RLS’ Log Entries - Bilateral Femurs 2022

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did you try reducing the pain meds? do you really need them?

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did you try reducing the pain meds? do you really need them?

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Quote from: ten on October 18, 2022, 07:39:43 AMdid you try reducing the pain meds? do you really need them?

I am slowly reducing right now. Yea I would say during the tough times I need them. I think femur is just so painful because so many big muscle groups get stretched. Tibia is much much less painful at my stage.

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Thanks for the update. How are your x-rays looking now?

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Did you regret any of it?

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Quote from: thankscience on October 18, 2022, 10:37:13 AMThanks for the update. How are your x-rays looking now?

Will do next one on Friday so I‘ll update then

Quote from: Jason125 on October 19, 2022, 01:47:52 PMDid you regret any of it?

Honestly no and yes. Not regretting LL at all but I must say first of all it really ruined my semester, many people told me studying or working is possible after like a month and I thought yea seems reasonable. I mean I can study at home mostly, I am not like a construction worker where it would have been obviously impossible to work. However, let me tell you if you do femur LL you need to take like half a year off. It‘s just too much work (stretching), exhaustion, sleep deprivation and drugs to function normally, even if cognitively it would be ok.
Second thing is I regret not doing tibia. Man I could be free of crutches already but no, I have to have them for many more months. Really sucks. Plus so much less stretching.

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Quick update: sorry for letting you guys wait.

I am 2 months post OP now, xrays are looking great. I won’t share a pic of it because personally I don’t feel comfortable publicising a private scan of my insides but it is excactly like like everybody who had a good textbook surgery and process.

Positives:
- not regretting anything anymore. Glad that i did femur
- little pain left, clicking is smooth
- big thing: sleep improved drastically. 50% of nights i can sleep through
- was afraid of doing the xray here bc obviously i gotta tell them but i chose a good facility. They were friendly and didn‘t ask any stupid questions or gave me weird looks. After seeing me on crutches they said i can immediately go despite many people waiting in the waiting room haha.

Only negative points are;
- with less of the tilidin i feel more depressed and sensitive. Not really due to any particular subject, it’s just missing in a way
- sxxuality is still crap.
- And I got a pretty bad tooth ache now. I am wondering if its bc of a few days of suboptimal cleaning at the hospital but I highly doubt it. I think it‘s unrelated. The only thing I am sure is that I caught it a bit late because pain meds masked it. Sucks that whenever I solve something a new problem arises. And if LL is smooth something entirely random comes up. This is a test of faith, how strong I am and how many hurdles I can overcome.
I will go to the dentist today, feeling pretty miserable about it.

e:/ ok dentist prescribed me antibiotics for a week. Thankfully no infection but inflammation due to one wisdom tooth that never caused any issue pushing against the molar now… i must say i didn‘t want to remove it 2 years ago because I already had one removed and it was hell (worse pain than anything I had with LL) , now I must say maybe it would have been better to address that before LL. 
On the brightside however, I will remove it once I am done with lengthening and stop xarelto. So I can recover from LL and that stuff at the same time and have less downtime (wisdom teeth recovery is like a week).

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Do you feel optimistic about recovering to normal gait within 6 months?

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Quote from: LengtheningDream on October 31, 2022, 09:38:45 AMDo you feel optimistic about recovering to normal gait within 6 months?

Yea absolutely. My walk on one crutch is pretty good now already and if I stop clicking for 24h I can walk very swiftly and well.

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on October 31, 2022, 12:07:55 PMYea absolutely. My walk on one crutch is pretty good now already and if I stop clicking for 24h I can walk very swiftly and well.

Thats a relief to hear. Looking forward to ur updates!