Quote from: Cubman on January 14, 2017, 07:20:43 PMJamal joined Dr Dragon about half way through my treatment. He assisted Dr Dragon on my second surgery.
And NO, I never even thought for a second about doing my tibias. I am now what I considered to be a normal height and I am quite happy.
From my experience, if you are a big sports person you may want to reconsider this surgery. Some people have asked about limitations. I can't cross my legs together any longer. I have a heckuva time getting up off the floor without something to grab onto. If you do it resolve to do a very serious regimen of rehab and leg exercises once you heal. Do not put more than a few pounds of weight on your legs while they are healing. My experience is that the devices are not meant to hold your entire weight. One of the patients with me when I was there walked too soon without crutches and actually broke his nail in half.
I am not trying to scare anyone but this is not something that you just figure I'll be done in four months and everything will be great. It doesn't always work that way and I am aware of the number of people that had complications. I did it along time ago and things may be better now but go into this with your eyes wide open.
One last thing, I've seen a number of people say they want to keep it a secret. That's not gonna happen. You are not going to come back from your surgery walking around like you did before. You're going to be gone 3 to 4 months. Your friends and ran family are all going to know about it. I thought I would keep it a secret so I understand how you feel but it's impossible.
Best of luck to all!
How are your knees? Ive read stuff online that f Mir lengthening can potentially increase your chances of knee and hip pain?
In what way can you not cross your legs?
That was misleading on my part, I can sit and cross my legs just fine sitting in a chair. But I used to be able to sit flat on the floor with my legs crossed. I can't do that anymore in fact I can't even really sit on the floor well at all.
No hip or knee problems at all.
So your walking is not normal as well? I mean, if you passed me in the street, would I be able to see that something is off with your walking?
That's good you have no problems. The orthopaedic surgeon I got referred to here in UK I asked him some questions one was if there was any long term complications from leg lengthening and his answer was no in 33 years he's not had any patients returning with problems. He did say though that past certain amounts 5cms on tibia massively increases the chances of complications and recovery which seems to be what's written here as well.
Quote from: Bigpoppapump on January 14, 2017, 08:10:36 PMThat's good you have no problems. The orthopaedic surgeon I got referred to here in UK I asked him some questions one was if there was any long term complications from leg lengthening and his answer was no in 33 years he's not had any patients returning with problems. He did say though that past certain amounts 5cms on tibia massively increases the chances of complications and recovery which seems to be what's written here as well.
He did femurs though.. But indeed, 3 inches of femurs is alot... Especially at 49 years old
Quote from: TIBIKE200 on January 14, 2017, 08:11:49 PMHe did femurs though.. But indeed, 3 inches of femurs is alot... Especially at 49 years old
Yeah I think for femurs it was slightly more maybe 6cms or so. Basically the less you do the less problems you are likely to encounter
Shame that barely anybody did both segments some years ago. No information about long term complications whatsoever.
But gotta admit, having LL at almost 50yo with complications and still having no problems at 65yo? Quite impressive.
Thanks to all for the nice comments.
I am able to lead a perfectly normal life, and no, if you walked by me on the street you would have no idea that I have had surgery.
The complications were physically very difficult and emotionally draining but, looking back on it all, I am happy with my choice.
By the way, my right leg lengthened and healed perfectly with no issues.
Best of luck to all.
Hello Cubman,
first I want to congratulate you - doing LL successfully in the late 40s is a great achievement.
Your story was an interesting read for me, because I see a lot of parallels to mine.
I lengthened in Kiev as well, with Dr. Jamal in 2013. Also our starting height is the same. I too went from 5.5 to 5.8, but lost some of the gained height due to non union and resulting nail breakage on both sides. Probably I gained a little over 6cm permanently after all.
May I ask what was done in the States to heal your non union? Mine has not properly been healed yet, even though I can walk without crutches since almost 1 year and it looks close to normal.
A non union is a tough LL complication, many people on the forums underestimate it.
And one more question (maybe I missed the answer in your previous posts): Can you run and do difficult sports like soccer/tennis/squash or the likes?
Best Regards
emanuel
Quote from: emanuel on February 14, 2017, 11:03:46 AMHello Cubman,
first I want to congratulate you - doing LL successfully in the late 40s is a great achievement.
Your story was an interesting read for me, because I see a lot of parallels to mine.
I lengthened in Kiev as well, with Dr. Jamal in 2013. Also our starting height is the same. I too went from 5.5 to 5.8, but lost some of the gained height due to non union and resulting nail breakage on both sides. Probably I gained a little over 6cm permanently after all.
May I ask what was done in the States to heal your non union? Mine has not properly been healed yet, even though I can walk without crutches since almost 1 year and it looks close to normal.
A non union is a tough LL complication, many people on the forums underestimate it.
And one more question (maybe I missed the answer in your previous posts): Can you run and do difficult sports like soccer/tennis/squash or the likes?
Best Regards
emanuel
Hey Emmanuel. It seems that alot of Dr Jamal's patients have non union. Were you able to solve this problem. If so how? Hope you're doing well
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