Quote from: microman on November 09, 2015, 01:44:46 PMhad a 6.5cm review with dr mitkovic and a new x-ray for him to see.
he said i could go to 7.0cm and the risk would be minor misalingment, it would not be as bad as the misaligment that discreteuser had at 2.7cm, his was more moderate to major.
spoke to another patient here who got major misalingment at 3.5cm, he said they tried to fix it 3 times then he had to do a minor operation to finally fix it, that was also a major misalingment.
the dr. said i would have a high chance of major misalingment at 7.5cm.
i have decided to go to 7.0cm and risk a minor misaligment, but it is likely i wont risk the major misalingment to 7.5, interestingly the other 3 patients before me had major misalingmets at around 3cm so in context things seem very good so far.
First off, congrats! 7cm is a huge and impressive gain on tibias. Makes me a bit less scared to do about 3.5-4cm on tibias...how is your consolidation looking at this point? Has your doctor estimated the time it will take from them to consolidate enough to weight bear?
microman monorail tibias dr. mitkovic
thanks and surprisengly the doctor doesn't give estimates based on x-ray, he just tells people '7-9 months until frame removal' whether you do 5cm or 7cm lol.
but for weight bear monorails are very different to ilazarov so it will take much longer to be able to stand unaided, i guess 9 months post op. if your doing 7cm.
Quote from: microman on November 09, 2015, 01:44:46 PMhad a 6.5cm review with dr mitkovic and a new x-ray for him to see.
he said i could go to 7.0cm and the risk would be minor misalingment, it would not be as bad as the misaligment that discreteuser had at 2.7cm, his was more moderate to major.
spoke to another patient here who got major misalingment at 3.5cm, he said they tried to fix it 3 times then he had to do a minor operation to finally fix it, that was also a major misalingment.
the dr. said i would have a high chance of major misalingment at 7.5cm.
i have decided to go to 7.0cm and risk a minor misaligment, but it is likely i wont risk the major misalingment to 7.5, interestingly the other 3 patients before me had major misalingmets at around 3cm so in context things seem very good so far.
I dont think that you hve taken a good decision. If you are now at 6.5 without missalignament stop here. It does not worth it to do 0.5cm more are develop a misaligment . Even if it is minor.
Quote from: microman on November 09, 2015, 01:44:46 PMhad a 6.5cm review with dr mitkovic and a new x-ray for him to see.
he said i could go to 7.0cm and the risk would be minor misalingment, it would not be as bad as the misaligment that discreteuser had at 2.7cm, his was more moderate to major.
spoke to another patient here who got major misalingment at 3.5cm, he said they tried to fix it 3 times then he had to do a minor operation to finally fix it, that was also a major misalingment.
the dr. said i would have a high chance of major misalingment at 7.5cm.
i have decided to go to 7.0cm and risk a minor misaligment, but it is likely i wont risk the major misalingment to 7.5, interestingly the other 3 patients before me had major misalingmets at around 3cm so in context things seem very good so far.
I dont think that you hve taken a good decision. If you are now at 6.5 without missalignament stop here. It does not worth it to do 0.5cm more are develop a misaligment . Even if it is minor.
well that's kindof the opposite of my mindset, seems misalingments are common here, the other 3 patients before me got moderate misalingments at 2-3cm and they are all fixed so i don't see an issue, overall i am prepared to have a misalingment anyway as they all did before me.
well that's kindof the opposite of my mindset, seems misalingments are common here, the other 3 patients before me got moderate misalingments at 2-3cm and they are all fixed so i don't see an issue, overall i am prepared to have a misalingment anyway as they all did before me.
spoke with the doctor today, good news is nothing has changed since the last x-ray! we thought perhaps a minor misalingment was going to happen but it didn't.
im at 6.7cm now and he advised 3 more mm to 7.0cm and then a new x-ray to check everything is okay before further lengthening.
I think it may be a case of stopping at 7cm but we don't know for sure, overall he wasn't against the idea of stopping at 7cm but he did want to see an x-ray at 7cm first to be sure.
I don't have any particular set goal in my mind so im happy to stop at 7.0,7.5 or 8.0cm depending on safety.
i would never go above 8cm as i know that is safety limit, i have never seen one doctor say over 8cm was safety limit.
Could you post a picture of your proportions? I am curious what 7CM on tibia looks like. Thanks!
okay here is a side view
http://i.imgur.com/KnnS1Mw.jpg?1
my femurs are still 2cm longer than tibia.
prince2 has good shots of him standing with 8cm added he says they are equal length, but he isn't sure.
Wow, I expected your proportions to look really bad, but they actually look really good! It looks like your femur is still 5+ CM longer.
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