microman monorail tibias dr. mitkovic

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Microman,
 you met someone who lengthened the femur with Dr mitkovic?

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yes, its much more painful than tibia,and pain lasts maybe 2 weeks instead of 2 days, i think, and max gain is 5cm.

he actually did tib and femur with mitkovic device 171-182 i think.

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hey microman, hey discreet user, hope you guys are doing well.



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I have heard that some will lose a few millimeters after lengthening aren't you scared of finishing with 4.80? Today I asked Dr.Fahkri at the clinic about shrinking he said if i do 171 I may be 170 in some years.
shrinking is impossible. it does not happen once you are consolidated enough.

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Microman,
 you met someone who lengthened the femur with Dr mitkovic?
hey increase, I thought I would chime in and make my username know. I am the femur patient.

my main reason for chiming in is just to clarify the femur question. 
Quoteyes, its much more painful than tibia, and pain lasts maybe 2 weeks instead of 2 days, i think, and max gain is 5cm.

he actually did tib and femur with mitkovic device 171-182 i think
yes femurs is much more painful for 2 weeks where as tibia is much less pain and discomfort and only last for 2 days, for example I was able to walk unaided the day after surgery for tibia. but for femur its 3.5weeks after operation and I can not even lift my 1 pound foot off the ground because of the shear pain. my point is the pain does not stop after 2 weeks.(I haven't even listed all the types of pain) that is the biggest difference between tibia and femur. the pain does not stop after 2 weeks. it gets slightly better is all. but your ability to use your leg is gone. probably for 6 months.

ps just incase people are curious. the only other patient I met who did external femurs had femur frames on for 1 year and 3 months.

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are you saying you need 15 months to get to frame removal for femur when doing 5cm?

if you were to give a difficulty score out of 10 for mitkovic device tibia and femur for 5cm, what would that be.

example

tib 4/10
femur   8/10


thanks

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external femur surgery is extremely rare.

like 5% of people on this forum will ever get 1 surgery, the other 95% of people will be dreamers and never get a single LL for the rest of their life.
 
and something like 3% of that 5%(who do 1 surgery) will get 2 surgeries.

in all the years of the forum we have like 9 people(maybe more) who did 2 surgeries.

so basically there is no way I can tell you how long femurs take with mitkovic as no patients ever get it done basically. theoretically and scientifically speaking though femurs should take less time than tibia to consolidate. 

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as for numbers im not going to do that. I am not finished my femurs yet(so I can not compare objectively), and the pain is getting worse as time goes on. my description in my last statement is very accurate, you should be able to work out the effort required for tibia and femur from that as I described it clearly. I will answer that question when I finish.

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okay wow, the pain is getting worse now, that seems interesting.

i wish you the best of luck, i think with this new information i may try to aim for 6cm on tibs since i will be avoiding femur now.

but i look frward to hearing about the experience when it's all done

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Microman, hope your well. Any chance of a pic of your frames? Do you sleep on your back or sideways? I sleep on my side and was wondering if these frames allow so?

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MRbones you are lengthening tibia and femur?

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yeah you can sleep on your side, i may post pictures later.

actually cbick66 on the old forum has a diary with a ton of pics
 
reason for edit: url link

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MRbones you are lengthening tibia and femur?
im doing both. tibia is already done.