microman monorail tibias dr. mitkovic

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yeah it is saturday morning.

i recomend when they book you in for blood test and phyc test and xray, for that day you are to come in , bring your cards and money as they may ask you to pay for the operation on that day, its important to bring the money in then as you will get a better date for operation if you book then, so remeber that.

also bring a belt with a screwdriver as there is a good exercise that discreteuser has that needs those tools.

it is funny about the gain, as the patients say they had people do 8cm before, but when you ask mitkovic or his nurses they all say 5 max, maybe they are trying to be safe or keep my expectations within safety

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That's strange, But I'm thinking he just wants you to manage your expectations right before you undergo lengthening, plus you got to keep in mind, the more you lengthen, the more time he needs to invest in you, plus the increased likelihood of any self induced complications which could arise the longer you lengthen past his recommendations.

And yeah, no problem, I'll have this in order before I leave. I still need to sort everything with my bank.

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his name is pronounced ‘meet-koh-veech’ and i would say he is about the UK/US equivelant of a 168 male given that people are taller here,,apparently, so he is not a good but not bad height, not that that matters, but some people may feel silly for getting LL when the surgeon is shorter than themselves.

everyone is serbia is taller as male average is maent to be 182, so i have shrunk 5cm in perspective, aparently, but im not sure it is true as i have seen a few men my height in a typical walk, which implies i cant be 5 3 as 5 3 would be super rare.

dr. mitkovic doesn't care how tall you are, he never even measured me, but the hotel staff know why you are here, so in case of discreteuser people were saying 'no why you are so tall anyway', so to let you know ewf you will get some bad feedback from hotel people so be prepared.


Apparently only about 5% of patients go home for consolidation, this is not because of safety or anything, it is more because they cannot go back and be seen by friends/family with questions about mobility, but discreteuser told me he recommend I go home if my parents know because there is no reason to stay.

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I was kind of glad that my surgeon is tall (he's 6'2 in a country where the average male height is 5'5). It was really awkward telling my GP that I wanted to get CLL since he's probably 5'6 or so, and I probably insulted him by saying I desired to be taller due to people giving me a bunch of hell due to my height.

Did you ask Dr Mitkovic what he thinks about taller people getting CLL?

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lol well if he really was 6 2 hed be super super tall, like being 6 7 over here.

yeah it is akward i can imagine, as i said in your diary both my local doctors who i told about this were 168.5cm, i know because i was in 4cm lifts to see them, i would say mitkovic was in the same category of height of 'a bit on the short side' but not truly short like me.

i don't think he cares, he never said one thing about my height, i don't know about discreteuser given he was 181, i will ask him if mitkovic reacted to his height with questions.

but the phyciatrist is not good at accessing the impact of my height at all.

he said thigs like ' i dont see a prolem with your height, tom cruise is short'

i told him he wasn't 5 5, that he was 5 7, and id be his height after surgery, i then went on to tell him that the president of france is 5 5 but lives inside 4cm lifts all day which are unwalkable for more than 1 hour.

he said al pachino is short, i think hes 168 which again much taller, but he said ' he seems huge because of his personality', but its like a guy who is 170 (i guess that is phyciatritist height) cant understand what its like to be me at 165.

anyway i tried to explain  that if i was 5cm taller i could walk into a room of 30 men and 8 guys would be my height, it would be normal, i would accept that height, and i wouldn't be 'short statured male'. but if i wanted to be in a room with 3 men my current height it would have to be a huge venue of maybe 200 men or something, and people judge you in small groups of people.

i also said i don't know anyone personally who is my height, but i know alot of people that are 4cm taller than me, and the diffrence is huge because they are not truly 'short'.

but yeah KiloKAHN you and i are in similar boat of starting height, so we understand each other in a sense.


visited mitkovic today, he can do 0.66 or 1.00 depending on the qaulity of my bone, and he will let me know, he said once i reach 5cm i must go down to 0.66 anyway.

i told him i am aiming for 5.5.cm, he said okay.

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Yeah, I heard this from Discreteuser myself. Apparently even the Serbian ladies are quite tall too. I've chosen to stay in Serbia until I'm done, not that I couldn't go home, but I can still work from Serbia and I'd just rather get the whole process over and done with without having to explain my decision to anyone, plus it does help that Dr. Mitkovic won't be too far away if anything does go wrong.

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i see your goal height is 10, okay you wont be able to do that with mitkovic device, it would probably be 7cm max, its not like ilazarov which can probably do 9cm, so i would check that with mitkovic first.

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That's perfectly fine. 187cm to 188cm is literally my dream height, and would be the result of two surgeries if I ever go that far. However, I would never do more than 6cm per segment, even if I were doing femurs. So I won't actually be going past 182cm with Dr. Mitkovic.

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With the risk of declaring myself an idiot, the 5CM recommendation is for a tibiae operation yes?

Then would he raise that limit to perhaps 6CM for femurs?

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actually he says the recomended lengthening is 5cm tibia and 4cm femur.

i think what he is saying is, he doesn't want you to go above 5cm, but you do it at your own risk and he will try to help you reach your goal.

DiscreteUser says 6cm should be the maximum anyone should do on this device, i guess he means tibs but i don't know femur.

i dont know about femur with mitkovic device, i thought femur external is really bad and you should only do internal, but maybe mitkovics device isn't so bad for external femur because it is a monorail but i dont know.