Congratulations YelloSpike, you are now taller than before. I am happy to hear about successful stories about LL even though I didn't have the strength to do mine.
Keep up the good work!
Quote from: sadboy on August 10, 2015, 11:17:02 AMCongratulations YelloSpike, you are now taller than before. I am happy to hear about successful stories about LL even though I didn't have the strength to do mine.
Keep up the good work!
Appreciate it bud. Hopefully people can learn from my mistakes (cough **walk a crap ton more than I did after clicking** cough). As hard as I worked, I sometimes feel like I didn't do all that I could have. It's frustrating because I'm normally such a diligent person. Whatever...
Not sure what the future holds for me. I am doing my best to get on with my life. I am dating/hooking up with girls, focusing on my career, getting my body back (almost there, just need to fix remaining duckass and get my ass back), hanging out with friends again. I don't think I would have sought out LL if I were 5'8" naturally, although I'm still not satisfied. And I'm not sure how to proceed with a second LL. I'm speaking with two fantastic doctors at the moment (one is Dr. Guichet, duh) and am getting very mixed and conflicting feedback. And the thought of doing another LL actually makes me sick to my stomach...But someday before I die, I will be at a good height.
How's your alignment Yellowspike after all this?
Have you got any full standing xrays you can share to look at your axis from?
I'd really like to go Guichet for weight bearing and rapid recovery, but he seems to have a very laissez faire attitude with knee/leg axis. ie. Just place the nail, click, and whatever you get you get.
Or maybe he is compensating for the expected alignment deviation in his surgery without advertising the technique he uses in his articles, etc.
Quote from: maximize on August 10, 2015, 03:28:05 PMHow's your alignment Yellowspike after all this?
Have you got any full standing xrays you can share to look at your axis from?
I'd really like to go Guichet for weight bearing and rapid recovery, but he seems to have a very laissez faire attitude with knee/leg axis. ie. Just place the nail, click, and whatever you get you get.
Or maybe he is compensating for the expected alignment deviation in his surgery without advertising the technique he uses in his articles, etc.
I think my alignment is fine. I was bow-legged before the surgery (my knees were further apart than the average), so this actually improved it a bit (or at least I don't think it made it worse). Dr. Guichet prefers femurs over tibias because tibias take longer to heal and are more prone to complications (hence why I'm only gonna do 3.5-4cm if I do tibias, they just terrify me). But, he has said that he's done patients up to like 20cm in just femurs, and they have had no long-term problems at all.
Dr. Guichet is super up-front and frank about all of this, so I am inclined to trust him. This comes with the LL territory. You want to be taller, but you can't do it "perfectly." You will have to accept sacrifices.
Yellow . You still have duck ass some months after finishing lengthening. Did Dr guichet any release on your tendons like IT band release and adductors release?
Quote from: KrP1 on August 10, 2015, 03:52:16 PMYellow . You still have duck ass some months after finishing lengthening. Did Dr guichet any release on your tendons like IT band release and aducctors release?
Nope. No releases. That's why it's taking longer. As far as I know, he doesn't do releases.
I also haven't been as diligent as I should have been about stretching, but just started a new stretching/strengthening routine that I'm confident will address the remaining duckass.
Do you know Why he doesnt do releases? I think it could help you a lot to get your normal posture back
Quote from: KrP1 on August 10, 2015, 03:56:43 PMDo you know Why he doesnt do releases? I think it could help you a lot to get your normal posture back
No but it's well known, I believe, that he doesn't. I know Paley and Rozbruch do them. Dr. Guichet just does not. Makes the process harder, yeah. I think he's more into "natural healing" as opposed to messing with other parts of your body. But I don't know for sure.
Quote from: YellowSpike on August 10, 2015, 03:14:38 PMAppreciate it bud. Hopefully people can learn from my mistakes (cough **walk a crap ton more than I did after clicking** cough). As hard as I worked, I sometimes feel like I didn't do all that I could have. It's frustrating because I'm normally such a diligent person. Whatever...
Not sure what the future holds for me. I am doing my best to get on with my life. I am dating/hooking up with girls, focusing on my career, getting my body back (almost there, just need to fix remaining duckass and get my ass back), hanging out with friends again. I don't think I would have sought out LL if I were 5'8" naturally, although I'm still not satisfied. And I'm not sure how to proceed with a second LL. I'm speaking with two fantastic doctors at the moment (one is Dr. Guichet, duh) and am getting very mixed and conflicting feedback. And the thought of doing another LL actually makes me sick to my stomach...But someday before I die, I will be at a good height.
It's very understandable why you want more height and 5'8" is not satisfactory. You started your life as a short man and you just want to be tall or at least average. You've been through a lot about your height. If you started life at 5'8" maybe you wouldn't be seeking for LL because you would have definitely had different views about life and your height itself. It all makes sense and I can understand you because I'm goin through the same thing...
Hope the duck ass goes away >_< your recovery is quite fast imo. keep going brother 
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