Dr. Rozbruch stryde 27th Jan 2021!

Hi guys!

Can't believe that I am posting on this thread, have always went through your diaries and finally after 10 years of convincing, I decided to get the surgery.

I am 27, 5 feet 1 inches; I also have(had) 15 degree femoral retroversion which Dr. Rozbruch corrected in the same surgery.

NYC is amazing and so is HSS. Everyone is so nice and friendly in here. My surgery was scheduled for Jan 27th 2021 at 12 noon EST. Pre surgery my blood work looked good apart from vitamin D levels which were at 18ng/ml. Dr rozbruch said it was okay to go ahead with the surgery if I continue to take 5000 IU Vitamin D3 for the next 6 months.

My surgery started a bit late, at around 2:30 pm. I was all shaved and set at 1130 but had to wait for some time since Dr. Rozbruch's previous surgery got extended. Once I reached the OR the anesthesiologist gave me a couple of injections and I was knocked out with epidural anesthesia. Next thing I remember was waking up in the OR with nurses moving me to the post op recovery unit. I couldn't feel my legs at first, but slowly regained sensation in my leg and was moved to a 2 bed ward.

I had 0 pain on 27th probably because there was some sorta epidural still flowing as IV and I was on oxycodone. I had some food and slept like a baby.

Today's (28th) PT session also went pretty smooth since I didn't have any pain due to the epidural IV and I was able to walk for about 10 feet. The PT asked me to not weight bear with my legs, but instead use 50 percent arm strength. That went well and they set me up for a CPM machine for both legs. I have to do that for about 90mins in each leg. They also gave me a couple of exercise bands to stretch my foot and toe.

After this session my epidural and catheter were removed, and this is when I started feeling some pain. It was about a 4 and then my PT guys helped me with moving again in the afternoon. This time it was way more challenging, but overall I did good and they said that it's not bad for a second day.

The pain did increase and it was about a 6 when my oxycodone had started to wear off. The typical half life of oxycodone is 4-5 hours and it reduces exponentially after that.

Then finally in the evening after having my food and the last dose of pain killers, I am feeling better and waiting for the pain to reduce further to start another session of CPM.

Congratulations for taking this huge step and sharing your experience with us here! You are in the best of hands and I'll be following closely as I am considering Dr. R vs. Dr. Paley for my surgery personally.

This is day 2 and I can't pee. Did you guys face the same issue?
Is this due to the catheter or could it be something major? I have had like 3 pitchers of water since morning.

Pain is also now up to 6-7 and I need 10mg oxycodone to manage it every 4 hours.

Good luck on your journey!

How much did you pay and what are your living arrangements like?

Good luck on this epic journey! Btw, how are you financing this surgery?

congrats on starting your journey with a world class doctor!!  you will do great!

can you ask the good doc about the stryde nail controversy? does he feel concern using it with nails being stopped from produced?

I have about 100k in my bank account. Out of that I paid 30k, straight up. I think I'll have to wait for the insurance bills to get a better idea of how much more I can pay.

I am living in a hotel, Fairfield inn. The cost is about 72 dollars a night and I'm gonna spend 20 days here. 3 weeks post op I am planning to fly back to Redmond, Wa.

My brother is here with me, hes a student at San Jose State, and is studying remotely and helping me with th surgery.

Vegas baby, since the nail is already inside me, I pretty much don't care about any controversies. Just want to get taller and remove this nail from my body, controversial or not.

good luck chemistry

rozbruch is one of my favorite doctors with definitely the best bedside manners

you will get a good result dont worry about the nail

i hope your retroversion makes them cover alot with insurance

Thanks man! Yeah I hope insurance will be willing to help me lol.

So day 3 was actually better. I am still using oxycodone, every 5-6 hours. The pain has gone down, and I'm using ice packs to help with it too. Today morning I was finally able to pee on my own and they didn't have to catheterize me. After that I had breakfast and had a quick session of PT. We did some basic walking around the room and the PT instructor asked me to order a wheelchair since it's not recommended to walk large distances as of now. So I'll need the wheelchair to go back to hotel. Although I got stryde Dr rozbruch recommended to not fully weight bear, and use my arm strength to carry 50 percent of my body weight.

Once I'm off the bed things go pretty okay and I'm able to walk all right, the challenging part is getting in and out of bed. You need a lot of arm strength for that, and I don't have any. Pre surgery I didn't pay attention to working out and was only focussed on multivitamins and supplements. You should have real good arm strength if you want to make your life easy post surgery. Please don't repeat my mistakes damn.

I got on the CPM machine again and started wiggling my toes almost all the time so that I keep some muscles moving. If you don't move, everything gets stiff and PT becomes really challenging. I also had my lengthening demo today and the rep showed me how to use the device. My recommendation is 0.8 mm a day starting Wednesday. And it'll be in steps of 0.2mm 4 x a day.

Dr rozbruch told me that I don't have any swelling which is a good sign and I am hoping it stays that way once I go home. I ordered a personal wheelchair and walker today and will most likely get cleared by PT tomorrow after an early morning session, fingers crossed.

It's day 3 and I'm still not moving my bowels and that's why I'm q bit concerned. But I am assuming that'll only happen once I go back to my hotel room.