Quote from: 6CMFemurs on November 02, 2021, 11:45:14 PMGlad to here everything going smoothly. What do you spend most of your days doing? How is it climbing stairs with crutches?
As someone about to do unilateral tibia, I am curious what the one legged life is like in the first few weeks post op!
Hey man, good luck to you! When is your surgery? After reading numerous diaries over the past few years, I thought it was gonna be worse, especially pain-wise. I pretty much spend most of my time in bed or on my sofa working on my laptop, since I have my own online business. Apart from that I do the usual bedridden activitys, netflix youtube etc. 
Stairs are probably the biggest challenge in everyday life, especially over several floors. But youll get the hang of it. In physiotherapie you learn how to leverage your healthy leg to advance yourself up and down the stairs. I recommend always putting one hand on the handrail, while gripping your second crutch with the other hand, in order to have extra security.
Kind of like this guy in this video:
With regard to mobility, unilateral is 100x better than bilateral precise, since you're not restricted to a wheelchair and can use crutches from Day 1.
Koehne Diary 21/22 | Unilateral Tibia + Femur
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on November 02, 2021, 11:45:14 PMGlad to here everything going smoothly. What do you spend most of your days doing? How is it climbing stairs with crutches?
As someone about to do unilateral tibia, I am curious what the one legged life is like in the first few weeks post op!
Hopefully 6CMFemurs can give us a true comparison of bilateral and unilateral experience since he would have done both!
Day 22: Femur surgery day
After completing my left tibia surgery three weeks ago, I have finally had my left femur surgery yesterday. The surgery went well and the pain is also fine. Due to good pain-painamgent (2x
Oxy / 3x novalgin daily for the first few days) the pain is very manageable. Obviously I will be bedridden for the the first few days, but when the surgery pain subsides after the first week, I should be able to walk normally on crutches again.
Stay strong man! In a couple weeks the incision site pain goes away for femurs. Around the 3 week mark I felt way way better.
Btw, how far do you have to travel between your home and the surgeon. Do you drive yourself or do you take a train/plane for follow-up appointments?
Day 30 of my ll journey
Thanks man, appreciate it. It's been a rough 4 weeks, to say the least. My tibia pain has been fading out slowly, however my femur pain is still pretty heavy. I've been taking tilidin 2x daily and novalgin 3x daily to medicate it. I hope to get off the Tilidin in 7-10 days time.
I will try to go to physio as soon as my femur pain allows it. At the moment I just try to stretch my lower leg a few times a day, to prevent a drop foot from developing.
Im currently lengthening about 1.7mm daily - 1mm in the femur and 0.7 in the tibia. Ive lengthened about 1.6cm so far.
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on November 08, 2021, 04:52:28 PM
Btw, how far do you have to travel between your home and the surgeon. Do you drive yourself or do you take a train/plane for follow-up appointments?
I take the train each time. It takes me about 5 hours to get there.
Day 33
Pain in femur is slowly fading. Now i can finally get back on track with my physio excercises. Belows a video of 9 days femur post op and about 1 month tibia post op
https://imgur.com/a/0kiGQLo
Wow it’s crazy how big a one inch discrepancy looks! Glad you are feeling better. Are you still able to be pretty mobile on crutches?
Yeah the discrepancy seems bigger than it actually is, maybe its the angle. Its not too bad in real life.
I remember there were more diaries about Doctor Koehne, seems now you are the only one on the forum...
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