UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016

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very good to hear about the improvement!
I'm sure they can help you!

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It's so strange that a for-profit place could be so unethical, just thinking business wise it isn't very smart.
I really hope you end up ok! It seems like you're on the right track 

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It's so emotional  hope everything goes well

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I'm glad your hospital experience improved. Your update is very detailed and eye opening. Your case experience and sharing will help alot of others from same fate if they can avoid it, thankyou for sharing your honest feelings. Wish you a smooth recovery.

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This doctor is all about the money , he took a deposit from me for a surgery booked 1 month in advance and when i backed out he did not return the whole deposit.
Just seeing that turned me off this doctor.

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This doctor charges absurd amounts of money and asks his patients to do the work.
He is already charging you over $50,000 usd then has the nerve to charge her for complications which were the result of his negligent surgery and rubbish nail.

I done surgery with Dr Sarin in 2012 and i didnt have any complications and even if i did he doesnt charge you for it.
No
Dr guichet is a crook if you ask me.

The real hero and warrior in this is the patient,  look at all the doctors in russia and india they get the same results for a 3rd of the money.

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Quote from: Body Builder on January 29, 2018, 08:41:51 PMGuichet is easily compared to the butchers of India. And he is a way worse case as his prices compare to top doctors like Rozbruch.

Only a moron would go to Guichet. He is mayve the worst case of LL doctor out there.

I tried to warn people about guichet on the old forum  and no one listened to me in fact sysop/apothesis tried to black mail and threaten me for some reason i think they had some sort of business deal.
Guichet should be removed off the doctors list and a warning to all LLers be issued on this forum.

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Hello Unicorn,

(sorry my english  is not very good)

I hope you are well,
I wish to write you a message because it would be selfish for me not to do so in view of all the help that your experience has given me.

Before taking cognizance of this forum, I had the project to be operated by Dr. Guichet to gain + 7cm on my shins (according to him you can go up to 9-10 on the shins without taking risks LOL).
For more than 1 years I only knew this doctor, I thought it was the only one to offer this type of surgery so I was very motivated to the idea of ​​having me operated by him, I had already passed the medical tests etc ..

Subsequently (and I thank god), I discovered this forum and all these riches, I even discovered that we could be operated on femurs. You can not even imagine how happy it was to find this community.

I was so happy that I directly posted a message on any topic to talk about my project. You can check, this is my first post on the forum where I even took out the sentence "The only one that is really seduced me (before arriving on this forum) is Dr. Guichet."

Thanks to you, I probably avoid a big mistake. I don't know what would happen if I did not read your story or read the Veterans posts about it.
I don't know if Dr. Guichet remains a good doctor despite everything. But I know that someone who offer 7-10 cm on the shins without talking about ALL the risks that it leads to medium and especially LONG TERM is a b***h.
Just the idea of ​​offering this type of service makes me crazy.Same talk for Dr. Betz who in his great genius can save you 10-12 cm on your shin LOL.

Nevertheless, today I do not know how to give you the service that you have done testifying to your experience, but know that my mother thanks you just like me.
I sincerely hope that everything will be better for you, I will follow your story with interest. But never forget that when everything goes wrong in your life, things can only get better.
Just be patient and never give up so believe it!

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Stay strong honey. Each step is a step closer to recovery! You WILL walk again!!

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Someone alerted me that there's a post somewhere that I did 2mm/day.

Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on February 11, 2018, 01:03:42 AMUnicorn lengthened 2mm/day, when the recommended maximum is 1mm.

Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on February 11, 2018, 08:29:24 AMUnicorn is a sharp lady, but unfortunately she either wasn't aware of this, or believed Guichet over Paley, or didn't have the strength to stand up to Guichet and not lengthen more than 1mm/day.

Just to set the record straight, Guichet lengthen his patients about 5mm to 1cm during the initial osteotomy surgery.  Then for the first 2 weeks, his schedule is about 1.5mm per day and one reaches about 3cm by Week 2.  If we didn't follow his schedule, we get screamed at and verbally abused.  Also, we didn't know better about the distracting process.  We were told that lengthening lasts 2 months and 1 month of recovery, and then boom!  You're discharged fully recovered to go back to work and your friends/family without anyone the wiser.  Well, this is all BS!  That's how ignorant and naive we were.  Most of us never recovered within those times and even the successsful ones took 1.5-2 years to recover normal walking gait and get rid of their lordosis/duckass.

That's why during my 3rd surgery to lengthen my left leg, I decided to just wait 1 entire week before starting to lengthen and avoided Guichet's screaming phonecalls and abusive voicemails.  When I finally saw him, he was infuriated that I had not started clicking yet 1 week post surgery.  So he MADE ME sit in his office to click 1cm that day.  I was not allowed to leave until I finished about 150 clicks.  It took about 4 hours and I was crying nonstop because he said I deserve the suffering for not obeying his schedules.  My reasoning was that we already established that I'm a slow fuser and my right leg is already non-union, so WHY RUSH on the left leg?  It just makes zero sense.  But he wouldn't listen to reasoning anymore and was angry that I had no money to pay him for the new nail he installed in my left leg because he had broken my nail in the operating room himself.  And he wanted £37k.

This is why I'm hiding today.  I'm so scarred by that experience.  And as I told you guys here, I opened my bandages to show him oozing green and yellow wounds and asked him if it were normal and could he please prescribe antibiotics.  He dismissed it saying his nails are green in colour and if the oozing persists, he'll give me antibiotics in a week's time.

I went straight from his office to Chelsea & Westminster emergency room and they were so shocked to find me in such abandoned condition, they quickly cleaned up my oozing wound sites and then hospitalized me right away with a strong antibiotic drip.  By then, my skin had broken underneath (erythema) because the 1cm was too much for the soft tissues to stretch in one day.

So PLEASE do not judge until you've been through this process yourself.  It's so easy to sit on the sidelines and hurl opinions when as a patient, you are so confused/in pain/trauma to discern if your doctor is actually making the wrong calls.  Remember that we paid a high price for one of the best hospitals in London and their selection of orthopedists to ensure the best outcome.  So we did believe everything Guichet said and all of us only realized in hindsight how much we were being deluded.

Hence, my diary.  I want each and every potential LLer to be smarter than I was when I leaped into the surgery with only a hope and a prayer.