Hey James, any tip or anything to improve tightness in the hamstrings? I feel like the skin will tear apart 
but weird I feel nothing in my right leg
Quote from: Zion on March 09, 2021, 03:08:50 PMHey James, any tip or anything to improve tightness in the hamstrings? I feel like the skin will tear apart but weird I feel nothing in my right leg
I was the exact same man, everything you feel is natural. I had the skin tearing apart pain too and it was mostly on my left leg too.
Good training for that is to escalate the leg each day or a certain amount of time. Maybe on like a pillow or two.
Quote from: Jamesy998 on March 10, 2021, 02:32:05 PMI was the exact same man, everything you feel is natural. I had the skin tearing apart pain too and it was mostly on my left leg too.
Good training for that is to escalate the leg each day or a certain amount of time. Maybe on like a pillow or two.
So just rising the leg as much as possible? Up and down excercises? And how long did it take you for that pain to go away? Thanks in advance man
Pain went away for me 1.5 months after the operation. After that you will occasionally get pin site pains, muscle pains, hamstring pains but no worries they all eventually subside. Some take longer than others. So as an example, I had a pin site infection on my left leg which lasted about 2 weeks or a little more, caused really bad pain if I moved my leg and it caused my knee bending on that side to get really bad and I am working on that at the moment. 2 weeks ago my right leg was extremely weak but now it is fine. There are tons of little annoying pains and minor problems that will arise during the lengthening but all it takes is a bit of patience and they will go away. Take note though, every time you get the pain ask the doc if it is normal. My trick is to annoy the former patients and the doc as much as possible just to be sure it is nothing serious, that is how I found out I had an infection early on instead of later when it would cause more problems down the line. Knee bending issues, knee straightening issues, leg weakness, nerve pains here and there, muscle pains, muscle spasms, they are all part of the process and it should not scare you.
Hey James would you mind sharing photos after frame removal? Interested to see how noticeable the scars will be.
Quote from: canterk on March 12, 2021, 03:12:43 PMHey James would you mind sharing photos after frame removal? Interested to see how noticeable the scars will be.
No problem, will do.
Did you remove your device?
I will stop the lengthening soon and remove after the 16th.
14/03/2021
I have officially stopped lengthening, I am at 6.5cm. At the moment my ROM will do with some improvement and also get my right knee to straighten more. I feel my body can accommodate more lengthening but considering i am already completely satisfied with my height, I will stop here. My frame removal date is most likely going to be for the 26th, still yet to confirm and that will give me time i advance to give my legs a little break before doing another procedure which I am completely dreading although it will probably feel amazing to have these things off once and for all.
I had really bad knee pain last night which was not common at all considering I went a month with literally zero pain and now for it to hurt all of a sudden felt a bit strange but it is gone now and feels normal again. Although my ROM is bad I have no pain in the area and my walking is not too bad although I am not fully satisfied with my right leg. My right positions itself into an outward position and I have to put effort to actually make at more straight as I am trying my best not to lose the ability to walk the way I used to. I have many plans for the months to come so recovery is extremely important to me. I want to get walking as soon as possible so once these frames are off and the cooling off period of the surgery and surgical pain has passed I will be dedicating a lot of effort to physical therapy which should significantly boost my recovery period and improve my ROM. If anyone has done external femur can you please give me a bit of insight with the whole removal process, I am told by many that straight after the removal process the ROM gets even worse and cannot be improved for a certain period of time. Does anyone know why that is? has me very curious.
Travelling post frame removal : I am catious person by nature and also a pessimist which gives me a sense of paranoia reason being. Many patients report that the frame removal pain is the same as the pain we experience from the first initial surgery. Now, most patients have those post surgical pains for about 2 weeks but for me it went on for a minimum of 1 month which is where my paranoia comes in that the same pain will go on for another month after removal. If that pain is still present even at the end of the post month that would mean that I will want to stay in Turkey for a longer duration, not that I have a problem with that but just as a side note I thought that I would mention it. Although this could just be a thought as anything can happen and maybe I wont have pain as long as the first surgery where in that case I would be able to return home by the end of April which wold be great. I also had this obsession that I did not want to return unless I was able to walk properly but talking to so many patients the recovery period for walking seems to be all over the place, some people walk after 3 weeks removal and others take months. I am confident it will not take anything longer than 2 months and by month 4 I could start weight training my legs again as I have gotten skinny in the past month or two. I have basically forgotten the feeling of being "free" and without the frames. The time when walking around and even running was taken for granted, psyched to go back to all that. In 6 months I am also returning to my home country for the first time in 5 years which is amazing. There is a lot of things waiting for me so to speak that I have to be ready for so I cannot make any errors and mistakes that would lead to God forbid bad outcomes which was also another reason for stopping the lengthening a bit too early. I like to think that I have a pretty good intuition and my intuition told me to stop so thats what I am doing.
A word of advice for those who are reading this and considering to do LL, please just listen to your body. 1 extra centimetre does not mean anything in real life but to your body can be a disaster in the making. I can assure you that at a certain point in your lengthening phase you WILL reach a gain that will make you feel 100 percent comfortable at that height but the greed part will be telling you to do more. Do not give in and just stop, the people that have not have had all the ty outcomes you can imagine. Remember why we all wanted to do this surgery in the first place, not to be tall but to feel normal. 
Congrats! Good luck on your recovery! Please continue updating too as your experience is invaluable for people looking to do this!
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