Cracked Precise 2.2 Nails

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Quote from: Hagane on June 01, 2023, 07:12:56 PMinteresting
Dr Gdalevitch encourages all her patients to walk approx 2k steps per day with walker or crutches

Have you done that?

Quote from: Hagane on June 01, 2023, 09:03:26 PMbut yeah im 100% in agreeance, early mobilization has been imo such a big contributor to the ease of lenghtening
it blows my mind that some people end up spending essentially their entire lengthening period wasting away in a wheelchair. Then when its time to consolidate they have to spend so much more time retraining their gait

How long did it take you?

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Quote from: hippo60 on June 02, 2023, 01:32:08 AMHave you done that?

How long did it take you?

yes! and my physios would regularly ask if i was getting my steps in ( although there have been many days especially the weekends where i would fall short of that goal)

im still consolidating atm so i cant give you an acurate timeframe.
ill let you know when im fully weightbearing.

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Just an update to my situation. Doctors told me to stop lengthening for now. I took a closer look at the x-rays and something is definitely broken to the point I think it is unlikely I'll be able to reach 8cm without a rod replacement.

Zoom call with doc will be on Saturday morning, I think what will likely happen is discussion of a surgery to replace the rod to fix the issue. Originally I was hoping I can reach 7.5cm with the broken rod and call it a day. Let the bone consolidate even if the rod is a bit unstable because once the bone consolidates in 2 months, it wouldn't even matter. Apparently this crack has been there for the last 1 month, but was just noticed now.

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Quote from: Hagane on June 02, 2023, 02:06:20 AMyes! and my physios would regularly ask if i was getting my steps in ( although there have been many days especially the weekends where i would fall short of that goal)

im still consolidating atm so i cant give you an acurate timeframe.
ill let you know when im fully weightbearing.

That's crazy! I know Real (he went on Cyborg4Life a few times) does that, but I didn't realize everyone does. What your consolidating time looks like? Is it any different?

Quote from: jerrytheman on June 02, 2023, 03:10:24 AMZoom call with doc will be on Saturday morning, I think what will likely happen is discussion of a surgery to replace the rod to fix the issue. Originally I was hoping I can reach 7.5cm with the broken rod and call it a day. Let the bone consolidate even if the rod is a bit unstable because once the bone consolidates in 2 months, it wouldn't even matter. Apparently this crack has been there for the last 1 month, but was just noticed now.
Damn that sucks man. Do you know if you'll keep the lengthening you've done so far?

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Quote from: hippo60 on June 02, 2023, 03:27:40 PMWhat your consolidating time looks like? Is it any different?

at the moment im about 10 days into consolidation. im currently parital weighbearing with crutches. current xrays look good. Dr G says potentially full weightbearing with crutches at the end of the month depending on xrays. 

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Quote from: hippo60 on June 02, 2023, 03:27:40 PMDamn that sucks man. Do you know if you'll keep the lengthening you've done so far?

yeah 100%. So it's 62mm on my left leg which is healthy. From my guess on the xray it's about 54mm on the right leg.


I think what will happen is the doc will do a surgery to swap out the broken right nail with a new nail. And that should lengthen to 80mm. So I should still get to 8cm, but I just need another surgery on my right leg. Will know details tomorrow, but should be all free.

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Gonna need a surgery to replace the nail this week. I'll have more info on Monday since they need to call my insurance. But I'm facing some crazy pain worse than even in the beginning of the surgery. Possibly the crack is leading to wobbly nails and just ruins the integrity of the strength so he wants it replaced. Why does this have to happen to me..

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At least it sounds like the doctor is moving fast on this, best of luck jerry I’m sure you will overcome it and reach your goal.

I wonder how frequent nail cracks are? I tried doing a quick search on the forum but could only find unicorns nail crack with guichet.

If the precise nails easily crack due to walking on crutches I’m sure we’d have seen more cases.

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yeah I think it's pretty rare. Honestly the cracked showed up on the x ray 3 weeks ago. I'm pretty sure he missed it, I mean I missed it too, but im not a fking doc. But it's more obvious this time because the lengthening amount on both legs seems uneven. But what I think is happening is that small crack on the crown is causing some really really small side to side movement which causes the pain.
Either way, he's pretty confident that once we swap out the nail, everything will be okay. Said it's a quick surgery. I'm really hoping Wednesday is good to go, and at the latest Friday. He does surgeries M, W, F, but they'll call my insurance to get everything sorted on monday and get back to me.

Cracks are super rare without a fall. I'm probably an unlucky 1 in 400. But the doctor reassured me that it's a pretty easy surgery and even with the soft callus, taking out the rod, and putting in a new one is pretty simple stuff.

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https://www.reachyourheight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2015-Paley-PRECICE-Expert-Reviews.pdf

my guess is something like figure 13, but smaller.