Quadrilateral Lengthening with Dr. Paley

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Great!
How are things going? With the pain and all?
Found new stuff to do already?

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Pain still sucks.  All I can really focus on is my exercises.  I'm still extending at .05mm a day because it's less painful.  They keep lowering the dose of my pain meds which is annoying because someone I know who is a month into it longer than me and is 6 years younger gets a higher dose.  Just gotta deal with it and become stronger.  I think it might be easier for femur patients because it's the torture boots that cause all the pain.  It's basically a medieval chastity belt for your Achilles tendon and if you loosen it up your parole officer is notified and you go to the clink.

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When the procedure on the tibia ends and how long are you lengthening?

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If my flexibility holds up and i'm allowed to continue at .05mm i'd go to 6.5 but lets get to 5 cm first.  It's a bit ridiculous talking about final goals now since i'm only half way.  Who knows what could happen.  It would take till my next surgery Feb 18 to reach 6.5cm.

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Hate to break it to you but femurs are painful, too. Actually, reading a few diaries of people who did both said that tibia hurts less than femurs.

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Haven't posted in a while.  Here's an update.
At the end of the video i mention 8 cm don't get confused i'm talking about femurs.
Thanks

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Hey Iamready

Sorry to hear that you have been suffering from difficulties and frustration in your lengthening.  I really hope you can reach your goal that is over 5 cm hopefully 6 cm.  In any case, you have already achieved quite impressive amount and your achievement is still on going.  So be strong and positive.  You will get where you want to be. 

I also want to tell you that I am quite impressed by your achievements beside ll.  You seem a quite successful business man.  That is great!!  You are still quite young!!  You will enjoy your tall height for a long time!!  I actually envy you that you can do ll at your age. I am getting too old for ll but haven't given it up. 

Hope you have a good holiday.

Just one question for you.  Are those problems from your boots common among other tibia patients?  My feet are also quite likely to have those problems.  My ankles are too big and my legs are bent.  I always have hard time with any boots.  Anyway, no matter what, this will not stop me though.

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Hey Iamready,

Great video man, I mean it. Your insight into your reason for LL are ones that I can appreciate deeply like DITFM.

In regards to your goals, I think doing 5 CM on tibia is a good goal. Many of us here in the forum consider 5 cm on the tibia to be a safe limit; it's one where recovery is solid for the most part. Don't be discouraged by it, get to the 5 CM and don't become so picky over .something of a CM. The payout will come from the femurs.

This sort of brings me a point I've wanted to ask for awhile now but I was scared to ask considering how personal and subjective it can become. But how do you feel in regards to proportions? Considering your goal now seems to be 5+8=13CM, I myself wouldn't do so much because of proportion sakes (even though in regards to each segment, those numbers are good for recovery). I don't mean to sound discouraging but to me personally it does strike me as too much; for some perspective I've basically settled for 8 CM total (4+4) for proportional sake. What's your perspective on it?

Cheers, wish you a good holiday seasons and the best with LL.

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Appreciate the videos.....feel free to make videos and rant as much as you want.....seeing and hearing you is priceless to gauge how you are really feeling, which you wouldn't be able to describe in 100 pages of text.

Hang in there bro, you've come this far....one day at a time

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You sound a lot like me. Other patients while I was there also got bad news as well. With your work ethic, I believe that you can do 8 cm on your femurs. I'm not much younger than you, and I got to 8 cm because of all the stretching that I did. You may feel like crap now, but it gets much better once you're near completion or finish. You'll be much happier at your new height.