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

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What are your thoughts on the different neighborhoods in Athens you have been to or heard of?

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Wow, time's flying for you! Did you ever walk without crutches prior to Dr Giotikas allowing you to drop them?

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Quote from: thankscience on November 24, 2021, 12:50:01 AMWow, time's flying for you! Did you ever walk without crutches prior to Dr Giotikas allowing you to drop them?
He did allow me since the end of lenghtening to do a few steps every day at home. I know that's being conservative, and the nail is strong, but since I'm paranoid about damaging the nail I have been following all his indications. So, since the end of lenghtening, I have been walking unnasisted at home maybe like 2 minutes per day, but no more.

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Quote from: Super-JR on October 22, 2021, 05:45:57 AMEvery patients have different experience, I too had lots of pain during the first 4 to 5 weeks, after that the pain just vanished. I found that it also dipends on one's mind. Those who are afraid to feel pain tend to feel it more, but if you start thinking and focusing to reach your goal of getting taller. You will not feel the pain at all.

I sincerely believe that you are very wrong. This operation is not like an injury that if you put ice on it the pain goes down. Your leg bones are being broken, daily, several times, for months. It hurts, and a lot, constantly. With medication it is reduced. But your thoughts are like "if you don't think about the pain, it doesn't hurt" is childish and unrealistic.
Let's be honest and realistic, this operation hurts a lot. There are risks, we have already seen how in the last month a patient has died, even with the head nurse all day with him, says a lot.
I would not take it as a joke and I would investigate very well before having the surgery the whole process, from how it is done, with who, the technique, the team that will take care of me, because for me the surgeon is very important, but the aftercare is even more important, and I want to be sure that the person next to me knows the whole process and the signs that the situation is going wrong. After all, we only have one life and I am not going to risk mine lightly.

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Hey guys, I just got my X rays.
Since the very beginning some users said I may have misaligment, and I did consider the same, cause it did not look fully straight. Dr. Giotikas told me like 10 times that there was no misaligment, and the nurses said the same. Today, the Spanish doctor who took my X rays said the same: there is no misalignment, it's only that the nail is so big that the inner part of the bone is affected, but it will look fully straight once consolidation is more advanced. I think this is true because, on the October X rays (see here: https://imgur.com/a/qv7pEgr) my left femur looked really misaligned to me, but now looks normal. The right still looks misaligned to me, but callus is much weaker there, so the Spanish Dr. says that the same will happen: callus will grow in that inner part and it will look fully straight. Even thought it still looks somewhat weird to me, I'm not a pro, and Giotikas told me directly that there is no misalignment, so I tend to think he is right. Has this happened to anyone else? I remember seeing X rays like this in other diary, but don't remember which one.

Current X rays at 3 months and one week post surgery (5 weeks on consolidation): https://imgur.com/a/ECc8ClL

Their machine was very small, so they took them in two different takes. In the picture I have put them together so it makes sense. They also were taken with legs totally closed and knees almost touching, whereas in Greece  I kept a more normal posture. What I'm curious is that the original shape of my femurs has changed: before the surgery, they were curved inwards, and now they are more straight and slighty curved outwards. You can see them here: https://imgur.com/a/FVxRIZG

So, my question is: since the shape of the whole femur has changed, can that affect in any way the total height gained? Meaning if it's possible to gain more (due to less curved femurs) or less (due to more curved femurs). I will not measure on stadiometer until the end of the month, as my back is not yet 100% straight (slight duck ass). I did 6 cm, but will be satisfied as long as I get more than  5 "real" cm.

Regarding my condition, my walk is 100% regarding leg motion, but it still looks weid in general due to still having some hip sway, as it its being very dificult to me to recover my glutes. My legs in general are pretty strong again, but the glutes are coming back very very slowly, despite working out a lot. I hope to walk 100% normal by the end of the year.

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Dr just saw my X rays and confirmed again that alignment is good. Also he says that my bone growth is "very robust", os I can leave crutches for good¡ Until now I was still using them outside, so now I can walk unnasisted all the time (I will still use one crutch to climb up stairs, I think I need it).

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Damn that nail is huge lol
Did not know g-nail was that big on x Rays .
And ye honestly the nail and the bone looks weird to me too but if 2 doctors stated the same thing ,I guess they have more knowledge then our internet application.
Also , I never seen this curve in a femur after a lenghetning (based on other x-rays I've seen) .
Is the doctor you are in contact with a limb lenghetning one or it's a generic ortho surgeon ?
Also..why in the last x-ray the nail is not in there ?!

I am a Paley,Rozbruch and Lee fan ahahah
So if by any chance you share your x-rays via e-mail with one of them in the future let me/us know because I would love to hear their opinion on those x-rays

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I could not avoid to take a proper measurement already. As of today, having done 6 cm, my "real" gain in height is 5 cm. This means that I recovered 5 mm, cause in the end of lenghtening I measured and got only 4.5 cm (had duck ass). I still have some duck ass, so I hope to recover even more when I fix it completely, and get like 5.5 cm or so.

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V21 i pmed you, pls check your private messages. Thanks

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Dr. Giotikas just told me that residual pelvic tilt can "steal" around 5-10 mm, so I should just focus on getting rid of it in order to recover the "lost" height. I hope in the end I can get the full 5.5 cm. Probably next week I will start swimming.