Dr Pili external Tibia with HEF method (hopefuly 6cm) 2019

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Rei, any update?
Feeling the same?

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Quote from: Nameless on July 06, 2019, 11:08:54 AMRei, any update?
Feeling the same?

Hi thx for asking.

I’m not updating because there isn’t a whole lot to update about. Right now i lengthen 1,2 cm and everything is going smooth, i don’t have any pain at all, last time i felt some pain was one i started the lengthen process for a couple of days but after that everything was really smooth.

I will meet Dr Pili again at the end of the month and the hospital booked me the ATL for the beginning of August even tho i told Dr Pili that i don’t want to do it, but he pretty much told me that we need to see how i will look like in our next appointment and that at worst they will just call the hospital the day before and cancel my surgery for ATL, he said that if i don’t book it now there was the chance that i was not able to book it again for another month and that if i need ATL i will have to do it earlier in the process.

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17 days after i started the lengthening and almost reached 1,5 cm the whole area between my knees and where they cut the tibia is starting to feel already really tight, including all the pins in that area, everything below that area is like before. I wonder if i already feel so tight how much can i keep to length, i will meet Dr Pili anyway in 3 weeks and if everything goes right i should be like 2,7 cm by that time.

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Reached 1,5 cm today and pins are starting to hurt, especially if i stay with my legs straight, also my left calf is really hurting since yesterday, nothing serious but sometimes is really painful

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Hey Rei, sent you a PM.

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So it was two days i was having some bad pain when i was stretching my right leg or standing up on the side of my knee, today i noticed the head of the fibula was protruding more than normal especially in a sitting position, i already sent a mail to Dr Pili, anyone ever experienced that? Should i be worried?

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Any chance guys anyone experienced in this can reply to me? Tomorrow i’m going to call Dr Pili and until i don’t spoke to him i don’t understand if this is something serious or not to the point i’m spending the whole day reading diaries and googling about this problem.

So i’m only 1,5 cm into the distraction phase and on my right leg the fibular head is protruding compared some mm more than normal and at the same time if i try to standing up or straight my leg i feel the most painful type  of pain since i had the surgery.

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Dr Pili called me today and told me that is nothing to worry about and if i really wanted to fix it now i can go to Catagni that was in Rome today cause Dr Pili i think was either in Lecco or Milan probably.

I really didn't understand what i told me cause he was in a hurry but he pretty much told me that is one of the pins and that he can fix me when we meet in 2 weeks and that there is nothing to worry about

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how is daily life ? if I may ask

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Quote from: Knik on July 13, 2019, 01:21:54 PMhow is daily life ? if I may ask

Apart those last few days where i got paranoid and the first 3 or 4 days immediately after the surgery, it was a painless experience and i was already walking really quickly (with a walker) like even before a week after the surgery.

I feel like most of the complications come from the patients own mind, when you want to be reassured you only want to be reassured from your doctor and until that you kind feel on your own cause you don’t really know what’s happening, everytime i was having something that i tought it was a problem, in few days fixed itself like Dr Pili always told me, but right now i’m not even at 2cm into the distraction phase so probably the worst is yet to come, i want to be kind of conservative anyway, is either going to be 5cm or at best 6cm cause the only diaries that satisfied me were from people that got 5cm at best in tibias.