Quote from: jcayabo on November 06, 2018, 07:28:15 PMI live in the city that I did my surgery, Baku Azerbaijan. I am very far from any kind of western medical health care...
But you have written Canada in the opening post
Quote from: jcayabo on November 06, 2018, 06:29:09 PMThis experience has really shown how little of a response I'm getting from this place. The doctor hasn't specified how many turns I need to do, but just turn faster. My schedule says to do 2 turns (.5mm) so faster means 3? Can you advise? And no mention of holding off the vitamins... but I will take your advice on that too.
It was quite funny, both doctors almost deliberately avoided talking to me today as I visited the clinic, both had more important things to do. Just hard to get any kind of answer from these guys.
lol I was doing 1 mm everyday up to 5 cm. 0.5 mm is definitely too slow. In your case at least 1 mm if not more or you bones will fuse.
Quote from: HeightGain on November 06, 2018, 07:50:26 PMYour antibiotics will kill 'friendly' bacteria as will the alcohol. That is nothing to overly worry about.
If you think you have an infection you could try and get a sample of the infected area and get a lab to culture it for type of bacteria and sensitivity.
Your personal details look like they might be on those x-rays, don't know if you knew that
I don't mind at all, besides they spelled my name wrong, haha.
I took the safe bet as my doctor literally won't give any answers, so I'm doing 5 days of amoxillan. One of the cuts looks really pus filled so I won't take the chance.
Quote from: doomsday on November 06, 2018, 08:03:49 PMlol I was doing 1 mm everyday up to 5 cm. 0.5 mm is definitely too slow. In your case at least 1 mm if not more or you bones will fuse.
Thanks for the heads up. Yes I'm doing 2 turns every 6 hours now religiously, going to stop vitamins for a week and then get back on it. I really appreciate your input man. A solid community really means a lot when your doctor barely talks to you. Did you do Ilizarov tibias as well?
Quote from: cool on November 06, 2018, 07:52:09 PMBut you have written Canada in the opening post
I'm originally from Canada, but I live in Baku now. I'm pretty sure no one in Canada would do this procedure.
Quote from: jcayabo on November 06, 2018, 08:06:21 PMThanks for the heads up. Yes I'm doing 2 turns every 6 hours now religiously, going to stop vitamins for a week and then get back on it. I really appreciate your input man. A solid community really means a lot when your doctor barely talks to you. Did you do Ilizarov tibias as well?
yep, in 2016. Im looking at those xrays and to me they look fused. I hope your doc knows what he is doing. If I was you I would go for 1.5mm for 2 weeks. Just to be safe. There is no way you could have non union with that much callus.
I wonder if there would be a way to know if you're lengthening and your bones are already fused... catastrophic pain? 
no idea but you should speed up considerably, 1.5 mm seems ok for you.
Ur Dr must guide you through the lengthening spped , as he is the one who can examine ur xray correctly, in Russia they tends to make u lengthen faster in the first days until ur first xray then they will see ur regeneration and advise. But u have to know that lengthening very fast will make ur soft tissues suffer and will increase ur recovery. I was doing 1 mm per day and I regret that i wish i was slower.
After a good week of progress I've hit another road block. Took a full shower as I really havent had one since the surgery. I didnt cover my pin points and rinsed them out thinking it would be fine. 1 day after the pain is really bad, at my pin points all the way into my tibias, really having issues sleeping. Definitely made a mistake there, was reading that I didn't need to over it up, really paying for it now.
I also put a tiny bit of antibiotic cream on each pin point, maybe that could be it? So much info is all over the place with keeping wounds clean. Alcohol, no alcohol, antibiotic cream, soap and water... etc etc.
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