New Stryde Diary 2018 - with Dr. Paley

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God da_n, what a great read!  Keep it going man.  I had consultation 2 months ago and I'm going for Stryde too in March.

These nails look like game changers.  I wonder how they compare with Guichet's internal in Milan, other than you don't have to go through painful clicks.

How long, in hours, would you say you stretch or train every day?  Could you do all this PT at home if the trainer would come to your place?

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A video of you walking at this point would be very useful.  Please consider.

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Hi, how are you doing?

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Hi,

Hitting 5.0cm tomorrow. I really only have left knee pain that bothers me right now - it’s not constant only comes and goes when I flex and extend my knee.  My knees are bending now at rest and it takes some extension of my muscle but I can still straighten out both knees fine. I had some sharp nerve pains in my right lower leg from time to time last week but it’s gone.

Overall the feeling of some soreness and tightness everyday sucks but the experience overall has been great with the stryde nail. Until my knee started hurting two days ago I was ambulatory mostly without a cane or crutch.

I recorded a video today will post some soon once we edit things out.

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Can aoyouu sit bormally on a chair without pain and for a longper period of time?

So excited for the video !!

Thanks man

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Great question.  How long can you sit on a chair without too much issue?

How's sleeping?  Do you sleep on your side?  Would that be possible? 

Do you think you could do PT at home if you had a trainer that would come in every day?

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Is this Diary dead?  That's disappointing...

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Superusercj1 are you okay ?
Please give us some news.

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Hi everyone! Sorry been so busy with work.

Here’s some updates:

I stopped my lengthening around December 27-28.  I stopped because I wanted to be on the more conservative side in terms of full athletic recovery. I was a bit tight but could easily gone to 70mm or 80mm if I wanted to.  Had my X-rays the first week of January and I was at 65mm, with magnification factored in I was a about 5.9-6.0.

Today, about 2 weeks after lengthening, I can now go up and down stairs without holding the rails. I can walk 95% normal with a cane’s help and 80% without.  The reason for this is because I’m still tight in my hamstrings and also my gluteals are super sore after walking and forcing my stride to be more narrow.

Socially, it feels amazing to be about 2.3” or so taller. No one really noticed, I just got a lot of comments that I looked skinnier.  But it feels great going out now. I haven’t been wearing my
Normal lifts to get everyone acquainted with the new height - but I’ll start soon .

I’m going to come back in the winter to do my tibias to even out my femur tibia ratio back to 0.9 as my femurs do look noticeably longer.

Overall super happy I did it, can’t beleive I did something this crazy but super happy I did.  Happy to field questions if you guys have any.  Also I have the video from when I was at 55cm or so that I still need to upload !

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One last key component - the entire process was great - staying at the homewood suite you meet other patients.  Myself, myevolution, and a couple of other guys hung out, went to miami etc. it really helped time fly.

So if you guys do this, try to find some friends either on the board or at Paley’s to hang out with.