Quote from: Ayesha12345 on November 20, 2018, 12:44:15 AMOmg that’s terrible to not be able to walk well after 4 years 😞 do you know whether she did Precice? And whether she lengthendd too much? I might do just 5cm tibia which is so less considering the high cost but then again health & function is more important..
She did femur Fitbone. She did 6.5 cm.
I remember reading about the case further below years ago. I don’t like the result on this woman. Her tibias look far too long for her. It seems she lengthened 3 inches just there, which seems odd as this seems too much to be safe or look proportional. From what I’ve seen if I’m very honest, most cases are successful even for very short women. You do hear of disasters but they appear to be very few and far between from what I’ve seen in some studies online and also from a limb lengthening website, it’s a site that has extensive information about this procedure. I think if this is really affecting your life then it’s worth the risk because it seems to me most cases end up well in the end if you do it reasonably.
I read of another case, a woman on the NHS, they lengthened her femurs using an external device. She faced an infection and had to be taken to hospital and given certain antibiotics. The infection cleared. After the frames were removed her bone snapped. She had to wear one of the frames again for 2 months. They snapped a further 2 times after that. She did lengthen a lot though and I mean a lot. It was ok in the end but it took almost 2 years. Not only is there the risk of disaster although it seems quite small, there is the bigger risk I think of it all taking far longer than initially thought. I think it’s definitely fairly common that things go wrong, but things that can be fixed but, which means you will not be as ready to go back to normal life for much longer than you thought.
Again this is a risk worth taking if you are quite young. 2 years may seem like a like lot but I’m 39 and life is very short and 2 years is nothing if it means having a better life in your other remaining years. I’ve also learned that 2 years sounds like a lot but it’s not a lot at all. Years fly by and before we know it we tell ourselves 2 or 3 years later “if only I had done this 2 years ago, I would feel much better now”.
I feel if anyone is going to do this surgery they need to plan for the worst. Make a Will, you might die. Work out how you will look after yourself if you end up disabled. Does your country offer welfare, is anyone in your family willing to look after you, does your country have a good health service and will it be accessible.
I think it’s worth the risk in many cases as long as you go knowing that there is a possibility life could become worse and have some plan for how you will deal with that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1039416/Tall-order-The-bizarre-Russian-clinic-offers-leg-lengthening-surgery-STAND-pain.html
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