Dr inan probably says that is full weight bearing because of your internal nail. Bodybuilder did only external. Nice to see that you have started your lengthening. Did dr Inan told you to how many cm you will length at a rate of 1mm/day?
Have you got Knee pain ?
Here is a small update. I finally got wifi in my apartment.
After tonight I will have turned 1 cm. I don't feel any taller yet haha so hopefully that comes later.
I am not going to lie this whole process is really hard. There are times when I wonder why I did this to myself but I am still glad I did it. Right now I am not around people where my height bothers me so it is easy to forget about it. Than I think about the United States and how miserable I was with my height and it gives me strength. There is no way I was ever going to be happy with my height so this was my option.
The only pain I feel is the stretching from turning. I have been turning 1.5 mm per day for the last three days because I am consolidating too quickly. Whenever I turn my left leg I always hear a pop and like the bone is breaking off. I have heard this probably six times so I am kind of concerned but I think if I keep turning 1.5 mm per day I will be okay. Turning that much has made me really sore before that I was doing really good. I hope to get down to .75-1 mm a day in a bout a week so my soft tissues can keep up. My goal is definitely 6-7 cm max no more.
I don't have knee pain at all yet. But I don't bend my knees as far as I normally would. What is the knee pain supposed to feel like with LON and when do most people get it? I am sure I will have it as the odds are not very good to not have it.
Overall I have been very fortunate and I really cannot complain.
Wow 1.5mm per day. Thats a lot . But if you are consolidating so fast it will be ok. Have you told dr. Inan about that?. How is your walk now? Do you walk always with a walker or crutches or could you walk unaided some meters?
Dr. Inan told me to lengthen that much for just a week until I see him next. I just got done lengthening and no popping noise out of my left leg and my right leg was almost too easy so I hope I didn't go too fast on that one.
My walking is okay. My legs are so tight it takes me a little while to get going. I walked from my apartment to the ATM close by which took about 45 minutes and it was probably a half a mile away. I don't walk unaided yet. I think I could once I get warmed up but it kind of scares me I guess. I tried walking like two steps once but I didn't feel comfortable, I don't have the power I once had or something. I might try again soon.
Just thought I would give a small update today. Things have been going really good so far with everything. I have now turned 1.45 cm which is pretty good and my legs feel a little tight but not too bad. I am able to go back down to 1 mm per day because the risk of preconsolodation is gone which is good as 1.5 mm was way too much for me. Today I walked to the supermarket and back with my walker which took me about an hour. I was exhausted, it was a strange feeling as I used to be able to run 10 miles and now I get exhausted walking a half a mile but I have faith it will come back. I think it is so important to walk as much as you can during the process.
Living by myself has gone great so far, I FaceTime friends and family which helps pass the day and I watch movies and I have a walking and stretching routine. I stretch 30 minutes before each lengthening which is every 6 hours. So I stretch 2 hours a day. I also try to walk an hour a day along with the walking I do to go to the bathroom, make food for myself, clean, etc. I think having an apartment to manage is kind of good because it seems there is always something that can be done in the apartment and the days fly by. I think it also forces one to get up and move around as opposed to just lying in bed. Sleeping has been a challenge but I usually have been getting 6-8 hours a night. The thing that sucks is I lengthen at 12 am and 6 am which kind of gets in the way of sleeping. I think I will figure out a better routine for that so I don't get up twice.
The doctor's assistant said that I need to improve my achilles tendon flexibility so I have been working on that. I am worried about how I will be able to take care of myself as I lengthen more so I hope that goes well. I am never sure how my muscles will adapt with the length.
I have had a great experience so far and I hope it continues.
Hopefully this image uploaded as it is my first time trying to do so. This is kind of a poor picture but it was taken today 17 days after surgery. It is kind of at a weird angle.
Great image, thanks for that! It seems as though the scars from where Dr. Inan severed your tibia and fibula are relatively small. Would you ever get monorails on your femurs?
I was very impressed with the incisions I thought he did a good job with that. I do not think I would do monorail on my femur for a two reasons:
1. There is so much flesh that the pins would be cutting through. Right now the pins are hardly noticeable for me as they are not cutting through much flesh.
2. I can get pretty comfortable and sleep on my sides with the monorail on the tibia. There is no way you could do that on the femur, I think it would drive me crazy.
I personally would not do it on my femur but if you want to go for it. For me as long as I get 6-7 cm though I will never do leg lengthening again. If for some reason I did want to do it again I would get internal femurs.
Quote from: TrailBlazer on October 13, 2014, 02:57:40 PMHopefully this image uploaded as it is my first time trying to do so. This is kind of a poor picture but it was taken today 17 days after surgery. It is kind of at a weird angle.
monorail is just fine for tibia, just don't forget to clean the pin site daily,
usually during distraction, also during standing or moving there could be some discharge come from pin site, so change the bandage immediately after that, IMMEDIATELY ..
Good luck in your journey
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