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i havent walked much in a few months
so im very sore,muscle wise when i walk
i assume itll get better quickly after correcting left leg
no joint pain,etc at all
but def muscle soreness
wanna thank kirkp1 for sending me this study
this study was done in 2014 and and is the first(only?) to critically document clinical and radiographic results using the suprapatellar approach for im nailing of the tibia
Almost 40 patients were involved in the study and 0 patients have anterior knee pain .. This is pretty significant when compared to the standard im tibial method. It's definitely a big reason why I decided on Dr Monegal
Hopefully I'm not the first to get anterior knee pain
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24694557
Hope everything goes well in your surgery bro. Keep us updated
Screwed that you got messed up in the first place. I'll never go to Russia after seeing some of the complications those doctors there cause.
Quote from: musicmaker on July 02, 2015, 05:52:45 PMI've just been told that his surgery was highly successful! Crinsom's leg will finally be ok! 
Im happy for you brother
Hope it went well. Just a few more months now and you can enjoy your new legs.
HAD surgery thursday
my lower leg, feet are still a bit numb, which I'm not happy with. supposedly they put a block on the nerve, but it been a day now
they say its normal, but feels weird. I'm definitely not going to be happy util my feet feel normal, and ill be complaining non stop about this
i can move toes, but feel like pins and needles
dr said the surgery went perfect but haven't seen x rays yet
not in a lot of pain, but the numbness is more than annoying. I'm not gonna focus on anything else until this is resolved
to me, my leg looks a bit bowed, but i could be 100% wrong about this.
the numbness though is very very very very very annoying, and i will be raising hell if its not gone by flight on tuesday.. i probably won't even leave then.. i don't believe in a wait a and see approach
as long as the numbness goes away, i think ill be highly satisfied
id have a much more positive reply here if it weren't for the pins and needles
I'm just concerned the numbness stays like this.... i don't care about it if goes away in the but day or 2, but thats about it
the city is nice, hospital is nice, etc
ill update as soon as numbness gets normal... ill be in a much better mood
The numbness could be just from bruising of the nerve (neuropraxia). It doesn't mean the nerve is truly damaged or that anything further needs to be done. These things can be difficult to tell post operatively. During these operations, everything is being shifted around and jostled and it's easy for a nerve to get traumatized in a variety of ways. Given that it's only sensory (no motor loss), and you don't have any neuropathic pain (burning, electricity, stabbing, etc.), most neurologists would likely suggest you "wait and see".
FYI, nerve injuries can take up to a few months to heal. As long as the nerve isn't entrapped or being continually impinged by something internally, it should recover though. I'm not sure if there's any easy way to tell the difference except waiting and seeing. You can get nerve conduction studies done but they're not always very useful. An MRI might show an impingement of a nerve if an impingement was present but I'm not sure for a sensory branch.
Either way, again given the mild nature of your symptoms (no pain, no motor loss), they might suggest you just try physio first to see if it resolves that way before cutting you back open which can just retraumatize things and risk further damage.
I'm not an expert in this stuff, so ask your team, but honestly I wouldn't freak out if it was me.
if the numbness stays past a few days, I'm going to be an extremely difficult patient
no reason for numbness in this procedure, unless a mistake was made.. waiting months means ill have it forever
i don't believe in waiting and seeing... nerve damage rarely gets better
i didn't have numbness in russia after, so i don't accept this is just a normal occurrence
i can move all toes, etc but still... its not comfortable to have a foot that feels partly asleep
no pain either, but still
I'm going to be extremely upset if this doesn't resolve in the next day or 2
i guess my fibula was broken too, so theres a screw down there as well.. i guess this is normal
i just want the numbness to go away,and see the x ray
truthfully, if everything else was a success, but my ankle and foot feel asleep forever, i'm going to judge this surgery a disaster
i can have my leg operated and not have to get numb
but we will see, it's very early still... i just don't listen to drs that tell me everything is ok, and accept this with no problems... every single dr I've ever been to says that, even when something is not normal.. It's nothing personal against anyone, I'm just used to drs telling me wait, it'll be ok
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