guichet also suggested a fixed schedule to do clickings every day. For me, the schedule never worked. I always hesitated to start each set on time, even when it's possible, and everytime it took me a varied time between 10 minutes to 60 minutes to finish a set. Most of the days I could only manage to finish the last set of clickings of a day around 2am to 3am. This left me little time to sleep and my schedule of clickings was anything but regular.

As time went by, my rate of successful clickings seemed to increase. While I was hoping that my schedule of clickings could be regularized soon and my sleeping could be put under co control, a crisis occurred.

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What crisis?

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Last night, I started to do my last set of clickings, at close to 2am, for a series of inevitable delay. What also happened that day was that I had my first two accidental clickings on my left leg, so painful both when I tried too hard to get off a uber taxi.

Every time when I did ckicking, I started with my right leg, as it is more difficult. Howeever, unlike the previous set of clickings that day, I suddenly found that I couldn't do any clickings? There was usually a sense of tense before a clicking was about to happen. But I tried a dozen of times and I never had that sense at all! I lost my immitated skills of clicking? In the last two attempts, I even "felt" a sense of slippage. Oh my! Was the clicking mechanism broken due to my acccidental clicks?!

I didn't dare to click my right leg anymore. Instead I tried to do clicks on my left leg, which was usually much easier to click, as I mentioned before. And I also found that it took me more attempts to succeed one click. What's going on? My slowly built up confidence in doing the clickings started to lose. I turned to the pages in my brochure that explains clicking. This was the first time I read it! And surprisingly I found out that the way that I clicked had a key difference with that illustrated in the brochure. All the time I was using the wrong technique!

I was almost panicked. How could this happened? And I worried more that the clicking mechanism might be broken by my incorrect way of using it. I anxiously contacted Dr. Guichet on this, but he didn't reply for the night.