Limb lengthening with Fitbone

Quote from: notimportant on February 04, 2017, 01:31:03 AMAuron's X-rays are better. These X-rays are to be worried. Bone is good. Other issues aren't good. You're right.

Thanks for feedback!
What would be most worrying to you?

What is the doctor saying about these x-rays?
They seem fine to me, but I don't really know

He is saying fine!
 BUt that I should be careful with putting on weight (I weigh 80 kg), so screw does not bent further and that the callus outgrowth is not worrying as the bone will reform.
He also said that bone formation is fast enough, to potentially preconsolidate, should I not lengthen at least 0.7 mm per day.
I am currently at 4.3 cm and want to get to 5.5 cm, so less than 20 days left.

Quote from: helloworld on February 07, 2017, 09:48:28 AMHe is saying fine!
 BUt that I should be careful with putting on weight (I weigh 80 kg), so screw does not bent further and that the callus outgrowth is not worrying as the bone will reform.
He also said that bone formation is fast enough, to potentially preconsolidate, should I not lengthen at least 0.7 mm per day.
I am currently at 4.3 cm and want to get to 5.5 cm, so less than 20 days left.

Thanks for answering. You are very near. Good luck!

Thanks for your wishes!

hello world,
sorry for not updating more regularly.
Everything is going fine!

I left the MIC, the recovery residence in Barcelona, 3 weeks ago and now live very close to my office and to my gym.
So I go to my office every day and work there the whole day interrupted just by me going to the gym twice a day, which is next door.
Thus, I feel I have returned to normal life.

I just have to constantly use a walking frame. But in fact, this does not bother me, as I got one with wheels : https://www.amazon.es/Aidapt-VP178-Andador-de-aluminio/dp/B002NPSKWA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488148637&sr=8-2&keywords=walking+frame
That allows me walk at normal speed. The only pain is on my triceps as I am constantly leaning forward and thus putting the majority of my weight on the frame, to keep it off my legs.

Also, since about 3 weeks I have not taken any pain medication but still have for the most part been able to sleep without interruption.

The last x rays were great. Good bone consolodation and the screw that seems a little bit bend 3 weeks before did not get any worse, so no problem.

I did notice though the the gap in the x-rays was substanstially less than what I had predicted from recording and counting all the clicks I made. According to my clicks it should have been more than 6 cm, while in fact it was less than 5 cm! And when I measure my height I only notice an increase of 4 cm, maximum 4.5 cm. Thus I am lengthening for 2.5 more weeks to get 1 more additional cm of heigh gain and will then stop.

At the beginning I expected lengthening to take 2 months and now it will be 4 months! However, as my daily routine returned to normal and I get normal sleep and normal work hours, I do not care about this very much.

While still lengthening I am already recovering muscle strength; over the last 3 weeks I have already been able to almost double the weight that my legs are able to lift, and at several machines for leg workout I am already at the maximum weight.

So its true what I read about Fitbone not accurate

Helloworld,

Maybe your femur is in preconsolidation phase, because it a lot of time 3,5 month for 4,5 cms, and for that reason the fitbone have enough power to move the bone and the engine turn around his axis. Try to put in Doctor Mode, it is more powerfull

See the topic of Krp1, he preconsolidated about 7 cms, other patients arround 6,5 cms in 90 days.

Good luck buddy.

Yagan, thanks for the advice!
You might be read about preconsolidation, or at least sufficient bone cloud to make it difficult for the screws to do the full 0.03 mm.
In fact, it happended several times that I could her some noise of the screw, but no full turn and no counting on the device. In those case I did exactly as you advised, I turned to doctor mode and did like 10 rapid turns, and speeded up the lengthening process, so to avoid preconsolidation. But once I get all clicks to to work without a problem, I slow down the lengthening again.

So you could see, that I am lengthening at a slow speed, just enough to avoid consolidation. This is because lengthening at a slow speed is much more comfortable, seem to follow the natural growth process more naturally, and I was scared to click to fast, having been aware that a patient, I think the name being "American guy", lengthened at 2mm per day and caused nerve damage.

Quote from: helloworld on February 27, 2017, 02:13:26 PMYagan, thanks for the advice!
You might be read about preconsolidation, or at least sufficient bone cloud to make it difficult for the screws to do the full 0.03 mm.
In fact, it happended several times that I could her some noise of the screw, but no full turn and no counting on the device. In those case I did exactly as you advised, I turned to doctor mode and did like 10 rapid turns, and speeded up the lengthening process, so to avoid preconsolidation. But once I get all clicks to to work without a problem, I slow down the lengthening again.

So you could see, that I am lengthening at a slow speed, just enough to avoid consolidation. This is because lengthening at a slow speed is much more comfortable, seem to follow the natural growth process more naturally, and I was scared to click to fast, having been aware that a patient, I think the name being "American guy", lengthened at 2mm per day and caused nerve damage.

If you are doing your lengthening at less than 1mm per day and you have good consolidation . Speed It Up now. And in doctor Mode like yagen told you. You are probably lengthening at a lower rate than what you think.its very easy to preconsolidate.