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

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Man that was interesting to read. I would also add that PT is absolutely necessary POST. I thought I was gonna be okrrt and just watch videos and do the exercises myself but man was that a lie.

Bunch of people probably remove the fixators and continue their normal life hence why their recovery could be longer and/or their outcome not the best.

I know finances has a lot to play in it as well.

The surgery is a long process, it doesn’t stop when you stop lengthening or go back to your home, for me it stops when I’m able to do things I did PRE without assistance. Not just walking or jogging.

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Quote from: Growing on August 17, 2021, 06:53:42 PMWOW really?  When did you have the LON procedure? Are you still recovering? What made you go with LON instead of Precice?

Lol the sacarsm.

Dude is the most educated scholar when it comes to LL. He has more knowledge than the doctors /surgeons that have spent years training to perform the surgery and far more experience than the patients that have undergone the surgery.

Everything he says is Facts and shouldn’t be questioned.  I’d Kick the sh8t outta him if I could kick 🥴.

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Quote from: Fiveandsomething on August 19, 2021, 01:51:28 PMLol the sacarsm.

Dude is the most educated scholar when it comes to LL. He has more knowledge than the doctors /surgeons that have spent years training to perform the surgery and far more experience than the patients that have undergone the surgery.

Everything he says is Facts and shouldn’t be questioned.  I’d Kick the sh8t outta him if I could kick 🥴.

LOL..LMAOO!! Word bro!! So Annoying!! Wish we could block people on here like reddit and Facebook.. lol.

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Update:
This is my last update for a little while, sorry if I don’t reply to messages I’ve been very busy as I’ve returned to work and have physical therapy and other things to do everyday.

So I started physical therapy, they did an evaluation of my ROM for every muscle (hips, hams, quads etc). It’s definitely tough, they worked me like a dog during the sessions. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery, because just when you think the hard part is over here comes another hard part. It’s still pretty hard to sleep, all my muscles are tight hips/hams etc so my body is very stiff waist down and I cannot get in a very comfortable position even with the fixators off. My hips hurt after laying on them for 20-30 min. Sitting down hurts and your butt gets sore after 20-30min even on a pillow, because of muscle loss it feels like you’re sitting on your bones. This is no walk in the part and I have my work cut out for me. I was given home exercises to do today daily

https://imgur.com/a/IPdYyrA

I am still not walking unassisted due to my right knee contracture and also to be safe because buldu said to wait a few weeks before pressing full weight on left leg.

Hopefully next time I update this diary I will be walking decently and unassisted, I am logging off until then

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 19, 2021, 10:07:58 PMUpdate:
This is my last update for a little while, sorry if I don’t reply to messages I’ve been very busy as I’ve returned to work and have physical therapy and other things to do everyday.

So I started physical therapy, they did an evaluation of my ROM for every muscle (hips, hams, quads etc). It’s definitely tough, they worked me like a dog during the sessions. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery, because just when you think the hard part is over here comes another hard part. It’s still pretty hard to sleep, all my muscles are tight hips/hams etc so my body is very stiff waist down and I cannot get in a very comfortable position even with the fixators off. My hips hurt after laying on them for 20-30 min. Sitting down hurts and your butt gets sore after 20-30min even on a pillow, because of muscle loss it feels like you’re sitting on your bones. This is no walk in the part and I have my work cut out for me. I was given home exercises to do today daily

https://imgur.com/a/IPdYyrA

I am still not walking unassisted due to my right knee contracture and also to be safe because buldu said to wait a few weeks before pressing full weight on left leg. Anyone already going through the process already NEVER skip physical therapy and exercises, you condition can deteriorate like crazy in just 2-3 days of inactivity/lack of physical therapy once you are past the 5cm mark. In one of of inactivity after frame removal I lost 25 degrees of rom on my right leg, I cannot straight it because of that so learn from my mistake, i cannot stress that professional PT will make or break your success majority of the time

Hopefully next time I update this diary I will be walking decently and unassisted, I am logging off until then

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This surgeon thought I was 6’1 😭. One more person says that I’m no longer identifying as 5’10. Lool.

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 19, 2021, 10:07:58 PMUpdate:
This is my last update for a little while, sorry if I don’t reply to messages I’ve been very busy as I’ve returned to work and have physical therapy and other things to do everyday.

So I started physical therapy, they did an evaluation of my ROM for every muscle (hips, hams, quads etc). It’s definitely tough, they worked me like a dog during the sessions. It’s gonna be a long road to recovery, because just when you think the hard part is over here comes another hard part. It’s still pretty hard to sleep, all my muscles are tight hips/hams etc so my body is very stiff waist down and I cannot get in a very comfortable position even with the fixators off. My hips hurt after laying on them for 20-30 min. Sitting down hurts and your butt gets sore after 20-30min even on a pillow, because of muscle loss it feels like you’re sitting on your bones. This is no walk in the part and I have my work cut out for me. I was given home exercises to do today daily

https://imgur.com/a/IPdYyrA

I am still not walking unassisted due to my right knee contracture and also to be safe because buldu said to wait a few weeks before pressing full weight on left leg.

Hopefully next time I update this diary I will be walking decently and unassisted, I am logging off until then

Thank you for posting your journey, I'm sure it has been useful for many.

During your evaluation was there any indication as to whether you are likely to regain your previous mobility/ROM or anything close, or is it too early to gauge?

Best

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Quote from: Stretch on August 20, 2021, 05:37:55 PMThank you for posting your journey, I'm sure it has been useful for many.

During your evaluation was there any indication as to whether you are likely to regain your previous mobility/ROM or anything close, or is it too early to gauge?

Best

Way to early to gauge, two days ago my opinion would have different. After physio and swimming daily for a few days I’ve had significant improvement. I would think I could, because I did not do much exercise etc pre-op. If you’re talking about my prime I would highly highly highly doubt it, in high school I was a state-ranking wrestler and I doubt I could have the same explosiveness, but I would think I could get back to pre-op condition when I was not really that fit

This is speculation but I believe 5-6cm you can recover very well, 7-8cm is kind of a lot. I only did 8 because paley says it’s the max safe limit but now that I’ve done 8 I realized how much it actually is. 

I went to the club today in crutches lol

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Quote from: Activatedxx on August 21, 2021, 09:49:45 AMWay to early to gauge, two days ago my opinion would have different. After physio and swimming daily for a few days I’ve had significant improvement. I would think I could, because I did not do much exercise etc pre-op. If you’re talking about my prime I would highly highly highly doubt it, in high school I was a state-ranking wrestler and I doubt I could have the same explosiveness, but I would think I could get back to pre-op condition when I was not really that fit

This is speculation but I believe 5-6cm you can recover very well, 7-8cm is kind of a lot. I only did 8 because paley says it’s the max safe limit but now that I’ve done 8 I realized how much it actually is. 

I went to the club today in crutches lol
Does Paley say 8 cm is safe limit with LON Femur?. I doubt. I think you are misquoted Paley here

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Quote from: more on August 21, 2021, 05:41:48 PMDoes Paley say 8 cm is safe limit with LON Femur?. I doubt. I think you are misquoted Paley here

With internal nail, however even with internal nail/Lon femur it feels like 8cm makes your femurs very long. Same thing. My femurs are the same length as my 180cm friend I noticed when sitting down. It doesn’t look bad, actually I like how it looks. Longer legs make your proportions look better. I’m saying once you hit 6cm that felt like the normal max for me, my legs were already looking long at 6 now they look very long, regardless of method I’m not  sure how well your muscles will adapt to an 8cm lengthening, 8cm is a pretty high amount of lengthening