UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016

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The left femur looks fine so you might keep clicking until you reach 7.5 cm but the right leg looks bad, there is no callus the nail holds the bone together. I think your ortho should make the decision whether you should stop lengthening your left leg and shorten the right one to match the left or find a way to get some callus on it. So they could remove both nails, shorten the right one to match the left and then install titanium nails and do bone graft again.  I'm not a doc so it is my only assumption.
 Apart from that I don't know whether there is any other option to help build callus.

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Quote from: doomsday on June 06, 2017, 08:49:01 PMThe left femur looks fine so you might keep clicking until you reach 7.5 cm but the right leg looks bad, there is no callus the nail holds the bone together. I think your ortho should make the decision whether you should stop lengthening your left leg and shorten the right one to match the left or find a way to get some callus on it. So they could remove both nails, shorten the right one to match the left and then install titanium nails and do bone graft again.  I'm not a doc so it is my only assumption.
 Apart from that I don't know whether there is any other option to help build callus.

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Also your GP is a fking imbecile. You cannot wait until July coz they need to tell you whether they will shorten the right leg or not and if they do you will have to stop clicking. FFS they are bunch of idiots. Go and tell them that. When my GP saw my  frames I was talking to my ortho the next week. You cannot wait! Tell them it's urgent!

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I stopped taking paracetamol/codeine 2 weeks after surgery as I could cycle the pain away.

But I've restarted taking them again in the last 1 week since hitting 4cm as it hurts.

Also, Guichet prescribed abt 700-1000mg of aspirin per day for all the time of lengthening, so I had continued taking them.

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If the first graft didnt work, external fixation is not am option? I dont know too much about this, but know that external fixation can compress the gap an create new, but that Will need more surgeries que more money.is just amazing how greedy is Guitchet, danger of amputation And still has his lawyer in fight.

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Quote from: onemorefoot on June 06, 2017, 09:45:20 PMIf the first graft didnt work, external fixation is not am option? I dont know too much about this, but know that external fixation can compress the gap an create new
please stop posting total garbage...

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Quote from: doomsday on June 06, 2017, 09:55:43 PMplease stop posting total garbage...
Are you still angry? Why is garbage, maybe is not the common way of fixing nounions, but can be done, ll dweller.

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Unicorn, I truly believe that you should stop lengthening your good foot at 5cm to finish it successfully and to stop be in pain and keep taking drugs.
Then you should compress the other foor at 5 cm, do a bone graft and see if it works. If still there is not callus, you should compress it at zero cm and when callus start to formate then you should slowly lengthen it too at 5cm.

There is no other solution for you. You just lose your time waiting for bone fusion with 7-8 cm gap! This can't happen.
Stop lengthening at 5cm on your good foot, which is a good gain, and then put all your effort to fix the non union. In the worst situation you'll fully compress it and then lengthen it again.
Everything can be fixed just find a good doctor and take out this bs nail that Guichet uses and then compress the bone.

Be strong, with a good doctor things will take time but for sure you'll be ok at the end.

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Let's not doc bash because I get into trouble.

I'm just highlighting my journey and the transition from private to public. 

You can see, while it's free, it's definitely far from smooth sailing.

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Honestly, I think it is better to just shorten to match the legs if it means you can recover faster.

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I'm so sorry for all of this.