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

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finally you did it mate. eat well and try to move your legs and enjoy good sleep

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Man LON IS hard man. To anyone considering it. I won’t say more than that. Just brace yourself for the immense world of pain you’re going to be in. What I wouldn’t give to go back in time.

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Quote from: Fiveandsomething on August 07, 2021, 09:55:34 AMMan LON IS hard man. To anyone considering it. I won’t say more than that. Just brace yourself for the immense world of pain you’re going to be in. What I wouldn’t give to go back in time.

Would you have went with PRECICE II if you could do it over again?

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Hey guys, I had my fixator removal about 5 hours ago.
I will complete a more detailed update later on, for now just to summarize, I flew to Istanbul Friday night. Sunday morning I got to the hospital around 11am. It was the longest day, my surgery was last so around 8:30pm they took me to the operating room. Actually around 5pm they took me and then sent me back because the nurses were stupid and took the wrong patient. Mentally it was extremely hard day for me today. When they took me by accident the first time I saw a Chinese girl waking up getting wheeled out shivering and constantly repeating words pain/cold. This would be me shortly I thought. She had precice installed as I saw one of the nurses had a silver color box that had precice written on the side.


To the more important part, removal is NO joke
It was very painful. They locked the nails on each side, two screws from the side and on from the front of thigh, about ten inches above the knee.
I was moaning in pain ripping my hair out. My left leg hurt bad 6.5/10 but my right was was terribly painful 8.5/10. It varies person to person but seriously the removal is no joke, I didn’t find out how difficult it was until a few weeks ago when other people told me about it. I screamed when they transferred me on the bed. It took them a while to administer painkillers, I couldn’t keep track of time my eyes were closed and I was constantly moaning in pain.

I feel better now, at rest. My right leg hurts significantly if I move it. I already feel a lot more comfortable with the fixators off, and some of my tightness has been relieved.

I can’t believe they are actually off, it felt like I was stuck with them. This experience felt like it was a year long, not slightly under 90 days

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Quote from: Growing on August 07, 2021, 11:18:59 AMWould you have went with PRECICE II if you could do it over again?


150% percent

*no painful removal surgery required
*100x more comfortable distraction
*no pinsite infections
*no risk of distal part of nail getting stuck like in my scenerio

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Must feel good to get your legs back!

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 09, 2021, 05:19:01 AM
150% percent

*no painful removal surgery required
*100x more comfortable distraction
*no pinsite infections
*no risk of distal part of nail getting stuck like in my scenerio

300% + an additional 700%. Removal for me was Brutal ooof. But good  . Mad jealous of you tho, Phuck I need to be home 🏡 like yesterday. I am not traveling out the country for at least 3 years to recover from this sh8t lol. In 4-5 days you’ll feel about 90% better tho.

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 09, 2021, 12:47:44 AMHey guys, I had my fixator removal about 5 hours ago.
I will complete a more detailed update later on, for now just to summarize, I flew to Istanbul Friday night. Sunday morning I got to the hospital around 11am. It was the longest day, my surgery was last so around 8:30pm they took me to the operating room. Actually around 5pm they took me and then sent me back because the nurses were stupid and took the wrong patient. Mentally it was extremely hard day for me today. When they took me by accident the first time I saw a Chinese girl waking up getting wheeled out shivering and constantly repeating words pain/cold. This would be me shortly I thought. She had precice installed as I saw one of the nurses had a silver color box that had precice written on the side.


To the more important part, removal is NO joke
It was very painful. They locked the nails on each side, two screws from the side and on from the front of thigh, about ten inches above the knee.
I was moaning in pain ripping my hair out. My left leg hurt bad 6.5/10 but my right was was terribly painful 8.5/10. It varies person to person but seriously the removal is no joke, I didn’t find out how difficult it was until a few weeks ago when other people told me about it. I screamed when they transferred me on the bed. It took them a while to administer painkillers, I couldn’t keep track of time my eyes were closed and I was constantly moaning in pain.

I feel better now, at rest. My right leg hurts significantly if I move it. I already feel a lot more comfortable with the fixators off, and some of my tightness has been relieved.

I can’t believe they are actually off, it felt like I was stuck with them. This experience felt like it was a year long, not slightly under 90 days

Any reason why they don't put you to sleep for this? Is that something that can be requested for removal. Seems barbaric to keep you awake for the removal if it's that painful.

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Quote from: Growing on August 10, 2021, 05:06:43 PMAny reason why they don't put you to sleep for this? Is that something that can be requested for removal. Seems barbaric to keep you awake for the removal if it's that painful.

It was under general anesthesia, I meant when I woke up I was in very high pain.

Since removal my left leg has got better, but my right leg is very painful with any little movement. I cannot move it, I’m letting it heal but I will be in bed for the next days most likely

It was a big mistake to schedule my flight the day after removal, the only way I made it was the painkillers from the hospital hadn’t completely wore off and I took some tramadol. But it was still extremely difficult to get to the airport and on the plane. During the flight the pain starting increasing, painkillers were not helping. Mid way through the flight I had a lot of pain. It was a very terrible day for me, but now I am back home with my wife, I just have very high pain in my right leg

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 10, 2021, 07:43:33 PMIt was under general anesthesia, I meant when I woke up I was in very high pain.

Since removal my left leg has got better, but my right leg is very painful with any little movement. I cannot move it, I’m letting it heal but I will be in bed for the next days most likely

It was a big mistake to schedule my flight the day after removal, the only way I made it was the painkillers from the hospital hadn’t completely wore off and I took some tramadol. But it was still extremely difficult to get to the airport and on the plane. During the flight the pain starting increasing, painkillers were not helping. Mid way through the flight I had a lot of pain. It was a very terrible day for me, but now I am back home with my wife, I just have very high pain in my right leg

Why the rush to get back home? Do you think You'd have had a better outcome if you would have just stayed in turkey throughout the lengthening process? Flying on a plane from turkey to the US in a normal situation is brutal being such a long flight. So I know it had to be bad flying with frames and then being on a plane for such a long time.