Quote from: taller2023 on August 18, 2020, 06:21:03 AMHye StrydeNC
do Dr. Mahboubian have transitor in Chinese money not problem for me want good doctor I want do me tibias Stryde nail. I look for dairy in Stryde nail tibias but no one have Dr. Mahboubian. Than for write dairy big words to I search internet.
Dear taller2023,
Regarding transferring money, or anything like that I believe the right way is to contact the office of the doctor you are interested and see about the financial aspects.
As for the stryde LL for tibia, I looked online after seeing your post and I cannot find any patient diary who did that with Dr. M. Please also ask IFS (InFullStryde), Movie, etc. who did surgeries with Dr. M. They may be more updated than me.
I am sorry that I don't have the information to help you with the two questions. But I hope you find your answers soon and I wish you the best in your future endeavors, brother.
Femurs with Dr. Shahab Mahboubian - July 2020
Day 26 (Monday, August 18th) - 18.8 mm Taller
I am back at taking pain killers! I have to accept that my body cannot handle the pain without the pain killers at this point. I am looking forward to stop the pain killers, as soon as possible!
I have completely stopped cycling and most of the stretches since yesterday. I only did stretches that did not involve much of a knee bending. I also minimized my walks, because every time I walked, the pain got aggravated. Pain could be as high as 8, but with Tylenol, I tried to manage.
By night time, I feel like the pain is not at the knee cap of left leg as much, but the whole leg and it it keeps propagating to different spots. In the evening for the first time I felt a tiny bit of pain on the knee cap of right leg (pain level 0.5 out of 10) for the first time. It could be a sign that my stretches were just too much even for my right leg.
I would say Monday was overall a bit more manageable than yesterday, but still it was one of my toughest days so far in terms of pain and discomfort. I hope by taking it easy on the PT sessions, I don't experience as much pain.
Definitely listen to your body. Stretch more than PT. Going hard on PTs no good if it makes you feel like quitting early. Go easy on it. You got this.
Quote from: ghkid2019 on August 18, 2020, 02:12:33 PMDefinitely listen to your body. Stretch more than PT. Going hard on PTs no good if it makes you feel like quitting early. Go easy on it. You got this.
Thanks ghkid2019, Very much appreciate the kind advice and the support. I am just a bit surprised by the level of pain. But, I know by heart I went for this mainly to experience the challenge and to see whether I can deliver some perfect results that are expected out of this surgery (8 cm taller + going back to normal life, and how knows, possibly even better than before, cause with taller legs, you could do better in some stuff; e.g., for me as a swimmer, I should be a faster swimmer, technically if I nail it).
I have never hesitated going for this surgery even when I was screaming and crying of pain! but if I were to grade myself, in terms of how well I have handled it so far, even B+ is a stretch! I had thought pre-op that I would be at A or A+ in terms of nailing the challenge; How naive was I 
Quote from: StrydeNailChallenge on August 18, 2020, 01:30:45 PMDear taller2023,
Regarding transferring money, or anything like that I believe the right way is to contact the office of the doctor you are interested and see about the financial aspects. ....
Hi Taller2023,
Reading your message once more, I now see that I misunderstood your first question. I think you meant to ask whether Dr. M.'s staff includes someone who knows Chinese. This is what I recommend: to email the office and ask them you would like to talk to them over the phone but you need someone to translate your questions in Chinese and tranlate Dr. M.'s answer in English back to Chinese during the phone call. I hope this helps.
Quote from: StrydeNailChallenge on August 18, 2020, 07:48:37 PMHi Taller2023,
Reading your message once more, I now see that I misunderstood your first question. I think you meant to ask whether Dr. M.'s staff includes someone who knows Chinese. This is what I recommend: to email the office and ask them you would like to talk to them over the phone but you need someone to translate your questions in Chinese and tranlate Dr. M.'s answer in English back to Chinese during the phone call. I hope this helps.
One more thing! if Trump gets elected once again, there is a chance getting a US visa becomes increasingly hard. This is what I recommend: If you decide to come to the US, you would have to stay here for a while and spend money. My suggestion is to try to get a Master's degree admission from a US school. This first of all helps with the visa, second is that you would try to do the CLL operation here in the US sometime towards the end of your master's program when you are almost done with courses, third is that it would help you save some money, cause you are here anyway.
E.g., if you plan to do CLL with Dr. M., my suggestion is to get an admission from USC, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCIrvine, UCRiverside, Calstate, etc. depending on your major and make your CLL journey a combo CLL + Master's degree journey
Day 27 (Tuesday, August 18) - 19.8 mm Taller.
One of the most inconvenient nights. Despite taking the usual two 650mg Tylenol tablets, my left leg had this 5 to 8 level pain that would propagate from upper knee area back towards hamstrings and outer side of my leg and also by butt/lower back area, randomly. If I were to guess, I would say my exercises must have disturbed my nerve system and that is the reason the pain radiates randomly to different spots. I used a piece of cloth to tightly wrap my legs. After a while when it started to ache again, I separately wrapped my left leg tightly. That helped for a while too. Overall I managed to sleep for 4 or 5 hours.
I took a hot shower in the morning and that as usual reduced the pain down towards 0-1 levels. I had an appointment with Dr. M. this morning. I have been worried about my left leg since day 1, considering the discomfort and high levels of pain I have been experiencing.
Dr. M.'s Appointment:
X-rays: Before seeing Dr. M., his staff took the x rays. Finally after waiting for 27 days, it was the time to see how my legs had turned so far. I was so relieved when the Dr. told me that they look great and confirmed that both legs equally got lengthened by almost 2 cm. Dr. M. also said that the x-rays show bone growth.
https://imgur.com/A4COg20
https://imgur.com/aYp9Brb
https://i.imgur.com/TqNLOlT
https://i.imgur.com/1WXNKZi
Pain Management I asked Dr. M. about CBD. He said he would not recommend that, but he was fine with writing Tramadol for me.
To self-PT or not to self-PT, that is the question!
Dr. M. asked for some straightening and bending moves and he was very impressed with my flexibility. He still recommended me to hire a PT for once per week. I think I am going to be super careful to make sure I don't catch COVID-19 and I am gonna get a PT as Dr. M. recommended.
Today was a great day. I was imagining Dr. M. would tell me, SNC, we gotta take you back to the surgery room to fix an issue with your left leg and I was mentally preparing myself for that. Hearing from him that both legs were in great shape was like winning a double Oscar in the best supporting Leg category and a Nobel Peace Prize combined The credit mostly goes to Dr. M. He is my GLL (God of Limb Lengthening )
I took my first Tramadol at 12 pm. I don't wanna say the pain completely disappeared, but I have a good feeling about Tramadol so far. Dr. M. told me if one did not work, I can take two (every 6 hours). I'll keep everyone posted with my Tramadol-based pain management experience.
Yesterday I graded myself a B+ with a stretch! Based on the x-rays, I would say, B+ is fair. Let's see if my grade improves. It all depends on my pain management in addition to the final distraction and consolidation results.
x rays look good, he did a great job with the nail installation and alignment, looks like you're on the right path to success
Quote from: Movie on August 19, 2020, 12:54:04 AMx rays look good, he did a great job with the nail installation and alignment, looks like you're on the right path to success
I am so happy to see this. Very assuring cause it's coming from Movie, the Champion himself 
By the way, how are you doing on the knee pain management? I hope you feel much better already.
Haha thanks for the compliments SNC, yes I feel good, pain is about 95% gone and manageable (: BoneStretching & I suffered for 4-5 weeks of the similar type of pain, we believe it to be a ~1 year post op painful adjustment your body goes through after you do 8 CM.
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