Posted on Jan 26, 2016, 12:11 pm
#151
Quote from: mrblack on January 26, 2016, 11:04:05 AMI understand when people who are perhaps only 150cm want to be 170 cm and not 160 cm, which is still short. But it does not help if you risk very serious complications with every inch more.
Diaries are always mentioned here and many users are really afraid because of negative reports of other patients. But in my opinion you must not overlook one thing. If everything went well, you are not so motivated to register to a forum and share your story with the world as if something went wrong because then you are pissed of and disappointed and want to warn other people! So its very important to get to know patients with limb lengthening procedures who had bad experiences and find out what went wrong. I appreciate that these patients share their information with us. Such diaries have to be taken very seriously but perhaps, been weighted too heavily. I am convinced that there are also many happy, satisfied but unknown patients with successful surgeries and recoveries of whom we know nothing because they never write and tell a word about their cases.
I totally agree. I believe the overwhelmingly vast majority of patients are perfectly fine, their surgeries went without problems. Whether they are happy with their proportions and new height and in life, in general, that is another questions. But from purely surgical point of view I am absolutely certain that almost all surgeries, statistically speaking, go without complications. People are just not into writing in online forums. Especially when everything is fine. If it is not, they might consider asking for an advice or warning others but otherwise they just move on with their life.