This nonce hippo is following me around the forum, angry after the mods told him to fk off when he started bleating for his safe space. Pay him no mind, the police will hopefully be taking him away soon.
Guys... Stop it!
What's the f.....g point of going at each other. We're all in the same boat here! All with the same problem. All strong people I'd like to say who went through or are about to go through some crazy surgery to improve their life.
Whatever the reason you 2 are bitching about each other, it ain't worth it.
Anyway, doctor keep telling me that my recovery is average. If I were to do stretching regularly, right now i would probably feel much much closer to a normal walking person. Yes, im doing PTregularly twice a week but not much else aside that.
But things have improved drastically in the last few weeks and i believe it's really something that has to do with my consolidation finally happening...
We'll see what the next few weeks bring us
Hi! Do you think less lengthening would speed up recovery and preserve more athleticism? For example, 5-6cm on femurs.
Yes, 100%
Quote from: youyin12 on May 19, 2023, 10:03:50 AMHi! Do you think less lengthening would speed up recovery and preserve more athleticism? For example, 5-6cm on femurs.
What is the actual logic in this question? You asked this on multiple forum posts.
I mean Do you think less lengthening would speed up recovery and preserve more athleticism? For example, 1-2cm on femurs? or do you think 9-10cm will be quicker to recover? Cmon man
Quote from: OzBoy39 on August 13, 2022, 10:17:00 AMHi Everyone,
I've been reading pretty much all of you in this forum since I decided to jump in and book my surgery and I must thank each and everyone of you who posted their experiences, the details of PT, surgery, hospitals, doctors. You've been an incredible source of information.
Also a big shout out to Vic from @Cyborg4Life. He is th hero among us and deserves all the success he can get.
In about 2 weeks time (Aug 24th) I'll go for a bilateral femoral lengthening through G-Nail with Dr. Giotikas in Athens.
I have explored various options before this but the combination of being a weight bearing nail (although with a gruesome ratcheting mechanism lol), the package that Dr. G. offers (they include full PT in the cost... that's quite good), his reputation and overall the "vibe" of competence that I got in my 1 hour consultation with him convinced me that he is the right option. Ah.. and the location. You can't beat Greece in summertime.
I'll be staying at the Novotel in Athens, which is the closest hotel to the PT centre with all the amenities i was looking for (gym, pool, various restaurants...big breakfast...). If anyone is staying there too, please reach out and we can grab a few drinks together.
I thought I start this diary to share my experience, the goods, the bads... the ugly (hopefully not) and the achievements and get in return some much needed support from people that understand what most of us are driven from when going through this.
A bit of background. 38 years old, 164cm, 64Kg caucasian male. Live in Australia with my wife and an amazing kid (the real pain here is to leave him for about 2 months but my wife has been supportive of this from day one. Nobody else knows about this. Not my family not my friends. This is a solo journey and I'm lucky I can actually afford it (money and time).
About my current build... I'm fairly athletic and in good shape. Use to go hard-core to crossfit gym until 6-7 months ago when I literally stopped doing lower body hypertrophy sessions and only concentrated on stretching.
I still kept my upper body routine somewhat but just in order to.. maintain. I believe that will help heaps during lengthening to be able to move around. I did lose a lot of cardio stamina though as i havent been going to classes sonce then.
On the other hand, my flexibility gains have been quite satisfying. I'm at a point where as far as hamstrings go, I can easily go palms to ground with my elbow bended somewhat. On the hip flexor side, I can't quite gauge how flexible they are but I've been concentrating most of my efforts on those recently as I understand and I feel they will be key to success and are notoriously harder to stretch than the hammies.
What are my goals?
Well, I set myself a 3 tiered goal. I'd like to aim at a minimum of 7cm as tier1, which will make me happy as ill get closer to average (and with shoes i should reach close to 175cm), but if I feel good the ideal goal would be between 8-9cm.
If then things progress better than I expect (Im not holding my breadth here) I would venture the double digit goal as my ultimate target. Yes I understand this is risky and all that and I do appreciate everyone providing comments to other patient to don't risk a healthy body for an extra cm. I'll see how thing go and follow the Doctor's and PT's advise when I'm there.
Other than this, I hope I can manage to squeeze in some trip around Athens as I believe this time of the year the weather should be awesome (I like hot sweaty climates).
Anyway, hope to be able to provide insights that will help other prospective patients, do don't shy away from questions.
Cheers
OzBoy
If you have recent imaging data please put it at this thread.
Hey Ozboy, hope everything's going well. Did you use a stadiometer at all when you finished lengthening/have you measured your height? Slight duck ass aside, do you think you got a "real" full 8.2cm from the nail?
No I didn't , but I'm pretty sure I still am about 1 cm shorter than I should be... I still have some duck ass.
Yeah I think I got pretty much full height minus duck ass.
But I haven't really measured myself with a stadiometer.
Quote from: OzBoy39 on June 08, 2023, 10:19:16 AMNo I didn't , but I'm pretty sure I still am about 1 cm shorter than I should be... I still have some duck ass.
Yeah I think I got pretty much full height minus duck ass.
But I haven't really measured myself with a stadiometer.
Missing height seems to be a problem some people experience. But as you said, when your duck ass get better over time it might even itself out.
Giotikas is still the one I probably will go for. He seem very competent in his interviews.
The only thing I worry about is that one death case he had. But from what I remember it was a patient unwilling to cooperate with Giotikas? That person was also on the older side if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks for keeping us updated with your story. Very inspiring as always.
Quote from: Will955 on June 16, 2023, 04:34:56 AMMissing height seems to be a problem some people experience. But as you said, when your duck ass get better over time it might even itself out.
Giotikas is still the one I probably will go for. He seem very competent in his interviews.
The only thing I worry about is that one death case he had. But from what I remember it was a patient unwilling to cooperate with Giotikas? That person was also on the older side if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks for keeping us updated with your story. Very inspiring as always.
1. If you know nothing, dun wrote nonsense
2. The patient who died was not old and what u meant not co-operate with Giotikas. Who told u that?
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