what happen if u get infection?

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what are the ways of detecting deep bone infection? Is it from xrays mainly?

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redness, pus, fever, increase in wbc count etc.

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every surgery this invasive has risk of infection. most surgeries will not result in infection, even in india. you are being too neurotic about infection, understandably so though, it is a major issue. it will set you back but you will recover after given antibiotics. you wont lose your leg or anything

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Infections are the worst. I got one in my left leg.

You can check my previous threads to see it.

Basically if you got an infection, the nail has to go. You lose your stryde nail which is $$$ down the drain.

Mine was a deep bone infection as well, it melted my bone from the inside out. Dr Lee has some photos somewhere of my melted bone but it's on a cd and my mac doesnt have a cd player so can't find it.

But yea basically what happens is you lose your stryde nail, you put on an external while you flush it out. I had to use both an "external method" which was this string of antibiotic like cotton ball kind of things stuck into my bone as well as be on IV antibiotics so it goes directly into my blood. Once your bone is healed, and fingers crossed it is actually healed, this part depends on your doctor's ability, once it is healed you can put in another nail to finish your lengthening.

My external was able to lengthen or shorten so I didn't need another stryde nail to increase/decrease. I basically got a regular IM nail put into my leg to finish growing my bone.

The thing is, if you arent 100% healed, and your doctor puts in the new nail, the bacteria will just cling onto the new nail again and you would have to start all over by removing the nail, external fixator, blah blah blah.

Another thing to consider is the liquid/rust that comes from Stryde. If the stryde nail is in your bone too long you can get Osteolysis from it.

If you finish consolidating just get the nails out of your body.

I guess it wouldn't make sense for me to say "listen to your body" but honestly, listen to your body, if you have sharp pains its most likely not from your muscles or bones if you only lengthened like 3cm or 4cm. There is a high chance its an infection.

And if you read through all my posts, you will see, even after the first doctor "cleaned out" the infection and you cannot see it from the outside, its already clung onto the metal and its already a deep bone infection, which you can't see from the outside, you gotta cut your bone open and see it from the inside.

So yea.. if you do the surgery.. choose your doctor wisely.. it's a long road ahead

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Quote from: marathonrunner on April 02, 2021, 02:23:46 PMInfections are the worst. I got one in my left leg.

You can check my previous threads to see it.

Basically if you got an infection, the nail has to go. You lose your stryde nail which is $$$ down the drain.

Mine was a deep bone infection as well, it melted my bone from the inside out. Dr Lee has some photos somewhere of my melted bone but it's on a cd and my mac doesnt have a cd player so can't find it.

But yea basically what happens is you lose your stryde nail, you put on an external while you flush it out. I had to use both an "external method" which was this string of antibiotic like cotton ball kind of things stuck into my bone as well as be on IV antibiotics so it goes directly into my blood. Once your bone is healed, and fingers crossed it is actually healed, this part depends on your doctor's ability, once it is healed you can put in another nail to finish your lengthening.

My external was able to lengthen or shorten so I didn't need another stryde nail to increase/decrease. I basically got a regular IM nail put into my leg to finish growing my bone.

The thing is, if you arent 100% healed, and your doctor puts in the new nail, the bacteria will just cling onto the new nail again and you would have to start all over by removing the nail, external fixator, blah blah blah.

Another thing to consider is the liquid/rust that comes from Stryde. If the stryde nail is in your bone too long you can get Osteolysis from it.

If you finish consolidating just get the nails out of your body.

I guess it wouldn't make sense for me to say "listen to your body" but honestly, listen to your body, if you have sharp pains its most likely not from your muscles or bones if you only lengthened like 3cm or 4cm. There is a high chance its an infection.

And if you read through all my posts, you will see, even after the first doctor "cleaned out" the infection and you cannot see it from the outside, its already clung onto the metal and its already a deep bone infection, which you can't see from the outside, you gotta cut your bone open and see it from the inside.

So yea.. if you do the surgery.. choose your doctor wisely.. it's a long road ahead

dear marathonrunner,

thank you so much for this answer.

infection is the worst for sure. You have did tibias so you can wear that external frames on your leg. But imagine your situation if you had did femurs? what would your doctor have did in that situation?

were you feeling well during your IV antibiotic treatment? could you do your work engagement?

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If you had an infection you just would feel it since it's a severe inflammation. It's a ton of signs.
Anyway I don't know why are you so scared about this problem only since there are many problems that can occur during lenghtening and they are not less problematic than this. I think you have to better  consider all the procedure since it's very invasive and destructive.

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Quote from: Tartar on April 02, 2021, 06:36:10 PMIf you had an infection you just would feel it since it's a severe inflammation. It's a ton of signs.
Anyway I don't know why are you so scared about this problem only since there are many problems that can occur during lenghtening and they are not less problematic than this. I think you have to better  consider all the procedure since it's very invasive and destructive.

dear Tartar,

you're right that there are several complications which can occurs with the operation. But all problems are short in their duration. if you get fat embolism it will happens in the hospital itself and its the doctors job to save you. If you get blood clots you will rush to hospital and get an ultrasound. They will prescribe to you blood thinner medications. Worst case you get pulmonary embolism and you are taken to emergency. All of these events put you under care of doctors and you will be allowed to return back and return to your lengthening.

Infection is the worst. Its treatment will go on for months and you will be in anxious for so long. If you continue the lengthening then you will need to be on the IV antibiotics for months while lengthening and then they will remove that nail and put the new nail. Sometimes you may be asked to stop the lengthening because the infection is so bad. If you are doing the tibias you can do external frames to finish the lengthening but with femurs you cannot.

Since it is precice my doctor in Spain recommended to do one leg first and then the another. Imagine what would happens if one leg is lengthened successful but the other one gets the deep bone infection. You cannot even use the external frame on femur to correct the length inequality.

regards,
sergio

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Tibia is a higher risk of infection than femur. Osteomyelitis can be occult

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You can use an external fixator on the femur

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Quote from: HeightGain on April 02, 2021, 07:35:08 PMTibia is a higher risk of infection than femur. Osteomyelitis can be occult

is this the truth? There should be no difference between the tibias and the femurs at risk of deep bone infection. sergio

Quote from: HeightGain on April 02, 2021, 07:38:39 PMYou can use an external fixator on the femur

my doctor in spain told me it produces poor result of the recovery due to creation of scar tissues.