DoingItForMe's Precice 2 Internal Femurs with Dr. Paley

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Good to see you're doing well. How much have you lengthened so far?

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I'm somewhere between 7.6 and 8.0 cm. I am not sure because the X-rays have a margin of error of 5%. I'm just going to keep lengthening until I see Paley again next Friday. But technically, I should have either been done already or very close to finishing. Today is my 82nd day lengthening. I'm going to be lengthening for 90 days, just to make sure that I get the full 8 cm. Paley said that the Precice 2 will automatically prevent me from lengthening further. There's no way to tell when I've hit 8 cm, but the nail will just not keep lengthening past 8 cm.

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That's awesome. How do you feel being 3 inches taller?

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Quote from: Penguinn on September 19, 2015, 09:23:02 AMThat's awesome. How do you feel being 3 inches taller?
I already felt awesome at 2 inches taller; not so much at 1 inch taller. At 3 inches taller, I can officially say that I'm not short anymore and I am excited and super happy. It feels like I've been given a second chance at life. I look around and almost every girl is shorter than me. Before, they were around the same height as me and half the times taller. And for males, they are similar height as me now, so they can't call me short anymore or view me as short. A lot of the male LLs also started and ended at the same height as me. When I look at them, they look normal height now after being 3 inches taller. I might even say that they look tall due to their new proportions - long legs, short torso. So if I can view a fellow male at that height as tall, then I'm assuming that other people will view me the same. The change from 5'5"-5'6" to 5'8"-5'9" is significant in terms of the way I view myself. Will I do my tibs as well and go above average height? No. I'm not a very greedy person by nature. I just want to be viewed as an equal and not abuse this surgery as a chance to look down on others (literally).

There are other reasons why I don't want to do the surgery again. I've lost many things during this surgery. I've lost my long term girlfriend, who lost a lot of respect for me doing this surgery as well as while I was recovering/lengthening. I've lost 6 months of my free time - and possibly 8-12 months if I do my tibs. I came into the surgery thinking that I could do work during the 3 months at the hotel, or at least read a book or learn new things. But no, most of the day is either physical therapy or being high on drugs or suffering in pain. I don't recommend doing any work during those 3 months of lengthening. I'm not so sure what will happen now, now that I'm about to stop lengthening. I will report back later on that. I am still on Oxycodone, so I still don't think I can work yet. I still wake up with pain in the middle of the night. Found out last night. But I was able to go back to sleep without popping another oxy like I had to do before.

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Congratulations on feeling better about yourself.  It is a long, difficult process, but worth it, I think.

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Good to see you're doing great. How painful would you rate the Precice process on 10?

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Great to see things are going so good for you mate. Sure, you've had some bad things to overcome, but considering you're new outlook on life I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it greatly. So what do you now plan on doing once you're lengthening face is over? I'm sure you will go home and have to worry about consolidation, but how about activity here on the forums? I ask only because I'm sure, like I know I would, I'd like to put this completely behind me and move on never have to think about LL ever again.

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It is worth it. I would recommend it to anyone who has ever felt height discrimination and want to feel happier knowing that it will no longer happen. It is a very painful process, and there are risks involved. I'm very lucky to not have any of those risks happen.

The lengthening part doesn't hurt at all with the precice machine. But I had a lot of muscular pain from it being stretched to its limit. My puberty also stopped a decade ago, so my body probably expecting growth. There's a teenager here who stopped taking pain medications since like the second week. So if you're young, it's not as painful as when you're older.

Consolidation turns out to be another difficult process, because you have to set your home up to be handicap accessible, which my home isn't. I had to learn to use the crutches to go up and down the stairs. There are no ramps in my house. Also at home, there is no hotel maid to take my trash out. That's probably the only thing I can't do on my own. Since I live alone, I plan on hiring a caretaker to help me with that, as well as help me buy groceries and cook some meals for me.

I will try to stay active in the forums until I can walk and run normally again. After that, I don't think you'd learn much more about process from me anymore, because I've written a lot of details already. Maybe I'll stop by again when I remove the rods.

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Quote from: Alu on September 13, 2015, 05:16:23 AMI'd just like to point out that I just realized this is probably another guy from the old forum who's currently undergoing LL. It took me awhile but putting two and two together...yeah I'm sure it's him. lol
I initially thought that as well, but that user said that he was staying at Springfield and not Homewood Suites. The guy I was talking about was staying at Homewood Suites. And their heights don't match.

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Just stopping by to let you guys know that I've reached all 8 cm and the pain dropped drastically after the lengthening stopped. I still feel pain on my thigh muscles when I bend my knees too much, but luckily I can bend my knee past 100 degrees, so it's not a big issue. I also still feel some kind of stiffness in my thigh muscles when I wake up. I'm not sure if it's because I don't sleep with my legs straight or because of the leg exercises I do during the day. But the knee pain is completely gone. That was one of my worries in the past.

I am significantly less flexible than when I started out, but I hope to regain this flexibility over time. It's not a big deal to me if I don't, though. If I had stopped at 6-7 cm, I'd probably have much of my flexibility back by now. The last cm really made me much less flexible. Something to think about for future LL patients. Paley said that my bone growth is slow, so I'm stuffing myself with calcium and vitamin D. I'm also using an Exogen 4000+ machine to try to speed up growth. Paley said that it wouldn't help much, but it doesn't hurt to use it.