Diary - Internal femurs Dr.Guichet - January 2018 - Milan (second lengthening)

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Quote from: cool on February 10, 2019, 10:41:18 AMHi simons

Can  you give us an update on what you've decided?

Hey there,

I apologize for not having updated the diary during the last week. My daily routing is always the same: gym 5 days a weeks (almost 3 hours session in the morning). I had a isokinetic test and the result was amazing according to the trainer.

Obviously we will proceed with the femur. I'm going to do a "femur length preview" with the trainer tomorrow. If it's something tangible I can post here the result. I'd like to know how femurs will look like after a gain of 10cm.

Just out of curiosity we met ivetenneeded2016 at the gym and he saw me jumping around. That's to explain that 100% of what I write is genuine.

Thanks
S

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Hi Simons
Read your diary on the old forum. After 7 years how do you feel. Any residual pain or discomfort(of any type) that you feel. How is your athletic(light activity) ability? What should a future patient expect after this operation after 6-7 Yaers, what I mean to ask is that there is going to be some trade off right. If you could pls tell that would be very helpful, it’s rare to have vets on the forum.

Best of luck for your future surgery.

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Quote from: Cr7 on February 12, 2019, 05:02:19 PMHi Simons
Read your diary on the old forum. After 7 years how do you feel. Any residual pain or discomfort(of any type) that you feel. How is your athletic(light activity) ability? What should a future patient expect after this operation after 6-7 Yaers, what I mean to ask is that there is going to be some trade off right. If you could pls tell that would be very helpful, it’s rare to have vets on the forum.

Best of luck for your future surgery.

First of all thanks for your wishes 

I had no pain during the first LL, after and even now. My athletic ability has improved. I can jump, kick sandboxes (I'm Karate black belt) and do whatever I want. The only thing I can't do because of the the nail that I haven't removed yet (I'll do within the next surgery when it'll be replaced with the new one) is running. I can run but not in a good way. It's not a problem related to the surgery or recovery but it's the material of the nail. In fact when you run the femurs flex a bit, my nail - being the first generation - is entirely built of titanium and it doesn't flex. The current "release" of the nail is made of another material and it flexes.

A future patient should expect to live a normal life doing everything he used to do before LL. I strongly suggest to keep going regularly to the gym.

The best advice I can give is to follow strictly what the doctor says. Otherwise the result is not guaranteed and you can incur into some issues.

If you have more specific questions feel free to ask me.

Thanks,
S

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Sorry no sorry imo is insane than Dr.Guichet  allow/consent doing 10 cm more on yours alredy 7cm lengthen femurs

I am sure medically can be done, lengthen 17 cm bones, muscles, arteries etc over a period of 7-8 years BUT it would be a disaster on the biomechanics of tibia:femur ratio (normally .80 +- .02) and aesthetics

you mention female models legs, well they tend very ofen to have longer femurs, on the other hand male have usually longer tibias

i know Dr.Guichet doesn't do tibias, as advice please if you are dead serious in a second cll consider doing tibias instead even if it mean choosing another doctor and a more moderate amount of height to gain

this in my opinon would be a more sensible plan,  at the end of the day is your life, yours legs i truly wish you luck, a good result in the end

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Hi Simons,
I think 1m77.5 is a great height. Doing another 10cm on your femurs sounds very extreme to me...

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M of the same view that you shouldn’t do 10 cm on your femurs, I would say don’t do it at all coz I think u have already achieved a great height. Still if you want to do it gain not more than 4- 5 cm on the tibias.

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Quote from: JON SNOW on February 12, 2019, 11:54:48 PMSorry no sorry imo is insane than Dr.Guichet  allow/consent doing 10 cm more on yours alredy 7cm lengthen femurs

I am sure medically can be done, lengthen 17 cm bones, muscles, arteries etc over a period of 7-8 years BUT it would be a disaster on the biomechanics of tibia:femur ratio (normally .80 +- .02) and aesthetics

you mention female models legs, well they tend very ofen to have longer femurs, on the other hand male have usually longer tibias

i know Dr.Guichet doesn't do tibias, as advice please if you are dead serious in a second cll consider doing tibias instead even if it mean choosing another doctor and a more moderate amount of height to gain

this in my opinon would be a more sensible plan,  at the end of the day is your life, yours legs i truly wish you luck, a good result in the end

I started my first LL with a deficit of 5cm on my femurs. And nobody's noticed that. I gained 7.5cm, so I was 2.5cm above the "perfect" ratio. And nobody's noticed that. Now with 10cm more I'm going be at the same of of somebody who is doing LL starting from a normal height.

Guichet does tibias but he prefers femur for a long list of reasons discussed many times in this board. He suggested me femur and - since I trust him - I agreed. In the next days I'll do a sort of "preview" of my final legs. I'll post it here, I promise.

Btw I have already discussed an "exit strategy": if femurs will be too long we will proceed with tibias.

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Quote from: Cr7 on February 13, 2019, 12:30:50 AMM of the same view that you shouldn’t do 10 cm on your femurs, I would say don’t do it at all coz I think u have already achieved a great height. Still if you want to do it gain not more than 4- 5 cm on the tibias.

Well ... the final goal is 10cm BUT if I see that my femurs become too long I will stop and proceed (after the recovery) with tibias.

You may consider that insane but my situation is a bit different than other patients: I live 300 meters far from Dr. Guichet studio and 100 meters far from the gym  used for post-op training.

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Quote from: Singapore on February 13, 2019, 12:12:54 AMHi Simons,
I think 1m77.5 is a great height. Doing another 10cm on your femurs sounds very extreme to me...

Believe me here in Milan 177.5cm isn't a great height. A great height is 184-185cm. My goal is 187.5cm just to "maximize" the investment LOL

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Hey there,

just a quick note ... I think to be able to deliver the preview of femur tomorrow.

Thanks peeps