Delayed consolidation

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Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or similar experiences to what I'm going through now.

Basic background:
Left limb lengthening to correct a LLD of a little over 3 cm using PRECISE 2 nail (USA).  I had the surgery late in June and am 3 months post op.  I've been done distracting for the past month and a half and after visiting my doc, he said I that I'm not consolidating as fast as he would like (have a small amount of ossification posteriorly that has only progressed a little in the past 6 weeks.  I'll be doing bone stimulation starting later this week, have been taking Vitamin D/multivitamin, and waking a decent amount. Do yall have any suggestions as far as additional supplements, exercises, sun tanning, or anything else to help consolidation move along? If things don't progress I'll have to have a hip graft/injection and would like to avoid that if at all possible.

I checked the forum but didn't see anything specifically on this. If I overlooked it, I'd appreciate a link.

Thanks.

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Are you smoker? Then stop


Calcium supplements and the jarrows Bone up pills. Buy them. Now

Take 10000iu vitamin D daily

Take some vitamin k2 (this is important)

Take calcium pills, AND milk if possible.

Bone up supplement. This is extremely good


stop smoking if you are doing so. Nic is still smoking

The most important thing is the Bone-Up and Vitamin D+K2 and the Calcium pills. You can use exogen but focus on the k2 and calcium pills.

What k2 does is divert calcium into your bones instead of arteries

Unfortunately you shouldn't weight bear precice 2 is weak and you can later on when more callus is developing but not now since you said delayed consolidation

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Thanks, appreciate it.

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Bone up is incredibly good by the way. Focus on getting bone up at minimum, jarrows brand

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I wouldn’t worry too much.

I’m 1 year and 2 months and I’m just finally almost finished consolidating.

For me personally I didn’t take calcium or other vitamin supplements.

I ate a lot of protein, like I would have extra each meal and then I would add + 2-3 scoops of whey protein isolate with water for a drink after the meal.

Oh I dunno how much it helps but I juice every morning, regardless of whether it’s LL or not. Just a personal habit. I get around 8 different vegetables (w maybe 1 or 2 fruits) (try to get less surgery stuff cause all that sugar ends up in your juice so I focus more on kale and broccoli and stuff like that rather than apples and oranges cause of the sugar content) and I juice every morning.

And for meals it is pretty healthy stuff w a focus on lean meat + the additional protein and juicing

And I walk, cycle or just stand.

That worked for me.

Oh and another thing I really liked is the power plate at the fitness here. It sends vibrations through out your entire body but you can kind of squat down to focus on your legs. I usually do some stretches on there. I think it helps? But I did that only when my bones had connected in the back and I just needed to fill in the front. I dunno how dangerous it is to do it if there is 0 bone support and the top/bottom is still very much disconnected.

But yea summary: eat healthy meals (focus on lean meat) + whey protein isolate (non sugar for me) + juicing fresh veg each morning + standing/walking/cycling whatever you can do while upright.

Sorry I can’t comment on other vitamins and stuff cause I didn’t need it. But I think fresh veg and lean meat and lots of protein is the key. And being on your legs moving or standing. Don’t sit.

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Quote from: sermai on September 29, 2020, 09:44:43 PMHey everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or similar experiences to what I'm going through now.

Basic background:
Left limb lengthening to correct a LLD of a little over 3 cm using PRECISE 2 nail (USA).  I had the surgery late in June and am 3 months post op.  I've been done distracting for the past month and a half and after visiting my doc, he said I that I'm not consolidating as fast as he would like (have a small amount of ossification posteriorly that has only progressed a little in the past 6 weeks.  I'll be doing bone stimulation starting later this week, have been taking Vitamin D/multivitamin, and waking a decent amount. Do yall have any suggestions as far as additional supplements, exercises, sun tanning, or anything else to help consolidation move along? If things don't progress I'll have to have a hip graft/injection and would like to avoid that if at all possible.

I checked the forum but didn't see anything specifically on this. If I overlooked it, I'd appreciate a link.

Thanks.

Hi Sermai,

Just curious, who is your doctor exactly? Did he not inform you of what you should be doing to consolidate the bone? Hope everything works out for the best.

-brondo

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I had some serious delayed consolidation at 3 CM (Almost no bone growth). The Doctor was super concerned and ordered a panel of blood tests. I started taking the highest dose of Vitamin D you can get with a prescription (I think it was like 50,000 IU once per week), and spending hours a day in the sun. Surprisingly that variable alone did the trick for me, and I consolidated at a normal rate afterwards.

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Quote from: marathonrunner on October 01, 2020, 02:53:36 AMI wouldn’t worry too much.

I’m 1 year and 2 months and I’m just finally almost finished consolidating.

For me personally I didn’t take calcium or other vitamin supplements.

I ate a lot of protein, like I would have extra each meal and then I would add + 2-3 scoops of whey protein isolate with water for a drink after the meal.

Oh I dunno how much it helps but I juice every morning, regardless of whether it’s LL or not. Just a personal habit. I get around 8 different vegetables (w maybe 1 or 2 fruits) (try to get less surgery stuff cause all that sugar ends up in your juice so I focus more on kale and broccoli and stuff like that rather than apples and oranges cause of the sugar content) and I juice every morning.

And for meals it is pretty healthy stuff w a focus on lean meat + the additional protein and juicing

And I walk, cycle or just stand.

That worked for me.

Oh and another thing I really liked is the power plate at the fitness here. It sends vibrations through out your entire body but you can kind of squat down to focus on your legs. I usually do some stretches on there. I think it helps? But I did that only when my bones had connected in the back and I just needed to fill in the front. I dunno how dangerous it is to do it if there is 0 bone support and the top/bottom is still very much disconnected.

But yea summary: eat healthy meals (focus on lean meat) + whey protein isolate (non sugar for me) + juicing fresh veg each morning + standing/walking/cycling whatever you can do while upright.

Sorry I can’t comment on other vitamins and stuff cause I didn’t need it. But I think fresh veg and lean meat and lots of protein is the key. And being on your legs moving or standing. Don’t sit.

Hi marathonrunner,

Do you think if you were to do it all over again you probably would have taken the supplements? 1 year and 2 months seems like a long time to get consolidated? How much did you lengthen btw?

-brondo

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Quote from: 6CMFemurs on October 02, 2020, 04:11:06 AMI had some serious delayed consolidation at 3 CM (Almost no bone growth). The Doctor was super concerned and ordered a panel of blood tests. I started taking the highest dose of Vitamin D you can get with a prescription (I think it was like 50,000 IU once per week), and spending hours a day in the sun. Surprisingly that variable alone did the trick for me, and I consolidated at a normal rate afterwards.

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Oh I had a lot of complications haha. Sorry I should have mentioned.

Actually my last surgery was around mid of Feb this year.

And the consolidation was probably at 1-2% only for right leg, left leg was a bit more maybe like 5%.

So you can say I consolidated 90%+ of 5.7-5.8cm from then to now.

And I would say stitch out was around end of Feb, so really all the walking and stuff I did I around beginning to mid March.

So Let's say we count at beginning of March to now for 5.7-5.8cm consolidation, start to finish.

I would say that is not bad 7+ months for tibia 5.7-5.8cm from basically nothing to almost full finished.

It was only 1 year 2 months because Aug - Feb, I was dealing with tons of complications.

Honestly.. I don't know how much vitamins would help. I do know protein helps a lot though so that was where I put my focus. Protein and walking (putting pressure on the legs).