LATN Femurs - Dr Singh

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Callus clouding up real quick

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Quote from: alex on June 24, 2015, 11:40:10 AMBluebarbie

After you finished lengthening, walking became easier ?

I am asking that as walking for me became hard, I started lengthening 13 days after the operation, during these 13 days, walking was much easier.
Mobility is really limited during or after lenghtening.. Even bending ur knees slowly during therapy tears the skin around pins close to knees so leave out comfortable walking. I m sure things will become easier only when the frames come off.

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You look nice, barbie. And damn, your frames look so much better than my piece of crap. I was wondering... is it possible to do LON with monorail frames? That would eliminate problems with misaligment and loose of height when nailing with LATN, also you wouldn't have to wait. Not possible, right?

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Quote from: Dozer on June 25, 2015, 10:36:18 AMYou look nice, barbie. And damn, your frames look so much better than my piece of crap. I was wondering... is it possible to do LON with monorail frames? That would eliminate problems with misaligment and loose of height when nailing with LATN, also you wouldn't have to wait. Not possible, right?
Yes it is possible but only for those with bigger diameter bones. But it's like many doctors don't do it on femurs I think.

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Congrats on almost being finished Bluebarbie! You are surely one of the strongest people on here to have braved external femurs. I'm not sure I could've done it to be honest.

Yeah, those x-rays are never accurate. Dr. G said they can be off by up to 1cm. My recent x-ray estimates said I lengthened 8.3/8.4cm, but it's more like 7.2/7.3 cm in reality after adjusting for the x-ray estimate error.

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Thank you YellowSpike.
About the inaccuracy of xrays, LLers should always be aware of that fact.You can't do anything if u find out about it after ur bones start to consolidate. And end up not meeting ur actual goal.

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Quote from: bluebarbie on June 26, 2015, 04:01:16 AMThank you YellowSpike.
About the inaccuracy of xrays, LLers should always be aware of that fact.You can't do anything if u find out about it after ur bones start to consolidate. And end up not meeting ur actual goal.

This is very true, especially for external methods where you could lose some due to compression. But you seemed to have lengthened a lot, so I'm sure your final gain will be close to 7cm, which is a great gain!

The funny thing about the Gnail (and the Betzbone, I think too) is that you typically end up with a bit more height than you click. Though, this may just be due to the "formula" (15 clicks = 1mm) being somewhat off. Dr. G said I'm probably a bit over 7cm as a result of this (maybe 7.2-7.3cm), so it somewhat compensates for the femur angle issue. Which makes sense, since the x-rays (which are wrong) are saying I'm at like 8.4cm lol. Dr. G said when he retrieves the nails, almost all patients have a bit more than what they click, which is kinda nice.

Anyway, your life will become much easier once those frames are off. Internal nails are going to seem like a cakewalk to you, trust me 

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Yes yes, I def hope my final gain is closest to 7.
Ohh and thanks for believing in me on internal nailing. As for now I m really freaking out about it...the worst fear is death from embolism; second, rotational misalignments and third, not gaining my targeted length. I just can't get death out of my mind these days, whatever I do or think about, there is this thing what if I die during this traumatic surgery lasting around 6 hours.  I know it is so rare but I just can't get it out of my mind.

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Try not to worry about it too much. You've already come so far, and are on the home stretch. Those risks are quite rare, so I'm sure you will be fine. And you're going to love having an internal nail, your ROM will be a lot better and your pain level will go down too.

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Hey

Did you remove your device