Quote from: yyes on February 18, 2017, 10:16:44 PMMy biggest concern is dying or having my legs amputated. And from what notimportant says that kind of worries me.
Do you have any sources to verify what you say notimportant?
About cinsomtide's words? See his own diary in this forum.
Quoteif the numbness stays past a few days, I'm going to be an extremely difficult patient
no reason for numbness in this procedure, unless a mistake was made.. waiting months means ill have it forever
i don't believe in waiting and seeing... nerve damage rarely gets better
i didn't have numbness in russia after, so i don't accept this is just a normal occurrence
i can move all toes, etc but still... its not comfortable to have a foot that feels partly asleep
no pain either, but still
I'm going to be extremely upset if this doesn't resolve in the next day or 2
i guess my fibula was broken too, so theres a screw down there as well.. i guess this is normal
i just want the numbness to go away,and see the x ray
truthfully, if everything else was a success, but my ankle and foot feel asleep forever, i'm going to judge this surgery a disaster
i can have my leg operated and not have to get numb
but we will see, it's very early still... i just don't listen to drs that tell me everything is ok, and accept this with no problems... every single dr I've ever been to says that, even when something is not normal.. It's nothing personal against anyone, I'm just used to drs telling me wait, it'll be ok
Quotewell, the left leg is not well
i limp, and cant walk on it much, as he foot hurts
ankle arthritis doesnt really hurt yet, but limits movement.. theres definitely still a deformity in my left leg
when i walk downstairs especially, my left foot and leg go outward.
weak overall as well
I'm gonna see Paley then decide
QuoteThis will be my last, or next to last post
I wanna give advice to the members here
I can be rude sometimes, but it's only because I know how dangerous this surgery is
Ij get very aggravated when I see members being lied to about this surgery, or claimed great recoveries with zero evidence
I went through this surgery, as did others such as Sweden
My walking is still very bad, and already had a consultation with a prosthetist, and Dr. about below the knee amputation
My push off power has a severe deficit
I see some of these new patient threads, and they resemble infomercials
Do not get your medical advice from this site.
You may dislike me, but I'm telling you all the truth.
This surgery is not safe. You may get an ok outcome, you may get a very bad outcome. The odds are overwhelming that you will never be close to 100% again, and you will realize your life has not changed as much as you thought it would
Good luck to all,
Crimson
QuoteI'll tell you another thing. Certain Dr's become much less responsive after you announce you're leaving the forum
Cooper also said:
QuoteMonegal Issues:
1) Dishonest: He did not disclose all the information and lied on patient count and his experience. He emailed he performed 600 bone segments. Come to find out I was third tibia patient. One of his patient told me in Spain everyone lies. His manipulates deliberately and black mailed his patient to write good things about him and defend him as often as necessary. You cannot trust this doctor and his patient specially from Spain!!!
2) Unethical: If you are not honest than you do not have ethics. Especially in this profession you want to go to doctor who respects patient rights, if something is not right than let the patient know and possible solution to fix. Just not to say everything will be ok. You need more time.
3) Poor Osteotomy: Most of his patient has issue with callous formation. Interesting part is all of the patient with few exceptions are lengthening less than 6cm. Still have poor bone formation. I have both fibula and tibia non-union and misalignment. Grafted both and I gained only 5.3com. I thought I did 6 but the x-ray show 5.3com.
4) Poor logistics: When I had my surgery I was in recovery room for long time. He could not find me and went home without meeting me in person. He later phoned me to say everything went ok. They forgot to put catheter and I did not pee for long time. I screamed and used profanity to get attention at the hospital. The epidural was not turned on and I was in pain for long time. Nursed blamed me tempering with epidural and told monegal I shut it off.
5) Pain management: I was in 10/10 pain level during first night. The worst pain of my life. Nurses and caretaker does not know how to manage pain. Their respond will be ‘that is normal’. On my last two surgery my pain level never went more than 2/3.
6) Fibula bone: For monegal fibula bone is not important and ok to have non-union. Even mentioned he can take fibula bone put some place else for bone lengthening while I was in Spain. Fibula is sort of extra bone put in reserve. Such a stupid comment coming from surgeon. His action is not to do anything regarding my fibula non-union.
7) Forum: He is using forum to fish new patient and anyone raised flag he tries to shut him off either by himself or through his patient. He gets mad to his patient if anyone writes bad thing and continuously monitor forum thread. He probably spends more time in forum than any of us out here.
His Patients: most of his patients are good people by heart. We all come from same height neurosis industry and wanting to get taller. I feel forum is fraternity to support each other. This doctor is exploiting forum to his advantage. We need to stop him. I am still in contact with few of them. They need him to fix the issue, correct whatever complication and have to oblige whatever he asks them to write. I would not be surprised if few of his patients come to this thread and try to defend him.
9) Complication: Almost all of his patient has some complications. Many of them cannot walk without crutches. Complications includes but not limited to premature fitbone fracture, fitbone malfunctions, loose screws, serious nerve issue, misalignment and unkown. Unknown are other complications which patient does not know because they have not seen other LL specialist.
Suggestion to Forum Moderator:
Ban monegal effective immediately and stop any patient going to him wherever possible. If I can save one life, leg or limb than I feel my diary has serve good for this community. Why let dishonest/crook surgeon come to forum and exploit the harmony of forum and most importantly destroyed people lives. I intentionally write ‘lives’ because it is not only one patient it’s the entire family involve.
Complications are well known by everybody in this forum
