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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 9:07 pm
#1
I started femoral surgery at livelifetaller last October and had a series of post-operative complications. These include but are not limited to osteomyelitis, osteochondrosis, and nerve damage. Of course, at this point, the most important thing to deal with is still osteomyelitis, which has left me unable to stand and walk independently and with a lot of pain almost a year after the surgery. At the very first interview with them, their doctor told me that their patients were usually able to walk off crutches two weeks after surgery and run within a month. I was convinced, so I had the surgery just a few days after the interview. Just a few hours after the surgery, they ask you to get out of bed and walk, and then they take video behind you. And the steps are repeated over the next few days. You have to do it and they will force you. That's why they have so many videos. I was discharged after 3 days in the hospital, which is usually a week for the rest of the team. After being discharged I noticed thick yellow and red fluid coming out of my wound and had asked them about it. They told me that it was normal drainage and that it meant that everything was fine (since I had no previous experience with infection, I didn't know it was an infection). After that, there was a lot of pus coming out every day and I asked them about it, but they told me to trust them and that they were sure I didn't have an infection. After being in pain for close to a month, their people came over to take x-rays of my femur, but found no success in lengthening it. So a few days later, I underwent a new surgery, which was a continuation of the nightmare. I noticed after the surgery that I had numbness in my left foot and no control of my thumb, which was more intense when I was lying down. As a result, I was unable to sleep most of the time. At first I thought I was losing too much blood and asked them about it. They still told me that everything was normal and that it was normal to experience numbness after surgery. It wasn't until last December when I returned to New York and found the infection had increased that I went to nyu langone for a checkup and they told me that I was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and had nerve damage and bone loss (before that, livelifetall told me that my bones were growing well). And they found that the infection was caused by the built-in metal contamination and recommended that I have immediate surgery and acute shortening of the gap between the bones, which meant that the surgery was a complete failure, so I refused. At a later time I re-inquired about livelifetaller and sent them my ct and x-ray and they told me their doctor had looked at it and still found no problems present. It wasn't until I gave them the nyulangone diagnosis report that they put the blame on me. They said my surgery failed because I took too much pain medication (what does this have to do with osteomyelitis?) However, while I was there they did not allow me to buy any medication and only gave me one or two diclofenac pills a day at my request. After that, their executives contacted me and threatened to hold me legally responsible if I told anyone about the incident. And after I was disabled by them, they still did not take any responsibility and compensate me.
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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 9:50 pm
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I am so sorry. They are terrible people, I have heard many terrible stories of them. They will contact you after they see this post and threaten you with legal repercussions. They did the same after a German friend posted a negative report about them here.
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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 10:15 pm
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Quote from: hasaki on July 09, 2022, 09:07:48 PMI started femoral surgery at livelifetaller last October and had a series of post-operative complications. These include but are not limited to osteomyelitis, osteochondrosis, and nerve damage. Of course, at this point, the most important thing to deal with is still osteomyelitis, which has left me unable to stand and walk independently and with a lot of pain almost a year after the surgery. At the very first interview with them, their doctor told me that their patients were usually able to walk off crutches two weeks after surgery and run within a month. I was convinced, so I had the surgery just a few days after the interview. Just a few hours after the surgery, they ask you to get out of bed and walk, and then they take video behind you. And the steps are repeated over the next few days. You have to do it and they will force you. That's why they have so many videos. I was discharged after 3 days in the hospital, which is usually a week for the rest of the team. After being discharged I noticed thick yellow and red fluid coming out of my wound and had asked them about it. They told me that it was normal drainage and that it meant that everything was fine (since I had no previous experience with infection, I didn't know it was an infection). After that, there was a lot of pus coming out every day and I asked them about it, but they told me to trust them and that they were sure I didn't have an infection. After being in pain for close to a month, their people came over to take x-rays of my femur, but found no success in lengthening it. So a few days later, I underwent a new surgery, which was a continuation of the nightmare. I noticed after the surgery that I had numbness in my left foot and no control of my thumb, which was more intense when I was lying down. As a result, I was unable to sleep most of the time. At first I thought I was losing too much blood and asked them about it. They still told me that everything was normal and that it was normal to experience numbness after surgery. It wasn't until last December when I returned to New York and found the infection had increased that I went to nyu langone for a checkup and they told me that I was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and had nerve damage and bone loss (before that, livelifetall told me that my bones were growing well). And they found that the infection was caused by the built-in metal contamination and recommended that I have immediate surgery and acute shortening of the gap between the bones, which meant that the surgery was a complete failure, so I refused. At a later time I re-inquired about livelifetaller and sent them my ct and x-ray and they told me their doctor had looked at it and still found no problems present. It wasn't until I gave them the nyulangone diagnosis report that they put the blame on me. They said my surgery failed because I took too much pain medication (what does this have to do with osteomyelitis?) However, while I was there they did not allow me to buy any medication and only gave me one or two diclofenac pills a day at my request. After that, their executives contacted me and threatened to hold me legally responsible if I told anyone about the incident. And after I was disabled by them, they still did not take any responsibility and compensate me.

Osteomyelitis? Their executives threatened?? WTF?? livelifetaller destroyed my life Who is that Dr Halil? Woww man felt sorry for you.. livelifetaller destroyed my life If i was you i would have gone to police or press at least about this.  livelifetaller destroyed my life
I heard similar stories with several other patients aswell. Why nobody is going to press about this? It seems they are getting many Japanese these days and share dairy in twitter.. Somebody should warn these poor people. livelifetaller destroyed my life livelifetaller destroyed my life
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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 10:21 pm
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Quote from: Siegfried on July 09, 2022, 09:50:06 PMI am so sorry. They are terrible people, I have heard many terrible stories of them. They will contact you after they see this post and threaten you with legal repercussions. They did the same after a German friend posted a negative report about them here.


Threaten with legal repercussions? How?
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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 11:31 pm
#5
They distinguish infections with their nose, not their eyes. This is amazing to me. Every time they smelled the pus-covered gauze and told me I didn't have an infection.
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Posted on Jul 9, 2022, 11:32 pm
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It seems that they now have a lot of Japanese salesmen and stigmatize those victims who have had serious complications in livelifetaller.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2022, 1:48 am
#7
First of all, I"m very sorry for your situation. It seemed serious. I think you should start making wise decisions supported by lots of careful research. Height is a life goal, but your health is the most important.

There're always bad people and unfortunately we have to live with them. The best thing we could do is to avoid them, by gathering knowledge.

If you did extensive research, you would have known that this is outrageously a god damn lie. Walking off crutches = walking unaided, usually careful LLers only attempt this after a good amount of CONSOLIDATION. Let alone running within a month - bs! No LLers ever be able to achieve this, even if one only lengthen 1cm theoretically.
Quote from: hasaki on July 09, 2022, 09:07:48 PMAt the very first interview with them, their doctor told me that their patients were usually able to walk off crutches two weeks after surgery and run within a month. I was convinced...

It's never late to start making wise decision, better than letting things go worse. I assumed you got the suggestion to shorten from a reputable org in NY. I'd seriously consider this. Best thing to do now is to save your health. LL will have to come later. And by next time, you will have gathered some crucial experiences.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2022, 3:22 am
#8
Not attacking you but can you provide proof of your allegations against the Live life taller company?
This forum has become truly a breeding ground of various turkish doctors   talking each other in their quest to amass more customers

Please find the time and sit down and elaborate on your original post in a objective and non emotional manner as if youre writing a court deposition and most importantly try to provide xrays and more detailed explanation on who, where, what happened

It boggled the mind how people still go to this company solely based on the fact that their website and instagram is filled with patients faces

Imagine trying to do this extremely socially embarrassing procedure in secrecy and then 5 months later you randomly stumble on a video of you in a hospital gown pushing a walker in a hospital corridor while grimacing and sweating your ass off from exertion. Just from the fact that they keep such an active instagram id NEVER come near those people.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2022, 5:09 am
#9
Quote from: hasaki on July 09, 2022, 09:07:48 PMI started femoral surgery at livelifetaller last October and had a series of post-operative complications. These include but are not limited to osteomyelitis, osteochondrosis, and nerve damage. Of course, at this point, the most important thing to deal with is still osteomyelitis, which has left me unable to stand and walk independently and with a lot of pain almost a year after the surgery. At the very first interview with them, their doctor told me that their patients were usually able to walk off crutches two weeks after surgery and run within a month. I was convinced, so I had the surgery just a few days after the interview. Just a few hours after the surgery, they ask you to get out of bed and walk, and then they take video behind you. And the steps are repeated over the next few days. You have to do it and they will force you. That's why they have so many videos. I was discharged after 3 days in the hospital, which is usually a week for the rest of the team. After being discharged I noticed thick yellow and red fluid coming out of my wound and had asked them about it. They told me that it was normal drainage and that it meant that everything was fine (since I had no previous experience with infection, I didn't know it was an infection). After that, there was a lot of pus coming out every day and I asked them about it, but they told me to trust them and that they were sure I didn't have an infection. After being in pain for close to a month, their people came over to take x-rays of my femur, but found no success in lengthening it. So a few days later, I underwent a new surgery, which was a continuation of the nightmare. I noticed after the surgery that I had numbness in my left foot and no control of my thumb, which was more intense when I was lying down. As a result, I was unable to sleep most of the time. At first I thought I was losing too much blood and asked them about it. They still told me that everything was normal and that it was normal to experience numbness after surgery. It wasn't until last December when I returned to New York and found the infection had increased that I went to nyu langone for a checkup and they told me that I was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and had nerve damage and bone loss (before that, livelifetall told me that my bones were growing well). And they found that the infection was caused by the built-in metal contamination and recommended that I have immediate surgery and acute shortening of the gap between the bones, which meant that the surgery was a complete failure, so I refused. At a later time I re-inquired about livelifetaller and sent them my ct and x-ray and they told me their doctor had looked at it and still found no problems present. It wasn't until I gave them the nyulangone diagnosis report that they put the blame on me. They said my surgery failed because I took too much pain medication (what does this have to do with osteomyelitis?) However, while I was there they did not allow me to buy any medication and only gave me one or two diclofenac pills a day at my request. After that, their executives contacted me and threatened to hold me legally responsible if I told anyone about the incident. And after I was disabled by them, they still did not take any responsibility and compensate me.

Sorry that my English isn't that good. I am trying to understand what you experienced in LL. Are you saying your legs experienced unexpected pain and your height is the same as starting height?

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Posted on Jul 10, 2022, 6:25 am
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The current height is shorter than at the end of the lengthening, probably due to the tilting of the intramedullary nail caused by osteolysis.
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