Thanks for the information. Did you hear back from Dr. R or Dr. Paley on what the issue may have been? Were the rods removed too early or what it that you walked/exercised too soon after rod removal? Any tips on how other LLs getting their rods removed can avoid what happened to you?
Good luck with recovery. Once this fracture heals, your bones should be stronger than ever.
I will need to get more information. I suspect my left leg just wasnt ready.
My advice is if you feel ANY pain to get x rays. What I felt felt like muscle pain, and it went from no pain to snapping really quick, but there are probably cases you could catch a problem with an x ray.
Quote from: programdude on October 11, 2015, 09:06:36 PMI will need to get more information. I suspect my left leg just wasnt ready.
My advice is if you feel ANY pain to get x rays. What I felt felt like muscle pain, and it went from no pain to snapping really quick, but there are probably cases you could catch a problem with an x ray.
Was it a temporary pain or constant pain? The only time I feel muscle pain is when I overstretch my legs on purpose to try to regain flexibility. I was told to never apply force near the ankles when doing knee bends, but to always apply it closer to the knees. That's because the leg acts as a lever when you hold it by the ankles and thus can fracture your legs. When you were doing your left leg stretch, were you holding your leg near the foot?
I forget the stretch that fractured it.. But thing is, it was really a very light mild stretch regardless.. It really must have been fractured signifigantly from walking for that to have done it in... I am considering contacting the store I was in to try and secure the footage of the incident to indicate this should it be relevant.
The pain was pretty constant.
Quote from: programdude on October 12, 2015, 01:09:17 AMI forget the stretch that fractured it.. But thing is, it was really a very light mild stretch regardless.. It really must have been fractured signifigantly from walking for that to have done it in... I am considering contacting the store I was in to try and secure the footage of the incident to indicate this should it be relevant.
The pain was pretty constant.
Yea, if it's a constant pain, then I doubt that the stretch was the initial cause of the fracture. The constant pain sounds like you had a stress fracture on your bone prior to the stretch. And then the stretch just caused your bone to snap when it was already fractured. Dr. Paley had warned me to immediately contact him if I felt any constant sharp pains in a specific spot on the femur. It usually is a sign of a fracture, because it had happened to a former patient of his. That patient felt a sharp pain in a specific part, right where the bottom of the rod touched the femur. And then after lengthening the internal rod further, it snapped the leg. From my research online, it appears that stress fracture occur when you apply too much stress on the bone, which causes the bone to be reabsorbed into the body, not resting the bone enough to let to rebuild.
So weird that I got a fracture then... I would walk a lot(for post ll standards) at a time occasionally, but then go a long while with eating/resting PLENTY. And I had done nothing that was particularly strenuous before the pain at all.. It occurred after a 15 minute walk and continued. But again this is long after I had even weight training clearing...
Again my advice is ANYONE experiencing ANY pain no matter how long post op should immediately get an x ray.
How's everything going dude? Considering it's been awhile since your last update, how'd the healing with your fracture go? Also how's the other leg?
Cheers
Other leg seems ok, and health wise my left leg is great now.
I still haven't gotten a bill for my surgery though, which I am kind of dreading. The ER visit with 600 after insurance and the ambulance 3700!!!
The financial assault is definitely getting me down, especially since I've had a few other unexpected expenses. Realistically I won't go broke or anything since I have good savings, but I am pretty bummed about everything. Yeah I am thrilled to be taller, but I just keep getting hammered by this decision.
If you had enough money to play with you should have done the smaller amount over two portions.. I thought being a model and all that you would be anal about your proportions.
Yea, hospital bills are killer. Hang in there.
But your ambulance bill sounds too high. With insurance, it should have covered most of it so that you only copay like $100. But even without insurance, the most an ambulance should be charging is about $1000 or so. $3700 sounds like a rip off unless the trip was very very far away like hundreds of miles away, since they charge around $10 per mile.
As for the surgery bill, your insurance should help cover most of it again, and your out-of-pocket expense is whatever deductible your insurance plan is. But if you don't have insurance, then the surgery would cost around $17,000 to $35,000. But hearing that you're getting ripped off for the ambulance, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried charging you $50,000 for the surgery.
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