Quote from: Chris on March 04, 2017, 08:57:10 PMMaybe I will once my left leg has been fixed, but their opinion is not important to me anymore.
Update
I'll have a surgery on Wednesday at a German hospital to fix my left leg. It will be expensive, but my parents will take care of the bills.
My mother has been crying since she had learned about me having leg discrepancy and a messed up foot angle.
And my father has taken charge of me and my fate.
I had to promise to never ever set a foot in a foreign hospital again, or my father will personally come to break my legs 
I'm an adult and this has been my "big-boy lesson". If I ever do something stupid like this again, I'll be on my own.
And to make it even worse: I had to agree to have my right tibia nail locked during this surgery as well, because my father wants me to end this "madness".
This is not appealable 
I'm turning like crazy now and hope to reach >2.5cm by that time.
Life is unfair and then you die. And this is also cruel, but I still I love my parents.
I'm NOT blaming anyone for anything on this forum.
The only people to blame are the idiot(s) who messed up my left leg and Dr. Deepak for not checking his assistant doctor's work.
And regarding cheap doctors: I'm not gonna say "stay away from India or any other development country".
I'll rather say: Only go to known doctors with good reputation. The price has nothing to do with it.
And to lengthen at home has been a good decisions so far.
I will keep this thread updated, because I still have to lengthen my left leg.
I'm going to post pictures of my scares too now and then so you can see their progress.
I think they heal quite well. Too bad one of my scars will be cut open again on Wednesday...
Ehh man I feel sorry for you. I was in similar situation but I didnt tell my parents and stayed with my doc till the end then docs in the UK fixed the alignment so im the consolidation phase with by happy 170cm.
Depending on your height and how comfortable you feel you can always got to Russia and for 20K euro you can do LON and achive around 5-6cm.
For now just fully recover and give you parents some peace of mind. I bet they are terrified.
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I think they should know so they wont say you mentioned nothing to do them about your prooblem. At the very least they see how incompetent they were. And does put a end to your height goals or will you just wait and save to go to a western doctor.
Chris, any update about your situation? How are you these days?
Hey guys,
sorry for not updating, but I'm not in the mood for writing a lot about LL right now.
I had my surgery on Wednesday.
As my father insisted, the right tibia nail got locked.
I could only make it to 2,3cm, the rest became bending.
My left leg got re-cut again, but it didn't help. Lengthening is still not possible.
My German doctor now thinks that also the bone canal is too tight for the tibia to glide over the nail. Absolutely everything done to this leg by Dr. Deepak is messed up. EVERYTHING!
Well, money wasted.
Now I'm left with two choices:
1) Have the nail hammered out again and try lengthening with this shady monorail fixator. This will most likely cause misalignment and I will have to live with the fixator on.
2) Have the nail locked and live with ~1 inch leg discrepancy for one year. Then have both nails taken out and the left tibia broken for the third (!) time. Maybe in Russia or in Serbia.
I think, I will opt for 2), because now there are several bone fragments in my leg and half of my tibia is split. My doctor said it would finally need to heal. And I don't trust the alignment of the fixator.
I'm starting to wish I was dead again, because I doubt I will have enough money for both fixing my left tibia and doing femurs at the same time next year
this sounds so crappy mate . wish you all the best best
man i wished you would have saved more money and taken a better doc.
when its not a cosmetic case any longer but like a ''problem'' dosent your cuntry support to fix it maybe ?
Hi Chris. We are more or less the same height so I understand how the world treat us. However, even if I'm intruding, I wanted to advise you to do what is best for your health. Your father is giving you a second chance to return to normal life. Do a damage control surgery in Germany, let your bones heal and afterwards do a corrective surgery of the leg discrepancy. Your health is more important than your height ambition.
Hope you recover fast
Hang in there Chris.
I also think that option 2 is the best decision. A 1 inch leg discrepancy for one year does not sound that bad. Hopefully a more capable doctor can fix your leg after that.
Good luck and my best wishes for you, buddy.
I'm really pulling for you Chris.
Chris, considering that you have a nail on your tibias I don't think that the risk of misalignment is so big.
So if I were you I would try to continue lengthening to have both my legs equal and not do another surgery only to fix this discrepancy.
After all you will do X rays so if you start to see a misalignment then you'll stop.
The faults that Deepak did to your surgery are some of the worst I've ever seen and I understood it from the first time I saw your X rays with one of your tibias broken in 3 spots and your fibulas been cut so much that a non alignment is almost for granted.
The good thing is that all these can be fixed and only fibulas will probably remain non aligned but in reality you can be completely functional even with fibulas open, because only cuts next to ankle are important for fibulas, cuts so higher doesn't really matter..
Anyway, you must be optimist and if you really want to become taller, noone can deny you your dream.
You are young and you have plenty of time to do another LL in a good doctor this time and not in the butchers of India who had crippled many LLers.
Keep strong dude!
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Chris, fix your legs with a good doctor and after that think about femurs.I wanted to go to Russia the Next year but I think I will wait a little more. If you want femurs use only the best devices, I know that low price is very attractive, but if the devices in femurs are not accurate, you can end with permanent damage. About the idea of dying, I cant understand like you the horrible situation you are living, but all have a second opportunity, you will see.
My best wishes
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