Limb Lenghtening with Dr Guichet 2017

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Quote from: notimportant on March 06, 2017, 10:13:35 PMHelloworld your doctor is famous for bad results and bad reactions to posts in this forum and I have proofs from many people. Your nail failed and you had many surgeries but you are OK now, right? But what about Musicmaker after 3 years? She hasn't recovered yet. Fitbone and your doctor have ruined some people's lives including Cooper, Musicmaker, the teenage guy, the American guy? and many others. There are bad cases in other German and French doctors but in Spain it's worse and the system doesn't protect you from negligences.
This guy is like a broken record.

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on March 06, 2017, 09:38:39 PMHelloword. I believe you should tell the hard truth, for the sake of everyone else and what is just.

Yyes. From what I understand, risks factors for bad  lengthening are age, female, no physical activity, anything that alters bone quality, poor elasticity, high target (more than 6 cm) etc.

I am 5'8, play soccer regularly and am looking to add 2 inches. My biggest fear is death and amputation. Thank you for giving me peace of mind. Lol

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Quote from: notimportant on March 06, 2017, 10:13:35 PMHelloworld your doctor is famous for bad results and bad reactions to posts in this forum and I have proofs from many people. Your nail failed and you had many surgeries but you are OK now, right? But what about Musicmaker after 3 years? She hasn't recovered yet. Fitbone and your doctor have ruined some people's lives including Cooper, Musicmaker, the teenage guy, the American guy? and many others. There are bad cases in other German and French doctors but in Spain it's worse and the system doesn't protect you from negligences.
First of all Spain is in EU like Germany, France etc so you can go to courts of EU if the courts of Spain doesn't protect you (which I don't believe as it is a first world country with serious courts).

And secondly, you keep mentioning how bad is Monegal in every of your posts.
Where is Guichet better tham Monegal in your opinion?
He charges about the double money from Monegal and he uses an obsolete nail compared to fitbone, so his prices are way worse than Monegal's.
He also had a lot of bad cases like unicorns and generally he suggests a very fast lengthening rate (1mm per day) and allows many times for lengthenings like 9-10 cm which is too much for any patient in one segment, while Monegal had some bad cases too but generally he suggests lengthening at a slower rate and doesn't allow lengthening more than 8 cm (after all fitbone can't go more than that).

So Not important, you keep tellimg us tha Monegal is a bad doctor and you have some points, although I don't think that from all the diaries of his patients I read that I agree with you.
Tell us now about Guichet. Taken in mind the ridiculous prices he charges and the many bad outcomes of his patients we've seen (where he never admits any fault of his), what is your opinion about him?
Is he a better doctor compared to Monegal, and why?

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I do NOT absolutely support or make publicity for Dr Guichet. I believe he lacks a lot in patient care. The only points I have to say is: I weight bear from day 1, I use a walker and after that I wear crutches. Weight bearing is thought to improve bone healing (you can read the papers in pubmed). The second thing is that I've seen patients who started lengthening while I was doing the pre training, and are now walking without crutches, with minimal-none gait problems (less than 60 days post op for 6 cm). However I won't compare doctors, simply because I don't know Dr Monegal. I didn't even take him into consideration while making this decision.

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Today is my 12th day post op: Basically my days are PT in the morning and PT in the afternoon with clicks 3 times a day. I feel stiffness when I stay in the same position for 15 minutes, or when i fall asleep. Pain is minimum to moderate but I take Paracetamol 400 mg + Tramadol 37.5 mg 3 times a day. Only complications is that I have a little duck ass that I can correct if I want to, and split legs.

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How much have you lengthened thus far LLSouthAmerica and what do you mean by split legs? Your pain sounds manageable, is the condition you are in different from how you imagined it would be?

Thanks.

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Hi 682. I'm around 2.7 cm now. I mean that my IT bands are stiff and try to pull my legs apart (as in a wider stand). Sorry if I'm not explaining myself correctly. Today I began to use crutches but still feel like they are unstable so I favor the walker. Not at all, it is exactly as I imagined. However, I'm very nervous about the future. My first control X ray is in 3 days.

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on March 05, 2017, 09:11:01 AMYes it was an inhanced reaction to the morphine. I hated it. Today is my post op 6 and I am 1.5 cm taller. This week almost all the patients I met a month before when I arrived for the pre op training are leaving and starting to walk without crutches. The best case I saw, in 55 days post Op he was walking with almost no gait abnormalities. Lucky him. I hope to be like him.

Do you have an idea how much he lengthened? I mean the guy who walk normally just 55 days post operation?

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He lengthened 6 cm, apparently it is the lucky number for us Dr Guichet's patients. According to him, he still walks like a penguin (side to side) but I don't notice it much. He already returned to his country.
Today I took the Xrays 15 days post OP and there is bone formation! Only one month missing to be finally free of this madness!

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I posted wrong, sorry!!