Quote from: m7liam on September 01, 2020, 03:59:42 PMFrom thinking about doing this surgery to actually doing this surgery was a total of one months time. Just fyi
That's insane man. I'm clearly not like you haha. I worry way too much. It's probably genetic, how much we all worry.
Quote from: BetzLandLiberator on September 01, 2020, 04:28:23 PMYou didn't think this through. You are actually increasing your risks. Don't be stupid.
How so? I am foregoing the base case outcome (where I can live normally only 3 months after surgery) but I'm bettering the worst case outcome (if something goes wrong it will be on one leg).
Time and money are not a problem. I just don't know what it's like to lengthen and how it will be to spend a full year through the process. And whether any rehabilitation is possible with one lengthened leg and one short leg.
Quote from: HobbesTheDog on September 01, 2020, 05:48:57 AM
However, if your anxiety is really bad you might want to see a therapist. Maybe then you might get over it and do LL normally.
No therapist will help me if my goal is to get LL haha.
Quote from: GenralizedAnxietyDisorder on September 01, 2020, 06:29:23 PMHow so? I am foregoing the base case outcome (where I can live normally only 3 months after surgery) but I'm bettering the worst case outcome (if something goes wrong it will be on one leg).
No you're not. You are trading a theoretical worst outcome (losing your leg) which in practice never happens by multiplying the risks of real complications (that do happen) because you will have way more surgeries.
Also, months with a gigantic leg discrepancy will fk up your body.
I had a 2cm leg discrepancy (not that big) before LL. It was horrible to my back. A 7cm will be disastrous, your body will take way longer to heal and you will probably have an unbalanced recovery.
There are doctors out there that do support this strategy. Doing one leg at a time will reduce your risk of PE and fat embolization has been linked to polytrauma so a reduction in trauma should help.
Activity levels will be higher and load bearing and bone regeneration fast
You could start the 2nd before the first is completed
Quote from: HeightGain on September 01, 2020, 09:24:53 PMThere are doctors out there that do support this strategy.
Not the best doctors.
Betz does as do many others
Do it together. U will regret to do the process a second time instead of beeing ready
In 2012 I've spent 8 months in Germany and I met pretty much all of Betz patients during that time. I never saw one doing one leg at the time. Maybe some did but that's rare.
He does do tibias in two surgeries now (it wasn't the case years ago), but that's different. The surgeries are just one week apart and the lengthening phase will be with both legs at the same time anyway. And he only do that for tibias, as the tibia surgery is more complex and he had more tibias complications in the past.
It's nothing like the crazy plan from OP.
Ask him, he does it for femur. Doctors do support strategies that patients seek provided there are no contraindications.
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