My diary of quadrilateral Precice2 LL with Dr. Gokhan

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Quote from: Bob on March 29, 2024, 09:09:25 PMGood your doctor saw it. It's not an easy process, but you are doing alright. Three week is not so long in the whole picture - you'll soon finish the elongation. Good luck.

Actually I noticed that few weeks ago, same as I noticed and told them anything happened bad to me so far... hoping they will fixed it !
I told them and they said: "Its ok, as long the femurs got a good callus, the tibia will come after.".... but it didn't !.... The callus on femurs is really good !
Anyways, thank you for your wishes !

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Good you saw it.
Is your plan to show the x rays?

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Quote from: Bob on March 29, 2024, 09:27:27 PMGood you saw it.
Is your plan to show the x rays?

I show only when somebody ask me... of course.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qpCj5CDaKgRvWyX58

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xHgnZ7YGRbFMcRNCA

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but imo many doctor's and others will say that your callus formation is okay. But of course you and your doctor knows best. Anyway you'll be fine. Hope you'll be happy with your new height.

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Quote from: Bob on March 29, 2024, 10:05:10 PMCorrect me if I'm wrong, but imo many doctor's and others will say that your callus formation is okay. But of course you and your doctor knows best. Anyway you'll be fine. Hope you'll be happy with your new height.

Yeah, I wish, but what you see on right tibia and fibula are not callus... are splinters remained from osteotomy... They said they analyzed it well, with high contrast, etc

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Oh that’s a shame but hopefully sorts itself out asap. So will you shorten both left and right tibia at 1mm per day for 3 weeks (ie 21mm shortening in total) then re start the lengthening of them?

Quote from: Ted68 on March 29, 2024, 03:47:50 PMDay 95-98

After finishing elongation I had 3 days of no elongation, but the happiness is not forever, because i have done the x-rays and 2 days later doctor gave me a bad news that my right tibia has late and slow callus formation… so I have to do reversing cycles so it could start the normal process…
The left tibia is a bit better but not great, so he advised me to do it on both.

Ohh, great !... so now I have to start over the schedules for the lengthening machine, for 3 weeks…

The PT is painful for me every day, as I told you already.

As you can see, I am busy permanently, never relaxed so I could sleep well…

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Quote from: Ted68 on March 29, 2024, 03:47:50 PMDay 95-98

After finishing elongation I had 3 days of no elongation, but the happiness is not forever, because i have done the x-rays and 2 days later doctor gave me a bad news that my right tibia has late and slow callus formation… so I have to do reversing cycles so it could start the normal process…
The left tibia is a bit better but not great, so he advised me to do it on both.

Ohh, great !... so now I have to start over the schedules for the lengthening machine, for 3 weeks…

The PT is painful for me every day, as I told you already.

As you can see, I am busy permanently, never relaxed so I could sleep well…


Also - were your knees very tight at the end of your lengthening and could you straighten your legs/knees fully or did you have a slight bend at the end of lengthening?

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Hi, Juju... Thank you for your concerns.

I have to do 2 cycles of reversing/regaining, which takes 20 days total. 5 days reversing 1mm/day, then 5 days regaining. Two times...
So, I am not shortening 21mm, I will do maximum 5mm, otherwise will be to much stress for my soft tissues !

Yes, man, in the last month I never could straighten normally my knees, only forcing them !
Same with the feet, where I cannot touch the floor with the heels.
Fortunately my muscles and tendons are still flexible, so not a big problem for future, since I already finished my general lengthening.
My main problem now is that because of 2 effects, I cannot go to do EOS for final adjustments.
But, anyways, I cannot do that before reversing, because the main doctor's problem is the missing callus on tibias...

Hopefully I can improve something in these 3 weeks, so I can do EOS, which is very important for me to know exactly the length of each bone !

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Oh wow so that’s interesting - so by going down by 5mm then up by 5mm, then again going down 5mm then up again 5mm (sort of a yoyo effect) this is the best to encourage bone generation?

Did you have an EOS prior to surgery as well- if so why the need for anotherEOS  as wouldn’t you already know the discrepancy between the bones?

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Quote from: GoodJuju on March 31, 2024, 01:12:35 AMOh wow so that’s interesting - so by going down by 5mm then up by 5mm, then again going down 5mm then up again 5mm (sort of a yoyo effect) this is the best to encourage bone generation?

Did you have an EOS prior to surgery as well- if so why the need for anotherEOS  as wouldn’t you already know the discrepancy between the bones?

Yes, Juju, its and interesting biochemical and electrical "phenomenon" which should trigger the osteosynthesis. I hope will happen, so I will not do all these for nothing...

No, I never did EOS before. Its an expensive radio-imaging 3D system. They do it only after finishing the elongation period, so they can measure accurate the bones.
So far the doctors measured my bones approximately, but I need to know exactly, so I don't go home with discrepancies !