Quote from: Bander72 on August 11, 2017, 12:19:13 AMAh lol I did confuse mongeal with guichet 
. It does some seem with his recent cases that mongeal is more competent than guichet.
Personally I would much easier consider Monegal than Guichet.
Thanks for the update. Glad you are making progress in posture(from ur instagram) and improving little by little in exercises and physical therapy. You will get there, hang on. Rooting for you.
Hey, Unicorn. I hope you are getting better with each passing day. It is a normal reaction to be angry when having pain, or difficulties. I think it is all the more reason to believe a person when she/he has such an emotional response.
While it is true there are a lot of "miraculous" very fast recoveries and early weight bearing, the potential for runaway lengthening and non-union without the possibility to compress the gap is something to consider. Also, the pain is something that Dr Guichet attributes to "stress". Even if I didn't have a lot of pain, I knew when seeing the faces of the rest of the patients that it hurt and it wasn't something that should be dismissed as "stress", "psychological issues", being weak. It is very real!
Finally one should inform oneself about every detail possible about the surgery. If you are a woman, smoker, Asian, old age, diabetic; please think twice about this surgery, or choose an external method or precise and ensure that your distraction rate is very slow and your target gain is also conservative. Do not put yourself totally in the hands of any doctor. Research, discuss, have an opinion about your own case. It is your life that is at stake, there is no one better to take care of yourself than you.
And to all of you, even if Precise goes up to 8 cm if Betz and Guichet allow to lengthen 10 cm with one surgery, try not do it. Keep in mind that every cm exponentially increases your recovery time!!!
Thanks for sharing your personal experience, Unicorn!
Your experience is quite negative, so if I would have read your diary when considering surgery, I likely would not have gone ahead.
However, I am happy that I did and all the patients I met that had the surgery at a similar time as me, around 8 in total, are all very happy. Also, nobody had a lot of pain, and clicking was totally painless.
Only thing for me is that recovery took longer than expected. Even now, more than 8 months post surgery, though I have regained full strength and jumping power, I am still not able to run very fast. But all in all, the pros for me and for almost every patient I met, outweigh the cons.
Quote from: Unicorn888 on August 10, 2017, 10:27:29 AMI learnt that there is NO WAY a marrow graft can fuse a 7-10cm gap. Also the fact that I underwent a marrow graft procedure on a leg that has runaway from 7 to 10cm with nobody noticing - is downright scary. There were ample xrays prior and post surgery so you'd think anyone responsible would check for length, if not out of professional obligation, perhaps out of courtesy seeing that this entire surgery costs an arm and a leg (no pun intended).
So if a graft doesn't work, what is the next plan to finally fix your 10 cm gap?
Quote from: helloworld on August 11, 2017, 07:55:24 AMThanks for sharing your personal experience, Unicorn!
Your experience is quite negative, so if I would have read your diary when considering surgery, I likely would not have gone ahead.
However, I am happy that I did and all the patients I met that had the surgery at a similar time as me, around 8 in total, are all very happy. Also, nobody had a lot of pain, and clicking was totally painless.
Only thing for me is that recovery took longer than expected. Even now, more than 8 months post surgery, though I have regained full strength and jumping power, I am still not able to run very fast. But all in all, the pros for me and for almost every patient I met, outweigh the cons.
Haha! This definitely sounds like a Monegal sponsored ad 
Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on August 11, 2017, 12:24:25 PMSo if a graft doesn't work, what is the next plan to finally fix your 10 cm gap?
Just got back from the doc. She had kindly arranged an appointment with the non-union guy who recommended me as well. So we had a chance to catch up.
Basically, my 13mm nails are not appropriate for a small asian girl like me. It's probably caused the eggshell fracture at reaming and later, full fracture.
She says the distraction rate was probably too fast especially since I was distracted 150mm during surgery and then close to 2mm per day in the first 1-2 weeks with no settling time.
That said, not much can be done about my non-union for now. So she's going to do a biopsy and during that procedure do a bone graft as well.
If that doesn't work, she'll have to change to trauma nails and during that process, apparently bone healing gets restimulated. She'll try to keep my height but might have to shorten to about 6cm.
She just doesn't want to do anything to compromise my left leg which seems to be consolidating well. It would be a shame that I've to operate and shorten the left one as well.
She says I've to be prepared for the long haul as there is simply no short cut miracle cure out there for me 
Quote from: Unicorn888 on August 11, 2017, 01:23:12 PMHaha! This definitely sounds like a Monegal sponsored ad
I am wondering why you would say or think that.
Is it that I thank you for sharing your experience? Or is it that I express my frustration with not being able to run as fast as before?
Maybe you misread, I am not saying I am running faster, I am saying I am running SLOWER!
Quote from: helloworld on August 11, 2017, 03:28:05 PMI am wondering why you would say or think that.
Is it that I thank you for sharing your experience? Or is it that I express my frustration with not being able to run as fast as before?
Maybe you misread, I am not saying I am running faster, I am saying I am running SLOWER!
Look, whoever you are, I'm most happy that you've completed your lengthening unscathed and successfully.
But please, if you would like to promote Monegal's business by stating that for all 8 of you, "clicking was totally painless" - PLEASE do it somewhere else because you are insulting our intelligence with your transparent motives. It is people like yourselves who mislead others into thinking that this procedure is easy and painfree.
It is damned disrespectful to use this very thread to promote another doctor's practice. It is never a GUICHET vs MONEGAL battle here, and I don't see other insecure doctors like PALEY sending their minions over to promote their dwindling businesses while bashing other doctors.
I'm sorry for you that your recovery has not been as fast as you hoped for, and I'm sure since Monegal has a perfect record of success, not being able to run faster than Usain Bolt after leg lengthening must be contrued as a complication.
In any case, when you pass GO, don't forget to collect $200 from Monegal.
Quote from: Unicorn888 on August 11, 2017, 04:12:40 PMLook, whoever you are, I'm most happy that you've completed your lengthening unscathed and successfully.
But please, if you would like to promote Monegal's business by stating that for all 8 of you, "clicking was totally painless" - PLEASE do it somewhere else because you are insulting our intelligence with your transparent motives. It is people like yourselves who mislead others into thinking that this procedure is easy and painfree.
It is damned disrespectful to use this very thread to promote another doctor's practice. It is never a GUICHET vs MONEGAL battle here, and I don't see other insecure doctors like PALEY sending their minions over to promote their dwindling businesses while bashing other doctors.
I'm sorry for you that your recovery has not been as fast as you hoped for, and I'm sure since Monegal has a perfect record of success, not being able to run faster than Usain Bolt after leg lengthening must be contrued as a complication.
In any case, when you pass GO, don't forget to collect $200 from Monegal.
I think by now it is plenty obvious that Dr. Monegal is making their patients do marketing for him. However, I don't think you need to fight them in this thread so long as we all ignore them and focus on your case.
I think part of the reason of your complications in Dr. Guichet overconfidence and greed. Because he most likely noticed that the 13 mm nails was too much but he probably had cases in which nothing happened. Reducing the diameter of the nails would mean to reduce their strength which would nullify the only benefit of Guichet Nail.
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