G-nail Dr. Giotikas 10/27/2021

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The hospital is in Glyfada, which is better.  Let us know how much you like it after 1 month.

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Ahaha, I hated the hospital.

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Hey guys, just wanted to check in. Overall all is good thank G-d. Right now, me and most of the patients are in the inflammation phase - which is the hardest. Doctor is asking us to do more clicks - 21 per day. Some are doing it, some aren’t. In general everything is provided here. I can tell you the most useful things that I have brought from America that helped me the most are:

1. Icepacks!
2. Ibuprofen
3. Tylenol PM

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Hi hope you are doing well. Is there any update? 

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Quote from: karin123 on November 29, 2021, 03:04:52 PMHi hope you are doing well. Is there any update? 

Yes, sorry I did not update in a while. Thank G-d all is good.

There is some pain, but thank G-d it goes away. Sleep is much better. First 3 weeks are hard pain wise afterwards it gets much better.

All in all I am happy.

Clicks are hard the first 3 weeks, please be mentally prepared.

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Quote from: Nyc brother on November 29, 2021, 06:01:33 PMYes, sorry I did not update in a while. Thank G-d all is good.

There is some pain, but thank G-d it goes away. Sleep is much better. First 3 weeks are hard pain wise afterwards it gets much better.

All in all I am happy.

Clicks are hard the first 3 weeks, please be mentally prepared.

Hi Nyc brother,,
hope you are doing well , was wondering if there is any update
how many Cms you managed to lengthen and how was the clicking ,
what about your mobilization and walking around , hope that is also manageable
I understand that Gnails are full weight bearing so is it crazy to do the surgery , stay for a coplue of weeks in athens and then go back to come country to resume the work ?  I will be doing stretching, PT from my country ..

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I went to the doctor yesterday. Thank G-d 5.2cm in left and 5.1cm on right.

All is good here. I personally bought the monthly package for the nurses to click for me during the first month. Right now my dad is clicking for me. The fact he came is a whole story in itself ...

Thank the Almighty Lord clicking is much easier and better!

I’m walking good and PT is good Thank G-d. I did have very tight IT bands and hips. The PT worked very hard on me to loosen the tightness. It was not fun lol it was painful a bit. I think from 3.5 cm to 5cm is when tightness kicks in, at least for me. I work from here and so do a few others. So far I know only one person who was in Athens for 5 weeks and left. He actually has a diary on the forum, so maybe reach out to him.

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For some reason most of  the G-nail patients in Athens prefer to stay here for all the lengthening period. It’s not like Betz where you can be there 2-3 weeks and leave. 

Probably because we are all nervous about clicks and want to make sure if there are problems at least we are here in Athens.

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So all is good thank G-d. The tightness has be reduced but I still need to exercise and bike all the time to keep it loose. I came with a group of 4 people I late October. (We didn’t come together but we were in the hospital together and surgery same day or day after) There was only 4 g-nail patients before us so we were patients number 5-9. one person already left and another is leaving in 2 weeks. New people are coming. I feel like an old timer lol.

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Quote from: Nyc brother on December 21, 2021, 09:10:58 AMI came with a group of 4 people I late October. (We didn’t come together but we were in the hospital together and surgery same day or day after)

wow! do you know how many surgeries dr G does in a day? he must be very busy.

this is good in one way because as more Gnail patients come and go the more confident future patients like me become.

on the other hand i hope dr G does not do surgeries almost all day long everyday, thats gonna fatigue him and might affect outcome.