Dr.Donghoon Lee 2017 (Seoul) LON (Lengthening Over Nail) on tibias

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Hey Tall Story,

I don't have a pic of the X-ray right now

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  man,I wanted to know what is Dr lee's cost for femur lengthening,i contact them directly by email but no reply.can you ask him?ty
   

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   im very confused about visa，i cant apply five year visa。
    i dont know how other can stay in korean so long（3-4months or long？）,plz tell me

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Sept 29
I finished lengthening my legs at 5.5cm I was aiming at 6cm, but I don't think 5mm worth the risks. I have a 2cm ballerina on my left foot and 1cm on right foot. I think I've made a right decision by stopping at around 5.5. Sometimes, I feel LL is like an addiction. It's making you want more and more and willing to trade your life for one or two CM. In my opinion base on experience of LL LON tibia 5cm is probably the limit or 6cm if your body can take it.

I'm going to have my last X-ray on October 2 right after my birthday and the frame removal a week later. I can't wait to get this frame out of my legs. I feel like I didn't sleep for 2 months to be honest. I'm waking up every 15 mins to make sure I don't bend my legs because I usually bend my legs to sleep all my life. Anyway, I was 165/166 and I'm probably around 171.5cm now. I'm just going to call it 172cm (:

Pain: I don't have much pain during the day time. However, pain usually come at night time when I want to sleep.

Stiffness/tightness: I didn't have this problem until I reached 4CM. My legs and ankle getting tighter from 4cm and at 5cm I started to think about possible complication, so I decided to push just a little bit more to 5.5cm instead of 6cm.

Wish me luck!

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Wish you the best man !
I will get my frames removed too in about 2 weeks, and I have real ballerina sh*t. I asked Dr. Inan about the ATL and he answered that he will chose do or not during frame removal cause under anestesia every muscle on the leg is conpletely relaxed. Hope we have a great consolidation !

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Hey man, how is it goin ?

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Hello, Man of Steel,

Congratulations on reaching 5.5 cm without significant complications. It's been a while, so I trust you successfully removed your frames and your ballerina's foot is subsiding.

If you have time, please share a copy of your X-rays for the forum.

In hindsight is there anything you would have done differently?

Regards

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Hi man of steel !
firstly congrats to your success on limb lengthening !
but i wonder It takes only two months for you to gain 5.5 cm? 
it seems like you spent much less time compare to other patients?
 i thought it would take 5-6 months for the whole procedure...
but anyway it is a good news to me!:D

best regards

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Quote from: miumiu145 on January 26, 2018, 10:02:21 AMbut i wonder It takes only two months for you to gain 5.5 cm? 

About two months of distraction (lengthening), lock in nails, then wait for bones to consolidate. Walking unassisted without crutches will take about as long as you guessed.

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After two months, would be able to walk unassisted?
Ideally, I plan to have my surgery in mid-May 2018 to get 6cm lengthed then go back to work (desk-top type though so not so much walking or anything) at the end of August or beginning of Sep (which means I have exactly 3 and half months to retrieve walking-unassisted ability). So based on your opinion, do you think it is doable timeline?(walking again after 3 and half months lengthening 6cm)?
thanks a lot, if you can give me some general thoughts (based on average or etc).