Quote from: moretallpls on June 23, 2021, 10:45:10 PMi know you area already sick of the fixator but try to be cool and remember the most important here is patience and calm you are already in the process and in 6 months you will forget all and enjoy your new height so try to be patient. How was the relation with Buldu when the problem happened, was he supportive ? what was the explanation to the bending and the problem? What was the solution they did ? by the xray didnt seem they did nothing to the inner nail but added more pins. Please take care and remember its just some months for life change. keep us updated. Im following your diary as im planning to go to Buldu next year
There was no explanation, I don’t want to pin fault but I am making an educated guess it was not installed correctly in the first surgery. Experience doesn’t mean mistakes won’t happen, he does at least 3 if not 4 surgeries per day
LON Femur 7.5cm with halil buldu may 13th, 2021 God-Willing
Quote from: Heyitsme on June 24, 2021, 01:36:32 AMIf you would not recommend lon on femur, what would you recommend instead on femur and any idea what it would cost?
Precice 2 is fully internal, you can’t walk with all your weight fully, only with a walker, and the recovery time is longer, but it definitely beats LON femur
Quote from: Fiveandsomething on June 25, 2021, 07:00:12 AMTHIS.....if you can afford PRECISE 2 it’s a NO Phuckn Brainer.
Yeah, after the terrible pain of pinsite infection, and taking the fixator out also is a painful process, etc dealing the femur fixator for months I would never choose this method again for femur
Quote from: Activatedxx on June 20, 2021, 03:41:41 PMYeah I was doing good then I had to have surgery again so it set me back in terms of recovery and lengthening. I lost days, and my leg is still swollen from surgery, it should subside in the next 2-3 days. At this point if anything else goes sideways I will stop at 5cm and call it a day
How much have you lengthen now? Did you see any patient who did LON tibia with Dr Halil?
There was somebody that did 10 on femur and after fixator was out directly 8 cm on tibia. INSANE but he wrote he was well i think then disappeared. In his x-rays of tibia alignment didn't look good. As the big bone has the nail inside, but the small one has nothing, so there was a big misalignment. I don't know at the end how they fix that
Quote from: moretallpls on June 28, 2021, 03:03:18 PMThere was somebody that did 10 on femur and after fixator was out directly 8 cm on tibia. INSANE but he wrote he was well i think then disappeared. In his x-rays of tibia alignment didn't look good. As the big bone has the nail inside, but the small one has nothing, so there was a big misalignment. I don't know at the end how they fix that
Monorails are much more comfortable but less reliable and slower healing than ilizarov, people that do have complications I don’t think is very often but when they do, they usually don’t post on the forum because they are scared of P sing off the medical team, I know couple people that have complications but don’t post it, I posted mines because I believe in making an honest and transparent diary
Tibia is more likely to be misaligned, I’m not sure if they can fix it, if it was in the safe terms of lengthening (5cm-6cm)it is extra pain and surgery but I’m sure it could be fixed,
However 18cm of lengthening is pure stupidity, even if you do walk I doubt your athletic ability will be 50% of pre op
@Activatedxx.
Hope everything is OK with your lengthening. May I ask do you still take your stomach needle medicine and how long do you have to do that?
Quote from: Bob on June 28, 2021, 08:56:29 PM@Activatedxx.
Hope everything is OK with your lengthening. May I ask do you still take your stomach needle medicine and how long do you have to do that?
The needle is anticoagulant/bloodthinner that you take for only 10 days after surgery to prevent blood clots
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