Yellowspike - Dr. Guichet, Internal Femurs, Late 2014

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Ran into a friend of mine today during lunch. He knew about the surgery, but we hadn't seen each other since I've been back. I believe he is 5'9" (or I know he claims between 5'9 and 5'10), and we were about eye level (maybe he edged me out a small bit, but we were eye level when talking). We were wearing very similar footwear (I always check this now, kinda sad). He said "wow...the difference is HUGE man!"  As we say on the BB forums...feelsgoodman.jpg

Just need to fix this duckass and remaining hip swaying. I'm working on it.

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Hey yellow Spike,  when you did your LL with Guichet, was it in Milan or London? I'm thinking he operates a lot in Milan, it's no problem except it would be a challenge finding living quarters for 4-5 months (7.5 cm) in Milan and bartering with an old Italian person for rent prices and such lol.

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Yellowspike, do u feel like you have gotten x-legs from the G-nail? What I understand the G-nail does not lengthen over the mechanic axis...Did Dr. Guichet ever mention a possibility of misalignment before your surgery?

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Quote from: chsn on August 14, 2015, 08:11:44 PMYellowspike, do u feel like you have gotten x-legs from the G-nail? What I understand the G-nail does not lengthen over the mechanic axis...Did Dr. Guichet ever mention a possibility of misalignment before your surgery?

what? I thought all internal nails lengthened along the same axis. Unless some nails have curvature and some don't, that should hold.

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How is everything doing now bro?   Have not heard from you in a while, hope all is well enjoying the new height?

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Quote from: YellowSpike on August 13, 2015, 05:58:48 PMJust need to fix this duckass and remaining hip swaying. I'm working on it.

By saying duckass , do you mean ballerina foot?

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No. Duckass is you are standing and your ass post backward like donald duck

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I've been trying to avoid this site like the plague because it really does me a lot more harm than good. I won't get into it (I'm sure you can figure it out, not hard, read my previous posts), but I'm still really struggling with my height neurosis. I feel like I'm on the cusp of average...but not being average really kills me. I don't feel like I failed at this (as much as I used to), but a second LL is certainly in my future. Dr. Guichet told me he would not do tibias on me because my consolidation wasn't exactly fast (he said femurs are a good indicator of how tibias will go). And since I trust Dr. Guichet with my life (I'm glad I chose a very stern and conservative doctor)...he said my only options for more height are via femurs (either do the remaining 3cm on my current rods, or put in new rods and do even more). For proportion purposes, I'll do an inch more to 5'9" and call it a day. I feel like I come across so many men who just barely edge me out (5'9-5'10 range), and that is the range I want to be in. 5'9" might be a tiny bit below average, but I feel like 5'9" is mostly a "safe" height, and I really think I'll be happy then (since tibias really aren't an option for me due to time/risk reasons).

As far as my recovery, I'm doing fine. To be honest, haven't tried to run yet, but I will at some point. Also need to get more x-rays soon. Have been taking Bone-Up and I think it's working well. My left leg had been taking longer to consolidate, so hopefully it's caught up or catching up (it feels as strong as my right leg now, almost no pain in either leg anymore).

Remaining issues:
- Due to tight hip flexors (which I've been working on) and weak gluteus medius muscles, I still have a tad of hip sway when I walk. But sometimes my walking is entirely normal (when I'm stretched). When I sit for a while and my hip flexors get tight is when I run into trouble.
- Pain in my left glute when flexing it. This is due to the screw in that area, and this should go away once the rods come out.
- Overall flexibility needs work (quads, hip flexors mainly), but improving. Will keep working on this.

Good news:
- Scary pain in my left leg (that I had since the end of clicking until about 6 weeks ago) is finally gone
- Have been able to do weight training on my legs no problem (not extremely high weight of course, but solid numbers)
- Quads/ass are filling in nicely. I have a shape again and have gotten recent compliments on my legs and ass
- Duckass is almost gone, but I think still there a bit (the only remaining "symptom" of this is lower back pain, but only occasionally)


So there you have it. This site is like poison to me, so I won't be on here (or updating/responding to emails) nearly as often. This site makes me feel terrible, to be honest (although I would feel the same regardless, this site just makes it worse). So I hope this update helps.

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Yellow if I may add:

I know you want to do more to become sort of average, but don't you think you might be pushing it a bit now. I know the desire to become average/taller, but considering what you're planning on doing (that is if I read correctly) to go an extra 2.4 cm on your femurs, I don't think it sounds safe. Provided the one guy called Andrew managed to successfully reach 9 CM on his femurs, I wouldn't push it that much honestly. I have no real room to judge, nor am I, I'd just stick to using some Nike Air Maxs for most of the time. But if you ultimately decided to continue at least I can give you credit for being reasonable enough not to push yourself into another surgery.