Hello,how is the pain overall ? How do you move in your everyday life,like to get to your physiotherapist or going to work,or even inside your house,as precise is not weightbearing ? Can you have some good quality sleep overall ? And how you better now than after the surgery ? Thx
Quote from: Apollo676 on July 04, 2021, 01:07:07 AMHello,how is the pain overall ? How do you move in your everyday life,like to get to your physiotherapist or going to work,or even inside your house,as precise is not weightbearing ? Can you have some good quality sleep overall ? And how you better now than after the surgery ? Thx
Pain is only present after lengthening and after waking up in the morning. Right now and most of the time there is 0/10 pain, using the 0 to 10 painscale (0 being no pain, 3 being annoyance of pain, 5+ being distracting in daily life and 8+ being unbearable)
Morning: 2-3/10 max
First lengthening: 1/10
Second lengthening: 3/10
Third lengthening: up to 5/10
Rest of the time: 0/10 (about 22 hours a day is like this)
I work from home, I try to sit in a chair with my laptop as my surgeon wants me to but sometimes I cheat and lay in bed. I program all day but also have a lot of meetings. The thing I hate most is when I have to get up to do small things like go to the bathroom. It’s a short distance but getting up is annoying and so if I get up I mind it less for big things, like going all the way to my car, driving, and getting out and doing something like PT, etc. I just hate the transfers even if they’re not painful! My legs itch a bit for the first minute after transferring as I use my legs, this disappears quickly though. It feels like when you’re running and you get itchy in the legs because blood is flowing to them, but not quite as bad.
Definitely a lot better than after surgery. One leg is weaker than the other but both are still a lot stronger than during the first week. Sleep actually has gotten worse. The week after surgery I was sleeping 16 hours a night but I sleep 8-10 hours now. Usually I am tired before my final lengthening so I set an alarm for 3 hours and sleep 3 hours, wake up, do the final lengthening, stay up for a while as I wait for the pain to go away, and sleep some more. I do get 8-10 high quality hours but never consecutively. Probably need to start lengthening at earlier times of day and it would fix this.
Quote from: HobbitMan on July 04, 2021, 12:56:36 AM25% done with lengthening tonight! I hit 19mm out of 79mm, reminder that I got 1mm for free from the surgery itself. So I’m officially 177cm at night and over 5’10 in the morning and throughout the day. I’ll be 5’10 at night in another week. It’s a big milestone for me.
My bandages from the operation are coming off and my scars are much smaller than I thought they would be. Even the IT band ones are almost invisible. I heal from scarring almost famously well, I told my surgeon that but he still warned me that legs don’t heal the same as elsewhere. Regardless my Wolverine healing factor is clearly in play since the only cuts that are noticeable are the IT band ones. I showed them to a friend and he said they looked like a minor scrape. I’m very happy with Dr Debiparshad’s work so far.
I started wearing knee immobilizers at night to keep my legs straight which will help with hamstrings down the line. It is not super comfortable but it’s manageable.
Congrats on almost 2cm!! This is the first journal I'm keeping track of and I wish you all the best HobbitMan.
Quote from: 5ft5 on July 04, 2021, 05:27:15 AMCongrats on almost 2cm!! This is the first journal I'm keeping track of and I wish you all the best HobbitMan.
Thanks! I’m actually past 2cm this morning. Really starting to hate night lengthening. Morning and mid day are totally fine but at night is almost torture. I might ask my doctor for a brief slowdown to .66mm a day if this doesn’t change.
Quote from: HobbitMan on July 04, 2021, 04:24:07 PMThanks! I’m actually past 2cm this morning. Really starting to hate night lengthening. Morning and mid day are totally fine but at night is almost torture. I might ask my doctor for a brief slowdown to .66mm a day if this doesn’t change.
That’s weird, it shouldn’t be bad at all in the beginning. Are you stretching? I was doing 1.25mm a day mostly until like 2cm and it wasn’t really bad even at night. If you stretch with bands before you turn and after it helps a ton, also using a muscle simulator from Amazon I bought one for 30$, it has pads and sends little shocks it helps with muscle tension
At 4cm-5cm mark it gets bad at night but before then it shouldn’t be,
Try doing .75mm for 1-2 days and then go back to 1mm
Quote from: Activatedxx on July 04, 2021, 04:40:52 PMThat’s weird, it shouldn’t be bad at all in the beginning. Are you stretching? I was doing 1.25mm a day until 2cm and it wasn’t really bad at all. If you stretch before you turn and after it helps a ton, also using a muscle simulator from Amazon I bought one for 30$, it has pads and sends little shocks it helps with muscle tension
Well it’s only the nighttime one. Were you doing .25mm intervals? I never hurt until the ERC starts going above .28mm for the session and then it gets bad. I do .33 for all sessions except the night one which is .34. I have a feeling if it were 4 sessions or .25 I wouldn’t hurt at all. I think that .33/.34 is just too much at once for me. I know it’s small but it’s almost as soon as the ERC goes past .28 my legs get very weak.
Quote from: HobbitMan on July 04, 2021, 04:24:07 PMThanks! I’m actually past 2cm this morning. Really starting to hate night lengthening. Morning and mid day are totally fine but at night is almost torture. I might ask my doctor for a brief slowdown to .66mm a day if this doesn’t change.
Night lengthening sucks no matter what. For LON users, we become extremely fatigued and our muscles are extremely tight in the morning. If you have the time, I'd definitely recommend slowing down. I lengthened more at noon so I could skip the night-time lengthening.
Quote from: HobbitMan on July 04, 2021, 04:47:18 PMWell it’s only the nighttime one. Were you doing .25mm intervals? I never hurt until the ERC starts going above .28mm for the session and then it gets bad. I do .33 for all sessions except the night one which is .34. I have a feeling if it were 4 sessions or .25 I wouldn’t hurt at all. I think that .33/.34 is just too much at once for me. I know it’s small but it’s almost as soon as the ERC goes past .28 my legs get very weak.
Yeah all my turns were .25, but I would have two turns at night when I was doing 1.25mm, and it didn’t really feel bad or anything,
Taking a break helps a lot, slow down to .75 or .66 for like 2 days and then go back to 1mm
Quote from: Activatedxx on July 04, 2021, 05:46:47 PMYeah all my turns were .25, but I would have two turns at night when I was doing 1.25mm, and it didn’t really feel bad or anything,
Taking a break helps a lot, slow down to .75 or .66 for like 2 days and then go back to 1mm
I think I’ll wait until my next X Ray to see how my bone is doing before I slow down, just to make sure I’m not healing too fast to take a break. I think my doctor will be open to the idea of me slowing down if needed though, I know he lets other patients do it as long as there are no bone worries.
Quote from: PerfectBody on July 04, 2021, 05:32:53 PMNight lengthening sucks no matter what. For LON users, we become extremely fatigued and our muscles are extremely tight in the morning. If you have the time, I'd definitely recommend slowing down. I lengthened more at noon so I could skip the night-time lengthening.
That’s pretty smart, I do my final lengthening around midnight which is a huge mistake. I will try to do my three lengthenings closer together towards the middle of the day, and my night one no later than 9pm. Maybe even earlier.
Interesting update! Did all three lengthenings today with no pain. My secret was to put my legs into my knee immobilizers for an hour after each. When I took them out, my hamstrings must have caught up to everything else, and the pain is nonexistent. I don’t feel any pain while I’m in the immobilizers either. Even the night one was painless. As long as this keeps up I don’t think I’ll have to slow down. My weaker leg seems to have also gotten better from this method.
I’m glad Dr D told me to get knee immobilizers early. They’re not fun but they definitely work. I’d almost recommend them to people regardless if they have tight hamstrings, Dr D usually tells people to get them at the 5-6cm mark but I started wearing them at 2cm.
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