Wanted to share my post recovery experience for any perspective LL's. I did bi-lateral 5.3cm on both femurs, I did a conservative amount, personal preference and reasons. I am very happy just getting above the 5'9 mark. Went from 5'7.25 to 5'9.40. Will not be doing tibia or anything further. Hopefully the links work below.
Thanks man, I did precise 2.2 in Las Vegas with Dr. Debi.
Your body is affected by every mm or .03 inches, specially soft tissues. You don't get permanent damage from 1cm to the next.
There’s alway going to be a change, yes joints do try to balance out the body but the more you lengthen that’s when your athleticism % decreases, if the individual had any. I’m talking about anything over one inch and up. That’s why you see people that have three year post recovery and still walk odd and can barely run, will probably be like that for life.
To answer your questions,
I feel great about my proportions, my wingspan is between 69.5-70 inches, my body looks extremely normal. I like to wear shorts with no shirt in the summer and nothing looks off, or concerned that my tibia look shorter. Since my ratio was .829 almost .83, my femurs were slightly shorter.
I feel femur lengthening is like a graph with a line that rises, it gets to a high point when you reach a good proportion, where I feel it helped my athleticism. I feel if I would’ve kept going the line would have come down, to each their own, it’s my opinion and experience. I know some are going to hate on my opinion regardless.
I feel my longer femurs helped me run faster, I just got to build the stamina now.
Remain active, even when you are in the distractions phase. Just be careful if don’t have the full weight bearing nail. I was doing supported treadmill walks during distraction phase, not everyday but at least three times a week.
To me personally, prior to surgery I didn’t have a huge physiological issue, but there was times where I did think to myself. I’d be nice if I was the height I am when I wore boots which was 1.5 inches. I didn’t have a huge issue with the ladies but I do get more looks my way. My height awareness is definitely not an issue anymore and it was totally worth it to me. I had the financial blessing to be able to get this done without loosing income. Would I do it again? Never lol.
Why never, because another surgery on Tibia would probably be more painful, very happy the new height and feel balanced. I wouldn't want to risk losing the mobility I achieved. It's expensive and lastly my days felt long since I'm used to being active. Do I regret getting the surgery and where I stopped, no.
I can post some pictures later, or I'll just do a video.
I was clear to walk without crutches three months and five days after surgery, I did have very fast bone regeneration though.
The process is painful the first 2-4 weeks but manageable, if there's a medicine to stick to at nights so you can sleep, do the muscle relaxers. I didn't realize how much of a difference they made when I went back to using them week 3 to sleep more than 2-3 hours. Stay proactive in your stretching and putting light weight on you bones even in distraction phase.
IT bands were released during surgery.
Dr. Debi in Vegas i feel was a solid option for me and was closer since I'm in Cali.
Haven't had time but I'll post something soon.
It varies, if I would’ve been able to sleep long periods I would’ve done remote the first month after surgery. Go based on how good of sleep you can get. You can fit an 8 hour schedule during consolidation by stretching before work, during a lunch break and after you’re done with work. In my situation, I took a deskjob before walking around at work at 4 month post op.
If you’re talking about walking freely but still limping a little I was able to do it at 3.5 months. Or roughly 105+ days after surgery. Took my body I few days to get used to walking without the crutches.
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