Quote from: Body Builder on July 28, 2017, 12:28:58 PMGuichet does not speak the truth. He is just a careless and money hungry doctor who stops to care for patients after they operate and take the money from them.
That is the part that I dont like, just say that serious people are not as irritating as charmful people.
and charmful doctors are more harmful when they are hypocritical and betray patients who paid a lot
hi unicorn
I think you should focus on recovery now, even if it may reduce your extension height,
You can be better in the future
Best wishes
Any updates, Unicorn?
Quote from: Penguinn on August 09, 2017, 07:13:34 PMAny updates, Unicorn?
Hi Penguinn,
Yeah, lots of updates! Since I last saw the new doc at Kings College Hospital, she had in the space of 2-3 weeks ordered up about 12 tests immediately. I've now done full bloods, xrays, CT scans, physio, therapist, ultrasound, vernacular scans etc. I'm so impressed seeing that everything has been free, speedy, polite and super efficient.
Having spoken to a few patients at the department, it turns out that it's well known for being super professional and effective.
That said, I've not had any glimpses of the results yet. All I know is I no longer have any blood clots, there are no cysts growing in my lengthened gap. I'll be seeing the doc in person tomorrow and I'll post what she says.
A few things I have learnt : no matter which doctor you go to, please always ask for second opinions.
I learnt that there is NO WAY a marrow graft can fuse a 7-10cm gap. Also the fact that I underwent a marrow graft procedure on a leg that has runaway from 7 to 10cm with nobody noticing - is downright scary. There were ample xrays prior and post surgery so you'd think anyone responsible would check for length, if not out of professional obligation, perhaps out of courtesy seeing that this entire surgery costs an arm and a leg (no pun intended).
You'd think that anyone who performs surgery claiming extensive experience, would check before and after that there's no runaway lengthening since I had reported accidental clicking since last year and there are no calluses/non-union formed at all. I was even put on a 3 clicks/day schedule from April on. It was actually the A&E folks at NHS who measured my xrays and said I was close to 10cm.
It befuddles me whether I was intentionally put through a useless surgery for financial gain or did a world-class surgeon actually believe that a marrow graft can fuse 7cm when the entire world knows that it cannot? That was one unnecessary pain and cost 
I've also met up with more LL patients in these last few weeks and it is so true that the garish stories do not go published for fear of doctors or shame. An example : One LL patient recently committed suicide and another suffered life altering gangrene infections which required flesh being grisly carved out on a daily basis.
We all noticed that when LL patients undergo racheting, the pain is so intense that everyone is crying all the time taking hours to click but once the entire ordeal is over, people tend to understate how painful or how much they suffered. I guess it's human nature, I don't know. Nobody wants to admit to being a coward and a crybaby perhaps. And our brains quickly surpress those traumatic memories anyway, as self preservation.
Clear example is the guy I had first met at Isokinetic when I went through my first cyber test who told me that the pain was so negligible, the cyber test was more painful. It turns out that he bare face lied to all of us (us being the gullible pack of bankers, lawyer and a doctor). When we confronted him later, he said he didn't want to scare us (!). In addition, we found out later that he was addicted to opioids as well.
So you cannot trust one source of info, and I definitely did. I heard only what I wanted to hear. Everything else was noise and bad luck that would NEVER happen to me, the fit and flexible former gymnast
Glad to hear you,
How many Guichet´s patients did you speak before surgery?
Is Guichet doing anything to help you?
You are so brave.
Look at this news maybe can help you. Now they can shape a bone with a 3D printer from a bone of dead people.
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/madrid/2017-08-07/bancos-huesos-tejidos-madrid-alcorcon-gregorio-maranon_1418870/
My best wishes
Quote from: Unicorn888 on August 10, 2017, 10:27:29 AMHi Penguinn,
Yeah, lots of updates! Since I last saw the new doc at Kings College Hospital, she had in the space of 2-3 weeks ordered up about 12 tests immediately. I've now done full bloods, xrays, CT scans, physio, therapist, ultrasound, vernacular scans etc. I'm so impressed seeing that everything has been free, speedy, polite and super efficient.
Having spoken to a few patients at the department, it turns out that it's well known for being super professional and effective.
That said, I've not had any glimpses of the results yet. All I know is I no longer have any blood clots, there are no cysts growing in my lengthened gap. I'll be seeing the doc in person tomorrow and I'll post what she says.
A few things I have learnt : no matter which doctor you go to, please always ask for second opinions.
I learnt that there is NO WAY a marrow graft can fuse a 7-10cm gap. Also the fact that I underwent a marrow graft procedure on a leg that has runaway from 7 to 10cm with nobody noticing - is downright scary. There were ample xrays prior and post surgery so you'd think anyone responsible would check for length, if not out of professional obligation, perhaps out of courtesy seeing that this entire surgery costs an arm and a leg (no pun intended).
You'd think that anyone who performs surgery claiming extensive experience, would check before and after that there's no runaway lengthening since I had reported accidental clicking since last year and there are no calluses/non-union formed at all. I was even put on a 3 clicks/day schedule from April on. It was actually the A&E folks at NHS who measured my xrays and said I was close to 10cm.
It befuddles me whether I was intentionally put through a useless surgery for financial gain or did a world-class surgeon actually believe that a marrow graft can fuse 7cm when the entire world knows that it cannot? That was one unnecessary pain and cost
I've also met up with more LL patients in these last few weeks and it is so true that the garish stories do not go published for fear of doctors or shame. An example : One LL patient recently committed suicide and another suffered life altering gangrene infections which required flesh being grisly carved out on a daily basis.
We all noticed that when LL patients undergo racheting, the pain is so intense that everyone is crying all the time taking hours to click but once the entire ordeal is over, people tend to understate how painful or how much they suffered. I guess it's human nature, I don't know. Nobody wants to admit to being a coward and a crybaby perhaps. And our brains quickly surpress those traumatic memories anyway, as self preservation.
Clear example is the guy I had first met at Isokinetic when I went through my first cyber test who told me that the pain was so negligible, the cyber test was more painful. It turns out that he bare face lied to all of us (us being the gullible pack of bankers, lawyer and a doctor). When we confronted him later, he said he didn't want to scare us (!). In addition, we found out later that he was addicted to opioids as well.
So you cannot trust one source of info, and I definitely did. I heard only what I wanted to hear. Everything else was noise and bad luck that would NEVER happen to me, the fit and flexible former gymnast
More and more evidence of mongeals incompetence. How can all these issues be attributed to his arrogance?
Quote from: Bander72 on August 10, 2017, 07:44:12 PMMore and more evidence of mongeals incompetence. How can all these issues be attributed to his arrogance?
You mean Guichet.
And yes, what Unicorn said supports my words that Guichet is the worst doctor available for the money he wants.
Quote from: yagen on August 10, 2017, 12:20:56 PMGlad to hear you,
How many Guichet´s patients did you speak before surgery?
Is Guichet doing anything to help you?
You are so brave.
Look at this news maybe can help you. Now they can shape a bone with a 3D printer from a bone of dead people.
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/madrid/2017-08-07/bancos-huesos-tejidos-madrid-alcorcon-gregorio-maranon_1418870/
My best wishes
I was stupid, I only met with 2 patients, one at the cybex test who lied and another at the gym who was labeled 'crazy' (it turned out that every single thing she said was spot on - we just didn't believe her at the time because it sounded so preposterous and dramatic, and she was always angry and ranting nonstop).
The fact that they were both hopping around in zimmer frames a week after surgery impressed me to no end.
I had actually met another potential LLer in the waiting room during my first appointment and both of us kept in touch afterwards. Based on miraculous recovery videos we were shown where people were jumping 2 weeks after stopping lengthening, we were under the impression that 60 days post surgery, we would begin to walk without crutches, and soon enough, go back to normal life (read my posts earlier on back in Sep'16)
Beware of any videos which seem too good to be true. We both left Princess Grace with stars in our eyes and dreams in our hearts. This potential LLer even texted me that night asking if it was all too much of a hard sell. I dismissed him and was super determined to have my legs broken next.
How wrong I was. And naive too. Even without major complications, one does not recover so quickly back to normal walking and gait because all the soft tissues are too short and takes a lot of time to stretch out.
Hence, the final road to recovery after lengthening stops, do include overcoming pelvic tilts, duck ass, internal hip rotations etc due to short front muscles, weak abs and glutes etc among other things. And these take months not mere weeks to regain normalcy.
Quote from: Bander72 on August 10, 2017, 07:44:12 PMMore and more evidence of mongeals incompetence. How can all these issues be attributed to his arrogance?
Ah lol I did confuse mongeal with guichet 
. It does some seem with his recent cases that mongeal is more competent than guichet.
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