Hey everyone, I am coming up on year three post my surgery. I would like to help other Americans make the best decision possible if they choose to go through with this surgery. Please feel free to give me a call anytime, (650-666-8696) and I can help you to guide you through the decision making process.
Sometimes I have regrets about the surgery, other times I remember how short I was, and I no longer feel like the short guy in the room and that makes me feel really good inside. I did it. I fkin did it. I made a bunch of mistakes though and I don't want you guys to make those same mistakes. I will list them out one by one. One positive is I found my calling. I now am a healer and I help people heal their injuries and I am making a decent living at it. SO if anyone from the forum needs help post surgeries on how to heal I can send you to my website, and youtube channel. Still in the process of getting that together but will have it soon.
Mistake 1:
Doing LON illizarov in general wasn't a good idea. There is just to much damage done to the body when using this method. I would of done internals on my fibulas Why? First why did I do LON? what was my reasoning?
Reason 1: cuz of money to be frank, but with those frames on you really can't work much, and I could have worked and continued in my career if I would of done internal fibs. Those frames are just a psychological prison, and you feel debilitated in them. I could of gotten internals on fibs, and just flew back to US to lengthen here. Why lengthen here because you will be surrounded by friends and family that love and care about you and will help you. I was all alone over there going through a fentanyl addiction which made my experience 10 times worse. I could of died easily at multiple points. Almost had a fentanyl overdose. Also, when you are back in the US, you can start working right away and having a normal life again. Also, every surgery after the initial surgery is no longer considered an elective surgery so your insurance covers the costs, that is one expense gone. Also, you end up saving money not having to spend money to live in a foreign country. Also, Kratom is legal here and the pain killing effects of kratom are way better than opiods and have 10 times less draw backs to them. NEVER TAKE OPIODS WHEN YOU CAN JUST USE KRATOM. Have your family administer your daily dose for you.
Reason 2 as to why I chose LON externals: I thought it was safer, but in reality its not. I haven't done internals for fibs but messing with your ankle and knee seems to take away a lot of athleticism. Still can't run much. I don't have experience doing internal fibs but man I just find it hard to conceive that it is harder on the body because you don't mess with the Knee and you don't have scar tissue around the ankle. Also, I kind of have a club foot now, and I don't think that would have been an issue with internal fibs. Not sure one that last remark so take it with a grain of salt.
If you think some indian doctor is going to be your savor or any doctor you got another thing coming. YOU ARE YOUR OWN BEST DOCTOR. Read, research, and listen to your body. If you are experience nerve pain while lengthening it doesn't matter that your doctor told you to lenthen 1mm a day. Take a break and just do .25 mm a day untill the pain resides. If you aren't feeling any nerve pain and your doctor says to slow down why slow down. Listen to your body!!! That is just an example
That is why I thought it was useless to stay in that country to lengthen, doctors really didn't tell me much. I didn't feel like they were helping at all.