Bilateral Femur Lengthening with Dr. Monegal

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Quote from: SnD on March 21, 2016, 09:25:20 AMTIBIKE200,

He prefers doing it that way, but he has no problem doing two legs at the same time (bilateral).

Yeah I'm pretty satisfied. If the nails were to stop distracting now, I will have no complain.

Did Dr monegal said roughly when would you be able to walk without crutches ?
The bleeding wound look really painful though
congratulations for making it through the lengthening phrase  !

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So now you are considered average or tall in your city?

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snd.   where are you from in china?       

why did you choose spain and not beijing?

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Quote from: hyong on March 21, 2016, 09:56:02 AMDid Dr monegal said roughly when would you be able to walk without crutches ?
The bleeding wound look really painful though
congratulations for making it through the lengthening phrase  !

No, it depends. In my case I'm expecting 4-5 months post op.
The bleeding looked scary but it was not painful at all. I didn't even notice it until the blood wetted my legging.

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Quote from: TIBIKE200 on March 21, 2016, 10:11:37 AMSo now you are considered average or tall in your city?

I will consider myself being average among my generation now.

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Quote from: chineseguy on March 21, 2016, 10:20:30 AMsnd.   where are you from in china?       

why did you choose spain and not beijing?

You can PM me for the more private questions.

Because I prefer internal method of course.

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Yesterday I took my latest x-rays. Unfortunately the images are a little bit unclear (as is common in China). X-rays showed a even gap of 58.5 mm for left leg and 58.3 mm for right leg by their measurement, but on my book, it should have been around 6.1 cm. Anyways I'm not worried about this but rather that the x-ray showed that the pelvis isn't quite horizontal, which implies that the left femur is shorter. I tape measured the gaps and they are of equal length. Then I measured the lengths of the nails, and they are almost equal too. Weird. I wonder if it's because of my standing posture. I will continue distraction for about ten more days. Lengthening remains painless. I continue walking quite a lot with my forearm crutches everyday, and I swim (freestyle) once every two days.

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I have read of what happened to Cooper and I feel very sorry. Here, it is not in my interest to promote or accuse Dr. Monegal, but to speak of the facts of my experiences.

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As someone has pmed me asking about my recent situation, I'd like to give some updates. At four months post op, I got rid of crutches. It was very difficult at first, but gradually it got better. Now, seven months post op, walking isn't a problem any more. I have resumed my normal life since five months post op.

Below are my recent x-ray scans.








As you can see, the bones are almost consolidated. So to be honest, bone healing is least of my concern. Rather, knee bending continues to bother me. My left leg now bends at 90 degree and my right leg at about 100 degree. Last time when I went to see Dr. Monegal for wire removal, he said that there are signs of fibrosis, which is tissue hardening. Now, I continue to stretch my legs, hoping that bending will improve.

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Quote from: SnD on August 05, 2016, 09:49:21 AMAs someone has pmed me asking about my recent situation, I'd like to give some updates. At four months post op, I got rid of crutches. It was very difficult at first, but gradually it got better. Now, seven months post op, walking isn't a problem any more. I have resumed my normal life since five months post op.

Below are my recent x-ray scans.








As you can see, the bones are almost consolidated. So to be honest, bone healing is least of my concern. Rather, knee bending continues to bother me. My left leg now bends at 90 degree and my right leg at about 100 degree. Last time when I went to see Dr. Monegal for wire removal, he said that there are signs of fibrosis, which is tissue hardening. Now, I continue to stretch my legs, hoping that bending will improve.
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