Quote from: erenyeager1 on January 05, 2023, 03:54:05 AMHi stretched! When I woke up after surgery, because the anesthesia is still there, I didn’t feel any pain, just legs are heavy. Then anesthesia goes away in a few hours maybe a day. Then they give you oxycodone 5mg every 8 hours or so for a few days. The pain level was low like 2 for the first 2 days. Then it starts to go higher to like 4-5 for last two days in the hospital mostly because they stop giving me oxycodone and switched to a different pain killer. From time to time there is like a 1-sec level 7-8 pain, but that’s like once an hour or so. The surgical pain remained like this for two weeks, then it slowly goes away. For most people, the surgical pain should be gone in around 3 weeks. Looking back, the pain wasn’t that bad. It was manageable for 99% the time, and most people have similar experience. Apparently, tibia hurts less than femur for most people. I didn’t do tibia but I talked to a few who did both femur and tibia, and they say that the pain after femur surgery is much worse than that of the tibia surgery.
After surgical pain is gone, you probably have already lengthened like 1.x cm. Soon, depends on your flexibility, you are going to get muscle tightness. Then some people get nerve pain. If you get nerve pain, it’s probably going to stay for the entire lengthening period. The only way to delay or prevent this is by stretching religiously. It is a painful process too, but it’s a different kind of pain than the surgical pain. And this pain you can experience pre surgery. Just find a physical therapist and ask them to stretch you real hard. As of now for me, 5 weeks post op, I feel 0-1 pain for the most part. The only pain in my life is when I do stretches. Hopefully I don’t get nerve pain. Most people get it between 2 to 6 cm lengthened, but I’ve met a few who never got it, but they are either very flexible to begin with or stretched really hard.
Also my overall energy level was low until recently, like the first few weeks I am always super tired everyday. It slowly gets better as time goes on.
Quote from: BrentL on January 05, 2023, 07:53:52 AMSo in 2 weeks you gained 1cm.
2cm/month x 4 months = your 8cm goal
Is this correct?
Quote from: the188cmdream on January 05, 2023, 12:49:18 PMDo you think I can do remote software engineering work or is it impossible to get into the right mindset following surgery?
Quote from: Ismail6024 on January 05, 2023, 11:36:11 AMHow much stretching and exercises do you have to do in your own time after having the therapist perform your daily sessions?
Quote from: the188cmdream on January 05, 2023, 12:49:18 PMDo you think I can do remote software engineering work or is it impossible to get into the right mindset following surgery?
Quote from: TheDream on January 05, 2023, 02:10:50 PMErenyeager have you heard any rumors of new LL technology while at Paley’s?
His group tend to be very advanced and come up with new methods. I remember Paley talking in an interview on YouTube about a device that could lengthen more slowly but over an entire day instead of in jumps, but haven’t heard anything since.
Quote from: erenyeager1 on January 05, 2023, 02:32:24 PMHaven’t heard of anything. All the lengthening patients I know, including a few who just had surgery recently, have the precice 2.2 rods. I do see other lengthening devices like externals in PT but they are not for LL. The jumps (.25 mm turns) work fine for me. It’s never been painful, though slightly uncomfortable sometimes.
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