LON Femur 7.5cm with halil buldu may 13th, 2021 God-Willing

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Mate don't get stressed thinking something is wrong as the x-ray seems to be good and doctor says that. You are few days to 2cm taller !! What about physio ? they send a doctor to your place or its not included? I guess you only paid for surgery and not the package complete with accommodation and food. What would you recommend now, think it would be easier for me as I'm probably going alone to get the full package surgery, hotel and food? Are you doing exercise or do you have to wait like 1 month o something like that? Are you taking vitamins and calcium ?

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another question, why did you stop vaping for surgery ?? i vape a lot a LOT, is it bad ? did you prepare for the surgery before training and stretching ?

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Quote from: moretallpls on June 03, 2021, 03:18:40 PMMate don't get stressed thinking something is wrong as the x-ray seems to be good and doctor says that. You are few days to 2cm taller !! What about physio ? they send a doctor to your place or its not included? I guess you only paid for surgery and not the package complete with accommodation and food. What would you recommend now, think it would be easier for me as I'm probably going alone to get the full package surgery, hotel and food? Are you doing exercise or do you have to wait like 1 month o something like that? Are you taking vitamins and calcium ?

I have free ten sessions of physiotherapy. After my next one I pay for them. I do physiotherapy 3 times a week and then with my wife one time a week from memory. I take vitamin D and calcium.

The package doesn’t include food only breakfast, me and my wife eat mostly healthy take out, I did not take the package, I have an Airbnb

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Quote from: moretallpls on June 03, 2021, 03:21:55 PManother question, why did you stop vaping for surgery ?? i vape a lot a LOT, is it bad ? did you prepare for the surgery before training and stretching ?

Yes vaping is very bad, nicotine affects healing and bone growth very negatively. I vaped for about a year prior to quitting. Most doctors won’t operate on patients that vape/smoke/smoke nicotine or even weed.
I didn’t train or stretch at all, I was already very flexible from middle and high school I was a 6th place in state wrestler and track runner. I also did other sports non competitively like swimming for fun etc.

Although I have not worked out in years I still retained a good amount of flexibility

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  i vape a lot, will put down nicotine in my mix to 0%. I will try to contact Buldu about this vaping to stop prior to surgery. Do you have the link for all information on what is included and not. Sorry mate, i didn't get if you contacted Buldu by one of the many companies or direct to him. Keep strong and patience just 2 months to go, and you will be freed from the fixator

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Quote from: moretallpls on June 03, 2021, 08:47:59 PM  i vape a lot, will put down nicotine in my mix to 0%. I will try to contact Buldu about this vaping to stop prior to surgery. Do you have the link for all information on what is included and not. Sorry mate, i didn't get if you contacted Buldu by one of the many companies or direct to him. Keep strong and patience just 2 months to go, and you will be freed from the fixator



I just contacted him directly and negotiated the price from 16k euro to 15k euro including 10 day hotel and 10 session of physical therapy, that’s all. I planned everything else on my own besides that. You can contact him via the number in the screenshot I posted, just put it in WhatsApp that’s his personal number

Even vaping without nicotine I would tell you to stop. This surgery isn’t a game, it’s extremely serious and anything that affects or hinders your health let go of before you even consider

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mate are you in Istambul lengthening already ? how you doing ?

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I can second the idea of cutting out any "non-sense" to your body 2-3 months before surgery, including smoking & drinking & eating junk food etc because you really want your body to be in a prime condition during lengthening. Your body needs to be in that state in order to produce sufficient soft tissues to rebuild your leg.

LL is the world's most extreme cosmetic surgery, and the next 6-12 months will be the hardest time you will ever experience in your life (both mentally & physically).

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Met with a private physical therapist today. I will be doing more exercises now to prepare for the tightness and tension most people experience around 5-6cm. I notice a slight loss in flexibility only when laying flat on my back and having the therapist lift my leg straight to a 90 degree angle. Before surgery I could go past the 90 degree mark but now this 90 degree seems to be my maximum at 2cm mark.

The therapist today used a machine on all my areas of pain / tension that sent little shocks and afterwards massaged them. He showed me how to bend my knees properly when walking with a walker, and corrected my walking posture. We did some stretching and exercises with some ankle weights for a while. Total session lasted about 45 minutes, I paid 30$ usd for this session. It was borderline easy, after I lengthen more it will be harder for sure. My left leg is still weaker/painful around hip/top thigh area than my right, probably due to the left leg nail being not perfectly straight, which he said should not be a problem at all when the bones heal. He said my flexibility and range of motion was very good, let’s hope it stays this way.
Current knee rom: https://imgur.com/gallery/Xl71oY3

The other physical therapist does mostly basic stretches and exercises which are 20 minute sessions. I will be doing 3 sessions with him and 1-2 advanced sessions with the private therapist every week. From what Ive seen/read Exercise and physical therapy very important for recovery and preventing complications/bad posture or gait when walking during higher end of lengthening and after fixator removal.


Besides that not much of to update, I still can’t walk unaided like I used to but I definitely feel less pain when walking and feel easy to walk, stand and sit with my walker. I leave this Airbnb tomorrow to a wheelchair accessible one so I will finally be going out after over a week of staying indoors. Last night I had pain at night in my legs and also lower back that made it hard to fall asleep because I had discomfort no matter what position I picked. I have random hours of 3/10 pain throughout the day and night that come/go for 1-2 hours, usually near top pinsite area or knee area

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Quote from: Activatedxx on June 03, 2021, 12:53:04 PMSince I have been prescribed stronger medicines my pain and discomfort has been greatly relieved. It is definitely still there but it feels so much better now with Xanax and tramadol (not taking at same time).
The mornings used to be the best time, now since I am staying home and resting mostly it is the worst time, when I wake up usually I take tramadol because my legs are very achy sore and painful from being in same position at night. When the tramadol wears off I take a dolorex and half Xanax and this keeps me comfortable for the rest of the day, then the other half Xanax before I sleep. I will be doing more physical therapy and I have a new sense of hope that I can get through the lengthening phase with these narcotics. My sleep quality has improved x2 at the least, obviously not near pre-op but I feel rested and don’t wake up multiple times in the night.
I will quit them completely when I don’t need them ( shortly after frame removal ). I have very strong willpower and was able to quit vaping habit couple months before surgery even though it was hard physically/mentally my mind overcame it easily. I have been taking the pain face first since being discharged I’ve only had weak painkillers and they never worked relieving the pain fully. Turkeys painkillers seem to be way less potent than America’s but the recent ones I’ve got are good and it really helps me get through the day. It seems the days have been flying by when taking the Xanax and painkillers since I’m more comfortable with minor problems, before it was painful and slow. Also since I have been allowed to shower now I usually do every other day and change my bandages, but I find the showers relieve a ton of discomfort/pain by the hot and cold method. I use the handheld sprayer and put really hot water on my thighs knees and tibias front/rear for a minute then switch it to very cold water for a minute and I do this about 5 times, works like a charm. Still have the pain in my left leg inner fold. It’s better now but still prevents me from walking unassisted like I used to.

The X-ray guy just came, weirdly funny guy. Joked around and said I have sxxy legs, after xray he said good news you’re not pregnant.
I’ve always lengthened evenly But the 1MM discrepancy is from the surgery the guy said and even though some people lengthen one leg slightly more that femur might be shorter than the other leg due to starting discrepancy. No one has perfectly equal leg length, and he said the last week we will correct it to get equal length of both femurs

My X-ray results
https://imgur.com/gallery/xkE3EcT

To get good bone formation should you do anything different regarding to exercise etc. when you have done tibia lengthening using external fixation (Taylor Spatial Frame) compared to using internal nail and also compared to femur lengthening using LON?