I was asked not to reveal the exact costs, but I will say that if you are forced to do pre-training (like I was, since I "failed" the first Cybex test), with costs of living in Milan or London, you're looking at between 75-80ishK (USD). Cheaper without pre-training, but I needed the guidance and wanted not to take months of waiting while training at home. I got screwed with the higher cost of living in London, so I'm at the higher end of that range. Luckily I've still been getting pay checks and my insurance should reimburse many of the X-ray/tests/PT, etc when I get home and file the claims. And my dad is going to throw some cash he said. So my net costs are fairly decent for a top tier doctor.'
I'm running on empty. Tired of waking up almost every hour during the night. Not sure how I made it to the gym today, and I hope I don't drown in the pool at the isokinetic center.
Yellowspike - Dr. Guichet, Internal Femurs, Late 2014
Thank you very much! Does Dr Guichet have any email address? I've found one on his webpage and i've wrote to him a few weeks ago, but no answer...:/ can you give me a personal email address maybe or something?
Quote from: YellowSpike391 on January 22, 2015, 01:22:06 PMI was asked not to reveal the exact costs, but I will say that if you are forced to do pre-training (like I was, since I "failed" the first Cybex test), with costs of living in Milan or London, you're looking at between 75-80ishK (USD). Cheaper without pre-training, but I needed the guidance and wanted not to take months of waiting while training at home. I got screwed with the higher cost of living in London, so I'm at the higher end of that range. Luckily I've still been getting pay checks and my insurance should reimburse many of the X-ray/tests/PT, etc when I get home and file the claims. And my dad is going to throw some cash he said. So my net costs are fairly decent for a top tier doctor.'
I'm running on empty. Tired of waking up almost every hour during the night. Not sure how I made it to the gym today, and I hope I don't drown in the pool at the isokinetic center.
I doubt I'll have to do any pretrainning, fortunately.
Does anyone on here know how accurate radiologist estimates of lengthening are?
I just had a checkup with the head isokinetic doctor...he gave my flexibility glowing reviews. Then handed me a paper from the radiologist that said the segments between the femoral segments are 5.9cm and 6cm, respectively. Could I REALLY be a full cm ahead of clicking schedule? Aside from a huge number of accidental clicks early on (I had like 1 per day in the first 2 weeks), is this possible? Somehow I don't believe this, as happy as I'd be to be just .5cm from my goal.
I asked the isokinetic doctor, and he believes radiologist estimates are generally accurate.
Since your flexibility is so good and you're ahead of schedule, are you thinking of doin an extra centimeter?
Quote from: Uppland on January 22, 2015, 07:24:12 PMSince your flexibility is so good and you're ahead of schedule, are you thinking of doin an extra centimeter?
I'm very confused right now. Dr G just told me that those radiologist estimates aren't accurate and that I'm around 5cm. I'm inclined to believe Dr G.
I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I really didn't wanna have to click at home.
My radiologist never told me how much length was gained, he'd just send the x-rays straight to Drs Parihar and Ahuja and one of them would tell me how much length was showing on the x-rays. I think your surgeon would be more accurate in determining the real distraction amount. If you're planning for 6 cm, you may want to click a few mm above that though to account for slight margin of error in the measurement.
Quote from: YellowSpike391 on January 22, 2015, 07:36:54 PMI'm very confused right now. Dr G just told me that those radiologist estimates aren't accurate and that I'm around 5cm. I'm inclined to believe Dr G.
I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I really didn't wanna have to click at home.
My suggestion ,you must live there untill finish consolidation phase,Just wait longer and throw your loneliness off,Be patient ,everything will be alright.Play safe.
Quote from: ReadRothbard on January 22, 2015, 05:40:06 PMI doubt I'll have to do any pretrainning, fortunately.
why do u say so?
What is the most accurate way to measure your gain as you lengthen? They measured me today but I think it's less than what I thought because, even though I was up against a wall, I'm not sure I was totally straight due to duck ass.
I just want to f#%*king know where I'm at. I hope I can get as close to 6.5cm as possible, but I'll settle for a bit less (I.e. 6.2). Maybe I'm just obsessing too much, but for all this work and misery...
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