I've decided to create a diary and tell everybody about my experience in Barcelona with Dr M. I didn't want to create a diary, just one post and comments in other places like Mars diary. He told me not to write there and advised to create my own diary. Here is my diary.
My first post in the forum is a good introductory post.
Quote from: notatroll on May 05, 2018, 06:58:25 PMI want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.
For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. I could finish LL unscathed but many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.
So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.
Cheers
I will post more details in the future.
Quote from: Auron on May 13, 2018, 12:40:05 PMSurgery date Mr Lluser? I mean, Mr "patient" 
I had surgery in 2016. No more dates please. I'm not afraid of him as I have nothing to deal with him anymore but he has my personal details in my case history and he's the type of guy who uses them for the bad. I'm not Lluser. When I came I thought LLuser was a troll but he was right in many things.
Quote from: Auron on May 13, 2018, 01:06:07 PMFake.
I know for a fact that wr will never get a date from you because you are fake.
Gtfo.
Look you don't know who I am. You defend Monegal blindly but you don't know who I am. I can give my surgery date to moderators in private and my xrays to prove I was a patient but I won't publish here because this doctor isn't honest and uses personal information for the bad.
Quote from: Auron on May 13, 2018, 01:38:41 PMNever ever have I mentioned the doctors name, I'm not defending a single person here.
Exactly, I dont know who you are, and I will never know because you are a fake.
So, if you actually want to try again, with your 99th account, try to follow all the other diaries entries, you have plenty to choose from. They all follow more or less the same pattern, some with good outcomes, some with bad outcomes.
Here you are saying you are afraid that your identity might get exposed but you sure were quick to trust your own legs to a person who you had never dealt with before?
Please, give it a rest.
You're aggressive because you think I'm Lluser but I'm not and I can prove I had the surgery in Barcelona. I've said I will show my xrays in private to mods but not to you. I don't trust fanatics and fanboys like some of you because you will tell the doctor and he has my personal details to take revenge and I want to keep LL secret. Of course I will prove I'm real to mods.
I trusted this doctor because I was desperate to be taller but I don't recommend it. I didn't get complications but some patients did and I didn't like how he dealt with us.
Quote from: Auron on May 13, 2018, 02:16:51 PMNo one wants your name or pennis size or whatever details you are talking about, we could care less. Besides, the doctor would never damage his career just to leak a random wanderers name. You make zero sense. But you managed to point out everything that Llusers account have been saying, congratulations.
Now, do you have anything to say that Lluser has not said yet hundreds of times?
I won't bother answering you. I will post my experience here and send my private information to moderators. Some of you fanmob are good people but you're too blind and can't accept the truth.
Quote from: Bushguy on May 13, 2018, 02:40:06 PMYou said you didnt have complications, but others yes.
Can you tell us the name of a doctor with 100% succes?
No doctors with 100% success but there are doctors with better success rate. I didn't have big complications. Only discomfort and knee pain and I think I will be an old man when 40 y.o. Other patients had big complications that required major surgeries but they haven't posted here. I will post about me and things I don't like in Barcelona.
Quote from: Petite888 on May 13, 2018, 04:17:15 PMPlease can we not resort to calling people fake and trolls in their own diaries. Your own diary should be a place where you can express freely and be given the benefit of the doubt like others here. I agree some trolls have gone too far, but notatroll is doing what he has been advised to do, and what I would personally prefer him to do, which is to write about his experience in his own diary. And he should be able to do that without fear of attack. This is somewhere, where most of us have a common goal. To share knowledge and use that knowledge to help current and pre LL’s. If in the future, people feel they cannot post their experiences for fear of being attacked, then we will have lost a really good resource of information. Let all cards be laid on the table without fear of attack, and people can then do their research and due diligence to come to their own conclusions about which path would be best for them.
Thank you for listening.
You told me not to write in Mars' diary but you also tell Monegal's trolls not to post here. That's fair and I kindly appreciate it. Everybody deserves the benefit of doubt. I think people like you deserve the truth and I will post my opinion about LL with this doctor.
Thanks for your input guys. I didn't get complications but my friends in Barcelona did and Monegal didn't do anything about them. I'm writing here to let possible prospective patients know the truth about me and the situation and facilities there.
For me the main problem is knee pain. I'm out of my wheelchair but my gait isn't normal yet (2 years post op) and I can't run. I can't bend my legs properly. Besides I have lost height post op. This is quite sad. I did this to be taller but I'm not tall enough yet. So I am still short and I will be a short old man when I'm forty. My experience in Barcelona wasn't good. Monegal didn't pay more attention to me when he got his money and he used to threaten me about not posting this forum. He has a bad personality and lots of EGO. The facilities aren't that nice for the price you pay. They are too expensive for the service you get. The staff barely speak English. You feel completely helpless until you meet some LL friends if you are lucky (some people had to lengthen alone).
Other patients who lengthened with me had complications with hardware, fractures, misalignments and nerve damage. The worst about these complications... the attitude of the doctor. He never accepted his fault. According to him patients got nerve damage because they lengthened too much (false), patients fell down and fractured (false), patients got misalignment because they walked too early (false). My Fitbone nail worked but in other patients' cases it didn't. Patients were scared because the nail stopped working... and then came back. In other cases it never came back as Musicmaker or Helloworld. The doctor always blamed them and invented stories about alien skin but it was the hardware.
My LL experience was a nightmare I'll never forget. I'm traumatized. It was hard for me but more for my friends. When you see a succesful Ivy League man crying in pain you know this is far from easy. The friendly guy who committed suicide was a succesful lawyer. And then there was the famous Musicmaker with her endless complications and sadness in her eyes. I never talked to them again but when I think about his death and her outraged beauty I feel like crying, me too.
Quote from: justice on May 14, 2018, 09:35:42 PMYou are 100% right. Did you also get the fake PT?
Yes and he is even worse moral than Monegal if that's possible. He hated LL patients.
Quote from: Bushguy on May 14, 2018, 11:34:43 PMCome on guys, be serious, monegal isnt Hitler and his pt is not Himmler, you can do it better its not necessary exagerrate.
Again facts! Not acussations. You said you are Going to write a diary, stop this nosense.
We are adults we dont need someone to tell us what to do, just write your experience
What would you like to know? I posted the facts above
Monegal isn't Hitler but he isn't a good doctor. In my opinion nobody should do elective surgery with such a 'surgeon' but it's my opinion. Mars said the fake PT isn't there anymore. You don't have to worry about him.
Quote from: Bushguy on May 15, 2018, 12:07:01 AMOk man,
Have you talked to other doctor about your knee pain, cant walk etc??
Sorry about my english
I visited a local doctor and he told me, 'why did you do this to yourself? This is barbaric'. He told me I would be an old man by 40. No solution.
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