Day 15 Update:
My operation for left leg is postponed for few days. So I am waiting the final confirmation for the date and time.
I was told how to click the device by my self few days back. I found out how easy it is.
When I sit on the chair I need to have both legs close together. Then I move my right foot in a zig zag fashion away from the left foot. Just few steps and I hear a clear "click" sound. Then I pull my leg back to the starting position and repeat.
The whole clicking takes between 1-2 minutes depending on how fast I do it.
I started doing it as a practice while I am eating breakfast every morning.
One more detail: I am lying on both sides of my body very easily when I am in bed. Yesterday I also slept for a while on my stomach. Ofcourse the right side is the most uncomfortable of all positions.
My LL Journey - Dr. Jamal Abu Nemer, Kiev
good to know you're doing fine, man! keep going
this is an interesting diary tho.
Quote from: Argent_Lecter on May 11, 2018, 01:35:26 PMgood to know you're doing fine, man! keep going
this is an interesting diary tho.
Thank you very much my good friend.
I read your email today. I will reply to you shortly.
Day 25 Update:
I haven't been updating my journey for a while. I thought I would wait a bit till I have more information on my left leg.
Left leg operation was done last week. I am back at the apartment now and waiting for my left leg to recover. I can't emphasize how helpful my right leg is regarding the weight bearing. My left leg is very weak right now, so the right leg is taking almost all the heavy load when I go back and forth to e.g. the bathroom, when I sit on a chair, etc.
Dr. Jamal is checking up on me every day as usually. He has been checking the wounds on my left leg every evening and changing the plasters. He gave me today waterproof plasters on the left leg. By the way, I have no more plasters on my right leg. The stitches are also removed.
He helped me to enter the shower with the walker to take my first shower after a week now and waited for me in the kitchen with my helper. It was very refreshing to take a warm shower after almost a week.
We did also our first few clicks on the left leg. We did only 7 clicks today.
Otherwise I am clicking 18 clicks on right leg every day (1 mm per day). There were couple of days at the hospital after the left leg operation where I was exhausted, so I didn't do any clicking. But I am back on track on the right leg clicking routine.
We are waiting for the left leg to get more strength so we can start clicking 1 mm per day too.
Dear experts
I can see from the forum that the majority talks about lengthening 1 mm per day. Even Dr. Jamal advised me to click 1 mm every day.
Just out of curiosity. Is it unheard that anyone from here (trying to reach about 5 cm in total) ever clicked 1.5 mm or 2 mm per day without complications?
Its just a thought that crossed my mind, so I thought I would hear it from you experts.
Quote from: Rocky on May 22, 2018, 07:39:38 AMDear experts
I can see from the forum that the majority talks about lengthening 1 mm per day. Even Dr. Jamal advised me to click 1 mm every day.
Just out of curiosity. Is it unheard that anyone from here (trying to reach about 5 cm in total) ever clicked 1.5 mm or 2 mm per day without complications?
Its just a thought that crossed my mind, so I thought I would hear it from you experts.
So big distraction rate will lead to nerve damage and soft tissue problems, even it may cause non union.
So there is no reason at all to lengthen mire than 1mm. On the contrast, I would suggest even less like 0.66mm per day, especially on tibias.
Slow lengthening makes consolidation easier and safer. Fast lengthening could easily cripple the patient.
Quote from: Body Builder on May 22, 2018, 09:51:57 AMSo big distraction rate will lead to nerve damage and soft tissue problems, even it may cause non union.
So there is no reason at all to lengthen mire than 1mm. On the contrast, I would suggest even less like 0.66mm per day, especially on tibias.
Slow lengthening makes consolidation easier and safer. Fast lengthening could easily cripple the patient.
Thanks for the explanation Body Builder
Interesting to know that.
By the way, I click 0,5 mm in the morning and 0,5 mm in the evening. I saw some youtube videos where patients are lengthening 0.25 mm four time a day. Do you know if it makes any difference?
Day 30 Update:
I am still clicking the right leg as expected. I sometimes give it extra clicks during the day. According to my counting, I should have passed 2 cm on right leg by now. So I would guess I am as a minimum around 172.5 cm by now, taking right leg calculation only into consideration.
Since my left leg is still weak, Dr. Jamal is helping me clicking it during his visits. We increased the clicks today to 1 mm per day.
Regarding my walking, I am still relying alot on the right leg to support my weight. I can ofcourse stand still with both legs without any issues. I do it for example when I brush my teeth or do other daily activities. I can ofcourse feel that the left leg is getting stronger every day, but it is going slower comparing to my right leg after the first operation.
I asked my helper to stop giving me the 5 hours injections today. I switched to the pain killer pills. I will give it till tomorrow and see how it will go. I might go back to less injections and add the pills as a supplement into the daily routine or just stick to the pills only.
When I watch Netflex, I am lying in bed either on my right side or my back. The left side is not ready yet. I will give it a week or two till it becomes stronger and we remove the stitches from left leg.
I'm very excited about future progress in June. It will be very interesting.
Other than that. I'm eating healthy & sleeping well. So far so good.
Glad you're doing well Rocky, hope that your pain management to pills is a smooth transition.
Thanks my friend Android. So far its going fine. The muscles are a bit stiffer when I take the pills. But it is manageable.
Unless it becomes worse, I will keep taking pills instead of injections.
You must be logged in to post a reply.