7cm Rush with Dr. Kulesh in St. Petersburg, Russia

I figured I might as well add my experience to the thread. I have always wanted to be taller, like just about everyone. I had been looking into LL for several years, and finally got the balls to do it. So I picked a doctor, and started doing some prep. My starting height was 181cm, which I realize is excellent already, but for many reasons I felt that I needed more.

I chose Dr. Kulesh for several reasons.

1. His rate is very affordable. 150,000 rubles ($2,500) in a Russian Hospital that doesn't give visa support. Or In a very nice clinic, with visa support and extentions for 350,000 ($5,833) I had to use the clinic since I am from america and it is very difficult to get visa support otherwise.
 
2. He has an excellent success rate and very few complications.

3. He offers everything, LON, LATN, Externals, Achilies lengthening, even Arm Lengthening, but I wasn't really interested in that.
 
After communicating for a little bit. I bought a ticket and scheduled the surgery. The entire time he was Excellent at answering questions, and being quick to respond. He speaks English very well.

I thought the only one doing LON in Russia was Solomin .

Have you had the surgey yet?

Is very cold there? How one can tolerante cold without gettinf sick?

I have had my surgery and I am already at 6.3 cm lengthened. It actually isn't too cold here, maybe 0 degrees celcius. As of right now I am lengthening 1.75 mm per day. Its Pain that is pretty close to unbearable, but Dr. Kulesh said it was necessary since my regeneration was too good.  At first I was lengthening 1mm per day, but at ever X-ray consulatation he told me to increase speed.

Here is a summary of the process. I contacted a travel ageny, and had them book me a ticket so they would get me a tourist visa to russia, the ticket was $642 and the Visa was $350. There are other options for visa's and if you are having a problem getting one or just have questions PM me. I flew out and landed in Russia, Dr. Kulesh offered to meet me at the Airport, but I wanted to practice my Russian, so I decided to try and make it on my own. That night I landed and got a hotel room right across the street at a "very expensive hotel" it was around $100 and super nice. The next day I had an appointment with Dr. Kulesh for x-rays and to run tests. Then he explained the surgery to me. That night we went out and with a realtor looked at many apartment. I chose a nice sized apartment that was are $450 a month. You can go up or down on price, but mine was one of the nicest.

The Next day I was to MEDEM and ran many more tests, lung capacity, blood tests cardiograms, just about everything. Then the next day was the day of surgery, I showed up at 9 am having not eaten anything. I stepped out of the taxis afraid, nervous, and excited. I paid the account in cash 350,000 for the surgery, the tests, and 5 days at the hospital with food. Then the nurses shaved my legs, gave me that weird hospital gown, and told me to wait, a few hours later they showed up with a hospital bed and told me to remove my gown and get on. I asked them to repeat it because we were speaking Russian and I was sure I misunderstood. Then she repeated it in English. So I did and they covered me with the sheat took me to the operation room, put a couple IVs in my arms and put me under.

I woke up a few hours later it was still December 24th, I hadnt missed Christmas. Awesome. I remember feeling really good, still on tons of painkillers, I started flirting with all of the nurses in russian. There I was this nked american with broken legs flirting terribly. Then after a few hours I started to feel the pain, at first not bad. I thought I was ready for the pain but within hours I knew I was terribly wrong. This was pain like I had never experienced.

What method did you do and was it femur or tibia?

I used External Frames ilizarov Fixation, thinking about adding the Nail later and going the LATN route. But my regeneration is so good, it might be a waste. Dr. Kulesh said I should only need to keep them on for 4-6 months

I started lengthening on January 1st. I was rotating 4 times a day. I actually always do 4 times a day, but now the first 3 are .5mm rotations.

I have training with the trainer every week for 30min. She comes to the apartment. I also have a cleaning lady that comes and cleans everything.

External Frames and Tibia

1.75mm per day on tibias?!    Just wow
So I guess you would have to do femurs at 3.5mm per day to avoid pre-consolidation then.
I've learned that everything above 2mm/day can lead to severe and permanent nerve damage.
This means you could never do femurs.

Does Solomin operate together with Kulesh? Which would be the price of LON?