from my research nerve pain is a lot sharper and “stabbing”. in my experience with broken bones, that kind of pain is more of a throbbing kind of pain. And painkillers slow down the healing process? I’ve never heard of that.
If you use a reputable doctor, and being only 21, you won't have any long-term effect from that short of LL - if you do serious recovery work.
I lengthened 7.5cm quadrilaterally until I had nerve problems (loss of sensation in the left calf), and now 2.25 years later, the sensation is 80% back. Hardly critical to have full sensation there, so it doesn't bother me.
Honestly, 6 months of Covid without gym has had a worse long-term impact on me than LL.
Quote from: volt on October 01, 2020, 08:38:19 AMfrom my research nerve pain is a lot sharper and “stabbing”. in my experience with broken bones, that kind of pain is more of a throbbing kind of pain. And painkillers slow down the healing process? I’ve never heard of that.
I repeat, it’s a bit a generic term. Btw yes painkillers has been proven to slow down (more or less) the healing. I’ve eard that Guichet doesn’t even want painkillers for their patients (idk how strictly). In addition pain, even if is unpleasant, is an important feedback of your body.
Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on October 01, 2020, 08:53:57 AMIf you use a reputable doctor, and being only 21, you won't have any long-term effect from that short of LL - if you do serious recovery work.
I lengthened 7.5cm quadrilaterally until I had nerve problems (loss of sensation in the left calf), and now 2.25 years later, the sensation is 80% back. Hardly critical to have full sensation there, so it doesn't bother me.
Honestly, 6 months of Covid without gym has had a worse long-term impact on me than LL.
I don’t have the money to do it right now, but I would like to do it by the time I am 26 or 27. I’m a college student studying business and creative design and am working to do my best to make as much money as possible right out of school. I’m a little behind because I am a transfer student and currently taking time off of school because my family and I don’t want to pay for zoom university, so 26 might be a bit idealistic but I would love to be able to do LL within 4 years of graduating. Maintaining my femur tibia proportion is kind of important to me so I would like to maybe do another a few years after my first, which I guess would be early 30s or very late 20s.
When you say lengthening quadrilaterally, you mean lengthening femurs and tibias at the same time?
And do you think your LL has made 6 months without gym a lot worse than it would be if you hadn’t done it? Like in terms of how quick atrophy occurs perhaps?
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Can you run for longer distances yet my dude or is that still not possible?
Quote from: MakeMeTallAF on October 02, 2020, 01:55:21 AMCan you run for longer distances yet
Define long. I was never much of a running; 1 mile in like 8 minutes was my best. On the elliptical I'd run fine for half an hour after LL.
Anyway, the legs don't seem to not the bottleneck; my cardio shape is. Damn Covid and life stuff. Need to fix that and get back to running a mile non-stop again.
Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on October 02, 2020, 08:17:08 AMDefine long. I was never much of a running; 1 mile in like 8 minutes was my best. On the elliptical I'd run fine for half an hour after LL.
Anyway, the legs don't seem to not the bottleneck; my cardio shape is. Damn Covid and life stuff. Need to fix that and get back to running a mile non-stop again.
You never run for more than a mile? Because of LL limitations or you just were never into longer distances?
Outside of health and biomechanics effects, I’m also really interested in how exercise and s*xual function are effected. Haven’t heard as much about exercise, but in my head I feel like I might be kind of nervous to do certain leg day exercises like squats. Of course only when a full recovery is made. Also if you aren’t comfortable sharing that is fine, but I’ve heard that some people struggle with certain s*xual positions after LL. has your s*xual function been effected at all?
I thought I remembered you saying on your diary that you were unable to run for more than 2 minutes even a whole year after your procedure. You made it seem as if there was lots of knee pain.
Good to know your legs aren't hindering your running now.
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