Quote from: Ozymandias on March 20, 2016, 11:30:29 PMScary info for all of us who are considering femoral LL. Can you describe your current level of pain, and where is it located (maybe the iliotibial tract?)? Is it getting better?
My IT feels fine. I got the IT band surgery and that's probably why it's fine. To be more specific on the pain, it's my TFL (right below the hip bone) on my left side that hurts when I do leg raises while laying in my side. It hurts once in a while when I walk around and need that muscle too. Another annoying pain are my inner thigh muscles or tendon. It feels stretched and tight even when I'm not stretching them. When I squeeze my legs together, it hurts, and I'm not even squeezing that hard. The TFL pain is most likely just muscle weakness, because it's still hard for me to do leg raises. But the inner thigh pain seems like it's because my tendons are over stretched. I try to sit with my legs folded to try to stretch them out further but it does not appear to be improving. I had this inner thigh pain for a few months now. I don't recommend going all the way to 8 cm because of this.
Quadrilateral Lengthening with Dr. Paley
difm. if you can return back time will you still do it?
Quote from: chineseguy on March 23, 2016, 02:09:04 AMdifm. if you can return back time will you still do it?
No, I wouldn't. I sacrificed too much for something that helped me very little. Being taller doesn't improve your life as much as some of you may think would. I cured my height neurosis but I replaced with it with a lot physical pain and suffering. The physical pain sucks because there's no off switch. It's always present from the moment you wake up to even during sleep. At least the height neurosis can be ignored when you stop looking at mirrors and stop being around heightists.
You only had your surgery in summer 2015? You'd have to give it a few more months before you make the call, no one should reasonably expect to be back to walking healthy for at least a year or two.
Here is my newest x ray. The gap is 2.4cm centimeter magnified so roughly 2cm gained. Pain is SLOWLY improving. I suffer a lot during Pt 
wow
looking great!
where does that put you at? around 8.5 cm in total?
Hey Iamready,
considering you should be around the 8 cm mark by now, my own personal goal. How does it feel?
Sure you can't walk much or anything, but in terms of aesthetics, does it look good for you? Are you starting to feel your legs becoming too long or something like that? Do you think it's personally easy to hide that you've lengthen 8 CM?
Thanks man, Take Care!
Hi Iamready,
Thank you so much for doing your blog of your experiences. The videos and insights are invaluable. I hope you are continuing to progress well. You posted a picture of your legs about one week after the femur nail surgery. You still had a fair bit of swelling and a large bruise covering about half your leg it seemed. I was curious to know how much the swelling had come down from its peak by the one week mark? More to the point I was wondering if you could describe or quantify how big/how much your legs swelled from the femur precice insertion? Along the same lines, how much swelling did you experience after the original tibia nail surgery? Thanks for sharing with us
I'm at about 8.5cm now, and as far as height there is a noticeable difference. Especially since I can wear shoes now as opposed to always being in boots during the tibia surgery. I'm still not content with the height yet. Perhaps another inch will change my mind. My femurs look short compared to my tibia's which actually look perfect in proportion to my feet. Perhaps I've gotten used to having longer tibia's already. I will reassess at about 5cm. I think all the surgeries I've been through have taken a toll on my body and psyche so i'm evaluating my options with regards to my goal on my femurs. As far as swelling, both surgeries brought significant swelling however when I had my femur rod insertion I had absolutely no fat on my bones and I still was bloated like a corpse floating on the surface of the amazon river.
Here are some videos expressing my current mind set and situation if your patience allows.
Great work!!!!
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