What do legs feel like during lengthening?

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Specially asking about femur internal LL. Did your legs during lengthening feel like something you've never experienced before LL?

Are these some ways so simulate an LL like experience?

- Do a very very heavy leg workout and wait for a day for the pain to set in
- Sit cross legged for an extended period of time to experience a prickly sensation
- Put a cold pack on your leg to make it cold and numb

I just can't imagine what it will feel like and how "scary" it will feel. Any inputs?

Thank you

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its nothing like that. you will have to cut and  stretch the bone, tendons, nerves and muscles at the same time to feel the pain. I suggest dont do ll and fck with natural legs unles ur really really fked up already.

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Quote from: Sanity on February 15, 2020, 01:41:45 AMits nothing like that. you will have to cut and  stretch the bone, tendons, nerves and muscles at the same time to feel the pain. I suggest dont do ll and fk with natural legs unles ur really really fked up already.

It depends on the body.  Now I have lengthened my femur by almost 6.5cm with an external fixator(monorail) and an inner nail (lon).  I still in distraction  phase. Right now my pain level is 0/10 without painkillers. Only there is numbness of the skin on the legs.  In the beginning, I experienced pain, about 3 out of 10, sometimes even 5-6 out of 10, but any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkiller helps.
For me the pain is like when you walked or stood for a very long time.

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For the first few weeks, I would feel the swelling but after that, it was more like a constant aching.

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I can't speak for the femur but I had the tibia done and it was painful in the beginning, it's a broken leg after all. But I focused on therapy and rehab and managed to have little to no pain just maybe a bit of swelling from time to time like others said. It isn't the easiest thing but the result speaks for itself if it's what you want