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[Mtall]

Which is more painful, tibias or femurs?
From what I read here, people seem to have problems sleeping while lengthening their femurs? Is the sleeping part better when you do tibias? Why?

[YourSpaceBoyfriend]

Lesser amount of muscles basically.

There is just not that much of a soft tissue on tibias as it is on femurs so obviously the pain level is basically lower.

[Penguinn]

Lesser amount of muscles basically.

There is just not that much of a soft tissue on tibias as it is on femurs so obviously the pain level is basically lower.

But internals(usually used for femurs) are less painful than externals(used for tibias)..

[TIBIKE200]

every patient describes it differently.

 Some said they felt nothing on tibias, other said it was infernal pain... Same goes for femurs.

You want to know how painful it is? Do it

[Bigfaker]

I can't speak to internals or femurs, but for a lot of us with external tibias, the worst pain was when the pins would catch a nerve. That made asleep rather difficult, around 4.5-5.0cm for me. Never had much bone pain, aside from the horrific freak incident when I stepped on the floor in the hospital.

At the end of lengthening, ALL my soft tissues were constantly barking. I just hit the wall as far as how much they could stretch.

[YellowSpike]

I feel like femurs would be more painful. It also involves your hip flexors, and let's not forget the screws that go on our hips. I feel like tibias (internals vs internals, and externals vs externals) are less painful because they're more of a "local/contained" surgery.

I would imagine that external femurs are hell on earth.

[KiloKAHN]

Lack of sleep is one of the worst parts about leg lengthening. It's definitely hard for tibia patients too, especially those wearing frames. Internal femurs probably have more stretching pain but external tibia patients have to deal with the pain of wire cutting and random spikes of pain from muscle contractions that tighten around the pins and wires.

[Bigfaker]

I get the consistency you're putting on the comparisons, Yellow. Something a lot of people don't do in their "research" here and all over the Internet. The problem is, so few tibia experiences are internal, and relatively few femur lengthenings are external.

The thing about tibias (LON or LATN) is the knee damage...which might equate to the hip problems with femurs?

Back to your original question mTall, like Kilo just said sleeping with externals is hell...ESPECIALLY if you are not accustomed to sleeping on your back. That was a rough adjustment and I think I had to stay up to exhaustion to fall asleep some nights...and even mornings.

Also, we had some C-C-C-COLD winter nights up in Gurgaon! The cold transmitted through the pins and was literally bone-chilling.

[OverrideYourGenetics]

IAmReady reported that he had a lot of trouble on the tibias. Paley's team told him to [url=http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2556.msg43975#msg43975]wear the boots 23 hours a day.

ProgramDuded reported that Paley's tibia patients slept much better than femur ones.

When do tibia patients need to wear that boot?