On road for 10 cm closer to the sky with Dr. Ghassan Salameh and Dr. Schmidt

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How is it going, jackson?

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Hi, I'm very sad because I measured my tibia recently and I have only done around 4.5cm (more of less). I could not do more because of the limited rod length which I asked to replace from the day of surgery to the end without success (the answer from Doctor Salameh was always no). As you can see on the x-ray (link below) in red there is no more room for lengthening. Now I'm waiting of the different options from the doctors because I'm not satisfied. I will let you know the outcome. Houdini talked about that in his dairy on makemetaller.

X-Ray: https://imgur.com/a/qObbFQV

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Hello
I discuss with doctor Salameh and we did measurement based on X-Ray images together. He told me that I've done around 7cm so that's a great news. And we discuss for a long time about why he did not replace the short rods. It was to protect me because of my alarming knee bent. So I don't regret my choice, later I will explain you the advantages of the device and some improvements to plan.

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Hello Jackson. Congratulations for your successful surgery. You are so brave to deal with that painful process. There are some queries, if you may clarify my questions, I will be very appreciated. How tall are you now? Is it 175.5cm? Also, is there any side effect after the surgery? How much time you take to fully recover? How much you have paid to the Dr Ghassan Salameh for the surgery? Did the payment include lodging? Why you did not stay in The Dr Ghassan Salameh’s clinic when you were recovering? How much money you have totally spent during the process? Thank you

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well knee problems are easier to fix imo because of more longer soft tissue involvement. are u also facing ballerina foot drops?

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Quote from: OliverA on September 30, 2018, 01:21:42 PMHello Jackson. Congratulations for your successful surgery. You are so brave to deal with that painful process. There are some queries, if you may clarify my questions, I will be very appreciated. How tall are you now? Is it 175.5cm? Also, is there any side effect after the surgery? How much time you take to fully recover? How much you have paid to the Dr Ghassan Salameh for the surgery? Did the payment include lodging? Why you did not stay in The Dr Ghassan Salameh’s clinic when you were recovering? How much money you have totally spent during the process? Thank you

Hello OliverA, I can't talk about the surgery cost as the costs are published online.The price does not include lodging. I don't know my final height yet because of knee bent and ballerina feet the measure is not precise. I did not stay in the clinic (in fact apartment) because after reading a lot of diary, I knew the lengthening can be done at home and it's boring to be alone in foreign country to do that. The device is well designed so that you don't have to worry about pin break when you're at home.

Quote from: Sanity on October 05, 2018, 06:24:59 PMwell knee problems are easier to fix imo because of more longer soft tissue involvement. are u also facing ballerina foot drops?

Side effect now: annoying ballerina feet which I hope will fade with time (better handled with shoe inserts). Time to walk again with crutches 4 months, time to walk without crutches 6 months so plan your work and financial life accordingly.
Hope this helps you

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Hey Jackson5, are you able to walk without crutches at the moment?

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on October 13, 2018, 12:19:57 PMHey Jackson5, are you able to walk without crutches at the moment?

Yes my friend, that's the case

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Now why I chosen this device and Dr Salameh:

- His past record specially on this web site. And now I can confirm that he is a good doctor and he knows what to do and when to do it. You are more than a patient with him.
- The device compactness because my plan was to return back to work one month after surgery and people not noticing the device
- No worries about pin break for the same reason as above

What I discover:
- The device compactness, small size so almost I could wear my regular pant, jean almost not noticeable but a little bit for the ones who look longely at you
- Pins are bold so they will never break but bold also mean infection at some pins specially the ones near the knee joint. If you find solution to this and knee bent you can walk during the whole process because
- The device is weight bearing from second day of surgery
- It allows simultaneous lengthening and bowing correction I had small bow legs which didn't bother me but Dr Salameh suggested me to correct it and at the end I have straight legs. I don't know if straight legs are beautiful because personally I like small bowed legs :-)
- The device doesn't harm muscles. Now after device removal I have pain fading day by day at only one pin level

If your plan is to go to work after one month forget about it (or work online form home if possible), due to knee bent, pin sites infection, ballerina feet you will hardly walk til 5 months. And when you start to walk you will be like spider (man) 2 crutches and two legs bent at more than 30 degrees hahaha.

In Germany Dr Salameh works with Dr Schmidt, so you will interact a lot with Dr Salameh and for travel, appointment, surgery planning, room booking and medications Dr Schmidt will take care of you

Notice that Dr Salameh is too protective so if he feels something is going wrong or you want crazy lengthening forget about it. The lengthening is done in two steps. The first cm are possible after the surgery, Above 5 to 7 cm you need to come back to Germany to replace the rods

For me the device is the best for the ones who wants to do lengthening at home and to go to work with it on their legs. Prices are very good for European level surgery. I don't mean surgery is bad in other countries but hospitals are well equipped so in case of any serious problems you know that everything will be done in the state of the art of medicine (in general everything is OK thought specially with good chosen doctors)

Side note: The pins are screwed, you can remove them by yourself but just turning them but don't do it!

About me: I have done around 6.7cm, I have small knee bent, I have ballerina feet, no nerve problem. For my day to day life everything is becoming easier again. Two months later I can't stop in place because I had no balance as I was on the tip of my toes :-( I needed to have amazing posture or to grip to something when I was waiting the subway or talking with friends or colleagues at coffee place. With shoe inserts it's fine. I tried to avoid them to quicken my ballerina feet recovery but I had some muscle tear so I wear them again every day. When I wall more than 1 km I have pain in my lower legs from just above the ankles to the feet which is fading every day. Sometime I have pain in my right ankle at the first 5 steps (arthritis? will it go with time? is it due to ballerina feet? I don't know)

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any update on ur situation?