Thanks HobbitMan! Stairs are def out based on your advice and I’ll definitely figure a way around that and not even chance it. Appreciate the response. Good luck with everything moving forward! 👍
Quote from: L8GrowthSpurt on September 06, 2021, 09:46:50 PMThanks HobbitMan! Stairs are def out based on your advice and I’ll definitely figure a way around that and not even chance it. Appreciate the response. Good luck with everything moving forward! 👍
I’m glad you asked the question because I was planning on using stairs too until I was told after surgery that it was completely out of the picture, so I had only one week to figure out a solution once I left Las Vegas.
Thanks for the best wishes! Only a few more days and I’ll be finally done with the hardest step of the journey.
I’m going to stop at about 79.5mm (actually a bit more) because the last few lengthening sessions as I reach the end of the rod are causing my knee to crack very loudly every .1mm. This has only been the case for about the last 2mm. Makes me wonder why all of a sudden my knees are so loud. Nothing hurts, it’s just a very loud crack, like speaking volume in terms of decibels. It’s just crepitus and there’s no concern but reading some articles about knee crepitus leading to arthritis, if I can avoid arthritis by leaving about 1/64th of an inch on the table, that’s a win for me.
Apparently I should have felt it the whole journey but it’s only started now, and is common. I don’t enjoy it and I don’t care about 1/64th of an inch. Im well over 6’ all day now and I’m looking forward to consolidation starting today. Will give an update once I’m consolidated and put some first steps without a walker on the floor. Should be 4-8 weeks, I hope for 4 weeks since my bone was starting to fill in fast just a week ago.
Congrats, HobbitMan! Here’s to a quick and uneventful consolidation! 👍💪
Quote from: L8GrowthSpurt on September 10, 2021, 04:13:41 PMCongrats, HobbitMan! Here’s to a quick and uneventful consolidation! 👍💪
Thanks man! I’m glad that you and a few other people (about half dozen of whom DM’d me instead over more personal questions) have gotten valuable information out of this diary. Good luck with your surgery coming up! I can say that going to the end is worth it as long as you aren’t having major problems. By going to the end I mean at least 7.5cm, just because I stopped at 7.95cm doesn’t mean IMO I stopped “early”. Might even max out the nails tomorrow since my knee popping has stopped with a day of rest. Should only be a single more session anyways. The one regret after talking to other patients is that they wished they had gone to 8cm, especially the ones who stopped at 5-7cm. You feel basically normal again after just a day or two of not lengthening, so the pain is temporary.
I agree that there are a lot of neurotic people here. Did the people you encountered at Limbplastix seem pretty level-headed?
I have a question regarding inseam . Every time I try to measure it I get different results. Do you think it’s better just to wait for standing x ray from doctor than to worry so much about my inseam length.
Quote from: billsmafia on September 11, 2021, 01:45:18 AMI agree that there are a lot of neurotic people here. Did the people you encountered at Limbplastix seem pretty level-headed?
Of course there will be neurotic people here and there. Sh*t, even I think I’m a little on the crazy side for doing this, hahaha!!!
But seriously, let me tell you, my surgery was a year ago and everything is fine. Went the full 8cm. You don’t have to be neurotic or crazy. As a matter of fact, there are many very logical, and smart people who do this. You just have to have a realistic plan and stick to it.
Plus, I want you to think about this.....how many neurotic people do you know that have $100,000 laying around?? You have to have at least some kind of smarts to put that together, right?
Quote from: billsmafia on September 11, 2021, 01:45:18 AMI agree that there are a lot of neurotic people here. Did the people you encountered at Limbplastix seem pretty level-headed?
Honestly most of them just seemed really nervous. Most of them were men, racially very diverse, but mostly American nationality. I only met about 10 people in total, I think they were all very nice people. Definitely the type of people who were successful and pleasant people who just had an insecurity they could afford to fix.
Quote from: itseasy on September 11, 2021, 08:44:45 AMOf course there will be neurotic people here and there. Sh*t, even I think I’m a little on the crazy side for doing this, hahaha!!!
But seriously, let me tell you, my surgery was a year ago and everything is fine. Went the full 8cm. You don’t have to be neurotic or crazy. As a matter of fact, there are many very logical, and smart people who do this. You just have to have a realistic plan and stick to it.
Plus, I want you to think about this.....how many neurotic people do you know that have $100,000 laying around?? You have to have at least some kind of smarts to put that together, right?
Yeah, I agree with this. The venn diagram between people I met there and the neurotic people on this forum was very thin if not two separate circles.
Quote from: Thorfinnn on September 11, 2021, 02:29:16 AMI have a question regarding inseam . Every time I try to measure it I get different results. Do you think it’s better just to wait for standing x ray from doctor than to worry so much about my inseam length.
My surgeon didn’t really care about proportions other than making sure the femurs were over the 0.8:1.0 tibia:femur ratio before lengthening them, and looking for leg length discrepancies. He didn’t mention inseam once. It’s really up to you to care about proportions. I measured my own inseam 20 times and got 5 different measurements between 79 and 84cm. I wore 30 pants with some break around 5’9”, I wear 33 with some break now, 32 no break. Realistically unless you look like you have very long legs before surgery, you will not look abnormal afterwards. I definitely don’t at 49% inseam ratio. As long as you aren’t at a very high ratio before surgery you probably will actually look better afterwards.
Quote from: HobbitMan on September 11, 2021, 05:06:11 PMHonestly most of them just seemed really nervous. Most of them were men, racially very diverse, but mostly American nationality. I only met about 10 people in total, I think they were all very nice people. Definitely the type of people who were successful and pleasant people who just had an insecurity they could afford to fix.
Yeah, I agree with this. The venn diagram between people I met there and the neurotic people on this forum was very thin if not two separate circles.
My surgeon didn’t really care about proportions other than making sure the femurs were over the 0.8:1.0 tibia:femur ratio before lengthening them, and looking for leg length discrepancies. He didn’t mention inseam once. It’s really up to you to care about proportions. I measured my own inseam 20 times and got 5 different measurements between 79 and 84cm. I wore 30 pants with some break around 5’9”, I wear 33 with some break now, 32 no break. Realistically unless you look like you have very long legs before surgery, you will not look abnormal afterwards. I definitely don’t at 49% inseam ratio. As long as you aren’t at a very high ratio before surgery you probably will actually look better afterwards.
Honestly speaking, the inseam/proportions issue is nothing to worry about. Trust me, you won’t look disproportional after all is said and done. Actually, you’ll love the “model” look you’ll have wearing a suit or pants. No more short and stalky!!
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