Quote from: DoingItForMe on May 18, 2015, 05:04:28 AMYellowSpike, I don't mind not reaching 5'8" fully. I just want to be taller. At 5'4.5, I'm only taller than about 4% of adult males (20-29). At 5'8, I'll only be taller than 33% of males, but that's a big improvement! Source: https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0209.pdf If you're 5'9, you'll be taller than 42% of males. It sounds like you won't be happy unless you get that extra inch. I'd say go for it. Just go get to 5'9" and then want more again. Gaining height can be addictive, as John the PA told me. But he also said that most people only do one surgery, because they're happy with their new height already.
Oh yeah, 5'8" is a huge improvement, and not a bad height. I just personally feel now (comparing myself to other guys as I walk around) that I'm very close to being average. And since the rods inside my legs already are good for another inch (and won't take nearly as long as this has), I'm heavily considering it. But not entirely sure I'm gonna do it yet. I want to do it, just don't know if I'll have the time.
I would never do tibias, so that would be the end of it for me.
DoingItForMe's Precice 2 Internal Femurs with Dr. Paley
Quote from: YellowSpike on May 18, 2015, 12:01:54 PMOh yeah, 5'8" is a huge improvement, and not a bad height. I just personally feel now (comparing myself to other guys as I walk around) that I'm very close to being average. And since the rods inside my legs already are good for another inch (and won't take nearly as long as this has), I'm heavily considering it. But not entirely sure I'm gonna do it yet. I want to do it, just don't know if I'll have the time.
I would never do tibias, so that would be the end of it for me.
hi yellow, i really think that you are more 5´9 than 5´8 . most people use their morning height when they talk about it
Hey man good luck!
I'm going to have consultation with Paley on the 21-24th of June
I wanted to ask you regarding the IT band release . You said :
"because my legs don't drop when I lay on my side and make an open scissor shape with my legs They stay straight"
If I do that they are not falling as well but thats because I'm holding my legs on purpose so if I just let them go they will fall. What does it means? I don't think I've understand how do you if you need to release your IT band?
Hi guy yesterday I just have consultation with parley ....
Quote from: Tyler_Durden on May 29, 2015, 11:30:19 PMHey man good luck!
I'm going to have consultation with Paley on the 21-24th of June
I wanted to ask you regarding the IT band release . You said :
"because my legs don't drop when I lay on my side and make an open scissor shape with my legs They stay straight"
If I do that they are not falling as well but thats because I'm holding my legs on purpose so if I just let them go they will fall. What does it means? I don't think I've understand how do you if you need to release your IT band?
Don't try to figure this out on your own. If you're doing the consultation with Paley anyway, they will test your flexibility. Most likely, you will want your IT bands released if you are trying for 3 inches. Other than losing $5,000, Dr. Paley says that there's no long term side effects of having your IT bands released.
Are you still in Wpb. I will go to there also I want to see you
So it has been two weeks since your surgery, I do hope you post an update soon.... Yogi Bear also seems to have vanished, I wonder what Paley is up to....
As you may know, the first two weeks after surgery are the most painful. Yogi and I met up in person and realized how painful the first two weeks are. She and I have been busy dealing with the pain to want to write about it. I actually changed my surgery date due to a flight delay, so to simplify things, I'll just say the days away from surgery.
But I'm feeling better now, so here's the recap:
Day 0:
Just pre op. This is just a three hour thing where you register with the hospital and sign your living will and fill out more paperwork. Before that, they first take your blood and vitals I make sure things are okay for surgery. The anesthesiologist also examines you to see which one he will use. Also asks if you want an epidural. I opted out because I heard you lose a day or two of recovery if you have it. After pre op, I returned to the hotel to check in.
Day 1:
Surgery day. Super easy. They basically make you strip and put all your clothes in a bag. Then you wear a gown. Then they inject a pain killer in your spine. Then threw put a gas mask on and start wheeling you to the operating room. You don't even leave the prep room before you fall asleep. Ten seconds later, you wake up with the sound of the nurses over you. You then realize that it wasn't ten seconds later. It's about three hours later. No pain. Just confusing and super high. Feel super happy that things went well and that I'm not dead.
DoingItForMe- you are in good hands with elite team. I was just having conversation with my LL mate. We had such a great time at WPM and her mother even says so!!!
Dr. Paley has great setup. I really liked it and partly the reason I picked him over Dr. M or Dr. R. If you have a car than get out from hotel and go to perry bridge, mall or city center. Obviously after few weeks of surgery. Many places to enjoy.
We did BBQ outside the pool every weekend and party late. I am sure there are other LLers in hotel and you can regroup and enjoy. Good luck mate!
Day 1 continued:
They roll me to my hospital bed. I'm feeling great. No pain. I can even do bicycle kicks with my legs. It was very odd, because I remember reading about how everyone else was in so much pain. Nurses kept taking my vitals every 4 hours. The main nurse (the one you call when in pain) kept asking how I was doing every 4 hours as well as gave me the drugs I needed. But they were alternating with the nurses that take vitals, so you really see a nurse every 2 hours or so. The main nurses switch every 8-12 hours or so. All nurses were very kind. I slept well that night without pain. Problem is that you get woken up every 2-4 hours because of nurses taking your vitals. Peeing wasn't a problem, because they stick a tube up your penis and you don't even know that you're peeing. It just leaks out of you. They gave me stool softeners, but I didn't poop until 5-7 days later. Didn't have any alien poop. Just looked like normal poop. I even bought milk of magnesia as suggested by other patients, but I didn't need it at all. I've been pooping everyday normally after I was discharged from the hospital.
Day 2-5:
So I stayed in the hospital for a total of 4 nights, 5 days. They started distraction since day 1 (1 mm on surgery day as well), so each day is equal to 1 mm already. Days 2-5, I felt pains ranging from 3-8. It mostly hovered around 3, because they gave me this great pain killer called toradol that they inject in your ivy. I recommend it, because it always kills the pain from 8 to almost 1-3 within 45 minutes or so. Without it, you get percocet, which is a mix of oxycodone and tylenol (acetaminophen). You only get percocet in the hospital, I believe because you can overdose on Tylenol. When discharged, you get Oxycodone. Percocet only lasts about 2-4 hours for me. So I actually ask for it every 4 hours (usually to coincide with the nurses taking my vitals, so that I only get bothered every 4 hours instead of every 2 hours). I take 2 every 4 hours. That's the max you can take. At the beginning, I didn't know that you had to request for pain killers. I thought that they just give it to you without asking. So there was a time when I didn't get any pain killers for 12 hours. This was the only time my pain level went to 8. All other times it was just 3. I have a high pain tolerance (as confirmed by my nurses), so my pain levels might be different from yours. But a 3 is like soreness after hitting the gym for too long. An 8 is like someone constantly pulling your leg after it's broken.
During this time, they also showed me some physical therapy (PT) exercises. One hour per day. It wasn't much. Mostly just moving my ankles and bending my knees to my chest and raising my legs up. They found that my flexibility was very high. Just a day or two after my surgery, I was already able to touch my ankles to my butt. Not many people can do it. Also on day 2, I was already able to walk 4 times around the hospital hallways. That was also something they haven't see before. I walked 1 time around the hallway fully during the first PT, which was about 30 hours after surgery. And then at night of day 2 (40 hours after surgery), I walked 3 times in a row around the hallway. By day 4, I was able to walk more than half a dozen times in a row around the hallways during PT, and they only stopped me because my hour of PT was over.
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