That's great man.
When you come back you need to start seeing a doctor who can tell you what to do.
Or did you plan to wait after frame removal?
They can take it off in Sweden you know. For free.
Quote from: Sweden on April 27, 2014, 10:59:14 PMThat's great man.
When you come back you need to start seeing a doctor who can tell you what to do.
Or did you plan to wait after frame removal?
They can take it off in Sweden you know. For free.
Yeah youre right im definitely gonna do that as i get back home, i need to see someone here in Sweden so i can take x-rays and send them to Doctor Bagirov. However im not sure what kind of doctor i should look for, and orthopedic, or a regular house doctor to begin with?
Im still undecided as to where i will remove the frames. It seems the Doctor wants the patients to remove them at the clinic in Moscow, and he told me they wont do it until they know the bones are hard enough. Its very tempting to do it in Sweden however like you said, so i could skip doing this awful Visa business once again..
But im not sure if they want the frames back in Moscow or if the local doctors in Sweden will be qualified to know when it is safe to remove the frames without the risk of the bones subsiding. Bagirov will know this with his experience. Maybe i can keep sending him x-rays and he will tell me, and still let me remove them here in Sweden, that would be optimal.
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Call your house doctor. Be honest and tell him. It's not his job to understand you.
He will make an appointment with an orthopedic specialist. They will take X-rays and some blood samples to see if you're healing up properly.
They are most certainly qualified to know when to remove it. Demand to speak to a specialist.
My house doctor told me that my fracture healed up in 6 weeks so I definitely didn't have a gap as I claimed.
I was tempted to tell him to go back to med school bc he doesn't know about this, but I just kept silent. I knew better anyway.
I'm going to visit him soon again bc of my X-legs. It's terrible in my opinion.
Quote from: Sweden on April 27, 2014, 11:32:51 PMCall your house doctor. Be honest and tell him. It's not his job to understand you.
He will make an appointment with an orthopedic specialist. They will take X-rays and some blood samples to see if you're healing up properly.
They are most certainly qualified to know when to remove it. Demand to speak to a specialist.
My house doctor told me that my fracture healed up in 6 weeks so I definitely didn't have a gap as I claimed.
I was tempted to tell him to go back to med school bc he doesn't know s**t about this, but I just kept silent. I knew better anyway.
I'm going to visit him soon again bc of my X-legs. It's terrible in my opinion.
Okey sounds good! il follow your advice as it seems like the smartest and most convenient thing to do 
But so you mean that your house doctor was correct in the end that the fracture was gone? Why did you think there was a gap? (sry it was a long time ago i read your diary so i dont remember these details from there). Btw im confused, are you speaking about another fracture apart from the lengthening gap? because 6 weeks for 7 cms doesnt sound right, you mean some other fracture?
You need to stop with the morphine dude 
House doctor was wrong.
You were right(partially): it certainly doesn't take 6 weeks for a fracture of that kind to heal. My dr thought so.
The gap was my 7cm gap, nothing else.
Quote from: Sweden on April 27, 2014, 11:44:17 PMYou need to stop with the morphine dude
House doctor was wrong.
You were right(partially): it certainly doesn't take 6 weeks for a fracture of that kind to heal. My dr thought so.
The gap was my 7cm gap, nothing else.
haha yeah i assumed first the house doctor was wrong, but i was confused as you said they where qualified for this, but obviously you where talking about the orthopedic specialist when you said that.. 
So based on this, i cannot trust my house doctor when to remove the frames but as long as i get to speak to a specialist i should be okey removing the frames in Sweden.
Update:
Because of Walpurgis night, i wasnt able to apply for Visa this week, so il do so in monday. No big deal as my bone constantly healing im not wasting any time going to Moscow a bit later. However i decided to use this extra time to add a few mm anyway. My goal is 3 mm extra, and ive decided to add it very slowly, 1 turn a day. only 2 mm left at this point. I barely feel any of the effects when lengthening this slow, can still sleep without being bothered.
Slowing down the turning made my knee stiffness on the left go away as well, now it has the same mobility as it did before the infection, and pretty much the same as my right leg, only difference is caused by the Osgood-Schlatters.
My balance has gotten way better, i can finally stand perfectly straight without holding onto anything for long periods of time (it was always hard doing this with a straight back before because it felt like i was gonna fall backwards). Soon i feel i will be albe to walk unaided. I feel much lighter on my feet overall and the frames are less distracting.
how do you know you have done 4cm , have you got x-rays? do you think that bagirov is a recomendable doctor? i think that have no assistence in lengthening period could be Risky
Still no photos?
kirk, honestly, we dont know, its not exact, thats why im going to go kinda early to get x rays done,then finish lengthening there
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