lon tibia with dr parihar-december 2024

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I personally asked from one of the house keeping to help me with cleaning my room and my bed commode but now I don’t need much help at all.
The price for the surgery is between 14-15k usd, everything else is calculated by your own as you can cheap out or even get better hotel than I was in. Food also is how much you eat, if u like groceries or delivery, better ask ChatGPT for that
Currently I’m at 3.5 at left and 3 on right, about 3.5 weeks more of lengthening and than I will schedule removal surgery.

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You got to use a bed commode? Can one not use a regular commode, during the lengthening phase with the help of assistive devices? I mean, you literally have to go to the commode with the device and just sit there and again return with the devices, to your bed, is it not possible in your case Or did the team advised you not to do so? so if that's the case, then haven't you taken a bath over this period? I've got no idea about these aspects as no one so far has talked about this who has had a first hand experience. Enlighten us.

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Kilokahn, can you tell us as to how you took a bath and other stuffs like taking a  . Did you use a bed commode as well? Or did you opt to go to a regular commode, with the help of assistive devices, during your lengthening phase and stay in India? Please reply. Thank you.

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I meant commode chair not the bed one, but now I just scoop myself over the floor to bathroom and do my stuff there+shower.
Started walking and it feels good, I’m at left 36.75mm and 32.25mm right.
Still no noticeable ballerina, I don’t feel like my calves getting stretched or the skin as it was at 2cm, I guess increasing exercises and stretching is like a blessing, doing 3-4 times a day calves and hamstrings stretching for 2 min every time and that’s good amount, also doing pt twice a day, and pt visits me Monday and Thursday and giving me opinion on my work(last session he said I’m doing great and I only have like 1.5 cm more)
Next appointment is on Wednesday, hope that I will be above 4 cm left leg and above 3.5 on my right.
Pain wise, right now I’m pain free even at night!! Haven’t took painkillers for like 2-3 days.
Before that, the pain mainly started at night but now it’s just gone.
Standing with 3.5 cm gain is a crazy pov, just looking at the items in my room and everything look lower and smaller, I can’t wait to see how life would look when I’ll be 1.5 cm taller, it would probably feel very different in a good way, and I hope my bone growth would be good enough so I would be able to walk in 2-3 months

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Congrats on your progress! And thank you for clearing the misunderstanding, I'm very pleased to hear that you can walk now a bit, what assistive devices do you use for the time being, a zimmer frame (Walker) or elbow crutches? I thought you were going to extend upto 6 cm, why did you suddenly thought of stopping at 5 cm? And are the pt sessions coming under additional costs or do they provide it for free? I heard the pt sessions at the hospital or clinic, during the visits end up becoming free, is that true?

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Never said I’m going to 6, my first thought was 5.5 but I think that 5 cm would be better for me and for my overall proportions as I still want to be functional after this surgery, also this is not an easy road at all and the delay that I had with my lengthening made me stay a few more days than I expected so that also one of the reasons(the body takes Time to adjust to lengthening so a few mm get lost due to muscle resistance etc).
I’m walking with a walker no crutches and you must pay pt even if you go there, I guess it’s cheaper but paying a 200-300 rupees more to get it in your is a lot more convenient than going in a taxi to the hospital

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I see, and the loss of a few milimetres have sure hurt the process, other than the pt sessions, do you follow the exercise regimen that they gave you, regularly? So, pt post surgery is an additional cost, or is it included within the 12.5 lakhs you paid? One more thing, just right after the surgery and when the anaesthetics had worn off, did you feel extreme pain due to insertion of the Nail, the LON intramedullary nail I'm talking about, or you took pain killers, I heard in an interview that he often asks patients to take medicines like paracetamol for pain management. Regardless, 12.5 lakhs for a surgery in a place like Mumbai, which doesn't even include physiotherapy, let alone, food, accommodation is a lot of strain on the budget, but he's safe, that's what matters the most, it's better if they start providing accommodation facilities for their patients, within the budget, they've promised but it was a fake one I believe, after all no one wants to be in a position where they can't walk, but need to run to different places for accommodation facilities

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Hey! How are you doing? It's February, how much length have you achieved? I hope you have all of your functional abilities, you not updating for sometime is scary, hey, have you faced any issue with the intramedullary nail bending? I certainly hope nothing like that happens. Has there been any issue during the lengthening phase other than that extreme pain at 2 cm, with the apparatus, say popping of the nails or bending of the nails? What was the cause of that extreme pain at 2 cm, have they confirmed? Is that really true that he didn't have a lot of permanent risky crippling complications with any of his patients? has appearance of callus started already? What's your status on functioning? Please reply, as it is getting scary

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You asking the same questions multiple times, just read what I’ve been saying and you’ll find everything you need. The nail has no reason to bend as I’m doing lon which is weight bearing as I said.
Right now I’m above 4 in both legs(the x rays says that I’m supposed to be about 4.5 in both legs but they being cautious and taking the measurements a few mm less) and about to finish lengthening in about a week and a half. 5 cm seems perfect as my ankle and knee function are still well and I want to preserve that and get better in my recovery phase so I could walk and get most of my athletic ability back, I have to say that going above 5-6 in tibias is not very smart especially for the shorter folks here, too many risks and not enough reward for those few mm above 5 in my opinion. Hope that I will be able to get the removal surgery in the beginning of march and fly back to my home a few days after. I hope I will have enough power and interest to keep posting here as this forum is pretty much dead.

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Hello brother. Please give us an update of how the Lenghtening process has been Dr. Parihar. I’m thinking of going myself there to do LON as well.