Femoral Lengthening with Dr. Paley

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Quote from: Purushrottam on March 29, 2019, 10:56:50 PMUpdate: 1 week post nail removal

My right leg still hurts. I called the nurse. She said its completely normal for the 2 legs to feel different. The pain I'm feeling is normal surgical bruising. I need to put an ice pack on it, elevate it, and take it to its full range of motion (which hurts like a *****).

I'm going to try doing some cycling to see if it allows me to bend my right leg further before the sharp pain starts.

Good on you bro for completing your journey and removing the rods. I am surprised that you have quite abit of pain thats a demotivator to remove my rods and i have 4 in tibias and femurs.

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Quote from: Purushrottam on March 29, 2019, 10:56:50 PMUpdate: 1 week post nail removal

My right leg still hurts. I called the nurse. She said its completely normal for the 2 legs to feel different. The pain I'm feeling is normal surgical bruising. I need to put an ice pack on it, elevate it, and take it to its full range of motion (which hurts like a *****).

I'm going to try doing some cycling to see if it allows me to bend my right leg further before the sharp pain starts.

This really concerns me. After about a week, I was close to walking 100% normally with almost no pain. And I certainly don’t remember having one leg doing so much better or worse than the other. Please keep us posted and I wish you the best of luck! Sending positive thoughts your way man.

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Quote from: YellowSpike on March 31, 2019, 04:32:09 PMThis really concerns me. After about a week, I was close to walking 100% normally with almost no pain. And I certainly don’t remember having one leg doing so much better or worse than the other. Please keep us posted and I wish you the best of luck! Sending positive thoughts your way man.

I'm a little concerned too. I actually had less pain the day after the surgery. On Day 2 I walked 7200 steps and on Day 4 I walked over 10,000 (including stairs). However the next day my right leg started hurting when I bent it too far. It hasn't really gotten that much better since then. My nurse said its the result of surgical bruising. I need to try to keep taking the anti imflammatory drugs and keep trying to bend the leg fully (even though it hurts like hell).

In the past 2 days I can bend it a little bit more. I'm going to do some physical therapy and see if that makes it better.

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Quote from: 4cms on March 30, 2019, 10:04:39 AMGood on you bro for completing your journey and removing the rods. I am surprised that you have quite abit of pain thats a demotivator to remove my rods and i have 4 in tibias and femurs.

Yeah. My left leg was totally normal since day 2. I think I may have pushed my right leg too hard in the days after the surgery. I think its getting a little better though.

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Quote from: 4cms on March 30, 2019, 10:04:39 AMGood on you bro for completing your journey and removing the rods. I am surprised that you have quite abit of pain thats a demotivator to remove my rods and i have 4 in tibias and femurs.
Why you didnt remove your tibia nail yet after so many years?

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1 week, 1 day:

So decided to do what my nurse said: try to get the leg to bend to its full range of motion.

I went to the gym and did 30minutes of cycling. I initially had the machine set so that my knees would barely bend. Every pedal motion hurt like hell. After a few minutes, I was able to change the setting so that my knees would bend a little more on each pedal motion. The first time I changed the settings, every pedal motion felt like a dagger going into my lag. However after a few minutes the pain got reduced. Thats when I changed the setting to make my knee bend even more.

I kept doing that for 30 minutes. I didn't feel any different but when I sat on a chair, I noticed that my right leg could bend A LOT FURTHER before it started hurting.

So thats good news. The more I bend my knee repeatedly, the better it gets. I'm going to try to get at least an hour of biking daily for the next couple of days. Each pedal motion hurts like hell (I was wincing a lot at the gym), but the progress is incredible.

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Update week 1 day 1 part 2:

The improvement in my right leg after my afternoon workout was really encouraging. I decided to go work out again at night. I biked for 30 minutes at a setting that made my knees bend really far during each pedal. It still hurt like a ***** on every motion but I was able to bend my leg much further this time.

I didn't want to lose my gym progress since December (I've been workout out at least 4 times a week or more since December 22) so I decided to do some light bodyweight exercises (leg lifts, pushups, planks). This wasn't nearly as intense or hardcore as the workouts I used to do prior to my nail removal surgery. I just didn't want to lose my gym streak.

I ended the session with a workout I did the Thursday before my surgery:

Climb up and down 20 flights of stairs. I walked, not ran (as I didn't want to take any crazy risks).
It didn't tire me at all. Climbing up the stairs was actually really easy. Climbing down was really hard (because my right leg had to bend a lot) and painful. I could only climb down 7 floors before giving up and taking the elevator.

Overall, I'm not that disappointed with my post nail removal outcome.

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Quote from: Purushrottam on April 01, 2019, 03:58:11 AMUpdate week 1 day 1 part 2:

The improvement in my right leg after my afternoon workout was really encouraging. I decided to go work out again at night. I biked for 30 minutes at a setting that made my knees bend really far during each pedal. It still hurt like a ***** on every motion but I was able to bend my leg much further this time.

I didn't want to lose my gym progress since December (I've been workout out at least 4 times a week or more since December 22) so I decided to do some light bodyweight exercises (leg lifts, pushups, planks). This wasn't nearly as intense or hardcore as the workouts I used to do prior to my nail removal surgery. I just didn't want to lose my gym streak.

I ended the session with a workout I did the Thursday before my surgery:

Climb up and down 20 flights of stairs. I walked, not ran (as I didn't want to take any crazy risks).
It didn't tire me at all. Climbing up the stairs was actually really easy. Climbing down was really hard (because my right leg had to bend a lot) and painful. I could only climb down 7 floors before giving up and taking the elevator.

Overall, I'm not that disappointed with my post nail removal outcome.

Hi Purush! Thank you for the detail.  I'll be honest, ever since I joined the forum back in August of 2018... I was never able to get a clear idea of what the post nail removal would be like. Your Diary is an outstanding resource for me and all.   To me it sounds like things are going pretty darn great. I mean wow, 10,000 steps on one day, etc. Soreness, etc can be expected any time a doctor goes into your body.  You're handling business the right way.

One question - Is the nail removal through the same way as the initial insertion of the nail?  And are the glutes muscle impacted in a similar way during the nail removal procedure as they are during the CLL surgery? My glutes vanished almost immediately post CLL surgery.

Thank you again for your time.

-IFS

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Quote from: InFullStryde on April 01, 2019, 04:02:34 AMHi Purush! Thank you for the detail.  I'll be honest, ever since I joined the forum back in August of 2018... I was never able to get a clear idea of what the post nail removal would be like. Your Diary is an outstanding resource for me and all.   To me it sounds like things are going pretty darn great. I mean wow, 10,000 steps on one day, etc. Soreness, etc can be expected any time a doctor goes into your body.  You're handling business the right way.

One question - Is the nail removal through the same way as the initial insertion of the nail?  And are the glutes muscle impacted in a similar way during the nail removal procedure as they are during the CLL surgery? My glutes vanished almost immediately post CLL surgery.

Thank you again for your time.

-IFS

Hey IFS! I had a lot of trouble finding post nail removal diaries too. I think ProgramDude had one. A lot more got added after I had LL I think (YellowSpike, Brb6FtTall, etc).

It was the same way for me (through the hip).My glute muscles weren't really impacted much at all. Most of my 'pain' was at the pin sites on my femur, and that too mostly on the right leg. My glutes vanished during CLL too. They didn't seem to impacted that much by the nail removal.

Hope this helps!