Quote from: Hagane on June 01, 2023, 07:12:56 PMinteresting
Dr Gdalevitch encourages all her patients to walk approx 2k steps per day with walker or crutches
2k per day with Precise! Isnt this too much? What other doctors recommend?
Quote from: Hagane on June 01, 2023, 07:12:56 PMinteresting
Dr Gdalevitch encourages all her patients to walk approx 2k steps per day with walker or crutches
2k per day with Precise! Isnt this too much? What other doctors recommend?
Real had an issue with one nail as well and had a surgery to replace it. He said the surgery was very easy, he was out the same day. Just a small bump in the road 
Quote from: hippo60 on June 04, 2023, 02:49:51 PMReal had an issue with one nail as well and had a surgery to replace it. He said the surgery was very easy, he was out the same day. Just a small bump in the road
Oh nice, do you have a link to his journal or wherever he wrote about it? I'd love to read it.
Yeah, I'm not expecting it to be a bad surgery. It's really just annoying. An extra $2.6k I have to pay even with insurance (cause of deductible), having to drive down 8 hours because I'm not local, getting an airbnb for 4-5 days, and obviously the surgery. All for something that's not fault. But I guess this is a surgery we understand where complications can happen.
He doesn't have a diary and he's not participating in the forum as far as I know. Check Cyborg4Life youtube, he was on one of his live sessions few times recently. I think that video was about 2 months ago.
Yeah it sucks how it all adds up, but when you think about the overall cost of the surgery it's eventually just one line item
yeah for sure. I can stop now and take my 61.75mm gain and just let the bone consolidate. But doc doesnt think it's safe to keep lengthening since the nails will get less stable as it lengthens. If I want to safely reach 80mm, I'd need a replacement.
I'm basically paying $2600 for 20mm of length to get me from 180cm to 182cm. I think it's worth the price tag.
Had surgery yesterday. The surgical wound hurts just as bad as the first surgery. Only 2.5 of the initial 5 incision sites were reopened. (I think this is how it is for rod removals as well). The lower cut is a single cut where he put 2 of the screws. The upper 2 screws had 2 incisions during the initial surgery because he had to drill the holes, but for removing/reinserting, he only had to cut one open. And the last one is obviously the largest cut for the rod.
It was supposed to be an outpatient but I ended up staying overnight because surgery started late. It started at like 430 and I woke up at 7 in the recovery room. I was in a good amount of pain so I stayed the night and left in the morning. The actual surgery apparently was only like 30 mins. The price tag was only $1200, I'm not even sure if my insurance covered anything because I have a high deductible plan and that isn't met yet. Basically, I'm pretty sure he only charged me for the hospital fee and ate up the anestesia and surgeon fee. And the rod is obviously free replacement from Nuvasive. But i'll keep an eye out on my bills to make sure.
Lengthening is sort of annoying. Because my right rod malfunction, it's actually like ~8mm shorter than my left. My left rod has 18.25mm to hit 80mm. What we're going to do now is to do 0.5mm/day on my left rod and 0.75mm/day on my right rod so my right can catch up. And he'll keep checking x-rays as we go so we can adjust speed if necessary. But it's annoying because I'll end up taking like 4.5 months in distraction phase, which is like a lot longer than most people (~3 months). But shouldnt really increase the consolidation date by much.
If it was not for this rod crack, honestly Precise 2.2 would have been not bad. But this unfortunate 1% crack malfunction is just so upsetting. I'm sure in 3 weeks I'll be like it's whatever, but as of right now, it is just unforutnate.
Quote from: jerrytheman on June 08, 2023, 10:19:31 PMHad surgery yesterday. The surgical wound hurts just as bad as the first surgery. Only 2.5 of the initial 5 incision sites were reopened. (I think this is how it is for rod removals as well). The lower cut is a single cut where he put 2 of the screws. The upper 2 screws had 2 incisions during the initial surgery because he had to drill the holes, but for removing/reinserting, he only had to cut one open. And the last one is obviously the largest cut for the rod.
It was supposed to be an outpatient but I ended up staying overnight because surgery started late. It started at like 430 and I woke up at 7 in the recovery room. I was in a good amount of pain so I stayed the night and left in the morning. The actual surgery apparently was only like 30 mins. The price tag was only $1200, I'm not even sure if my insurance covered anything because I have a high deductible plan and that isn't met yet. Basically, I'm pretty sure he only charged me for the hospital fee and ate up the anestesia and surgeon fee. And the rod is obviously free replacement from Nuvasive. But i'll keep an eye out on my bills to make sure.
Lengthening is sort of annoying. Because my right rod malfunction, it's actually like ~8mm shorter than my left. My left rod has 18.25mm to hit 80mm. What we're going to do now is to do 0.5mm/day on my left rod and 0.75mm/day on my right rod so my right can catch up. And he'll keep checking x-rays as we go so we can adjust speed if necessary. But it's annoying because I'll end up taking like 4.5 months in distraction phase, which is like a lot longer than most people (~3 months). But shouldnt really increase the consolidation date by much.
If it was not for this rod crack, honestly Precise 2.2 would have been not bad. But this unfortunate 1% crack malfunction is just so upsetting. I'm sure in 3 weeks I'll be like it's whatever, but as of right now, it is just unforutnate.
Do u feel better now?
Hope u recover well! Best Wishes!
yeah it's better than when I went in for surgery. There was definitely something wrong with my old rod that led to pain. Surgical fatigue/pain takes a week or so to heal but at least it's normal and controllable.
Quote from: jerrytheman on June 08, 2023, 10:19:31 PMBut it's annoying because I'll end up taking like 4.5 months in distraction phase, which is like a lot longer than most people (~3 months). But shouldnt really increase the consolidation date by much.
Glad surgery was successful and if $1.2k is all it took then it's more like a rounding error considering the price of this surgery.
I wouldn't be too upset about that distraction time. I'm not sure who manage to finish 8cm in 3 months (maybe people in their early 20s?), but almost everyone ends up slowing down lengthening sooner or later. If you don't slow down, unless you have crazy bone growth, you're just going to spend more time waiting before you're fully weight-bearing, so it's essentially the same time-wise.
As for moving forward, were you given different instructions on how much you can/should walk?
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