Thoughts on going with Dr. Parihar?

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Quote from: foreign on November 11, 2020, 07:28:07 AMya paley is very very costly. but I Hope you are taking my word of caution. I saved money to go to south korea dr lee and get lon procedure. I even closed some of my bank deposits and began making all arrangements to go. thats when I was told by lee's team that I need to go on a tourist visa, get surgery and then get medical visa. I was shocked!!! how can I take such big risk? what if medical visa is rejected after surgery? and should I tell lie while entering south korea?? then even giokitas team said the same thing!! come on 2 week tourist visa and then try to extend it after surgery!! wtf.

then I found out for Indians we cant go to any of these countries USA, south korea, germany, greece other than with short term tourist visa (2 weeks max usually). no doctor is willing to arrange medical visa from the start.

so money is not the only problem. its very hard to get long term visa for Indians. if you have USA passport then you can go to most countries and stay of 3 months with no visa. thats why think this through. or LL is long term goal ? then immigrate to some other country like canada thru job and as canadian you can go anywhere but this will take 5 years atleast.

What you write is factually incorrect. I have a few Indian friends and they visit USA and Europe and can stay there for 3 months just on tourist visa.

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Quote from: Infinity on November 11, 2020, 12:57:16 PMWhat you write is factually incorrect. I have a few Indian friends and they visit USA and Europe and can stay there for 3 months just on tourist visa.

bro Im writing from experience

if I from India want to travel to europe for 90 days thats very unusual. very high chance of denial. europe trip is super expensive. who would decide to travel europe for 90 days out of blue?

they always ask for these documents:

-letter of employment from your company giving you leave for the required period.
-full trip plan (day to day). like "I will visit this city on this day and this city on this day."
-hotel booking details of all days.

there is no way anyones company can give leave for 90 days. impossible. in fact you would have to leave your job for this surgery. so you wont even be employed.

unless you can prove strong attachments to India you wont get a visa for 90 days. if you have a $5m property in India and have a wife and 3 children who youre leaving behind in India and have prior travelling experience to europe then they might consider it. but for an average salaried guy, its VERY unusual to get visa to travel 90 days.

If EU is this hard, USA I cant even imagine. but one good thing about USA is once you get a visa, its valid for 5-10 years usually and you can travel for upto 6months per visit after that.

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any way I dont want to discourage anyone. you can always do your own research and I might even be wrong.  even from a simple google search you can find visa requirements for most countries.

Im just stating my experience when I decided to go for south korea for LL and once before when I traveled to EU for tourism purposes

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Quote from: Skyisthelimit on November 10, 2020, 06:24:25 PMHey KiloKhan,
After 6-7 months post op were you able to do some light weight leg exercises? Or were you not allowed to do any type of physical activity until the frames were removed? I’ve had my mind set on doing LON with dr. Parihar for a while now, but I’m debating whether fully externals would be better for me since I’m worried about the risk of getting permanent knee pain and also my tibias are very thin, but if fully external means living as a cripple for a year or more than I think I’ll be sticking to LON.

You're allowed to do light exercises at that time, as even when you're in the middle of lengthening you're expected to do physiotherapy exercises daily, from clenching and unclenching your muscles, to leg raises and various stretches. Also once the lengthening is complete you'll be expected to start walking around more and more. I never could balance correctly on crutches and felt much more confident with a walker.

Basically, you'll be more mobile at that point but you still are limited by the frames. The more you move, the more the wires (especially by the ankles) irritate the surrounding skin and the more prone you are to infections. Plus you'll still wake up with random pains from muscle contractions every once in a while do long as the frames are on.

Externals are annoying as hell, but somehow I managed keeping them on for a year.

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For some reason the links not working, what information did you find out about Dr parihar other then there’s a new stryde option. Thanks a lot I thought parihar wasn’t doing the surgery anymore so the Surgeon I had in mind was Dr giotikas but might change to Dr parihar as I’m from india too so it will be easy for me to go to India ... Please send me the link and any other details / information you know about parihar , thanks !

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how is the hospital cost so much? can you not do that and choose to go outside and rent instead?

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"The outcomes have been successful - all patients achieved their target lengthening - 2 patients reached 8 cm (max allowed in the nail), 1 patient wanted 5.5 cm and achieved that. 2 patients lengthened to 7.5 cm.
One nail malfunctioned - that was right after surgery - we check if the nails are functioning/lengthening after implantation - that nail was changed at that time and then the patient didn't have any trouble.

All of them have successfully healed and they are back to their routine work.

One patient the nails have been removed.

Physical therapy while in the hospital is included in the costs mentioned. After discharge a therapist can be hired to visit at a cost of INR 1000-1500/- per visit.

regards,
Dr Divya Ahuja
डॉ दिव्य आहूजा
CLLR Team
Mangal Anand Hospital
Mumbai
www.ilizarov.in"

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Nice scarface. looks like promising option.

I think for LON also India is better than south korea for me. not worth doing so much hassle just to experience some modern looking hospital and be around people who wont understand english ( in south korea ) and not find my favourite foods.

if Im going to do in India I can think of stryde also, since I Will save a lot of money being in India.

whats your plan buddy?

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bro can you ask if dr Parihar only does surgery himself and on both legs?

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Excited for your diary... You have given us hope that Dr Parihar is still an option... Do you know the new price list for surgery with Parihar, if so please could you send me the link on mention it here. If possible In $ or £. I believe it’ll be around 50k for one surgery

Also I am from India too but live in Uk so it’ll be a better option for me. Please reply, thank you !