One Step Closer - External tibias, femurs, humerus - Petersburg, Russia

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oh okay, is there any disadvantage to LON for femur, i know for tibia there could be permanent knee pain, so that is why i avoided it.

oh right i didnt realise your arms would be completely incompasitated during AL, how do patients turn the screws then? do they just do one arm at a time.

maybe it would be adviced to do one arm lengthening and one femur lengthening?

ah yes well the 5cm mockup is more like 7cm as i am in 2cm lift, but yes i agree totally, with that said my AL mockup looks good!

any clues on prices for AL? does solomin or kuresh advice it or are they hesitant?

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just thought i'd add about possible scars left on the arms after arm lengthening, would scar revision get rid of these to a decent level, would you not be self counsious of the scars if it did not.

also after a lot of research i have only come across one cosmetic case of arm lengthening and that was internal, it apparently cost a lot of money, and it had to be one arm at a time, can you shed some light on these points?

would a monorail fixator like the mitkovic device on the femur be easier than external or LON?

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Quote from: microman on June 27, 2015, 12:10:59 PMoh okay, is there any disadvantage to LON for femur, i know for tibia there could be permanent knee pain, so that is why i avoided it.

oh right i didnt realise your arms would be completely incompasitated during AL, how do patients turn the screws then? do they just do one arm at a time.

maybe it would be adviced to do one arm lengthening and one femur lengthening?

ah yes well the 5cm mockup is more like 7cm as i am in 2cm lift, but yes i agree totally, with that said my AL mockup looks good!

any clues on prices for AL? does solomin or kuresh advice it or are they hesitant?
You can have knee pain also with femoral nailing: http://www.bjj.boneandjoint.org.uk/content/88-B/5/576

Someone turns the screws for them.

one arm lengthening and one femur lengthening - I guess you can do that lol.

The prices are probably the same. And no, they don't recommend it. Neither they recommend lengthening your legs and they'll warn about all the complications that may occur.

Monorail fixators cause misalignment so it's only to be used with LON or LATN.

You're right arm lengthening isn't very popular. Just like double LL surgeries. Or LL surgeries alone...

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well I'd guess about 1000 people a year get LL, I say only 1 person has ever gotten AL.

but i will accept that i can only do 1 LL, no way will i end up like that other picture mockup, maybe if it was a future time i could get to 5 11 with 2 LL with affordable internal femur, and then get AL when AL wwould be a more common occurence, but in this day and age LL being relateivly new this is the best I can get so i will just accept that.

interestingly i read a diary of someone went from 5 2 to 5 7, luckily he had really long arms at 5 2, imagine if he had my wingspan relative to his height, he could only get to 5 4 i guess, seems fair i suppose i don't know.

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Quote from: Dozer on June 26, 2015, 04:46:53 PMMy arm span is 170 cm and to be 176-178 cm after AL.

is it possible to do AL at the same time as LL.

could you maybe do AL once you are consolidating the LL.

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Sorry I don't update the diary... very often. Feeling really tired right now, can't get much sleep. The painkiller I'm using currently at max dosage (flupirtine) has two side effects. First one is that you feel drunk (200 mg), same as if you take two shots of vodka... or three. And the second one is it makes you tired.

Anyways, I've lengthened 3.5 cm on my tibia, no misaligment, good regenerate, so I'm done almost as I've lengthened 5 cm before, but shrank 1 cm (other doctor). Femur I've lengthened 5.5 cm, 5.8 cm on the frames. But I have a misalgment (antecurvation), but NP it will be fixed, when I finish lengthening, 100%. I'll upload all the xrays at the end of the lengthening.

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interestinly with mitkovic you don't use strong painkillers at all, its just off the shelf non prescription ones, many patients don't even take them.


check my diary if you have the chance, solomin was my 2nd choice but didn't want to wait for visa.

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Quote from: microman on July 22, 2015, 04:34:16 PMinterestinly with mitkovic you don't use strong painkillers at all, its just off the shelf non prescription ones, many patients don't even take them.


check my diary if you have the chance, solomin was my 2nd choice but didn't want to wait for visa.
Well, I wasn't prescribed the painkiller, I bought it on my own (you don't need prescription to buy it in Russia). Also it hurts really bad this time, obviously I wouldn't use it if it didn't.

Yeah, it sucks for international patients because of visa. I do read your diary. Hope you'll be ok.

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Quote from: Dozer on July 22, 2015, 04:15:32 PMAnyways, I've lengthened 3.5 cm on my tibia, no misaligment, good regenerate, so I'm done almost as I've lengthened 5 cm before, but shrank 1 cm (other doctor). Femur I've lengthened 5.5 cm, 5.8 cm on the frames. But I have a misalgment (antecurvation), but NP it will be fixed, when I finish lengthening, 100%. I'll upload all the xrays at the end of the lengthening.

Hi Dozer

5.8 is good amount of lengthening, If I recall correct, you are going to length 7.5 cm of femur ?

How much degrees you can bend your knee (Femur side) ?

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Quote from: alex on July 23, 2015, 01:30:32 PMHi Dozer

5.8 is good amount of lengthening, If I recall correct, you are going to length 7.5 cm of femur ?

How much degrees you can bend your knee (Femur side) ?
Yeah, I need to lengthen 7.5 cms.

I can't bend much, like 30-40 degrees. Well, it was the same the previous round. I worked it out after removing the frames. It's only a temporary problem.