Hi I'll be going to Guichet for my first surgery in July 2016. I'm not sure wether to start with femurs or tibias?
I thought tibias since I was originally planning on having the 2nd surgery (femurs) 3-4 weeks after the first (tibias) and since tibias take longer to lengthen and heal wouldn't it be better to start with tibs?
The lengthening may overlap but only for a week or so, and I would have finished lengthening tibias within 1-2 weeks into lengthening femurs.
I'm ~162 cm and aiming for 5.5 (tibs) and 6.5 (fem) to reach ~174.
Now I'm still considering quadrilateral lengthening just one segment at a time, which would obviously be femurs first. Guichet says in some patients 6 cm in 6 weeks is possible and considering recovery time, with one surgery (considering everything goes well) I should be 85-99% back to "normal" within 1.5-2 months after lengthening (2.5-3 months post op). Then do tibs next summer.
Those estimates are based on my individual health/healing response. Im in my very late teens and have the "body building" genes; I'm a mesomorph. I see gains at the gym faster than usual and literally heal faster in general.
(Originally posted in patient experiences by accident) Hi I'll be going to Guichet for my first surgery in July 2016. I'm not sure wether to start with femurs or tibias?
I thought tibias since I was originally planning on having the 2nd surgery (femurs) 3-4 weeks after the first (tibias) and since tibias take longer to lengthen and heal wouldn't it be better to start with tibs?
The lengthening may overlap but only for a week or so, and I would have finished lengthening tibias within 1-2 weeks into lengthening femurs.
I'm ~162 cm and aiming for 5.5 (tibs) and 6.5 (fem) to reach ~174.
Now I'm still considering quadrilateral lengthening just one segment at a time, which would obviously be femurs first. Guichet says in some patients 6 cm in 6 weeks is possible and considering recovery time, with one surgery (considering everything goes well) I should be 85-99% back to "normal" within 1.5-2 months after lengthening (2.5-3 months post op). Then do tibs next summer.
Those estimates are based on my individual health/healing response. Im in my very late teens and have the "body building" genes; I'm a mesomorph. I see gains at the gym faster than usual and literally heal faster in general.
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