Where did you get so many painkiller drugs? Wow. You must be having a lot of fun lol, considering tramadol is used to threat heroin withdrawal here in Russia, and lirika is used to treat tramadol withdrawal. Keep that in mind when increasing the dosage. (Btw can you send me some? 
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Quote from: Taller on February 13, 2015, 09:11:15 PMIf your flexibility and dorsiflexion are so good, why don't you walk more than 30 minutes each day? Walking more (I'd say at least 2 hours per day, but I'm just a biomedical student, not a doctor) would be amazing for your soft tissues, helping them adapt better to lengthening. Walking also reduces lengthening pain in the long run, from what I've gathered, and it will make your post-lengthening recovery much, much easier. Walking will probably also make it easier to reach 8CM, since that's your goal.
As I explained, its laziness due to the medicines. Also, if you did not walk for a few hours, u experience joint stiffness and some discomfort for the first 10 or so steps. This does not happen when I am in my first few weeks of lengthening...
But I understand your point and I am now trying to fight this drug-induced laziness. And yeap, walking does get easier and pain does get easier if you walk more.
Quote from: exclide on February 13, 2015, 10:19:05 PMWhere did you get so many painkiller drugs? Wow. You must be having a lot of fun lol, considering tramadol is used to threat heroin withdrawal here in Russia, and lirika is used to treat tramadol withdrawal. Keep that in mind when increasing the dosage. (Btw can you send me some? )
Ha ha you stay in Russia? Tramadol ... Dr Fahri is OK with me taking Tramadol but he is unwilling to prescribe it to me. He wants me to get it in Singapore, but he says I can take it, or Katadalon (a Russian drug which is as powerful as Tramadol but not opiate).
I take tramadol 3 times a day. (150 mg in total).
Lyrica is not a good medicine. When I took 75 mg x 3 as prescribed for a few weeks and suddenly stopped, I went into full-blown anxiety (I do not have anxiety issues or history). I could not breathe, had heart palpitations and felt an impending sense of doom. As I ran out of Lyrica (doctor forgot to prescribe), I tried to go cold turkey. The second night cold turkey, I gave up. I was sweating immensely and feeling so unwell and could get only very little sleep. The next day, I went to the hospital, half dead!
Now, I have tapered down my Lyrica to one 75 mg pill and one 25 mg pill a day. I will taper down further. WHen I went cold turkey, I realise Lyrica makes the whole process more comfortable, but not by much. I am actually taking Lyrica now because I am dependant on it. I am eventually planning to cut down to 25 mg x 2 a day, and further.
I am going back to Moscow in mid -March (some of my leg rods have only 3 cm left, and doc says there must be 0.5 cm left, for safety pruposes).I will get katadalon and mydo calm there. These are good meds.
I switched to tramadol cos I was taking 6 x 100 mg katadadolons a day, that was very very bad for liver and katadalon does cause liver failure after 2 weeks. I think I will reduce Tramadol and switch to Katadalon as I approach 8 cm.
oh, the scar is almost imperceptible. if anyone wants pics, let me know. its a half-inch cut. not the horrible c-cut I dreaded
I don't know why Dr Sarin was doing that c-cut anyway. I think he said he did it so you get a better look underneath than when you do a straight cut, but the tibia bone is right underneath so there's no real reason you need to get a better look in there.
Quote from: KiloKAHN on February 14, 2015, 03:20:55 AMI don't know why Dr Sarin was doing that c-cut anyway. I think he said he did it so you get a better look underneath than when you do a straight cut, but the tibia bone is right underneath so there's no real reason you need to get a better look in there.
is it only done by Dr Sarin?
Hey guys
Anyone actually gained mass after surgery? I thnk I gained like 5-6 kg. I was initially 63-64 kilos, and now I am 71 kilo.
If we discount the weight of the fixators, I am probably heavier by about 6-7 kilograms!
I do not walk much and my femur muscle is getting smaller (quadriceps) but the decrease in size has stopped.
I think I am getting fatter due to the lack of exercise and eating too much? (eating a lot has helped my consolidation though)
Could some of the mass actually be bone and muscle mass? My calf is also much larger than before? Weird.
For every 1 cm of bone growth, how much bone is grown? What bout muscle??
I only read patients lose weight and not gain weight after Sx.
My mass was 64 kilo. 1 month post-op or so I became 69 kilo. Now I am 71. I feel fatter... but peope commented my arm muscles r larger now (must be the walker training)
the measurement is also accurate as I stand without holding the walker.
I've heard patients talk about their calfs growig faster, MDoW said he barely increased much in weight though but I guess it differs.
Yeah I think it depends on how much potential for growth a person's leg muscles have.
Why do I have hamstring pain for awhile when I bend my knees when walking? this usually goes away after a few days (it happened before, and disappeared, now its back)
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