To all CLL survivors

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Quote from: YellowSpike on September 13, 2019, 08:12:29 PMNo. One of my femurs took about 2/2.5 years at most (I think more like 2 years) to fully consolidate. I didn't want to risk taking them out soon, and the timing was never right for me to have the surgery. That's why I kept them in for almost 4 years.

Do you think that using 13mm nails has anything to do with this slow consolidation time? Or maybe another cause? Or just bad luck? If the nail had a reverse mechanism, would you use to consolidate faster? While you were lengthening, did you xrays showed callus or not (sorry, I didn't read your diary)?

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Quote from: InFullStryde on September 13, 2019, 08:25:11 PMHi Yellow Spike! Old question, I'm sure - but how long did it take for you to walk again after the nail removal? I'm not looking forward to this.

P.S. I love the title of this thread "CLL Survivors!" ha ha

I walked out of the hospital and into the cab almost immediately after I woke up from rod removal surgery I just needed the numbness in my legs to go away before they’d let me walk.

I was walking like a penguin for about a week. A week later I was totally normal.

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Quote from: wannagrowtaller on September 13, 2019, 08:56:44 PMDo you think that using 13mm nails has anything to do with this slow consolidation time? Or maybe another cause? Or just bad luck? If the nail had a reverse mechanism, would you use to consolidate faster? While you were lengthening, did you xrays showed callus or not (sorry, I didn't read your diary)?

I think it was bad luck, although ratcheting rods don’t help. I know many people who had one leg consolidate more slowly than the other, and there’s no way to anticipate this. Luck of the draw.

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I never noticed any weird feelings due to temperatures, but I was never exposed to any extreme temperatures while I had the nails in.

I did, however, sometimes "feel" that the nails were there, preventing my bones from having any natural bending/flexing/yielding/springing ability when I exerted myself physically.

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Has anyone been able to deadlift after LL

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Quote from: dreamingtall on September 24, 2019, 04:25:28 PMHas anyone been able to deadlift after LL

I haven't tried. I don't have any desire to be muscular anymore. Probably because I don't have a short height to compensate for anymore.

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on October 11, 2019, 06:12:04 AMI haven't tried. I don't have any desire to be muscular anymore. Probably because I don't have a short height to compensate for anymore.

You always want to be the best version of yourself.

I was hitting the gym really hard those years and now i lost all the muscles in my legs, plus upper body of course but my legs looks like the legs of those starved african kids. As soon as i can i’m going to hit the gym as hard as i can