Penguinn- Precice II internal femurs with Dr. Parihar

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Quote from: p89 on April 17, 2017, 03:10:23 PMsorry i mis understood that you had non-consolidation.

on the whole would you recommend the doctor? has there been any aspect about him and the centre that has not satisfied your expectation? i read about how you were not happy with the hospital in your diary but other than that, are there any other complaints? were they all professional with you?

when i visited two orthos near me to ask about cll they discourage me from doing this. they also sarcastically wished me best of luck as if i am for sure bound to get screwed. they were both amused and found it funny that i need to do this for my height.

I would recommend Parihar for sure. He didn't give me any complications and dealt with the Precice nail malfunction perfectly in the OT. The hospital is not state of the art barring the OT, but I think someone really determined to do LL can overlook that if they're getting a great surgeon, especially considering other Indian surgeons' track record. They were professional, but to be honest I never experienced what they would behave like if I had a complication since my process went pretty smooth.

I don't know your height, but they do that despite what your starting height is. When I was 5'2, my bloody 6'2 or something endocrinologist scoffed at me wanting LL telling me height doesn't matter. A second endo(female) asked me if I was trying to be a model, cause there's no other reason to get LL at 5'2 Even Parihar, despite being 6'3 or something himself told me that 3 inches wouldn't make an iota of a difference(I think he was just testing my fortitude). If you know for sure that LL will make your life much better, like I did, then you can shrug this bull  off. If you're 5'8 or something and having trouble justifying it to yourself already, this will definitely make you more doubtful and it should, it's a perfect sh*t test to weed out the wrong patients.

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Being 5 8" or above Will do more difficult that he accepts you, sh+-, becuase I know that has high technical abilities. What would be your recommendation since you were there for the hurdle( consultation).

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Quote from: onemorefoot on April 17, 2017, 06:26:13 PMBeing 5 8" or above Will do more difficult that he accepts you, sh+-

That's not what I said. I said if you have trouble justifying LL to yourself, and a doctor sh*t tests you like going "You know it won't really help you, right?" it'll confuse you.

Quotebecuase I know that has high technical abilities. What would be your recommendation since you were there for the hurdle( consultation).

I recommend not opening up about your sob story and just parroting out something like "I see myself at a level that my height doesn't match". Sadly most doctors can't relate. While it's nice that Parihar isn't just accepting all patients for the $, I think telling a 5'3 guy he needs therapy was lame. Only therapy a 5'3 guy needs is a couple inches.

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penguin

how were in touch with the doctors during lengthening? did you have their phone numbers / whatsapp? or did you just email them?

how many times did you visit the clinic before getting operated? i want to decide how many days plan i should keep to plan and possibly even decide the surgery because i am not in bombay.

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Update: 7 months post op

I'm told it'll be 1 to 1.5 months before I'm allowed to walk unaided (aka without crutches). I can take a few steps unaided right now but my left leg is lagging behind my right, which has consolidated great.

This is what my callus looks like:

Right I: https://ibb.co/hzwwMQ
Right II: https://ibb.co/gY1ro5
Left (the bad side): https://ibb.co/dDvHT5
Left (the relatively good side): https://ibb.co/mjwwMQ

I'm way behind the norm when it comes to walking unaided after internal LL. Life is so stagnant; I can't fathom how people go for a second LL after going through this once. I can promise you once you do LL, you'll never take walking for granted. It's still 100% worth it, never thought otherwise- just wish I was walking like a normal person already. I'm glad I kept a lot of time aside for this. I hope this serves as a reminder that the procedure may take longer than you expect, even when things go smoothly, so respect the possibility of slow consolidation and set a big time frame.

On the bright side, I can take care of a lot of daily activities on crutches and there's a ton of improvement in consolidation with every X-Ray. In Jan, I had almost no callus. Left leg needs to speed the fk up though! For me, LL has been less about endurance and more about patience.

I've bought some weights and started lifting (while laying on the bed obviously) and gone on a diet to get back in shape. No excuses now, I'm more than 80% normal. Some lucky bastards said they lost weight during LL so I stuffed myself with junk food and soda every day (literally every day) thinking nothing would happen and gained like 3-4 kgs. It's not even just what the weighing scale says, I know I've gotten fatter cause I lost a lot of muscle in this process and my weight has still gone up.

Thank god for video games and Youtube. Can't imagine how boring this would've been without them.

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Quote from: p89 on April 19, 2017, 06:42:10 PMpenguin

how were in touch with the doctors during lengthening? did you have their phone numbers / whatsapp? or did you just email them?

how many times did you visit the clinic before getting operated? i want to decide how many days plan i should keep to plan and possibly even decide the surgery because i am not in bombay.

They were in touch cause we could contact the assistant doctors on Whatsapp if it was important, or mail them and get a reply within a few days if it wasn't. I visited the clinic 3 times before getting operated but honestly once should be enough.

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Did you discuss the possibility of titanium nail insertion so you could get back to walking right after distraction?

That might have expedited the consolidation itself apart from giving the convenience of early normal walking.

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Quote from: alps on April 28, 2017, 03:26:09 PMDid you discuss the possibility of titanium nail insertion so you could get back to walking right after distraction?

That might have expedited the consolidation itself apart from giving the convenience of early normal walking.

I don't even know what titanium nail insertion is but there is no way I'd go through or pay for another surgery. I'd rather walk a few months late.

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With Precice, this weight bearing thing is tricky. You can't weight bear until your bones heal, your bones don't heal well until you weight bear. Gotta break this somehow.

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Quote from: alps on April 28, 2017, 05:54:41 PMWith Precice, this weight bearing thing is tricky. You can't weight bear until your bones heal, your bones don't heal well until you weight bear. Gotta break this somehow.

There's this really cool middle ground called partial weight bearing... i'm doing it as we speak.