VERY FERST STEP - INDIA - Dr. Anil Raheja

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Hi,

I don’t understand why external device on femur causes knee ROM problems after 1cm?
Is the fixator going through any muscles, arteries, veins, hamstrings, knee joint and hip joint?

Are you able to bend your knee?

Did your Dr. discourage you from doing external femur lengthening?
Did your Dr. explain the risk for monorail on your femur and what exactly is it?
Would you ask this question to your Dr.
Someone who lengthen 4-5cm on the femurs how long is the consolidation altogether with the lengthening?

Drew

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8cm (4.5cm in tibia- 3.5 femur)

I’m no longer under the average height !  I’m 160-161cm !! I’m  a normal emirate girl..
Oh that’s feel so good..  it’s feel like if you became God and starting to design your body according your desire…
I don’t know how to describe my feeling.. but as soon as they told me it’s 8cm, I fall in love with Dr Rah , India, even these monorail fixator.. I felt that it worth all the pain ..
I’m so proud of myself and my body.. I think I did great job ,,
8cm with no complication no ballerina foot no nerves issue, it’s amazing.. I know that I have problem with knee bending.. But let’s hope that will be solved after removing the frame… My dr said he’ll find solution to my knee bending so I don’t have to worry, and I trust him I’m sure he’ll  solve this problem..
I’ll let shorty to take pic of my x-ray then I’ll post it…






Hi drew

I dunno about your question but if you take a look to my x-ray you can tell that the fixator located few mm under the knee joint..
for bending the knee yes I cant bend my knee,,, I reached 45 however when I started the distraction the knee bending starting to be more harder.. right now I'm doing 20 deg..
but I think this is really vary from one person to another, cuz shorty did 90 or 85 deg ..
Did your Dr. discourage you from doing external femur lengthening?
humm he said this will cuz a discomfort
Did your Dr. explain the risk for monorail on your femur and what exactly is it?
on femur no..
Someone who lengthen 4-5cm on the femurs how long is the consolidation altogether with the lengthening?
for 5cm
15days b4 distraction
50 days "distraction phase"
6-8 weeks for consolidation

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I ma really happy for u   

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Hey Disobedient, you proved me wrong, among others! Congrats on the achievement, and I hope you stay safe. Keep us updated!

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Hey, you're as tall as me now. Congrats

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Congratulations and keep on fighting!

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Congrats Diso! Im still in Delhi btw.

Im conflicted whether I should do LON or Monorail. With monorail I don't know if they let me thru the airport,  I don't have 6 months or money for that long.

Getting a phone in India is a pain, one nneeds passport,  visa and 2x2 photos.  Ridiculous! Good thing though there's a Craigslist equivalent for getting cheap used phones. After a few days of searching in such sites. I realized my S4 is unlocked.

Subway or metro is cheap, less than 50 cents, but once again security is strict.  Baggage,  purse,  backpack check. Long-a**ed line. Since its cheap picture Tokyo metro, the amount of ppl. But im surprised its clean with cc camera in cabin.

Tuk tuk guys will always try to make more money off of you. The amount you see on the meter is not wat you pay, theyll pull out some chart that says this is the correct price.  If u ask why, theyll say, "meter not update".

Im excited about becoming taller at the same time worrying how the process gonna turn out.

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Diso, congratulations! How many days since operation it took you to achieve 8cm and what it's being your rate of distraction for tibias and for femurs?

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Its nice, but please be careful, don't forget that the difficult part comes after you lengthen 
And 8 cm is very nice.

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Diso,

How are you doing?? It's worrying not to hear from you for so long!