Hi guys ,
I just created this topic to share with you my patient experience with Limb Legthening . A bit about me... My Name is Frederico and I am orginally from Brazil but I have been living in Germany for quite a while now also due to my german roots. I had my operation on 21 st november so exactly 1 week ago.
I choose the LON Method on my femurs. My goal is to lenghten 8 cm. So Im going from 173 cm to 181 cm.
I made my surgery with livelifetaller medical team in Istanbul Turkey which belongs to Dr Halil Buldu.
I started lenghtening today so I have still a long journey ahead of me here in Turkey as I am gonna stay for the hole lengthening process.
First week was very hard I suffered a lot but the team took really good care of me and now Im feeling a lot better and Im able to walk with the walker.
Im gonna post some pics of me and let you guys now about my development throughout this hole journey as I know how important this is for others that are interested in doing this surgery...
Kind regards Frederico
LON method femur Frederico Dr Halil Buldu
He does all the other methods with the internal nails but unfortunately they were too expensive for me and he showed me plenty of his patients having an excellent outcome using the LON method on the femurs or on the tibia . I had contact with other patients from him such as Hakon from Norway and David from Switzerland who did the LON on femurs... both are completely fine after lengthening walking running bending their knees 90 degrees. Im using external fixators on my femurs. I dont know the name of the type of fixator but I can poste a picture
Im trying to attach 2 pics but its saying that the folder is full ...
If you guys wanna exchange informations and get pics throughout my process just send me message and I pass my whatsapp by private message
Thanks for welcoming me and explaining to me how to upload the pictures.
Here are the link to the pics
https://ibb.co/j6Kp21Z
https://ibb.co/SwM956x
Im not going to post so much in this forum as I prefere to use my cellphone . This is my whatsapp so you guys feel free to write to me and I share some videos and pics : +49 17661265285
I will also post some videos and pics here but not a lot as I dont enter so much here.
Kind regards
Frederico
Im feeling good now. The thing is I have to get familiar with the monorail. Sleeping is not that easy and doing daily stuff such as going to the toilett have to be adapted. I have lengthened 1 mm so far I started lenghtening today ! I am lenghtening 4 times a day 0.25 mm each time I turn my legthening key.
I had nasty pain in the first days after surgery .The second day after surgery was the worst. On the 5th day after the surgery I started to get better . I have some knee pain but its not all the time it comes and goes and lets say the pain level is about 2 of 10. I am stretching a lot my legs and doing fisioterapy daily.
Alpha X thanks for the advice ! Your words are absoluetely true and I agree with all of them !!
If you want feel free to add me on whatsapp so we can exchange some informations! +4917661265285
Hey guys ,
As I promised now I am passing by to give you an update about my progress so far .
So today its the 02.12.2020 my surgery was on the 21.11.2020.
I am feeling a lot better then in the first week after surgery. Im now able to wash myself , brush my teeth and I have less issues in going to the toilett .
I'm still taking painkillers allthough I am trying to decrease the amount of painkillers I take daily. Sometimes I get knee pain and I still need to take the painkillers to relief the pain. Regarding the pain lets say 70% of the day I feel no pain at all and no discomfort. The other 30% of the day I would have knee pain and feel sort of uncomfortable then its when the painkillers play an important role in this process
Overall I feel much better my only problems are the bending of my knee and the pain on the knee that would come and go . I can bend my knee up to 30% 35% degrees now I'm exercising every day to extend the bending. I'm using warm water bottle on the knees to relief the knee pain its helping a lot and sometimes I don't even need to take painkillers.
I hope I could give a good insight about my current situation. I will try to update you guys weekly here about my progress .
On 11th of december I will have my first X ray looking forward to see how quick my body is producing new bone.
Ok so I wish you all a great day feel free to make any questions.
Kind regards
Frederico
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