Your experience of pain during and after Limb lengthening procedure!

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Quote from: SAD on December 02, 2015, 12:51:35 PMregarding post discharge pain, what pain was the worst? open wound = surgery incisions? or catheter related wounds? or pain due to broken bones?

because you wouldn't have started distraction yet, I don't see why it should pain so much. how long did it last?

There's not much open wound pain. Those are just little holes in your legs and they only hurt when you put pressure on it. Catheter is as bad as it sounds. It was the first time I saw my penis spew blood out. The worst pain is inside your legs where the broken bone in. It feels like someone is ripping your flesh apart, but you can't see it. The pain is internal and you can't really stop it by doing anything. You can try to take the pain meds, but sometimes the pain is so bad that the pain meds can't help. This lasted for the first 2 weeks or so. The hospital stay wasn't so bad because they drip ivy pain meds into you. It's powerful stuff and numbs out all the pain. Once they release you, it's a different story.

You start distraction since day 1. They even do 1 mm during the surgery. Only exception are those who can't handle the distraction. Then they wait 3 days or so first.

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Quote from: treemonger on December 02, 2015, 01:15:42 PMI had bilateral femur surgery yesterday. The pain on my right leg is a 2, my left leg 0.

The most discomfort I'm experiencing right now is not even my legs, but the IV needle on my back, especially when I move around.

I'm a little scared about the pain I'll experience after I leave the hospital..

@DoingItForMe: How many days were you hooked up to the drip? I'm expected to stay 5-7 days here. Hopefully the worst pains subside by then.

You're hooked up to the drip for 3 days or so. But they can still inject the ivy pain meds into your hands, because they leave the needles/tubes in you in case they need to hook you back up. The pain med I got at the hospital was called Toradol. And that stuff worked amazingly. They also gave me 2 pills of percocet every 4 hours, which helped. But Toradel was the stuff that let me rest easy. It just washes away all the pain within 45 minutes.

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Your ankles will hurt every day for the rest of your life. If you do tibias.