For some of you if you have infection on pin sites. You should drink centella asiatica smoothy. It helps heep with the infection and wound healing.
When i was in the insitute, they make me to dink a glass of it everyday to prevent infections.
It tastes like nothing so they normally mix it with sugar.
Congratulations, awesome to see how life changing it was for you.
I have some questions, out of curiosity..
1) How much would you rate the average pain on 10, 0 being pre-op normality and 10 being pain that makes you wish you were dead?
2) Do people notice something odd regarding your proportions? 3" tibia lengthening + 3" heels is a lot of height for just the parts below the knee.
3) Is the average height of males there 5'4.5 or 5'7? I'm talking about your friends, social circles, etc. Google wasn't specific enough about India in the sense they take the average height of even malnourished people, and there are a lot of them and that skews the survey.
4) In your first post you said you'll do femur eventually too. Is that dream still alive or are you satisfied?
Hello Asiann123, i was wondering if you had to pay extra for the physical therapy while you were there? or did you have your own physical therapist that helped you do leg lengthening exercises everyday throughout your lengthening process?
Hello Asiann123, after consolidation (healing) is done can you leave the nails inside you? (to avoid the surgery)
I understand that you are in your own country, but do you happen to know if the doctors and nurses speak some English? Is it common to see foreigners doing this surgery?
Do you work on your recovery alone or with a physiotherapist?
Sorry for flooding you with questions 
From what i've read, it is advise to remove the nails once your bone fully consolidate.. reason is that the nail can have an effect on your bone if left inside for too long. Your bone starts to weaken and something about you losing blood cells in places that supposed to be bone, but instead is now replaced with the nails.
I believe the doctors and nurses do speak some English. I have been in contact with them recently through emails, and all of our communications have been through english.
In regards to the physiotherapist, the doctor there told me that you need physical therapy throughout the lengthening process, they charge 20USD per session if you want their specific experience leg lengthening physical therapist (with 10 years of experience in leg lengthening therapy) to come visit your home and work with you through the physical therapy. Or you can pay for their all inclusive package which is 10,500 USD, where they cover your stay, meal, physical therapy, doctor access, medicine, x-ray fee or any sort of accommodation you need. This package is a 3 months deal.
Hi Asiann123
Can you tell us about your current condition?
Hello again,
Sorry guys for disappear in such a long period but i was enjoying new life so much that I almost forget my promise with u guys.
I'm currently perfect. I mean, I have some ballenrine, about 3cm but it is surely comming down due to what my physical therapist said, i need round 3 to 6 months post op to walk perfecly normal so I wont really push anything.
My experient from legs lengthening is you should never push your self too hard cause it will actually hurt your body. You just recover from one of the biggest operation so just let everything cool down in peace.
I once tried tô hard to get rid of the ballenrine foot and end up with some bad swelling on my legs which freak me out but its fine, with plenty of rest and right medication everything went back to normal again.
Again, please consider bringing your lift shoes with you cause you WILL NEED IT.
Here are pics that i take after when i first learn to walk again without frame.
This is 10 days after my surgery. I was wearing 5cm lift shoes to help with walking. Without it I couldn't even move.
http://m.imgur.com/QBLxrwy,l275oay
Quote from: Penguinn on December 03, 2016, 12:11:23 PMCongratulations, awesome to see how life changing it was for you.
I have some questions, out of curiosity..
1) How much would you rate the average pain on 10, 0 being pre-op normality and 10 being pain that makes you wish you were dead?
2) Do people notice something odd regarding your proportions? 3" tibia lengthening + 3" heels is a lot of height for just the parts below the knee.
3) Is the average height of males there 5'4.5 or 5'7? I'm talking about your friends, social circles, etc. Google wasn't specific enough about India in the sense they take the average height of even malnourished people, and there are a lot of them and that skews the survey.
4) In your first post you said you'll do femur eventually too. Is that dream still alive or are you satisfied?
1 I dont understand it fully sorry but if you ask me about pain. I would say it is really bad like 10/10 for the very first day of my operation (frame on). I must to admit that I cried out loud for the first 3 or 4 days, but after that it is pretty much easy to handle. At 15 days its zero pain and at that point i didnt take any pain medication or sleeping pill. I just live with it and then i had my second operation.
The second period is when I take out the frame. 7/10 pain for the first night out of the operation room. When i wake up the next morning It was 4/10, still need few paracetamol pills (500mg) for every 6 hours for around 4 days and then done.
Nothing else aside those supplements and antibiotics for the rest of my recovery.
2. No, they just simply ask me why I came back from no where and look so tall and I give them some answer like puberty hit me hard before 18 hahaha and they actually believe it so no problem with that.
3 I'm a Vietnamese not an Indian but it is okay i' not offended haha, the average height for my country is god damn low thanks god. Its around 1m64 -> 1m73
4 I will do femur too. I'm going to do 6cm to 8cm.
Quote from: Anndr000 on December 15, 2016, 03:55:55 PMHello Asiann123, i was wondering if you had to pay extra for the physical therapy while you were there? or did you have your own physical therapist that helped you do leg lengthening exercises everyday throughout your lengthening process?
Hey, if you pay full price. There will be a physical therapist to take care for your legs. I pay something like that because my mom want me to stay at the insitute so I have one everyday till the day i can walk without crutches.
They just increase their price because this year the tax things are real pain in the ass. I'm so sorry for the comming patients.
12600 for 8cm and 12000 for 6cm. But you will pay in Vietnam dong and due to the fact that dollar is going up i think you can save a couple hundred bucks.
Also they do cover complications with this package.
I'm so piss at them because why the website is not even up yet. Vietnamese are sooo lazy 
))). They don't know how hard it is without a website for international patients urgg
This is the full package including everything for international patients but if you just go there to do operate like a local, they chagre.
140.000.000 vnd for 8cm
And 120.000.000vnd for 6cm
This fee will cover
Xrays, operations (frame on frame off, nail remove)
Frames, nails.
Drugs
14 days stay in hospital
Following checks.
Quote from: sandman51 on December 17, 2016, 04:43:46 PMHello Asiann123, after consolidation (healing) is done can you leave the nails inside you? (to avoid the surgery)
I understand that you are in your own country, but do you happen to know if the doctors and nurses speak some English? Is it common to see foreigners doing this surgery?
Do you work on your recovery alone or with a physiotherapist?
Sorry for flooding you with questions
Nope, the nails need to be removed after 1,5 to 2 years. When you come in for operation, there will be a translator to help you to talk with doctors for first few days. When your condition is okay, they will leave you a dictonary for request to communicate with nurse and helper.
Things like
Hurt, swelling, hungry, help me to go to toilet or sth will be on that dictionary. If you need futher, you can text the translate guy to show up and help you. He just not there everyday because its not really neccessory. A lot of oversea people. They have patients from everywhere.
I work with the physical therapist guys for about 4 months until i can walk without crutches then i stopped. You need him to help strech your calf muscle (i might spell wrong lol)
Otherwise you might end up with some reallll bad ballenrine foot
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