Quote from: myloginacct on November 13, 2017, 02:58:18 PMThanks for the replies, LLSouthAmerica.
What questions do you think you should have asked?
And I know there would be a loss of athletic ability and all, but I'd define total recovery as the moment when you remove the nails and don't need to keep doing x-rays to check on your legs. Was there an estimate for that, or is it going to be lifelong thing? Thanks again.
Quote from: Mariobro on November 13, 2017, 05:33:13 PMHi LLSouthAmerica, did TSA give you any problem at the airport? Did they dicover the rods through the body scan?
The doctor told me it was not necessary to do another x-ray around 4 months post-op based on the progress of my healing. I will probably take one just to make sure, though. Nail removal is 1.5 - 2 years post op so I'm still a year behind.
No, no problems. However, since a few months ago I constantly ring at the airports. I only say I have a metallic prosthesis and they let me inside without any other procedures.
Limb Lenghtening with Dr Guichet 2017
Thanks again for the patience and replies, LLSouthAmerica. I know some of my questions got asked pretty frequently, but I appreciate you still took to the time to answer them. I've done a fair bit of research since I've started posting here now.
Also, you're the only medical student in the forums that I know of. Not only that, you actually went through LL. Your input is actually invaluable here. I was reading more papers related to CLL by Catagni and others on pubmed and I noticed all the deaths related to LL surgery I am currently aware of happened due to forms of embolism. Being a medical student yourself, what was it that made you think going through the surgery was still worth the risk?
Reading Wikipedia as a layman paints a not particularly bright picture:
QuoteFat emboli occur in almost 90% of all people with severe injuries to bones, although only 10% of these are symptomatic.
Again, though, I'm not a medical student, so I can't tell if this should be read as scarily as it is for me. I'd like my chances of death from embolism (fat, pulmonary or otherwise) to be fractions of zero percent, not possibly whole single percents.
@ LLSouthAmerica: Which anticoagulants gave Dr. Guichet to you post-surgery?
Hey guys, I've not been active in the forum. Now I'm a doctor, training to be a dermatologist, therefore traumatology is not my forte. I remember that I started weight bearing the day after surgery (I stood up the day of the surgery), and then I only took aspirin (although in a higher dose than the one used in platelet aggregation inhibition).
I had the surgery because I felt I needed it to be at peace with myself. I considered myself to be a low risk patient (mid 20s, not smoker, without significant diseases). However, I was still very much scared of having complications.
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So to summ it up, I had limb lengthening nail removal a week ago with Dr. Giotikas and now I'm recovering from a complication in surgery (nail broke) and had to be removed with aid of retrograde approach.
I'm walking close to normal as of now and I expect a full recovery. My medical adventure has officially and finally ended. Good luck to you all in your path.
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