5.5 Cm Femurs with Dr. Giotikas and G-Nail.

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Quote from: overandover on September 15, 2021, 08:53:07 PMDoesn't make sense to me. Let's see what happens. Maybe he'll have to do a lot of tries to make the clicks work again. Maybe the nail is stuck or something so he'll do a lot of tried and it'll start working again. He should've given you NSAIDs from the beginning. Parihar gives NSAIDs to keep inflammation in control for 1st month.

NSAIDs negatively affect bone healing. I don't know what Parihar does, but V21 please don't take anything unless Giotikas specifically advises that you do.

@V21 - Giotikas seems like a conscientious man, I am sure he will sort you out and won't charge extra if something has to be fixed, hang in there mate

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I'm happy to say all went good, the nail has 0 issues. It seems that my pain was so extreme that the tension and tightness of my body would not allow the mechanism to work properly. Yesterday I asked Giotikas to try to click, and he moved my legs in positions that you can't even imagine. For 10 minutes pain was 9/10, and in the last movements it got to 10/10 and I asked him to stop. However, under anesthesia today, he said that clicks were extremely easy. He has done like 6 mm in my right leg, so I think now I'm not in risk of preconsolidation there.

Taking into account that big amount of growth, my leg is very tight, specially the IT bands. However, I have been biking and strecthing for 2 hours, and it's coming back to normal. I also don't have any kind of nerve pain. To sum up, the nail works perfectly, and I'm happy to be moving forward. I hope in the next days I can click the right leg on my own.

Regardin what was said by Sirstrecthalot, I do the clicks on stages, and I think I was having the same pain as you on right leg. However, in my case the mechanism didn't click: I was pushing trough pain but I got nothing. That's why in my case anesthesia was 100% needed.

Regarding pain, I understand that some people may think I'm exaggerating when I say 9/10. It's no exaggeration, and I have a high resistance to pain. For example, to put things into context, an user who did Stryde with Giotikas said that in PT pain was 9/10. Well, for me PT it/s 5/10 at worst, so imagine what kind of pain is if I say 9/10. I was literally going to pass out, but didn't ask the doctor to stop cause I was desperate to get the click.

In any case, today has been a success, and I'm quite happy with the profesionality of Dr. Giotikas. He did not charge anything, and neither did the anesthesist woman. I did have to pay 250 euros because of hosptal fees. Let's hope there are no more complication

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IMPORTANT: Don't let my story frighten you cause I'm the unluckiest guy ever. The other G nail patient is doing perfectly fine with clicking.

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Quote from: V21 on September 16, 2021, 01:17:54 PMIMPORTANT: Don't let my story frighten you cause I'm the unluckiest guy ever. The other G nail patient is doing perfectly fine with clicking.

I can't help myself. 

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Btw, Giotikas told me to drop Ibuprofen and take Voltaren instead

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We were both unlucky, but I think your case was even tougher. I could always click, but it took 20min of mental pain preperation to do a single click. Sometimes I would even give up half way because the pain was too much. Its something others will never understand.

I have had a case where an in-patient had to click under anesthasia also. He had clicking problems after 2 weeks and decided to stay in Athens a bit longer. I think you should too.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? I'm 29.

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Quote from: SirStretchAlot on September 17, 2021, 08:20:32 AMWe were both unlucky, but I think your case was even tougher. I could always click, but it took 20min of mental pain preperation to do a single click. Sometimes I would even give up half way because the pain was too much. Its something others will never understand.

I have had a case where an in-patient had to click under anesthasia also. He had clicking problems after 2 weeks and decided to stay in Athens a bit longer. I think you should too.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? I'm 29.

Hey man, I'm 24. First week clicking was easy. Second week I think it was like in your case: excruciating pain, but the click would happen as long as I was able to twist 90 degrees. It took maye 2 hours to get 10 clicks. However, since last Saturday, I wasn't able to click even if I pushed trough pain. That was devastating mentally, cause I was taking unbelievable pain (you can understand it) for nothing, over and over again. Giotikas twisted my leg in every possible way, and no click either, that's why I was terrified about nail malfunction. But nope, under anesthesia there was no problem at all, he did like 100 clicks in 15 minutes. Tomorrow I have to try again to click right leg, let's see if I can do it. I will be staying in Athens 3 months, so no problem with that.

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Quote from: V21 on September 17, 2021, 11:38:59 AMHey man, I'm 24. First week clicking was easy. Second week I think it was like in your case: excruciating pain, but the click would happen as long as I was able to twist 90 degrees. It took maye 2 hours to get 10 clicks. However, since last Saturday, I wasn't able to click even if I pushed trough pain. That was devastating mentally, cause I was taking unbelievable pain (you can understand it) for nothing, over and over again. Giotikas twisted my leg in every possible way, and no click either, that's why I was terrified about nail malfunction. But nope, under anesthesia there was no problem at all, he did like 100 clicks in 15 minutes. Tomorrow I have to try again to click right leg, let's see if I can do it. I will be staying in Athens 3 months, so no problem with that.

100 clicks dude, how are you feeling after that? Must be very tight? I saw one guy at Elke's how did 3mm under anaesthesia and he cried afterwards because the stiffness was so extreme.

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Quote from: DonBones on September 17, 2021, 11:42:31 AM100 clicks dude, how are you feeling after that? Must be very tight? I saw one guy at Elke's how did 3mm under anaesthesia and he cried afterwards because the stiffness was so extreme.
Lol, in my case is more than 6 mm, as with G Nail 1 mm = 15 clicks. My leg felt hard as a rock when I woke up, and I wasn't even able to straighten up the knee 100%. However, I was hours strecthing and biking yesterday and now I'm decent. I have definetely lost flexibility, but I still can touch my butt with my heel when stretching quads, my harmstring almost 90 degres.. However, it hurts and I feel that I must keep stretching hard to avoid it getting tight again.  It's a weird feeling.I'm strecthing every hour and biking 4-5 times per day. Luckily, no nerve pain either.

Right leg: 2.8 cm
Left leg: 2.6 cm

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Btw, Giotikas told me not to click this leg today and wait until Saturday. Tomorrow I will now if I can do it again on my own. The guys who did anesthesia were able to click properly after it?