Should I Stop at 4.5 cm due to poor bone healing ?

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Quote from: Ozzi6557 on January 12, 2022, 03:17:20 PMI'm sorry to hear.  How did you notice it was broken?  According to an X-ray or did you just feel it broken?

 
it is broken almost 9 months post surgery   

 I did feel it broken and just went to the hospital  to get an x-ray

I was not sure it was broken or not cause  it is not painful, still, I did not get any pain killer, so guys you need to be careful case breaking the nail might happen with less  pain ,and might you do   not notice it directly

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How can it break like that after 9 months?

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Quote from: V21 on January 12, 2022, 10:13:10 PMHow can it break like that after 9 months?
  I do not know  as I'm not a doctor and I  did not expect this would happen  to me  especially after the allowance of full wb from a doctor, however,  the doctor admitting that he has rotation deformity created during nail insertion but it doesn’t contribute to nonunion and implant failure, I not sure if this is true, he should not allow full wb till bone formation strong enough, and now we should replace both nails and even the left once might break any time, I  back to the zero point now   moving  with wheelchair

but this is should not stop you from achieving your dream and getting taller, my case is special if you do it  with the right doctor  and I think you will be  fine

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This is scary af. Is your doctor a U.S. surgeon?

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Quote from: silverlining on January 13, 2022, 12:11:02 AMThis is scary af. Is your doctor a U.S. surgeon?

Blows my mind how chill you are dude. Ffs a piece of metal surgically inserted into your bone just broke. Seconding the question about the doctor.

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I am willing to see Dr. Yasser elbatrawy in Cairo Egypt next week, Dr. Yasser trained under Dr. Paley for two years and get his fellowship .  when I had poor bone healing first place I emailed him and he explained to me the reason that led to poor bone healing and he mention about deformity that will happen to me in the right leg due to bad surgical technique.

Dr. Assayag was an option but now the nail is broken and I need to get emergency treatment and care nearby so fast, traveling to the USA  in a short time is hard to be arranged, now I move in a wheelchair with a right broken leg that is shorter he left about 2 cm or more and with deformity, and I think Dr. Yasser elbatrawy  is best option in middle east area.

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  Thank you so many guys for your words and supports, and I will keep writing my diary. Also,  I will write my diary with  Dr. Yasser in case I make a correction surgery with him. The current doctor or let me call him now  My X- the doctor was okay to do the correction surgery and fix the discrepancy for me,  but he is not sure if this is could be done with one surgery. The first surgery planned to remove both nails and replace them with normal nails and fix the deformity, and after full bone healing rebreak the right femur and insert  with lengthening nail to get the remaining 2. cm with means that I will end after two years and three surgery with 4 cm both legs.

 I will be updating you guys next week 



 

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 The doctor plan to insert a Trauma nail in the right femur with a bone graft and then wait and see for the left femur, he will shorten the left side ( 0.7 mm and wait and see if the bone healed or he would replace it with a Trauma nail ), after full bone healing he will lengthen the right femur to fix leg length discrepancy (LLD).


The most factor behind the non-union besides wrong surgical technique, which causes nail failure is lengthening the whole 1.0 one time and it should be split into three times a day  (every 8 hours, 0.22 at once ). In my case, the doctor managed to lengthen the whole 1.0 mm one time.

One more thing, after friendly investigating the doctor, has no experience with  precise nails and he only performs one case before mine, even the first case ends up with some complications, he was lying to me, and an agent in Saudi Arabia stopped to deal with him, he would not be allowed to order any  precice nail for now and so on.

 Note, with the whole complications so far,  even after correction surgery planned next week, I will end up with three cms height gained in the left side only,  and with a noticeable limping on the right side, which means that I  do not just fail to achieve the desired height, but I will end up worse than before surgery.


Still, I will say: go for it  with top-notch doctors.

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Quote from: DreamsComeTrue on January 21, 2022, 01:30:49 PM

 The doctor plan to insert a Trauma nail in the right femur with a bone graft and then wait and see for the left femur, he will shorten the left side ( 0.7 mm and wait and see if the bone healed or he would replace it with a Trauma nail ), after full bone healing he will lengthen the right femur to fix leg length discrepancy (LLD).


The most factor behind the non-union besides wrong surgical technique, which causes nail failure is lengthening the whole 1.0 one time and it should be split into three times a day  (every 8 hours, 0.22 at once ). In my case, the doctor managed to lengthen the whole 1.0 mm one time.

One more thing, after friendly investigating the doctor, has no experience with  precise nails and he only performs one case before mine, even the first case ends up with some complications, he was lying to me, and an agent in Saudi Arabia stopped to deal with him, he would not be allowed to order any  precice nail for now and so on.

 Note, with the whole complications so far,  even after correction surgery planned next week, I will end up with three cms height gained in the left side only,  and with a noticeable limping on the right side, which means that I  do not just fail to achieve the desired height, but I will end up worse than before surgery.


Still, I will say: go for it  with top-notch doctors.


Will he implant in you a bone he has taken from your body?  Would you lengthen every day 1mm at once?  Wishing you good luck. stay strong 💪

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on January 12, 2022, 06:33:21 PMIt didn't mention anything about good or bad looks or self esteem; just short & muscular vs. tall & skinny.

There's nothing wrong with skinny.  And big muscles don't make a guy anywhere near more attractive to women as gymrats think they do.

Exactly Medium. Most shorter guys start going to the gym because they think adding muscle mass will compensate for a lack of height. The reality is, it doesn't.

As long as I can keep my somewhat defined upper body and arms, I don't mind having stick legs.

To the OP, your first mistake was going to an Arab doctor. it is well known in the Middle East that the biggest people to be wary of are your own countrymen. They scam each other and have a saying "the longer the beard the bigger the hypocrite." I wouldn't trust an arab/egyptian doctor in the 3rd world if my life depended on it. Not racist I am just telling like it is lived their for years and part arab.