LON tibia with HeightIncreaseInfo(HII) team Gurgaon

I have undergone tibial LON on 21st June under the HII team. Will be sharing my diary here.

Pre-surgery details:
My initial height was 165-166 cm and I am aiming for 6-6.5 cm gain.

I am a long-time lurker on this forum. Did plenty of research on this forum as well as other resources on the internet. Read a bunch of diaries and finally contacted the HII team.
Naturally, I had my concerns, most of all the infection risk.
I visited the place for physical consultation twice and met 10+ patients, validated the facilities and authenticity of the company, and finally after enough contemplation, decided to undergo surgery with them.

Best of luck for your journey. we would like to see something convincing like picture or video.

Since, I am working full time remotely, will try to update whenever I get time. I have had 2 xrays so far, will share those soon.

Day -1(one day before surgery): I was admitted to the hospital and had blood, urine, ecg, scanogram.


Day 0(Surgery day):
I was given spinal epidural pre surgery which completely made my lower body numb.
The experience was surreal since I had no hospitalization experience before. I thought I would be super nervous and shaky during the surgery but I was looking at the heart rate during the surgery to pass time. To my surprise, it constant hovered around 70-80.
Also, I was awake the whole time and could hear drilling and hammering sounds and felt something happening to my legs but didn’t feel any pain. They told me to ask for a shot if I wanted to sleep but I didn’t and was awake for about 4 hours.
Was transferred to ICU for monitoring. Doctor came to check if I had basic toe mobility. I had in  left but right was still not moving. Was a bit scared but 2-3 hours later when the epidural wore off a bit, the mobility returned. Finally, about 10 hours later, was shifted to my room. I had sandwiches in the breakfast and slept afterwards.

Day(1-2): Epidural + a few other IVs continued, there was absolutely no pain but felt my legs extremely heavy. This was a bit shocking and even moving the legs slightly took immense effort. Another major discomfort was passing the bowel. I was uncomfortable using a bedpan, and didn’t have a dump for 2 days post surgery which in hindsight was a bad decision.
I slept, ate and netflixed the entire time.
2nd day at night, I got about 100.5 F fever, I didn’t notice it, but nurse during IV replacement noticed it and notified the doctor. The routine PCM cleared out the fever and I slept through the night.




Day 3: Epidural and urinal catheter was removed. I had 2 people carry me to the bathroom on wheel chair and I passed stool. Felt relieved, also I didn’t face any constipation problem like many patients do.
The same routine continued, ate, slept and streamed movies.


Day 4: Dr. Hirdesh(owner of HII) came and removed the bandages and did fresh dressing. Leg mobility also got better so legs started feeling lighter and I felt better. All this time I had no to very low pain(1-2/10) due to the IVs. Also had my post surgery xrays done, will share those soon.


Day 5: Got shifted to the guest house. Felt good to finally go out of a closed room.

All the best, following your diary closely.

Thanks!

Here's the xrays from day 4: https://imgur.com/EEmvzVB
The bone cut was oblique with some pieces instead of a straight single cut. I asked the doctor about it, he mentioned it is normal and it may lead to better callous due to more surface area in contact.
I read this on a few other diaries in this forum as well.

Why did you choose Ilizarov? What is the price for the surgery and rehab there?

This center had more illizarov patients for tibia, there are a few with monorail as well though.
Regarding cost, it’d be better to contact the team: +91-9971119604
They are pretty responsive.

Here’s a small video they shot while I was in the hospital-day 2 or day 3.

niceee, also i have to ask this, do they reduce your fee if u make a diary for them, you know seems like a potential conflict of interest so just wanted to confirm, pls excuse me if this was a stupid/offensive question