Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016

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Quote from: Jessie Believer on June 27, 2016, 02:26:06 PMHi dream catcher! Thanks for your nice diary and you sharing. Does dr. G. tell his patients any stretching methods (brochure or sth)?

If yes, does he have any special advise for it-band and hip flexors?

And another question: how much calcium and Vit d do you take daily?

Thank you

Hi Jessie, each of Dr. Guichet's patients gets a nicely organized brochure with lots of detailed information and photos, which is supposed to be returned after LL.  It shows specific exercises for lt-band and hip flextors.

I eat two 1000mg calcium pills and 10 drops of vitamin D each day. How much did you eat during your LL?

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Wow! That's a huge amount. Betz advices to take the normal amount which would be just 800 mg and 400 I.E. Vit D. But I take double the amount (2 tablets).

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Quote from: Jessie Believer on June 27, 2016, 04:29:51 PMWow! That's a huge amount. Betz advices to take the normal amount which would be just 800 mg and 400 I.E. Vit D. But I take double the amount (2 tablets).

https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/blog/why-does-the-vitamin-d-council-recommend-5000-iuday/

Viamin D council recommended 5000 IU per day. DIFM and I discussed this in his diary, see those posts.

I take 50,000 IU per WEEK. The safe limit is 70,000 IU per WEEK.

Highly suggest y'all take more than that 400 IU USDA recommendation of D3.

Take it with fatty foods or omega 3 supplements at the same time.

This study suggests but does not prove that D3 helps with bone fracture healing:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3597312/

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I was supposed to come to the Isokinetic this afternoon so I asked my helper to prepare dinner early. After dinner, he kindly cleaned all over my body particularly those most dirty areas. I was a little surprised that I didn't feel embrassing like I did when hospital nurses cleaned me. Surviving! Yes, surviving is the only goal for me now.

After changing my shirt, the helper got a shorts with the widest and loosest waist that I have and then we realized a problem. My thighs are still swollen like elephant legs at the end with large black-and-blue marks. We can't put on even my largest shorts. I asked him to took out the elastic band in the waist of the shorts, but still it can't fit. As a result,  we had to reschedule my appointment at Isokinetic. Suddenly I felt really tired of all this

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For a few minutes I didn't want to do anything: no exercise,  no food, no drink, no music, no video...I just wanted to end all this as quickly as i can. However after calming down, I started to feel being filled with energy. "Yes, I have to finish my LL successfully so I have to do as much daily exercises as I can!". Thank God giving me this energy. I managed to finish 200 vertical scissors and 200 inflex as daily required 

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clap clap!!!

That's the way you have to react. Give you all the positive energy

You will success to this LL!

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Thank you, Takanori!

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Like Yellospike, I slept at most 2 hours a day since the surgery, but I slept 3-4 hours last night, though I woke up a couple of times in the middle of my sleep. I don't know how have survived so far with such liitle sleep and heavy workout.

Waking up in the morning, the inner side of my left knee hurts sharply like hell with the slightest muscle contraction. So basicly I couldn't move it at all. It has been two hours since then and doesn't improve much even with 4 pills painkillers. I also put an ice bag on the spot that hurts most and massage my left thigh with another ice bag. I guess I'll just have to wait patiently for the pain to reduce to a tolerable level before I can stretch and click.

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Quote from: dream_catcher on June 27, 2016, 06:42:39 PM I was a little surprised that I didn't feel embrassing like I did when hospital nurses cleaned me.

One of the nurses who cleaned me was pretty cute, unfortunately I appeared quite small due to the coldness of the room. Additionally, I nearly passed out the first time I tried to walk(she was there with my doctor).

 What a man she must think I am.

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Quote from: Whereintheworld? on June 28, 2016, 07:35:39 AMOne of the nurses who cleaned me was pretty cute, unfortunately I appeared quite small due to the coldness of the room. Additionally, I nearly passed out the first time I tried to walk(she was there with my doctor).

 What a man she must think I am.
Whereintheworld, which doctor did you do LL with? It's scary that you passed out trying to walk. You didn't fall to ground, did you?