Quote from: Jimpenny on July 01, 2024, 02:49:25 PMLink to my x ray
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Hi jimpenny how is your recovery?
Hope everything is real and fine ?
Day 35 : Sorry for the late post was busy with personal job related stuff. Things are going alright , stood up and walked a few days back small steps felt like nothing new tbh but apparently its good for callous formation. I recently pulled my tibialis arterior muscle while stretching 2 days back putting ice pack hope it gets better soon . Counting days when I can remove this frame lol. I have more or less gotten somewhat use to /adapted to the life here. They change/clean/ do dressing of pin side that stings when they do it and also infrequent pain near pain side but nothing super major. Pain sensation happen infrequently but its tolerable i avoid painkillers. here people take painkillers but like i said pain is subjective. Rest everything is going okay I got my X ray at 3mm the actual distarction was around 2.5cm with compression . I will upload the X ray in the coming days . And Post at 50 days mark thats when my nect X ray will also happen.
Day 42 : Hello Folks , My journey is going good, however there is no denying of pin side pain and infrequent leg muscle pain. I wont call it slight discomfort , yet I have tried and stayed away from painkiller. Sleep has somewhat improved relatively but I am waiting for the day i can sleep like a baby. Skin in the feet gets dried up so i moisturize is whenever i can as frequently i am able to and due to lengthening skin of leg has also stretched, giving an a shinny glass like appearance. I stood and walked a bit , standing was not bad but walking was difficult not exactly sue to pain but feeling inside leg was far from normal. I hope it improves soon , my tibialis anterier muscle pain did reduce but while stretching during physio it comes back again due to which i am unable to extend the range of motion putting ice pack for now hope it improves soon. As a suggestion whoever decides for LL do keep your body as flexible aspecially calf ankle and hamstring and skin as elastic as possible so the pin side pain reduces. Hope I don't get much compression in the next X ray. Keeping up the postive mindset and looking forward the day when I can stand tall.
Day 54 : Distraction almost done but not yet, I am planning to go to 5 - 5.3 cm . However In my last XRay due to compression at day 51 I had a measured distraction of 40 mm or 4 cm. Now that was somewhat disappointing because I had mentally prepared myself that this will soon be over. Anyways now I will be in distraction phase for a few more days yet again. My Tibialis Anterior has not yet healed , If i try stretching this muscle pain erupts so I am avoiding it. I am applying ice pack on it, I guess it will heal completely only after the distraction is over. Some degree of ankle tightness has recently emerged usually during the morning, it becomes more relaxed as the day passes. Pin side pain is also an ordeal now, however its tolerable to a large extent except when the pin sides are cleaned which happens weekly here. I am planning to stand for a bit again, but a little worried that it might cause further compression. Yet though standing is known to have benefits like callus formation and ballerina avoidance So i might just take the risk. Counting the last few days and trying to keep myself motivated, its a bit difficult in these last days , I hope I soon get back the motivation to pull through the last days. Sleeping schedule is still no good , i sleep in installments. looking forward to sleeping when this external fixator will be removed. Lets hope for the best.
Day 55 : Intermittent update it's 3:52 am and pin side pain is insane , I have put ice pack again. Tried sleeping to no avail, so started journal hopefully it would distract me. Compression is such a deal breaker , as the final day comes close i feel it gets much harder. I will soon upload my Xray which was taken 5 days back R Leg 40mm/4cm and L 37mm/3.7cm . Hopefully distraction phase will end the coming week. Still pondering if I should go 3mm extra after 5cm well I will think once I achieve 5. Will upload the X ray in the coming days .
Any updates?
How painful was this surgery with Illizarov tibia???
I guess price was insanely cheap
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