Hey guys. A little update on my journey...
I start to get back to my normal life again. It's been over 8 months now and it's been a few weeks I needed to use my crutches. My bone healing looks good, you can see it on tiktok. In a few months it should be fully consolidated.
i noticed that if I stand to much on my legs I get bad pain on my thighs that I can't really step on my leg. This mostly happens if I stand for multiple hours or lift heavy things. It takes most of the time 1 and in worst cases 2 days until the pain goes away. It's not that bad that I have to take pain killers, but my walk starts to look funny. I think it's related to my muscles and their weakness after all this. But I don't have that issue if I walk. Just when standing a lot. I had days with over 10k steps without crutches and without pain just tiredness.
But that will probably resolve after a few months and when my body gets used to it. Talking about getting used to. Swimming feels better now but still weird. I feel like, I can feel the nail in my leg, it's such a weird feeling when swimming. Also my legs crack when swimming. Like your joints crack on your hand. I also get that feeling sometimes when walking up stairs, after I walked a lot. I also tried to drive a bicycle. That didn't go as planned haha. My longer femur threw me off balance, so I couldn't do it really and didn't try to much. Just waiting for my bone to heal completely so little accidents don't turn into big ones. Actually a few months ago, I slipped with the crutches and feel on the ground outside. It was on asphalt and hurt a bit. After getting an xray it was confirmed nothing inside moved or anything. That was very relieving.
I am glad I did this. Feeling a huge difference in life now even though I am not fully back to normal. It was not the easiest but it's nearly done now. Oh and I don't really do any regular stretches anymore. I just try to sit on my knees every few days I still can't do that. I am still taking my vitamins. Flooding my body with around 6000IU Vitamin D, K2, 1600mg Calcium, and Magnesium. I didn't notice any side effects. I don't know if that big of a doses is even usable in my body, but I feel like it should have it rather than need it lol.
Tiktok | Limb Lengthening Diary Betzbone '24
Hey man, great diary.
Can I ask for how long and how often you worked with a physio? There is only 2 weeks included in the package, how many physio sessions does that include? Once they have taught you the correct stretches, can you just do it by yourself at home as long as you have motivation, or are there certain stretches and moves that you need a physio to help you with?
If a patient decides to stay longer with Becker, do you know what the deal is? I was thinking of renting an Airbnb nearby and going into the centre for physio sessions. I can take 2 months off work, and I'm only planning 4.5cm tibia, plus bowleg correction, so I'm hopeful that with a lot of work in the first two months after the surgery, I'll be pretty mobile by month three.
So Becker is good or not???
What a great diary of your journey, thank you so much!! It really helps me in my choice for dr. Becker (which is nearest by for me and possible to get there by car, which is a great benefit). Also, I was really wondering if you could exceed the 8cm as they promote. Not that I might do it for myself, but it was one of the things that made me doubt about Betz/Becker. Likewise the ITB band, which they offer now.
Once again: thank you so much and I would really congratulate you on your achievements, which you gained by being tough!! Well done man!
one more thing... Your Tiktok account is set to private, so unfortunately I can't see it anymore. Is there a reason for that?
What happens with accidental clicks? Can this be measured exactly by xrays to correct the difference?
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