Femurs stryde with Giotikas (July 2020)

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Are you sure to have lengthened your femur? Your tibia looks long Great proportion!

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Quote from: Issun-Boshi on September 24, 2020, 10:39:28 AM
Are you able to do upper body exercises at all (eg. chest press, bicep curls, etc.)? I figured if I’m stuck in lengthening for 3 months, I might as well do upper body exercises to maintain fitness & upper-body strength. Thanks!

Yes - no issues doing upper body although I have not done any.

Quote from: Tartar on September 24, 2020, 12:23:02 PMAre you sure to have lengthened your femur? Your tibia looks long Great proportion!

Yes haha. I suspect its because the shirt I'm wearing is quite long (goes past my bum) hence a bit deceiving.

Quote from: Body Builder on September 24, 2020, 11:27:49 AMYou walk better than before. Thats very good.
Keep strong.

Thank you!

Quote from: ghkid2019 on September 24, 2020, 03:38:10 AM
How much u walking a day btw

I would say on average about 100-200m a day. But highly variable. Some days much more, some days almost nothing.

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Did giotikas do it band release in you. Tight it band is cause of wide legs btw. I dink giotigas did a small release not enuf but it's ok wide leg will resolve eventuly

Stretch the hell outta it band asap. Also stay consistent with your exercises, try to do daily and get yourself out of bed wen u feel good and it will increase chance you'll get out when u feel bad

If you feelin lazy at stretching just stand for long periods of time mindfully try to reduce the wide legs slowly it is still very gud

U have about only 3 more weeks to go that is 3 sets of 7 days you can do it!!!

U will be 176cm, literally an amazing height compared to the 168 you were before. At this height you will have confidence boost by literally 2000% and probably very likely you will stop caring about your height for the rest of your life. You can feel like a grown áss man 🙂 excuse my languwidge

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Thanks for the reply! Please keep recording your journey and showing us the videos until your walk returns to normal (and hopefully even after so we know the long-term results). We often hear about people’s experiences but we rarely get to see what it actually looks like. Your recovery would be a great inspiration to a lot of people.

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Hey bud, hows ur recovery now? A couple of questions
1) do you think Giotikas pain management is up to the mark? When I see Debiprashad dairies, they don't seem taking way too much.
2) do you think LL was worth? Like you feel that there are too many trade-offs?
3) now you have longer femurs, do think they will f*up your knees?
4)  excluding surgery cost, how much money should we reserve for complications and living expenses.
5) do you think you will be pre-LL after 3 years and so?

Thanks for sharing your experience again... hope you get through this ASAP

Best regards

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Quote from: AnotherShorty on September 30, 2020, 08:29:26 AMHey bud, hows ur recovery now? A couple of questions
1) do you think Giotikas pain management is up to the mark? When I see Debiprashad dairies, they don't seem taking way too much.
2) do you think LL was worth? Like you feel that there are too many trade-offs?
3) now you have longer femurs, do think they will f*up your knees?
4)  excluding surgery cost, how much money should we reserve for complications and living expenses.
5) do you think you will be pre-LL after 3 years and so?

Thanks for sharing your experience again... hope you get through this ASAP

Best regards

I don't think the pain was too bad. Although I am sensitive to pain. I have been taking 2 tramadols and a few panadols per day pretty consistently.

Yes I absolutely think it was worth it, now that I am nearly 3 months in. I don't think about height anymore.

Not sure. Will have to let you know post-lengthening.

Maybe $5k or so for living expenses. Complications up to you I guess, maybe $10-20k

I'm aiming to be pre-LL within 6 months (except for running). Let's see.

Quote from: Issun-Boshi on September 27, 2020, 09:18:22 AMThanks for the reply! Please keep recording your journey and showing us the videos until your walk returns to normal (and hopefully even after so we know the long-term results). We often hear about people’s experiences but we rarely get to see what it actually looks like. Your recovery would be a great inspiration to a lot of people.

Thank you, I will!

Quote from: ghkid2019 on September 26, 2020, 12:43:16 AMDid giotikas do it band release in you. Tight it band is cause of wide legs btw. I dink giotigas did a small release not enuf but it's ok wide leg will resolve eventuly


Yes I think he did. The reason I think so is 1) my wide legs never got worse after 2.5cms, and 2) I have no duckass. Doctor said that you can get wide legs from other muscles being caught during the lengthening. But it could be that he could have done it more, IDK.

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I'll be at 7.0cm's tomorrow.

I definitely feel tighter in the last few days as I approach the end. The tightness is affecting my walking ability.

Still no nerve pain. Nerve pain was one of my biggest fears. Hilarious!!!

Wide legs and bent right knee still persist but haven't got worse. Still got a sore right bum. Strangely enough left knee is completely fine.

10 more days to go!!!

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X-Rays at 5.5cm's below. I'll be getting new x-ray's tomorrow so will send around 7cm's as well. Note that doc said I was consolidating faster than normal.

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Quote from: m7liam on September 30, 2020, 07:57:46 PMX-Rays at 5.5cm's below. I'll be getting new x-ray's tomorrow so will send around 7cm's as well. Note that doc said I was consolidating faster than normal.


Nice callus. Unfortunately in these XR you can’t see the magnet to make the double check about the distraction length. I think that it’s the most precise way to measure it.

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Yea that's very good callus

By the way why is your femur like that. On the edge of the thighs lol. Maybes the camera angle? Femur I would've imagine was in the centered of thigh.

Anyways good callus good bone.and you basically have less than 2 week left it is almost over