Hey Andrew,
I think you should view it as being, he came out decently intact, despite Dr. Sarin, rather than thinking Sarin played some hand in resolving a vicious complication. Sarin himself was the complication. I'll let smallguy speak for himself. If you do come to India, I implore you to scrutinize the doctor you choose. Don't believe anything you've been sold on the internet.
Hey Small guy,
Did you LON/LATN or purely external?
Thanks!
Quote from: Smallguy on July 28, 2014, 03:50:18 PMHis pic in the OP doesn't look bad. He could have some success if he goes clubbing. Most girls wouldn't know what he did to his legs.
But the video of his walking makes him looked stilted and his twisted smile reminds me of the joker in batman. But he still looks good (I'm jealous)
You're still aiming for femurs next year?
Me 2 
How are you now? Did you remove your nail and plate? Pain? Aches? Can you run? Sprint?
I ran for the first time yesterday, 2-3 kilometers. No pain. I just lack stamina.
I can kick pretty hard, I already knocked one guy out so my new legs seem to work. But it's still extremely far from what it once were.
Quote from: Hallijah on July 10, 2014, 04:31:56 PMis that you Sweden? judging by the comment it doesn't seem you
In defence of Dr. Sarin and contrary to what people want to hear, he was quite a good doctor. I have no monetary gain by saying this, and in fact, I haven't communicated with him for a year and am not planning on coming back there. I'm just a guy with a long memory. He treated us well and took good care of us. Not to mention, we saved a load of money by completing our dream with him. I'm still in contact with many of his non-indian patients. We all made it through and enjoying our lives with our new height gain.
Quote from: Blablabla on March 17, 2014, 12:40:11 PMAre you asian smallguy ?? Do you like Exo? bAp? Block b ? XD
And btw can you write more about your romantic days, it´s so cool xD
Hey, I'm asian. You?
Thanks for your comment. Romance is every guy's favourite topic. We spend so much time and money on our looks and cars, and work so hard for on career, just in hope of one day attracting the desired woman of our dream. Woman only dates a man of higher status than they are just as men only dates women they are comfortable showing their friends to.
Quote from: Polycrates. on March 23, 2014, 06:48:50 AMYes, I have a high regard for medicine in Canada. I hope I don't have to pay out of pocket either for any future treatment. I felt guilt at first, but I've already paid my fair share of taxes into the system, and I have decades more of money yet to be injected into it, so I don't feel as guilty as I initially did for wanting to utilize the services we pay for.
.....That's cool to learn about Paley. Didn't know he was a Canadian boy.
BTW, is the doctor going to remove your nails during those surgeries?
Hey my doctor will remove Sarin's plates and nails during the surgery. He will have to rebreak the bone to correct the x legs and add on his own plates. Then once I recover, I can plan for what I want to do next with my life. Yay!
Quote from: IamAndrew on March 23, 2014, 11:23:27 AMSmallguy,
Your legs look great after 5 surgeries and 8 cm. Your recovery is inspirational. I'm glad to see Dr. Sarin still did a decent job despite the setbacks too. India is shaping up to be the place I look at having my external tibias done someday (6.5-7 cm).
I'm sorry about what happened with your ex-lover. However, looking at it from her POV, it's totally understandable why she left. She liked you just as you were but you didn't care and opted to spend months upon months away from her for an elective procedure that risked your health and financial well-being. Also, it's a procedure most people find to be totally insane and immature. To her it was probably like you saying, "I don't care what you think and I don't want to spend my time with you, I rather go do something crazy and dangerous for many months." Don't be bitter towards her or towards love because of that, IMO. You starved a loving dog and then felt crossed because it went to get food elsewhere....
Just my 2 cents after reading 2 pages. I'll be back another time to finish this thread. 6:00 AM and had a long Saturday (working...).
-Andy
Thanks for the advice bro. So brutal but so true.
Quote from: shawty on March 28, 2014, 06:03:48 PMHey Small guy,
Did you LON/LATN or purely external?
Thanks!
We did LON with Sarin.
Quote from: Sweden on July 28, 2014, 09:26:18 PMYou're still aiming for femurs next year?
Me 2
How are you now? Did you remove your nail and plate? Pain? Aches? Can you run? Sprint?
I ran for the first time yesterday, 2-3 kilometers. No pain. I just lack stamina.
I can kick pretty hard, I already knocked one guy out so my new legs seem to work. But it's still extremely far from what it once were.
Hey Sweden. I can run at 7 miles per hour up to 10 minutes, which makes me the fastest runner at my gym. As everybody here is a body builder, no one cares about cardio. So I have no one to compare myself to. I haven't tried to physically test myself by sprinting yet as I haven't though much about LL for a while. My main concerns these days is about not becoming fat. I've been counting my caloric intake versus what I expended through workout.
Pain - no pain
Aches - no aches
Run - 7 miles per hour? I feel I can run faster than before due to having longer stride, however.
Sprint - in terms of that burst of moment, I think I'm not as quick as before. But I feel that I can work on it if I try. I don't try anymore as I'm not a professional athlete.
Wow. Good for you. I knew you had the best recovery out of all of us. Yeah, I also feel that you will lose a certain amount of agility through LL. But as my past-time is clubbing... and maybe kick-boxing in the future... I don't really mind so much about getting back that burst of moment as I had prior to LL. Glad to hear that you will consider femur despite all the loss of your physical power.
Me 3. I will consider LL asap... as soon as my doctor here fixes my x legs. I will go for another 6cm 
Is the X-legs really still that bad?
Please post a picture of your current status on X-legs.
shorty.... there is plating, which does not cause knee pain...
i didn't find photos here showing x legs?
that insane guy was harsh, but the things he said are partly true.
Quote from: ShortyMcShort on July 29, 2014, 08:14:51 AMI have one question, do you have knee pain? The debate over LON/LATN vs externals only is still playing in my mind with LON/LATN patients having some sort of knee pain even after recovery. What are your thoughts on that and has your knee recovered well?
Thanks
Hey ShortMcShort. Nice name.. haha. I feel we have something in common already. Yeah, the x-leg is quite noticeable. I have forgotten about it for a long time until now that someone has reminded me about it. But I will get it fixed just for the sake of it. I'm a perfectionist (and because we pay a lot of taxes here - it's about time I get some of it back).
LON - I don't have any knee pain with LON but other people have. And there are more people with knee pain than those who don't. So I think you have safer with being plated or going externally. But personally, because I don't have pain, I will go with LON.
I can't bear external but the down time is too great and I like to lengthen a lot. My left tibia is also plated. Like LON, it doesn't bother me but I can feel the plate along my shin when I feel my finger along it and it is more invasive. For these reasons, I believe LON is a cleaner approach and I will go with LON. However, my surgeon here in Canada prefers plate and I think he will have me plated when I undergo the x-leg correction.
Quote from: Insane on July 29, 2014, 08:31:35 AM..... I love chuckling at your clueless comments.
I don't care to post and I certainly didn't post in your diary. You very well know the comments were moved by admin.
I don't need to make you feel bad about your botched legs. It was certainly a joy to laugh at your comical babbling.
I'm glad you find my comments humorous
And you are correct. My diary is served for others not to follow.
Thanks for the entertainment.
Quote from: Sweden on July 29, 2014, 11:14:25 AMIs the X-legs really still that bad?
Please post a picture of your current status on X-legs.
It is the same as before. Sure, I will share a video this weekend!
Quote from: Tall on July 29, 2014, 03:54:48 PMI don't see why you need to put such a harsh, belittling, and insulting tone in your comments. Take Smallguy's comments however you'd like, but realize that he is not trying to convince anyone to go to Dr. Sarin and will get no money if anyone does. There's nothing at all wrong with him liking the experience he had with his doctor, even if you don't, and then stating so. He is a valuable resource to this community as he can contribute valuable recollections and images of his experience, updates on his recovery, and a friendly personality and acceptable/tolerable manner or writing posts and helping others. You have contributed absolutely none of those things so far. Have you even had LL? If not, then I don't consider you a valuable member of this site at all, given the way you've been acting. You are effectively a troll on this site, so far. Feel free to read and glean the information that's graciously been made available to you on this site, but please don't post again until you can show basic etiquette and respect.
Thanks for the backup. It's quite clear of who I will choose to go with for femur LL in 2015 in my signature field. And Dr. Sarin is unfortunately not one of the options. He kind and helpful to us. He waved me the fee for 1 month of stay and, like Sweden said, made himself available to us 24 hours when we have problems. But with the options available at the moment and the range of doctors to choose from, I wouldn't want to go back to India and wouldn't want to recommend Sarin. If he was the only LL doctor available - sure. But there are so many better options available at the moment.
2 years ago, we were misled by Sysop and there were a number of successful diaries. The price was also perfect. Of course, with the info available at that time, it wasn't a bad idea to go to India for LL. But had I know the amount of complications and risk involved, I would have paid more and gone somewhere else that would provide a higher margin of safety. Dr Sarin gets the job done and if you're lucky, you'll get a smooth journey. But if not lucky, you get what you pay for. However, as you read from other diaries from more expensive doctors, their patients are not complications free.
I think Dr. Sarin has a chance to make his side business more successful if he wasn't so sloppy and careless. I have seen a handful of successful patients. Just 10 minutes before my final operations, I recalling seeing him arguing on his cellphone. And we spent another 5 minutes in the operation room, which resemble an animal slaughter house, to debate with him about my 8cm all or nothing goal. Luckily he gave in and gave me 8cm... something which a doctor in the west wouldn't take the chance.
Questions..
1. If Dr. Sarin was the only doctor in the world, would I go to do LL with him? - Sure. Sorry, if I will make some short people on here feel bad, but being short is so hard and difficult. Every day you wake up with a barrel of weight on your shoulder. Maybe that is why some of us are here. But my life at the moment is so much better than ever in my existence and that's just because of the increment in height gain.
2. How much would I pay for LL? Less than 55k. I think anything over this is overpriced for someone who makes less than 80k per year (like me).. sure you get the comfort and the higher margin of safety, but your life will still suck coming back with a load of debt.
Agreed, anything more than 55-60k is just too much money, the prices that Dr Paley and Guichet charge are just ridiculous if you ask me. But you do get peace of mind.
I also earn just about 80k a year, minus tax and its much less.
So if you were to go ahead with internal femurs, who would you go with if I may ask? If you weren't planning on fixing your x-legs next year first, who would be your preferred internal doctor atm?
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