My journey to become taller with Indian Spinal Injuries Centre

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Quote from: 0184946 on January 13, 2017, 10:39:15 PMChris, hows the doc's & staff english? also would u do me a favor and ask what cm max they would do on tib and femur? Thx

I wrote about their English in my first post.

Dr. Deepak has the same "save" limits as everyone else.
He will explain everything to you. As a doctor, your safety and good results are his priority.
But he will also let you do whatever you want with your body if you choose to ignore him.
The user named "tolly" has lengthened 8cm on tibia with him.

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Short Update

My money finally arrived at the ISIC's account on January 7th, but it took the Billing Office till Friday 20th to confirm the transaction.
I had to "push" several times. I kindly asked them to also provide me a new date for my surgery so that I could book my flight to India accordingly.
But the Billing Office choose to ignore it completely.
Gonna write an email to the Front Office now, but it looks like I will have to start over again, which means flying to New Delhi, having an appointment with Dr. Deepak during his regular OPD hours and then waiting for my surgery for several days while living in a hotel 

So far, I've lost 6 weeks of my precious time due to no/slow transactions, holidays and bureaucracy
Learn from my mistakes and bad luck so that it won't happen to you!

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That's unfortunate. From a positive side though, at least you had 6 additional weeks with the surgery in front of you to decide if it is really, really, really worth it to you. If people will judge you in the future for having done this surgery, they at least can't accuse you of not having thought it through.

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So, the ISIC has my money, but I still haven't got a reply from neither the Billing Office nor the Front Office.
This really pisses me off, so I'm going to fly to New Delhi without an appointment on Sunday and ask them directly what's going on.
Seriously, staff is quite nice once you are at their hospital, but communication over the internet is just atrocious, even if you fill out their official forms online. /rant

Let's just face it, I've lost a great deal of time.
The new semester is around the corner and I have made it nowhere with LL yet.
I don't even know what will happen when I'm in India again next week, but I just can't wait any longer.

Now I (and my parents agree *lol*) have come to the conclusion that unilateral lengthening might be a solution to my lack of time and upcoming obligations.
I'm seriously considering this now. I've been thinking about doing 5cm (LON) on my left tibia first which is 5mm shorter than my right one. Then, when the upcoming semester is over, I would do 4.5cm (LON) on my right tibia. And after one more semester (after graduation) I would have the time again to do both femurs (4-5cm) at the same time.
Unilateral lengthening is a bit more costly and much more time consuming of course, but at least it would allow me to became taller while studying and taking part in life with reduced mobility. I would just have to wear different shoe inlays (1-4.5cm) while lengthening and an orthopedic shoe with a lift for a few month until the second surgery.
And the more I think about it, it would also reduce the risk of complications that often arise from weight-bearing, since one leg is always healthy/partly healed.

Okay, that's it for today. Just wanted to write down how my thinking is changing over time. This is supposed to be a diary after all 

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You should check the time zones and use a paycard to India to call them. I would advice against the unilateral lengthening. You run more risk every time you go under the knife so that's increasing your chances even if it reduces complications after. Say that particular day you go again someone is off their game and you get a major complication. Not to mention how wierd it will feel. I guess I say from my perspective of wanting to hide from my family. If I came home like that they would know that I did some fked up crap but I see that your parents are supportive so that's good.

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That's an interesting idea Chris...but do you think it would be embarassing walking around at your Uni with a 5 cm shoe inlay on only one leg? Cheers.

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Chris, do you know if is recommended to use LON+ Unilateral device for someone who is overweighted??? I think the unilateral device alone is not good idea for someone like me, but plus a nail it could keep the bone straight.

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You are gonna do this in like a couple of years if at all. You can lose the weight before then you little chubster.

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Will try

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Hey guys 
Sorry for not replying. I was quite busy, because I had my first LL surgery with Dr. Deepak and his team on last Thuesday.
Things weren't going as smooth for me as I was hoping for, but I'm feeling quite better now, and so I will continue my diary.
Gonna write some text today or tomorrow and will upload some pictures.
I'll be leaving the hospital on Monday morning.
Please don't ask me to forward any questions to Dr. Deepak as he went on leave today and I won't see him again until I will have returned to New Delhi for frames removal.
Also, for some unknown reason I'm currently not having spell check turned on on this notebook, so please excuse any future errors.


Quote from: bander72 on January 28, 2017, 08:41:21 AMYou should check the time zones and use a paycard to India to call them. I would advice against the unilateral lengthening. You run more risk every time you go under the knife so that's increasing your chances even if it reduces complications after. Say that particular day you go again someone is off their game and you get a major complication. Not to mention how wierd it will feel. I guess I say from my perspective of wanting to hide from my family. If I came home like that they would know that I did some fked up crap but I see that your parents are supportive so that's good.

They got my emails and were expecting to see me on Monday. I got my appointment quite late on Saturday, but I would have gone to Dr. Deeplak's OPD hours regardless.

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on January 28, 2017, 11:58:28 AMThat's an interesting idea Chris...but do you think it would be embarassing walking around at your Uni with a 5 cm shoe inlay on only one leg? Cheers.

Nope, but I'm quite open about doing LL and most people arround me already know about my plans. Dr. Deepak convinced me to go for bilateral btw, so I didn't do unilateral in the end.

Quote from: onemorefoot on January 28, 2017, 08:30:50 PMChris, do you know if is recommended to use LON+ Unilateral device for someone who is overweighted??? I think the unilateral device alone is not good idea for someone like me, but plus a nail it could keep the bone straight.

I think that unilateral could be better for overweighted persons. But it always debends on the fixateur and the nail beeing used in the end. Some nails are made of ~5-6% titanium alloy, maybe you will have to order special ones. The diamenter of the nail is also important ofcourse, but I only got one with 8.x mm (kinda the thinnest ) but still they are supposed to be fully weight-bearing and I'm approx. 60kg.