Happy New Year!
Been a while since I updated but here are some highlights from the past weeks.
Week 7:
I had to start lengthening 4 times a day, it was definitely tough, everything felt tighter. My flexibility of course got worse, sleep wasn't that great. I was waking up maybe every 2 hrs in discomfort, it was frustrating.
Week 8:
Regressed back to 3 times a day, this week felt better, the tightness kind of eased up, but my flexibility was bad in my knee range of motion. It was this week where I noticed that my left quad was now tighter than my right (I had better ROM on my left knee than my right). Stretching and trying to get that knee bend further really hurt, especially at the PT sessions, but knew it was good for me.
Week 9:
While sleeping, if i laid straight on the bed, I'd get numbing sensations on my left shin, and I felt like a muscle was being pulled on my right quad just above the knee. I had to start sleeping kind of sitting up, this helped alot. I asked the PT and he said it was because everything stretched and especially the nerves at the hip flexors. When I started sleeping sitting up a little, it helped alot with those issues. Sometimes waking up I might've slept a little too straight and definitely felt the pull on the quads right above the knee, it was pretty painful, but it subsided once I sat up, bent my leg, and rubbed the area for a minute.
Week 10:
I got my xrays taken and unfortunately the Advils caught up to me. Seemed like this time my bone growth was alot weaker than the last time I took xrays. I think this was due to the combination of advils, reduced intake in supplements, and the week of accelerated lengthening. I was told to stop lengthening for 2 days and load up on supplements, stop the advils, and resume lengthening 2 times a day for the rest of the ride. To be honest, I was sad when I thought about the longer time, but after I stopped lengthening for 2 days, my legs felt so much better. The 2nd day I was doing my stretches and it wasn't painful on my quads when I was pushing that knee ROM. I was also sleeping a full 7 hrs or so (woke up with my tailbone hurting though because my butt muscles still atrophied). I'm at about 68mm (at the end of this week) so almost done.
Sitting in a seat (computer chair/car seat) where my legs aren't outstretched 180 degrees starts to hurt after like 7 minutes. I think this is because of flexibility and my quads being stretched when I bend my legs. I also sit with my legs outstretched in my bed for most the day. It gets really difficult and hurts to drive longer than 10 minutes, I'd have to stop and get out and stand up after a while, maybe 20 minutes if I pushed it. On the bright side, I think this is better than having tight hamstrings, my PT told me some start to have a constant knee bend and can't get their legs straight, that would probably be detrimental to reaching the full 80mm.
One thing is I been just chilling on crutches so Ima try to start getting off them and work on walking without support, I think I been lazy on this compared to others' diaries lol. Thats all so far, looking forward to wrapping this up soon.
