Quadrilateral Lengthening with Dr. Paley

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Thanks for your response.  Here is some good news.

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Congrats on the good news. I hope you get to 5 cm as you wanted to. And good choice not going the full 8 cm if your body tells you to stop. I'll keep you updated on how my 8 cm in my femur recovery goes. Reading the other diaries, it appears that I'm following the same path as ProgramDude's slow recovery, who also did 8 cm in the femurs. In his diary, he wasn't walking normally until almost 9 months post-op and his stamina didn't return until around 11 months post-op. He also had pains in my legs for months after he stopped lengthening, and he also attributed it to muscle weakness. I'm currently at 6.5 months post op. I think with 2-5 more months of training, I could get my walking/stamina back to almost normal. I do see progress, so it's not like I'm permanently like this (fingers crossed). I just think it's ridiculously slow compared to the other patients who only went to 7 cm and are walking up and down stairs by now.

I read Cooper's diary, and he only did 6.9 cm and was back to playing tennis after a few months. He also complained that tightness appeared at the 5 cm mark. So I see a trend where 7 cm or less tend to recover much faster than 8 cm. If time isn't that big of an issue for you, then I think 8 cm is possible. It just will probably add month(s) to your recovery time. I think our age also adds a month or so to our recovery time.

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It's great that you've lengthened 4 cm!

I'm not sure what you total goal for lengthening is but,
have you considered stopping there on tibia, and lengthening femur to like 7 cm?
considering that with femur you can lengthen at a faster rate (0.75 - 1.00 mm / day)?

might be better than trying for 5 cm tibia (doing 0.25 - 0.50mm/day) and 6 cm femur.

Just a thought.

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I think proportionally, 5 cm and 7cm is fine.  My surgery for my femurs is not until next month so continuing lengthening at a slow rate is fine for now.

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I say keep lengthening your tibia until the day of your surgery. Keep track of it and just go at it slowly: whether you get, you get.

Once you do the femurs and get to 5 CM I would caution even you to think more about how you look in front of a mirror. But we'll cross the bridge when we get there.

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hey iamready,

I have a question for you! do you know any patients that experienced (significant) hairloss during the whole procedure because of surgery stress and/or medication?
I have heard from a couple of patients from different doctors about that but no doctor seems to acknowledge.

btw: your hair looks fine 

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Well, someone warned me that I was going to lose hair during the process and I haven't yet.  BUT i am on rogaine and finesteride so that may be the reason why it didn't get to me.  I just recovered from getting food poisoning so today was the first time I tried lengthening .05mm.  I did them back to back and I didn't feel any pains so now i'm all paranoid that I've consolidated.  Luckily the x-rays are next Wednesday and we shall see.

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This is kinda off topic but I have to ask, are you really 31 years old??  You look waaay younger I actually though you were my age and I´m 20.
Good luck with your lengthening man!

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Quote from: Iamready on January 15, 2016, 10:03:37 PMWell, someone warned me that I was going to lose hair during the process and I haven't yet.  BUT i am on rogaine and finesteride so that may be the reason why it didn't get to me.  I just recovered from getting food poisoning so today was the first time I tried lengthening .05mm.  I did them back to back and I didn't feel any pains so now i'm all paranoid that I've consolidated.  Luckily the x-rays are next Wednesday and we shall see.

I would cease use of finastride. Too many stories of men permanently losing their libido.

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Quote from: Deads on January 16, 2016, 01:13:40 AMI would cease use of finastride. Too many stories of men permanently losing their libido.

Ditto on this.  Finasteride will absolutely knockout testosterone.