Fitbone Femur Lengthening in Istanbul - Dr. Muharrem Inan

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All the best dude, you're growing taller and there's plenty of football to watch while you're recovering. 

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Thanks boss!   

I plan on watching Short & Male to motivate myself to push on if I happen to feel a lot of pain, LOL. Just kidding. That documentary actually drains all my energy.

I have a ton of television shows that I could start watching though. Breaking Bad, Prison Break, the second season of Game of Thrones and onward.. I've been saving them all for the surgery.

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Quote from: BullSurfer on January 05, 2014, 10:38:18 AMI've been pondering about femur lengthening since i'm doing the tibia now. I know LON would make LLer impossible to sleep since the frames are high, unless you have thick buttocks. However I don't see much hindrances from Monorail. Can anybody give me some input on femur by way of Monorail?

I did talk with my doctor regarding internal nail, but all he could say was the price will be high. I'm looking forward to my recovery at home then restrategize.

how much?
who is ur Dr?

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Quote from: ChrisIsaak on January 05, 2014, 12:04:38 PM
I have a ton of television shows that I could start watching though. Breaking Bad...

I've been saving Breaking Bad too!! Lol such a bad ass, great show. Especially to distract yourself.

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Something about this makes no sense to me. You are going to end up paying close to or over $80,000 to have surgery and accommodation with the Fitbone in Turkey which does not allow any weight bearing at all, when you could have paid $10,000 less and had surgery and accommodation with Precice 2 in the U.S. or Korea or the Guichet Nail with Dr. Guichet in Italy,France? Why?

You said in your original post that a major reason for doing it this way is you get to lengthen at home. Now you just said on old forum  that you want to stay in a hotel for 60 euros a night so you can be away from your family. Huh??

QuoteI could've stayed at home, but I want to be away from my family while doing this

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 ah aha aha ahaaah ah 

Good pick up Handy !!

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Thanks.

Here are ChrisIsaak-Upinthesky quotes from old forum .

QuoteThe total cost of lengthening with Fitbone is around €50,000-55,000 in Turkey, excluding accomodation prices.
QuoteThe price of the hotel was €90 per night, but I negotiated and brought it down to €60 since I'll be staying there for at least a month.
QuoteReason: Logistically easy. I'll lengthen at home.
QuoteI could've stayed at home, but I want to be away from my family while doing this
Something else I picked up on. When ChrisIsaak-Upinthesky mentioned that he was considering external femur lengthening to save money he was talking about the same doctor who is going to do his surgery with Fitbone. Check out this quote.

QuoteA less expensive option here would be the intramedullary LON, which would be around €20,000-25,000 excluding accomodation. The cheapest option is external lengthening with the classical Ilizarov frames, which is somewhere around €15,000.
Everyone should look at the 5th post on the first page of this thread from me. Seriously ChrisIsaak-Upinthesky, where the hell is your brain? You chose a doctor in Turkey who also offers external femur lengthening to save patients money over two great doctors you personally consulted with in Dr. Paley and Dr. Guichet.  How unbelievably stupid and dangerous!!

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handy,

What you are doing right now is unbelievably inconsiderate and stupid. I just checked in to the hospital and will be having surgery this morning. I have no obligation to keep a diary, yet I logged in to upload some hospital photos now and reading what you wrote frustrated me. I am in a first class hospital, undergoing surgery with a great doctor. I am Turkish. "Lengthening at home" means lengthening in the same country. Yes, I meant to stay at home, but then we changed our mind after a lengthy discussion with my family. They are quite sad at my decision to undergo LL and I don't want to be at home with them where they'll be sad. Plus the hotel has a room for disabled people and is right next to the hospital, so we finally decided that it would be more convenient. I have people who care about me here, my family, friends, girlfriend - what could be more convenient?

If you believe everything you read on internet forums, then you're an idiot. External femur lengthening with monorails is done safely around the world, but it has some disadvantages. My final opinion on this matter changed a lot recently. Some other kid here is doing external monorail lengthening right now. He's fine. I will meet him sometime when he visits for a check-up.

I don't wish to argue with you further. Please leave my diary. And learn some manners and respect before posing as a CIA agent, bringing my posts here for inspection.

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Let me add that it is me who has consulted with all of these doctors, and me who made a final decision based on these consultations.

There are details that I know about doctors and nails that I would rather keep to myself. There have been some problems with the first Precice. The second Precice is new - I hope it turns out to be great, but I don't want to be a guinea pig. I personally spoke with a Fitbone patient who lengthened one of his legs (to correct a leg length discrepancy) in Germany with Prof. Baumgart before deciding that it was okay to pick Fitbone.

Guichet was awesome, but he told me that I needed more flexibility before surgery. He told me that I would need to build at least 30% more leg muscle mass, and suggested that I workout with Serge Coneza at Marseille. At my current state, I would not be able to lengthen more than 3 cm, he said.

Then I went back to Paley and asked about all that. He basically said, quote, "Not to sound unprofessional but this is nonsense. I can safely lengthen you between 6-8 cm's."

You need to understand that medicine is not an entirely positive science and doctors have different opinions, and different methods. Ask any doctor and they will confirm.

You say "Two great doctors", indeed they are, and guess what? They don't agree with each other.

I only met one femur external monorail lengthening patient so far. He had to stop somewhere between 2-3 cm's and head back to the United States. He underwent LL with another Turkish doctor, whom I didn't trust and feel comfortable with. However, considering that it was his third LL surgery, and second femur lengthening, I'm not actually surprised that he faced complications.