LON tibia with HeightIncreaseInfo(HII) team Gurgaon

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how often they changed the bandages?

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Quote from: otaviognu on August 07, 2023, 06:08:57 PMhow often they changed the bandages?
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They come and inspect the pin sites everyday. Cleaning and changing happens every 3-4 days for tibias. Alternate days for femurs due to thicker pins.

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Day 32-40

Usual routine continued, lengthening 1 mm per day. Got used to the sleeping pattern now. Could sleep 4-5 hours consistently and felt myself in better state during the day.
Surgical pain completely gone, I experience some muscle pains near both the shins due to constant calf, tendon stretches. Also, had pin tearing pains around a few pin sites but these were much more bearable compared to the previous tearing I experienced which had some inflammation as well.

Started standing after 30mm distraction(day 36) using a walker.
First day was hella struggle, took a whole minute to stand. Felt tired after standing for 2 mins.
The blood rush after standing was so much, calves got pumped and very tight.
This improved rapidly, by 4th day, was easily able to stand for 10 mins. Felt great to be able to do so after a month of bedrest. And could experience the height gain, the eye level and the floor seemed to be far from the memory.
By day 40, reached 34mm in both the legs.

I am at day 49 post op, will update these days in the next update.

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good to know that you're able to stand albeit for less time. Wishing you the best possible recovery.

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u good mate? been some time since the last update, praying for ur recovery

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Hey man, yes i am fine, thank you!
There are some pains(manageable by painkillers) which are expected as I am close to 5.5 cm. Will have my next xrays this week. Will update the rest of the days then.

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Update:
I had my frame removal yesterday, after reaching the target of ~6.5cm.
Since the last update, I had a few hiccups in the journey due to muscle pains and pin tears(after 4.5-5cm) so wasn’t in a great mood.
Anyway, I continued lengthening at 1mm daily till about 4-4.5cm, started to develop a lot of stiffness, muscle pain and pin tears in the right leg while the left was relatively better.
So, reduced the lengthening rate to 0.75 mm in right, some days when I felt extra tight, did 0.5mm. Also, here and there gave a break to lengthening. This really helped with pin tears and muscle stiffness.
Also, muscle pain really interfered with my stretching, even slight dorsiflexion was causing a shock-like sensation in the leg.
Started standing 2-3 times daily for 10-15 mins with the help of a walker, that was relatively lesser pain as I could control the weight and force on the leg while going down.
Also, reduced the lengthening rate to 0.75mm after reaching 5cm in the left leg.
Status before frame removal: I was able to touch my feet down after standing for 4-5min and applying weight. Left leg was relatively easier.

Overall my journey was smooth till 4cm but then it felt really hard to keep pushing due to early muscle stiffness and a lot of pin tearing. One small advice would be to regularly trim/shave the hair during the lengthening phase. I had a lot of hair on the legs despite the clean shave at the time of the first surgery. The hair would stick with the gauze pieces and cause extra pain during leg movements.

The experience with the height increase info team has been great. They went the extra mile to help me with physio thrice instead of the usual two times when I started developing tightness. Pin cleaning is regular which was my major concern when starting the journey. The food is good with good enough variety, caretaker staff, physiotherapist team have all been really helpful throughout the journey.

Attaching pictures of last 2 xrays. I had some differences between right/left leg due to different amount of compressions which I adjusted later.
https://imgur.com/a/mDA299n

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Xray 9 days post removal: https://imgur.com/a/2i6psfB

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Hi how you doing now?