Hey guys!!
I am currently doing LL in the form of LON femurs with Dr. Halil Buldu in Istanbul, Turkey. My surgery was july 3rd, and i will be reaching approximately 3cm on the 10th of august. My starting height was 177-8 in the morning and could drop to 177-76. My initial goal was an 8cm increase on my femurs, but after reading various threads on this forum i am questioning the safety behind this. I guess my question is, how much safer would for example 6.5/7cm be compared to 8cm?
As for now i feel i am in great shape, i have full knee extension, about 100 degrees flexion (still working on that). I do heavy upper body workouts almost every day to keep my upper body muscle mass and it also helps my mental state a lot. I decided to stay in Istanbul during lengthening so i could receive daily physical therapy. I have little to no day to day pain. I am still working on being able to walk unassisted but my balance isn't the best at the moment.
Additionally, if you have any questions about my surgery, just fire away. Hope you guys have a great weekend! 
Question regardig amount of femur lengthening
Nah man i'm not from Turkey, i'm from Sweden.
Regarding your question about pain: the first week is pretty bad painwise but you get taken really good care of down here. It is also very manageable with the painkillers you get, when leaving the hospital you get tramadol, oral voltarol, geralgine- k (paracetamol/caffeine/codeine) that really helps. I stopped pretty early with the NSAIDs as they can be very bad for bone healing. The pain is very tolerable if you consider your pain tolerance to be normal. As for your question if i would recommend Dr. Halil, i absolutely would. I traveled down here on my own and i am staying in an apartment all alone. Halil has been incredibly helpful with helping me with day to day stuff, i can contact his assistant whenever i want and she does everything for me, she is a an absolute saint. The physical therapist is also very skilled. Surgery price was 17000 USD.
In my opinion, the pain was at its absolute peak at the start of this journey, and now it is not bad at all. I pretty much never take painkillers and i only get "nagging" pains every once in a while. If you'd like, you can send me a pm and i can give you my whatsapp or something.
Thanks so much for the kind words man, i am sure i will be okay. I am being taken really good care of down here. Dr. Halil even told me "since you will be here alone, me and my assistant will act as your family". He really is a good guy who cares about his patients.
As for the x-rays, i have only gotten one xray at approximately 1.5cm lengthening. I don't have them on my phone but i might inquire about them. I got to see them after the xray was finished and the radiologist and Halil said they looked perfectly fine.
As you might have noticed, I am really reluctant about turning this into a diary, not only due to privacy reasons, but I have also witnessed how toxic and unpleasant people are on this forum and I am at a stage where I really do not need a barrage of negative comments.
As for any people reading this, if you legitimately have questions for me, you can shoot me a pm and we can talk through whatsapp where i will not be as reluctant as i am on here. Also, for any questions that are not very personal, feel free to ask here.
Yes you are very right. It is a hard decision to make. Do i risk it for the extra cm or 2 or do i go the safer route. However, this is something i have always wondered: Is it "easier" for my body to recover from 8cm since my legs are already relatively long (femurs are 50cm) than a person who has much shorter femurs?
Also, i believe i must take into account that there will be a discrepancy between how much i have lengthened and my actual height increase.
I am considering heavily stopping at 7cm maybe 7.5 to account for the discrepancy. What do you think about this?
From what i have gathered, with external LON there will always be a height loss after removing the frames.
I wish you the best of luck, drxboom. If you are worried about the surgery, you should not be. I was dreading the surgery a lot a couple weeks before i did it, but it is nowhere near as scary as it is made out to be. I am sure you will be 100% fine, Halil and his assistants will take great care of you. Remember to bring sandals or flip flops, wearing shoes turned out to be bad for the hotel transfer xD.
Yeah man i'll send you my whatsapp on pm and you can just send me a message whenever you want.
Hey man,
I'm sorry but i don't believe i have met any Stryde patients. All i know is Halil does a ton of them but his patients do not know of the forum, they are mostly turkish.
Thanks for your reply,
My knee flexion is 100 degrees and improving every day so i do not worry about it at all. And yeah, i guess 2-5 cm is the safest but i would never undergo this surgery for such a measly increase. My question was how big the difference between 8 and 7/6.5cm. I will try to take into account for the height loss
I'm around 4 weeks post op
Full flexion is defined as 130-140° so if you have 160 and 145 (?) you are definitely fine.
I know normal flexion is 130-140° and i am every day getting closer to that. It's highly rare to regain full knee flexion immediately after LON Femur. It is highly dependent on your physical therapy during lengthening which is getting better every day in my case. I measured the degrees myself through pictures
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