Veteran, AMA

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Thank you for taking time to educate others.

1.  When did you get your tibias done and how long did you wait before you went to your femurs?

2.  Which doctor/clinic did you surgery? 

3.  Did you have an initial sit down appointment before the surgery?  If so, what was the time difference between the sit down and the surgery?

4.  How much pain were you immediately after the surgery?  How long did you take anticoagulants, pain medication and antibiotics?

5.  How much  physical rehab did you attend?  Did you do exercise before your surgeries?

6.  Did you see other limb lengthening patience during your stay?  If so, what were their experiences?

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Quote from: musicloverincal on January 03, 2023, 10:11:42 AMThank you for taking time to educate others.

1.  When did you get your tibias done and how long did you wait before you went to your femurs?

2.  Which doctor/clinic did you surgery? 

3.  Did you have an initial sit down appointment before the surgery?  If so, what was the time difference between the sit down and the surgery?

4.  How much pain were you immediately after the surgery?  How long did you take anticoagulants, pain medication and antibiotics?

5.  How much  physical rehab did you attend?  Did you do exercise before your surgeries?

6.  Did you see other limb lengthening patience during your stay?  If so, what were their experiences?

1. I had my tibias done throughout COVID. I has a gastroc recession which helped me reach 8cm (alongside the STRYDE nail). I did my femurs after two years but it would have been right after if my personal life circumstances had been different.

2. Rozbruch

3. Yes. Depends on the clinic

4. Immediately after surgery, pain is minimal due to MASSIVE amounts of painkillers. Pain sets in 2-3 days after. Pain is multifaceted. You have bowel issues due to oxycodone, muscle soreness, surgery incision pain in the first 1-2 weeks. Then you have lengthening pain kick in right after so the pain never stops. You need strongest pain killers in the first 2-4 weeks after which 2x 500mg tylenol can do the trick every 4-6 hours. Stretching helps with pain

5. Stretch, stretch, stretch! It hurts but you have to stretch. The key is to love the pain in a weird way and breath.

6. I did but nobody wanted to talk about the surgery. Limb lengthening is a lonely process. You don't tell most people about it either because they'll judge you for it.

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Quote from: pickingasurgeon on January 04, 2023, 02:49:40 AM6. I did but nobody wanted to talk about the surgery. Limb lengthening is a lonely process. You don't tell most people about it either because they'll judge you for it.

This was very different abroad.  I went to Serbia before China, and in both places patients were eager to speak with each other.

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Quote from: pickingasurgeon on January 04, 2023, 02:49:40 AM1. I had my tibias done throughout COVID. I has a gastroc recession which helped me reach 8cm (alongside the STRYDE nail). I did my femurs after two years but it would have been right after if my personal life circumstances had been different.

2. Rozbruch

3. Yes. Depends on the clinic

4. Immediately after surgery, pain is minimal due to MASSIVE amounts of painkillers. Pain sets in 2-3 days after. Pain is multifaceted. You have bowel issues due to oxycodone, muscle soreness, surgery incision pain in the first 1-2 weeks. Then you have lengthening pain kick in right after so the pain never stops. You need strongest pain killers in the first 2-4 weeks after which 2x 500mg tylenol can do the trick every 4-6 hours. Stretching helps with pain

5. Stretch, stretch, stretch! It hurts but you have to stretch. The key is to love the pain in a weird way and breath.

6. I did but nobody wanted to talk about the surgery. Limb lengthening is a lonely process. You don't tell most people about it either because they'll judge you for it.

What is your sitting height and your goal final height?

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Hi,

Couple of questions:

1) what were you stats pre-surgery (height, sitting height, femur/tibia length etc)

2) Did it mess up your biomechanics? E.g. being able to squat, jump, etc.

3) How are your proportions? Would you say it's natural?

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Quote from: pickingasurgeon on January 04, 2023, 02:49:40 AM6. I did but nobody wanted to talk about the surgery. Limb lengthening is a lonely process. You don't tell most people about it either because they'll judge you for it.

I'm around if you wanna chat. Also Rozbruch's patient doing femurs

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When was the gastroc recession performed?  How did they decide it was needed and how much did it cost.

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For the first week or 2 after surgery, how would you rate the pain out of 10? (0 being no pain and 10 being worst possible pain ever). How much worse was the pain at night, and did you use a spinal epidural to handle the pain?

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hi there thanks for helping

how same does your body feel like as before the surgery?
did you do epidural anesthesia?
what was the pain like without the painlikers?

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Quote from: pickingasurgeon on January 02, 2023, 08:25:04 PMHi everyone,

I lengthened in my tibias with stride and am currently lengthening my femurs with Precise 2.2.

Ask me anything. I won’t guarantee an answer to every question but I will do my best.

Moving the advice on surgeons to another thread

If your timeline was 5 months, what lengthening rates at various points throughout the 5 months would you use to reach 5 cm total? Is it better to spread it out over 6 months? I'll probably use precise 2 for tibias since stryde is of the market