48 y.o. male, 173.5cm+9cm=182.5cm Doc.Barinov Volgograd.

Hello to all lengtheners,

I'm an italian guy doing full external with the Ilizarov apparatus. I've almost reached my goal, I'm and I will remain at 9 (I wanted 10). I had to stop because of bone cutting.
It's the 11th month that I'm here and I'm now dealing with the axis correction, on both legs, they were in a pretty bad condition: verticality was just a vague memory for my legs!
So far it's been a very demanding experience with an inflamed disk herniation l5-s1 and arthrosis on both knees which I didn't know of until I got here. Everything is possible with discipline and effort. I would like to encourage all the older ones and all the people that have injuries or issues that make the lengthening a bit more complicated...

ciao

Im assuming you did tibias?Dont you think that is a bit too much for 1 segment?What did your doctor said? and lastly what do you think about your proportions now?Will you share a proportion pic?

...Doctor stopped me because of the bone cutting and infection. My proportion are great as I have long femors so my legs are perfect now.

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Wow good for you good luck in your recovery!

Enjoy your new height i dont know how you got 9cms on tibias you must have extremely supple tendons and muscle tissue

...thanks Morisette, but I have to correct my axes and other issues. Still a long way to go

Hi Bigpo,
Over here 9cm is relatively normal!
In any case I'm quite flexible so I didn't really have big issues like ballerina...
I thing the biggest problem has been the strength of the soft tissues which pulled to the level of causing instability of the apparaturs...

Sei il tipo italiano che ha scritto anche nell'altro forum? Come mai che hai scelto la russia e non da Catagni o Pilli? Questione di soldi?

Sapevo che il dott. Catagni operava solo in caso di nanismo; del dott.Pili non sapevo nulla, leggo che è un medico molto attento e preparato.
Considera che avevo raccolto informazioni circa 5 anni fa e all'epoca ero indirizzato all' internal femor. In tempi più recenti ho deciso per la Russia perche' è qui che l'apparato è stato concepito e quindi i dottori hanno una consolidata esperienza.

P.s.per rispetto verso gli altri membri, ogni altro mio messaggio sarà in inglese. Ti chiedo di fare lo stesso