FalcosJeanny Salamehfix - Dr. Ghassan Salameh

Hello everybody...

I am a patient of Dr. Salameh. i am from germany...  please feel free to ask me your questions... hopefully you can understand my bad english *g*

I did have my operation dated 23.11.2012... but i am still on crutches. and my fixateur is on my legs... i cannot walk or stand without crutches.
my bone growth is veeeery very bad and i will have to take the fixateur on my legs for about another year :O(((
i am so sad..... i have no power anymore....

nearly EVERYTHING went wrong with me and my surgery... i did have many infections and weak muscles etc.

greetings
jeanny

Jeanny,

I'm so sorry to hear about your problems.  Could you please describe your journey to us and the complications you experienced in detail?  Please tell us about yourself as well, age, before height, after height, etc.

Hi Jeanny sorry to hear about your complications.  Dr Salameh is someone I am considering.  How would you rate him as a doctor?  Do you know some of his other patients and have they had complications too?

Thank you and I hope you get better soon.   

I'm sorry jeanny hope you get well

Quote from: Jeanny1982 on February 12, 2014, 11:17:53 AMHello everybody...

I am a patient of Dr. Salameh. i am from germany...  please feel free to ask me your questions... hopefully you can understand my bad english *g*

I did have my operation dated 23.11.2012... but i am still on crutches. and my fixateur is on my legs... i cannot walk or stand without crutches.
my bone growth is veeeery very bad and i will have to take the fixateur on my legs for about another year :O(((
i am so sad..... i have no power anymore....

nearly EVERYTHING went wrong with me and my surgery... i did have many infections and weak muscles etc.

greetings
jeanny

Hello again :O)

i dont want to spread bad mood in this forum.....
but i have to be honest.... and after all i cannot tell you that the ll journey went good for me...

i still cannot walk.. not even stand without crutches... and i have terrible ballerina foot.... 6cm.. even if i do exercises very hard every day and going to the gym.

my age is 31... i was 1,56 m and did 10 cm lengthening. but i did the lengthing in ONE year.... i started lengthing at 01.12.2012 and stopped in the end of september 2013. my bone growth is very bad... i have to take needles (with bone growth hormones = Forsteo) every day in the stomach. it seems to work...
but it take very long................. it seems to take one more year to get rid off the fixateur....

i only know goodfootballer who did surgery with dr. salameh.... but he described his ll journey like a walk in the park...
i dont know if he told the truth... but the fact is: goodfootballer can walk .... and i cant!

I'm sorry to hear that but that's the reality of doing 10cm.

It sounds normal to me.
That's the amount of time it takes.

Keep fighting.

ok... thats sounds clear to me....

do you know how long it will take to be recovered (means for me at least walking without crutches!) from now on?

I cant imagine how it would have been if you did LON for your callus.
Im not a specialist like Sweden yo, but i would say about 6 months.
Do you try to walk everyday ?
Maybe you should post  some pics (or send them in private) of your ballerina feet /Xrays to veterans so they can answer you.

With time it will become close to normal so keep exercising everyday.

What was your experience with Dr. Salameh like?  Surely he can't be happy with your outcome.  Has he been assisting you along the way?

And please post any pictures of your legs/x-rays if you could.

Jeanny,  10cm is alot to recover from.  Perhaps write a diary with more details?  All the best.