Just one of your ankles or both? I don't remember ankle pain being worse than the rest of my legs after my frame removal/nail locking surgery. Maybe ask your doc if anything happened in the OR with the ankle(s).
Both of them, the sensation is exactly like letting the feet hang from the frames without support. (Those who did LON knows exactly what i mean) Its not painful but it was very uncomfortable, enough to interrupt my sleep. It feels like my feet are constantly sprained!
Now that you mention it I think I do remember something like that with the feet/ankles. The 2nd and 3rd surgeries are definitely more traumatic than you'd expect. Once the body gets used to something, taking it out causes a reaction, I guess.
Hah! thank you for that. I thought i was the only one. It drove me half mad last night. I really hope this gets better by the end of the week 
Yeah, in Beijing they recommended a two week recovery period after frame removal. I just took it easy and got waited on by the staff there until it was time to leave.
Hey MDOW,
How long was your stay in Beijing from start to finish?
Sorry if you already answered this.
Unlike the vets on old forum , I don't mind talking to new people even if they have old questions.
My airline tickets in and out of there were exactly 5 months apart.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on November 21, 2013, 10:26:09 PM
2. Rate of lengthening was highly variable. In the beginning they tell everyone to lengthen .66mm per day, and they wait for x-rays to see how good your bone growth is before telling you to lengthen more or less each day. My bone growth was excellent so in the end they were telling me to lengthen 1.33mm per day.
if you take look at my x-ray could tell if my bone growing excellent as yours? cuz I really want do more than 1mm per day.. My Dr said that the callus is good but he warning me to increase the number of the turn... although that I feel my body can handle doing 1.5mm in tibia and 2 mm in femur ...
Also I have stupid question... why there is consolidation phase?
I mean when we start the distraction the bone is start growing right? so the consolidation actually started in the distraction phase..
so suppose there is a guy who is aiming to gain 3cm and he is doing 1mm/day
that will take from him 1 month to reach his goal, and "suppose again" 2 months more to consolidate
so if he did 0.33mm/day wouldn't he will reach 3cm and his bone will be consolidate in the same amount of time I mean 3months !!?
Quote from: Disobedient on December 05, 2013, 03:56:53 PMif you take look at my x-ray could tell if my bone growing excellent as yours? cuz I really want do more than 1mm per day.. My Dr said that the callus is good but he warning me to increase the number of the turn... although that I feel my body can handle doing 1.5mm in tibia and 2 mm in femur ...
Also I have stupid question... why there is consolidation phase?
I mean when we start the distraction the bone is start growing right? so the consolidation actually started in the distraction phase..
so suppose there is a guy who is aiming to gain 3cm and he is doing 1mm/day
that will take from him 1 month to reach his goal, and "suppose again" 2 months more to consolidate
so if he did 0.33mm/day wouldn't he will reach 3cm and his bone will be consolidate in the same amount of time I mean 3months !!?
Post your latest x-rays here and I'll give you my opinion.
You're right that the bone starts to fill in during the distraction phase, but if you distract too slowly you'll get premature consolidation, and the bone will have to be re-broken if you want to continue lengthening.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on December 05, 2013, 04:38:21 PMPost your latest x-rays here and I'll give you my opinion.
You're right that the bone starts to fill in during the distraction phase, but if you distract too slowly you'll get premature consolidation, and the bone will have to be re-broken if you want to continue lengthening.
OK I'll post it tmw ..
hmm.. ok but they could prevent the reunion by doing 1mm/day tell they reached 1cm.. then they'll start to slower the rate..
what I want to say that most if not all the LL patients take at least 2 months in consolidation phase they could prevent make the consolidation phase as such as long time by slowing the rate.. so what point finishing the distraction earlier and leaving 4 or 5 cm gap between the bones then taking lot of time in consolidation ?
the total time theoretical should be the same but it will make huge different in term of the feel of the pain ... did you get my point?
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