Internal Femurs with Dr. Mahboubian - Los Angeles

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Hi LAGrowin,

How's everything lately? Everything is going well with me except that I feel more pain now at night. I don't want to describe it as pain but it's very uncomfortable. I stopped exercising on my indoor bike as of yesterday and it helps a little bit. Is there anything unusual about your experience with the femur lengthening that we need to know? My femur procedure is next week. How long did you ice your thighs for after surgery? Thank you.

Optimistic1

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UPDATE

Hi everyone.   Just wanted to share a small update.

Everything,  thank God,  has continued to progress well for me. I hit 2 MONTHS post-op today!  I have lengthened at total of 4.8 CMs. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I am starting to get tight!  Dr. Mahboubian's PT, Patrick, is stretching the heck out of me 4X a week but in the last few days I'm feeling very tight in the quads and hamstrings. I guess this is the point where others have described reconsidering the 8 CM mark.

I have also been walking in the pool 2x week and using the stationary bike daily.

Heightwise, at nearly 2" taller,  it feels great,  incredible what a difference 2" make.  Let alone 2.5 or 3". If I can push through to 6.5 CM or 7 CM,  I'll be very happy. 7.6  will be a bonus.  But time to consider stopping when the tightness reaches "that point".

I have a follow up with Dr. M next week,  we will see what he and the x-rays say.

Thanks for reading,  all the best.

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Sounds like you're making steady progress. I'm pretty inflexible as it is, so I'm dreading the additional tightness.

Hope you can push through to your goals, good luck with the x-rays!

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Thank you Android, I appreciate that. I hope so.  I would definitely recommend you prepare in advance with making yourself a little more flexible if possible. I said for months before surgery that I was going to do some Yoga and never did. 

Have you narrowed down a doctor yet?  Doing femurs?  2019 right?

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Hey LAGrowin,

Are you still lengthening 1 mm/day? Slowing it down to .66 mm/day helped make the day easier (albeit it does take a few days longer to reach your goal).

The good news is most of the tightness you're experiencing dissipates pretty quickly once you stop lengthening.

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Quote from: bigdreams55 on March 16, 2018, 05:10:21 PMHey LAGrowin,

Are you still lengthening 1 mm/day? Slowing it down to .66 mm/day helped make the day easier (albeit it does take a few days longer to reach your goal).

The good news is most of the tightness you're experiencing dissipates pretty quickly once you stop lengthening.

Hi bigdreams55.  How are you?  How is everything coming along post lengthening?

Thanks for the recommendation.  I thought of that and might ask Dr. Mahboubian if ok.   Did Dr. Rozbruch have any concerns with early consolidation while at .65mm per day?  (Not that it matters towards the end of lengthening).

Thanks bigdreams.

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Things are good, just letting my bone heal til i can fully weightbear. Consolidation phase is much more comfortable!

Dr Rozbruch said the risk of pre-consolidation was very low and actually encouraged me to slow it down. I alternated between 1 mm/day and .66 mm/day for the last few weeks. He says that the total time to fully weightbear does not change much if you do this, even if it add a few days to lengthening.

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Glad to hear that for you.  Can't wait to get to that point.  Hopefully another 3 weeks roughly and then some better sleep.

Is Dr. Rozbruch thinking about 30 days for you to weightbear?   Your probably about halfway there right?

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Quote from: LAGrowin on March 16, 2018, 09:22:03 PMGlad to hear that for you.  Can't wait to get to that point.  Hopefully another 3 weeks roughly and then some better sleep.

Is Dr. Rozbruch thinking about 30 days for you to weightbear?   Your probably about halfway there right?

He was thinking 6 weeks, but I think he's just being pre-cautious. I feel pretty good now.

And yeah just take it one day at a time and you'll get there soon enough.

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Good for you bigdreams.  Would love to hear how the first steps are after you're cleared to weight bear.  Must be a scary feeling. Very happy for you.

I can't wait!