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.
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.
It seems that they now have a lot of Japanese salesmen and stigmatize those victims who have had serious complications in livelifetaller.
The current height is shorter than at the end of the lengthening, probably due to the tilting of the intramedullary nail caused by osteolysis.
I can't upload pictures on this forum, so I'm attaching a link to my Instagram.
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You can see the livelifetaller equipment is rusty
The director of nyulangone judged it to be an intraoperative infection, and I went to another hospital. The same result was obtained, the implant was contaminated and needed to be removed and the gap shortened. But I refused because it would have meant a complete waste of money and time. And after I asked the livelifetaller, they told me that my problem would be solved with the passage of time.
Even as the picture shows, they still claim I have no infection and only gave me antibiotics for three days at the worst time.
1. My guess is that they are trying to save money. Because a day after the second surgery I was asked to be discharged by them, but of course the hospital they work with does not recommend .
2. When I was in Turkey, I only took oral antibiotics for 3 days.
3. Diclofenac
4. livelifetaller said it was due to the failure of the intramedullary nail
5. I lengthened about 6.5cm and at the time they told me my bone was growing well. But later when I took the x-ray they gave me to the nyulango doctor, I was told that there was no sign of bone growth.
6. I originally planned to remove the frame when I extended it to 7cm, but they seemed to operate a lot at that time. So their staff came over and talked me into removing the frame as soon as possible.
7. same with 5
8. Yes
9. Hospitalized for a week with intravenous antibiotic infusion. Also oral antibiotics twice a day until today
10. On the 12th of this month, nyulango' doctor asked me to go over to shoot the MIR.
11. They require 1.5 mm per day
12. At the time they didn't allow me to shower and their staff was a bit lazy. Even when I had an abscess, I came over once every three days to change the gauze. They also did not allow me to change them privately.
13. I stayed in a hotel with whom they have a partnership agreement.
14. Probably because of the gauze, their therapist only knew that I had nerve damage.
15.They took x-rays every two weeks and the first time told me I wasn't successful in extending. The second time they told me my bones were growing well and not to worry.
16. They didn't even tell me to slow down and extend, even though I was reacting to the pain with them every day.
17. I think most of the pain was due to the infection rather than prolongation, as the pain decreased a lot after my IV antibiotic infusion.
This is what they asked me to do
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