Quote from: Penguinn on October 24, 2016, 05:15:04 PMIt's going better than I'd imagined. Thanks!
Even more impressive is you being Parihar's first precise 2 patient! He's living up to his good reputation. 
Quote from: Peaceout on October 24, 2016, 06:21:31 PMYou have 2 broken femurs and you are literally lengthening your legs how can you not need any pain killer 
(ofc i hope it stays same.GL)The nail holds the broken femurs in place lol. The pain people get is mostly post-surgical pain and after that their muscles and tissues being stretched. Physio twice a day and some luck has helped me with that so far.
Hey man, I'm looking at going over there at the end of the year to do external tibias. I want to lengthen about 5-6cm that'll get me to roughly 5'10. Could you give me an idea of how much it would cost including living over there and the recovery time I'd need!
Quote from: hype88 on October 25, 2016, 11:52:24 AMHey man, I'm looking at going over there at the end of the year to do external tibias. I want to lengthen about 5-6cm that'll get me to roughly 5'10. Could you give me an idea of how much it would cost including living over there and the recovery time I'd need!
Counting surgery, travel, stay, around $25,000 based on Kilo's experience. http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=634.0 I'm not sure about externals recovery time.
I think if is pure external you will be 10-12 months in frames for 6 cm, if is LON frames for 3 moths and 120 days more or less for bone healing.
Depends on consolidation, it is not good the doctor may want to wait.
10-12 month's seems like a long time. Are you talking full recovery back to normal life? Because I'm kinda on a time line because I have a business so I don't want to away for long. Even though it's it's mainly online I kinda need to be there building it. What's the benefits of doing LON? And could I get it done for less than $6000?
With LON you can take the frames off after lengthening if bone growth is going well and there is the doctor in the capital of vietnam. One user here wrote a diary of his surgery there. Says the price was 5000 for LON he did.
Update: 27th October 2016 - 37 days post-op
I went to Mangal Anand to get X-Rays and for a checkup.
X-Rays came out great. I'm supposed to have lengthened 3.066cms as of going there, the X-Rays show that amount approx. Approx because the bone isn't a straight line. The lower end shows 29mm while the upper shows 32. At the end of my lengthening, they use several methods to calculate the exact length gained, for now I'm on the right track and we know everything with the Precice 2 device and nail is ok.
My flexibility and strength has improved over the last 2 weeks, Dr. Parihar was happy with my extensions. For the most part, only my calf muscles ache and it's a dull ache(that has little to do with LL), so we're still agreed on using a hot water bag/heating pad for it. You're not supposed to use a hot water bag for your thigh too much because it increases the blood flow. Something like 5 minutes a day is ok, which is probably the amount of time my quads actually ache during the day. I've barely used any painkillers since our meeting 2 weeks ago so I didn't need a new strip.
My sleep is still ok. Not amazing but nothing I should complain about. I wake up twice or so during the night to adjust my position. I can easily sleep on my side now. I could even roll over and sleep on my stomach without much of a hassle but I don't try these stunts during the night. Night is when my muscles are usually stiffer than during the day. They loosen up over 10 minutes of me waking up.
Still no pain while sitting idly that I can complain about. If what I had in the ICU was a 4 or 5/10, as I remember calling it, what I have now is a 1/10. Mostly just heavy normal legs, that's what it feels like. I'll see how it gets, en route to my second inch.
Edit: The Precice 2 nail that was faulty and removed from the leg during the surgery itself was sent back to the company and tested in the lab and they say it lengthens. During the surgery it most definitely didn't, the American Ellipse representative was there too. Weird.
X-Rays, as of 3cms lengthened
Right leg: http://imgur.com/a/nYiru
Left leg: http://imgur.com/Tn2bn6O
Left leg at a sexier angle: http://imgur.com/a/Q3Ssb
Quick update, I'm back to sleeping 8 hours a night and the pain is still minimal.
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