yellowspike you must do something as soon as possible, otherwise you will go crazy.
As if I haven't already microman?
There is no way I'm going to be happy until I'm at least 5'9". I never would have thought that an inch would make so much of a difference...but I feel like that last inch would have made me legit average (or so minutely beneath it, that it would be hardly discernible in most situations). And even though I know I told you guys that I was happy I stopped when I did (for safety/recovery reasons, I actually still am), I still beat myself up for maybe not working as hard as I should have. I really thought I gave this my all, and never missed a single session of PT. I wonder how I would have felt if I made it to 7.5/8cm. But whatever.
Whether I accept bad proportions for a lower cost and super fast recovery (only 10 days to click to get 2.5cm...super tempting...) or break my tibias remains to be seen. But definitely, definitely will be more broken bones in my future. And it's just as well...LL was actually the third time in my life that I've suffered from broken legs. I'm like Humpty Dumpty who has (so far) been able to been put back together millions of times. I've broken my ankles twice before in the past, but was also a lot younger (and braver).
How long post-op did it take you to be able to walk up stairs? I'm 4.5 months post-op and I have trouble even standing up and getting off my bed. Is it mainly lack of leg muscles that prevent you from doing these things or bone consolidation?
Oh yeah, you're gonna be having issues for a while. I was doing stairs where you are now (4-4.5 months post-op) but was doing them VERY slowly and carefully. My apartment has stairs, so I had lots of practice with and without crutches. It's only been in the past 2 months (8-9 months post-op) where both of my legs began to feel strong enough where I trusted them to do stairs exactly as I used to before the surgery (fast, and without holding any railings). And it's only in the past 6 weeks where my legs and ass have started to look like their old muscular selves again
The two things that make recovery from femurs (as far as normal walking) take forever are bone consolidation and soft tissue, but the soft tissue is much worse. My bones consolidated faster (although slow per Dr. G's high standards), but to give you an example...my left leg (the evil leg) had this scary pain at the end of clicking. It was this freaky, worrying pain that would literally shoot down my entire leg when I moved it certain ways, and only just stopped about 2.5-3 months ago (fairly recently). I think that my left leg's soft tissue had been stretched to its limit at the time, but has recovered nicely.
If I were you, I would now focus on stretching your hip flexors and strengthening your gluteus medius. Hip swaying is caused by weak glute medius muscles as well as hip flexor tightness (and to a lesser extent, duckass is kinda involved too).
Author
Topic: Yellowspike - Dr. Guichet, Internal Femurs, Late 2014 (Read 364166 times)