First of all, hello everyone, friends,
This topic is really important to me and I know it concerns many people. This is an important situation that should not be missed for those who are considering having surgery twice.
Although I am a new member in this forum, I have had the opportunity to read old posts and blogs thanks to the web archive. And, most importantly, I realized that almost everyone who had the surgery twice in the forum was very regretful and watched by everyone with sad eyes. Since my time was limited, I could not find the opportunity to read the diaries one by one that day and learn where the problem originated, now I have time, but the web archive provides a very slow connection and I found it reasonable to ask this question to you valuable forum members instead of dealing with it.
My question is, why did those who had the surgery twice so regretted it and why were they almost disabled (talking about the OLD forum members)? Was it because they performed the second surgery without any delay or were the reasons for it different? I do not know because I cannot read the diaries completely, but have you witnessed that a person who had a second surgery after AT LEAST A YEAR LATER THAN FIRST ONE regretted or became disabled, or was not as agile and strong as before? Or are all the problems have occured just because they were being impatient and rushing into the second surgery even though their body barely even handled the first trauma of the surgery?
I've seen people like Crazy+6 and 12345 or something, and Craig. They all seemed to regret their decisions. Has anyone got an idea why is it so? Because I really want to be 185cm and it's not possible for me with just one surgery, but after reading those people's misery, It made me think twice. Now I'm scared. I thought putting a year gap would be OK if everything went good, that's why I'm asking this question. If they put a year gap and still regretted their decisions and got almost crippled, I'll be no way near of doing it. I just wanted to hear about them.
Best Regards
I'm going to up this thread til it gets a response. Sorry.
Yeah, I know. I have never thought of doing 2 surgeries before a year gap beetween them anyway. I've always considered to wait a year or more to get the second surgery. I'm realistic.
But I wanted to hear about the old patients who have done 2 surgeries and why they regretted it. I hope MDOW and the other LL forum vets could help me.
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Are you guys talking about 7 months after the lengthening is over, or 7 months after the exact date you got the surgery? Because it'd make everything change. I suppose you guys meant 7 months after the day you finished lengthening.
I think 7 months after the consolidation is fully occured is ideal for those who has no issues with time.
What would be the optimum time for 7cm femurs? How many months after could we get the tibia surgery?
LOL! You are so right. QuoteI honestly believe I would not have the willpower to do a second LL operation after going through one haha
Because even going for the first surgery needs some balls. I'm not even sure if I could do the first one anyway. But If i did, i'd definetely go for the second one to increase my bio-mechanical abilities. (Ofc If everything went good.) I don't want to lengthen my femur and live with short tibias. Nor do I want to live with 5 cm increase on tibias for 178cm. So I have to do it.
Yes, I think 8 9 months would be allright. But I'd definetely wait for another 3-4 months to see how the things are going.
Also ghkid, do you know why Craig was almost crippled? He didn't lengthen of a crazy amount, was it because of the external femurs?
Quote from: ghkid2019 on August 23, 2020, 05:56:13 PMWhomst've?
Summarize or copy paste his details or story
He had posted his diary on the old forum, I used webarchive and found it. I can't find it. But this guy is him, maybe it might remind you of him:
https://www.google.com/search?q=limb+lengthening+wingspan&client=opera&hs=Mxx&sxsrf=ALeKk0057ZnznpnyfrV7_4qjS6_iTv8mvQ:1598206443860&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=B9j9jKOPbsI2GM%252CFNTFukOPHJGPcM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kT_BtSpYyWOMI-ljEUiRxh99mqOOg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNs_T69rHrAhU3TBUIHfu5BBgQ9QEwCnoECAwQBw#imgrc=B9j9jKOPbsI2GM
btw, if the link doesn't work, just type "limb lengthening wingspan" on google, click images and the very first picture is him. Sorry I can't upload the image to imgur. I need to use VPN.
Quote from: BetzLandLiberator on August 23, 2020, 06:11:05 PMYou only really recover from LL after 2 to 3 years post OP.
I think any second LL before that is dangerous. Too much stress for your body.
To be honest, the idea of a second LL only came to my mind 7 years post OP.
Tbh I think the best timing would be after 6 months frame removal.
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