VERY FERST STEP - INDIA - Dr. Anil Raheja

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Jerry, where are you planning on doing it. I am doing mine in late December but still unsure about the doctor. 

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Good Evening:)

there is no much to say, expect that I'm still doing 2 turns for my femur and 1 for my tibia which mean I'm suppose to gain 1.5 which make it in total 3 cm .. However what I learned recently that you really can't measure your gain by the number of turns ... so after 3 or 5 days I'll have x-ray and I'll see exactly how much did I length so far...

and I'm still have no appetite for eating, there is a part of me happy because I'll definitely shed sm kg ,but it's not healthy ,I know..

Yesterday was depawali day.. there  were too much firework and noises outside, I wanted to see them but I was afraid to be beaten by mosquito.. so I just stayed at my room "before getting sick I used to sit on balcony a lot to get vit D and to look out over the crowded street..


what else? humm yeah I met  "shorty" 2days ago, and it seems that he made his mind to do the same surgery with the same dr although I told him to go and meet other drs.... hope everything will go well with him..

Sweden

I'll ask the doctor about the nail thingie although I'm sure that he is not determine to do such a thing... he explained to me the whole procedure that he'll do and never mention that.. but what if he said I don't need to do it? what should I reply!
I'll work in your advices,  but about siting in the edge of bed my PT told me to do this as an exercise, he explained that it could help me in bending my knee , so I'm sitting in this position for 30min to 1h daily...

this position








shorty

thanks, and good luck in your surgery.. 

Kilokahn


well I did it.. 

jerry

thanks for your support jerry, and good luck in your LL surgery



 

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Is it okey if I post your pictures on old forum  and ask for more unbiased advice?

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Quote from: Sweden on November 04, 2013, 06:02:17 PMIs it okey if I post your pictures on old forum  and ask for more unbiased advice?

yes sure ..

I have a question too, from day1 after surgery and I can't bend my knee, and "still", do you guys went through same problem ?

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Put your heels on a pillow and try to straightening your legs. I'm not sure you should put any weight on your knees bc of the monorail which is very unstable.

Your knees are bent in the pictures so no problems there.

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Quote from: Sweden on November 04, 2013, 06:17:39 PMPut your heels on a pillow and try to straightening your legs. I'm not sure you should put any weight on your knees bc of the monorail which is very unstable.
ok I'll do that  , one of my routine exercise is to press my knee down I think this will do the same job as putting weight in my knee.

QuoteYour knees are bent in the pictures so no problems there.
not for 90 deg not even close to that, and when  I bend it I feel so much pain, what make me worry that I suffer from this bending issue from day1.. and from what I read ppl start to have this problem some months after the surgery that's why I asked..

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I hope you make it through this ok.

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If your doctor isn't planning to put in intramedullary nails later, I really think you should stop the femur lengthening.

Would it be possible to let your femurs consolidate and take the fixators off afterward while continuing with your femur lengthening? It's going to be difficult just lengthening one segment with the monorails, lengthening two by purely external methods is not only going to take a toll on you physically, but mentally as well, Disobedient.

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I just copied below from Dr. Dror Paley website !!


Can I have lengthening of the femur and tibia together at the same time to save time and expense?

Although femur and tibia lengthening can be done at the same time we do not insert the femur and tibia rods in at the same time
due to the theoretical risk of fat embolism from reaming the medullary canal of more than two bones at a time. To insert 4 rods
at the same surgery would increase the chance of fat embolism.

We have considered how this could be done safely. It would require reaming with a special reamer aspiration system that sucks
out the marrow while reaming. This is called RIA (reamer-irrigation-aspiration). To date we have not done this in anyone at one
surgery. We have performed rod insertion of the femurs followed by a few weeks later the same procedure to the tibias so that
the lengthening time could overlap. The rehabilitation is much more difficult of course since we are lengthening the muscles on
both sides of the knee joints.

The main benefits are decreasing time to go through the procedures twice as well as decreasing costs by incurring only one
hospital admission and one anesthesia cost. At present we are not offering this alternative but it may become a reality in the
future.

As I understand it can be done but with external more safe than internal . isn't?


http://www.limblengtheningdoc.org/cosmetic_stature_lengthening_FAQ.html

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Quote from: Kilokahn on November 05, 2013, 02:13:56 AMIf your doctor isn't planning to put in intramedullary nails later, I really think you should stop the femur lengthening.

Would it be possible to let your femurs consolidate and take the fixators off afterward while continuing with your femur lengthening? It's going to be difficult just lengthening one segment with the monorails, lengthening two by purely external methods is not only going to take a toll on you physically, but mentally as well, Disobedient.

Just saw my typo, I meant continuing your tibia lengthening.