LON Femur Dr. Mustafa Uysal from AFA

Hi everyone!

In 3 weeks (22.03.2022), I will do Femur LON with Dr. Mustafa Uysal in Instambul. Im very excited for that

I chose Dr. Uysal AFA, because after consulting some doctors I find that their team seems to be good in all the context be the best option: center for rehabilitation, full attention, doctor with experience, fast reply from the team (at least before I started, hope it continue), from all the explanations seems to be make sense, etc
Furthermore, and most, I did an extensively research, and all the reviews from this doctor were excellent, contrary to other options that I've seen.
In case you want to find more informations about, their website is: https://afacosmeticsurgery.com/

As for LON Femur, I chose LON because has an affordable cost, and a fast recovery time, Im aware that should be very painful, but Im prepared for that.

I will be updating my experience here, hope it can be useful for you. I also created an Instagram account, so I will be posting pictures, videos about the process, so those interested this is the account: https://www.instagram.com/ll.patient/

Hi,

Congratulations on taking the first step! I've heard some pretty good things on the AFA team through this forum as I'm considering AFA as one of my options. May I ask why you specifically chose Dr. Uysal as your surgeon as opposed to Dr. Inan? Do you know if your surgeon specializes more on the Femurs or Tibias? Thank you for your kind attention and your reply will be much appreciated.

-AsianCyborg

Hi AsianCyborg,

Actually at first I just contacted them to gather information and soon they assigned to Uysal, then I researched about him and see the very positive reviews. I dont know their criteria for that, maybe one doctor is more specialised in one thing, other in another, as you suggested.

But I think Inan is also very experienced and good, from what I saw about him

Hello everyone, yesterday I did my surgery, and the doctor said that was very successful!!!

The AFA team picked me up at the airport 2 weeks ago, because i wanted to visit and enjoy Istanbul. I even had a coffee together with an assistant of AFA, the one who use their whatsapp account, which is a very nice person, as all the people who work for AFA that I knew so far. He provided more informations about the surgery and lengthening.

2 days ago, I did my consultation and by the x-ray the doctor said that my bones are good for do this surgery. However, my muscles are not so good because he said that are very strong, thus they are stiff. Nevertheless,  also not so bad, because I was stretching them almost everyday in the last 3 months. He said that I should be able to length 8 cm, but he will be doing tests to see if the soft tissues are ok. There are some signals that show that I cant length more, otherwise I have risk of not recovering my physical ability. From one side I am concern to length less than 8cm, but from other side it shows that the doctor really take care of my health. I know that many doctors push beyond what is safe for the patient.

Yesterday, I did the surgery, and the doctor Uysal said that was very successful, was perfect for me. By the way, he also said that my bones are very strong (which I dont know if its good or not, but I think it is good). After the surgery I came back to my room, and AFA provided a person to take care of me and do everything that I need 24h per day, which is also a very nice person, I thought this excellent because I dont need to be calling and waiting nurses whenever I need something. He will stay with me in the 10 days that I will stay in the hospital.

Soon after the surgery, I woke up in my room and felt a lot of pain in the knees, which the nurses said that is normal to have, later, I felt also in the legs, but it was reduced after a time due to pain killers. They said that the most people sleep almost all day after surgery, however, unfortunately I couldnt sleep because of the pain, painkillers reduced but I still feel some pain. Even now that is 7 o'clock I couldnt sleep well, at maximum very superficials sleeps, like I was in the middle term between sleeping and awakening. However the most important is that the surgery was successful, I am excited to length my legs!

Just to remember, I am posting photos in the stories of my Instagram account, that I created for my LL journey. Who wants to see it just follow me there!
https://www.instagram.com/ll.patient/

What was the cost of the surgery?

Now I dont remember exactly, but I think was something between 15k and 20k dollars

Just to update, the 2 following days were very hard, first I had a problem in my stomach, probably due to medicines and I had nausea, vomited and had diarrhea.

Besides that, I started to walk with a help of a device, but feeling a lot of pain in the left knee, next times that I walked the pain reduced and it was easier, despite I still have a lot of pain the left knee when walking, and it concerned me a lot. If werent the pain in the left knee, I would walk much easier and painless. I also started to do physiotherapy sections, its a bit painful also, but I think that not so bad.

Thats it, indeed the LON femur is being more painful than I expected and was prepared for, but I didnt regretted of my chose. People here say that first days are the worse, and then things become better, hope its true

welcome to istanbul friend! i am also right dr uysal for LON femur lengthening. PM if you have any questions or need help

Update:

Now is 7th day after surgery

The pain in the left knee while walking reduced a lot, and I am able to walk good distance. Now what is honestly the most painful part is bending the knee of right leg in physiotherapy sections, but I understand its important to push hard on this, to regain flexibility back.

Other than that, overall Im not feeling pain when Im not exercising, so for example, I can sleep very well.

I started to length today, so officially I am already taller than before surgery

The doctor is visiting me everyday to know how is going, take doubts and give instructions, and so far the AFA team is also being very attentive and helping me whenever needed.

Congratz for Getting taller. Hope things goes well for ya 😊