LON with the boys at Dr Sringari--India (Complete)

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I know. It really surprised and worried me too. I was expecting some sort of correction to be performed by him. He is the doc after all.

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There was no deviation in my anterior xray from the first time. The deviation is seen in the lateral view. Sringari said that the way it will heal is a normal occurrence in some people. He was even audacious enough to say that he himself has bone spurs.

And to answer your question, no. There has never been a patient here told to turn one rod more than another and there has never been a definitive measure of the legs before frame removal. I am really worried about developing a length discrepancy becomes it seems that everyone is always a mm or two behind one leg, but when they take your final xray they're magically measured to be equal. I'm not religious by any stretch, but I have consigned myself to praying every night that I can just get out of here and walk again. I don't really think about the height right now. I don't want to spend my twenties having to pay for this decision, but it's the position I placed myself in.

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The only line of defense stopping any of us from leaving with a discrepancy is a $4 shrunken x-ray done by random faceless "technicians". I'm thankful I've got this far with my only complication being debilitating knee pain that hasn't subsided in 3 months.

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Appreciate the reassurance, bud. We're both in the thick of it, so of course we have all the right to worry over these things. The doctor becomes less and less reassuring with responses I would never have imagined coming out of his mouth. Hopefully we both come out fine. If not, I pray we can get assistance in our homelands for whatever corrections we may ultimately need. The fact that life as I knew it can be over forever is discomforting, lol. Now I need to get back to praying.

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i know this feeling very well when my left tibia deviated from the Alignment at 7cm i guess , I went into some kind of depression that i will be crippled for life and stuff  but you need to be strong and decisive right now .
my foot turned inward and i was really scared , i consulted a real LL doctor in Delhi since Dr Sarin was not even looking at my complication , and the other doctor advised me not to do that (turn one rod more than another) since there was internal nail inside the bone which could break the pin or some other stuff can happen .
but after so many complaints about my issue to Dr Sarin , he finally said he will take care of it during frame removal in one sentence.
and at the time of removal he did exactly the same which the other doctor advised me not to , and i felt slightly pain on my upper left tibia at that moment . he did it before giving me general anesthesia WTF which means i was watching everything.
by looking at the latest x-ray i still feel that my left tibia is slightly deviated , may be i will have to do correction after recovery.

this is about another patient from Australia who's tibia was straight but deviated from lateral view , he complained alot to Dr Sarin and atlast Dr Sarin exchanged the rods with other rods (2 small rods attached with some screws that could bend 360%) i do not know how to explain it . Atlast his tibia was straight i guess , i can't recall the procedure but he was happy .

I can't really comment or give any advise cause i don't have any knowledge about these things .
But i thought sharing my experience could help you a little..!!

remember my condition and that Australian guy's condition were different .
my condition is like no.2 in the pic and his was number 1 in the pic

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Good news to hear that turning at an accelerated rate on one rod has been advised against by a doctor you believe to be reputable. Mine is just like the Aussie guys in no 1. Looks straight in transverse, but offset almost halfway in the lateral view. Did he say whether or not it is a serious issue? I was completely under the assumption that Sringari would look at that xray and immediately suggest some course of action. I'm not going to lie, I was completely astounded when he nonchalantly said he is going to leave it be and that I might also feel a bump when I run in the future. He then told me of his own bone spurs. I'm still stymied by that whole occurrence.

Machine, I know you're an Indian, bro. Do you live near Gurgaon. If so, you should drop by the guest house. It'd be sweet to meet in person. Let me know if you can. I'll pm the address.

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Also, I turned 2.3 cm before my last xray but Harry said the legs were only 1.5 cm. the doctor said this cant be because the pins aren't bent. So I have no idea where the fk I am right now in lengthening....

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Quote from: Ashoka1 on December 27, 2013, 11:04:56 PMAlso, I turned 2.3 cm before my last xray but Harry said the legs were only 1.5 cm. the doctor said this cant be because the pins aren't bent. So I have no idea where the f**k I am right now in lengthening....

That was common in Beijing too.  What people "turned" always got more and more inaccurate until they stopped bothering to keep track about 2 months into it.  Trust the doctor's x-ray measurements.

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My left toe is still in a state of despair. With all the pains going on in my right leg, I seem to have forgotten or at least neglected its plight. The doctor doesn't even bother to ask about it anymore. I guess he hopes i stop asking at this point.

I asked our new physio about it and he says he saw the same thing in 5 Sarin patients. He said that its mobility came back for them after frame removal. So, i guess that's all I can hope for now. It'll suck if I have a paralyzed toe for life.

Been doing some anatomy research. I think one of the pins penetrated and caught the ligament that controls the movement of the big toe. That's the only thing i can see it being. Something is obviously restricting its movement. Ie. the extensor hallucis longus tendon. Now i'm worried if distracting while this ligament is caught will damage it or ruin its function.

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Looking at the foot alone, it looks like any pin's insertion could spell catastrophe for the leg. I really want to know what's debilitating my toe.