LON tibia with HeightIncreaseInfo(HII) team Gurgaon

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nope, nothing like that for me. I told them I will be writing a diary much later after the surgery anyway.
Also, just to be clear I am not here to promote them. I have discussed this with Dr. Hirdesh(Harry). I will share my journey as I experience it and he asked me to do the same.
So far I have had a really positive experience with the team but I will be candid with my experience as it progresses.

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After day 6:

The pain was minor and I was constantly sleeping 6-8 hours each night due to a bunch of continued meds. I thought this is a breeze but it didn't last long. The most discomforting thing was not being able to go to the washroom and requiring 2 people to carry me using the wheelchair till I learned to manage it myself.

Started lengthening on day 7 - Doing 1 mm/day.
Also, sitting for long hours due to work caused discomfort on the tailbone due to constant pressure so I got a cushion for support. It has relieved the problem a bit but still sitting long hours was a trouble.

Other than that, I had a normal schedule - sleep, work, eat, physio 2 times.

The routine medicines got over on day13~14 and I shifted to painkillers only for SOS, the real discomfort started kicking in and I experienced those sleepless nights. I was going to sleep at around 11 PM each day, would wake up at 1-2 AM due to pains in my shin and osteotomy sites. Would try to alter positions, massage my feet, nothing really helped. Each night I was getting a sleep of only 3-4 hours while I was on bed for 7-8 hours. This was really tiring and troublesome since I couldn't sleep during the day because of my work. This continued for a week.

Went for xrays when I hit 1 cm turning(day 16) -
https://imgur.com/a/0boiOW4

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Day 16 - Day21

During the day, the pain was low and manageable and apart from just taking longer time to do the chores, everything including my work was manageable. Also, had been working 7-8 hours. It had its pros and cons, kept me distracted from the discomfort but everything was many folds harder. Constant days of low sleep also wore me off. I’d say I was like 50% me during the work.
Started going to the in house gym at the centre to train upper body. Have been doing ~30-40 mins 4 days a week.

The nights were the worst. Not being a flat sleeper, I experimented with different sleep positions. Nothing was really comfortable but I was able to sleep on the side using two pillows to support the upper rings of the fixator.
Also, was trying to taper down the painkillers. Had been taking one a day for 3-4 days. After that, started taking just half each night. They helped but still not a lot. Would wake up each day at ~ 1-2 am, and sit for like 2-3 hours. This was really tough and it mentally wears you down. You just want to sleep, but the constant discomfort keeps you awake.

Anyway, this continued for a week till I figured out the sleeping positions, and avoided sleeping during the day to get tired and sleep at night.
Overall, the max pain I faced so far is 5-6/10 but the constant discomfort is still really bad.
Distraction is continued 1mm/day.

Thanks @abc_! I will answer your question in the next update, don’t wanna spoil the chronology.

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I am doing fine, thanks! Just got a bit of muscle pain near left shins. It is day 37 post op. Will update the details for the previous days soon.