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[The Kaiser]

I'm only about 3 months post op so I mini jumped to please/shut up Dr Guichet. It was scary... I will not do it again until I'm fully fused haha.

If you walk almost normally, what does fully fused means to a full weight barring nail, what the difference it will make you think? Do you consider fully fused an 80% recovered or more?

[LLSouthAmerica]

Fully fused means that your bone is consolidated and is as strong as it was before LL. The weight bearing nail means that it can support your weight without relying on your bone formation. For Gnail its 80 kg per nail. But the fact that it supports my weight enough for me to walk doesnt mean that there are no restrictions: i cant leg press or squat for example.

[onemorefoot]

160 kg is the weight limit of g-nail?

[LLSouthAmerica]

Yes one of the patients told me that but I never confirmed with Dr Guichet. Still he made me stand up on one leg the second week after surgery so I know it handled my 65 kg without problems

[The Kaiser]

how money months you expect your bone will fully consolidated?

[LLSouthAmerica]

On average 4-6 months for femur consolidations, so about 2 months for me. However, the old guy who was 183 and lengthened 5 cm consolidated only 2 months and a half after surgery!! So it depends...

[The Kaiser]

On average 4-6 months for femur consolidations, so about 2 months for me. However, the old guy who was 183 and lengthened 5 cm consolidated only 2 months and a half after surgery!! So it depends...

Is there any feeling right now makes you uncomfortable ( pain, stiffens...... etc)?

what the things you cant do right now you was able before surgery (other than running, jumping, taking stairs) ?

[LLSouthAmerica]

Yes, lately I feel pain in the lateral part of the knee where the tendons are, the first minutes after I start walking. As I walk more it reduces and then I only feel a little stiffness but it's annoying. It is more severe in the morning, specially nowadays because I sleep 8-9 hours without stop. During lengthening I used to sleep 6-7 hours and frequently woke up to stretch at 3 AM.

Nothing, only running, jumping and doing weight training. I don't dare to pick up things from the floor, I use my foot to pick it up half the way and then use my hand haha.

For stairs the small ones I manage without crutches. I'm being overly careful because the rest of the patients started using the stairs without support 3 weeks after stopping lengthening.

[LLSouthAmerica]

Officially left crutches completely 

[wyrmhero]

Good ! I have a question :  When will you remove the nails ?

[LLSouthAmerica]

I don't know I think it's 2 years after surgery. I also don't know what I will be doing at the time or if my life  will allow me to travel to Milan for the surgery.

[The Kaiser]

I don't know I think it's 2 years after surgery. I also don't know what I will be doing at the time or if my life  will allow me to travel to Milan for the surgery.

Most doctors said removal surgery will not affect you, but i don't know why Guichet said you have to relax for three weeks, what you think and why?

[LLSouthAmerica]

In theory it shouldn't have an effect since the bone is already fully consolidated and the nail is not supporting your weight. However maybe removing the nail can damage the bone. Knowing Dr Guichet, even if he doesn't know what is happening, he probably has had patients with post removal fracture especially in the first 3 weeks (I didn't know you had to relax for 3 weeks) so that's why he makes that recommendation.

[LLSouthAmerica]

Not ready yet for the world outside. Today I met with an old friend and the first words she said to me were "you are walking a little bit weird and you are taller, what have you done"

Well, she is a girl and a med student so maybe she is more observant than most people. Still, it seems I'm not ready for society yet

[onemorefoot]

Not ready yet for the world outside. Today I met with an old friend and the first words she said to me were "you are walking a little bit weird and you are taller, what have you done"

Well, she is a girl and a med student so maybe she is more observant than most people. Still, it seems I'm not ready for society yet

Hope She doesnt know what you did yet, but when time is time what Will you say to the people you meet?

[LLSouthAmerica]

Hope She doesnt know what you did yet, but when time is time what Will you say to the people you meet?

I told her the complete truth, she is a close friend. Anyhow, I know worse things and secrets about her. My surgery is small issue by comparison 
 
I'll tell them it's the European air, more refined and clean, or maybe a late growth spurt. I don't have to give explanations to anyone. However, it's more difficult to hide these things from people who know medicine... they catch up to lies faster

[onemorefoot]

Late growth spurts are great xd, you should stay hidden till you can walk normally, would be easier to fool fools.

[The Kaiser]

I told her the complete truth, she is a close friend. Anyhow, I know worse things and secrets about her. My surgery is small issue by comparison 
 
I'll tell them it's the European air, more refined and clean, or maybe a late growth spurt. I don't have to give explanations to anyone. However, it's more difficult to hide these things from people who know medicine... they catch up to lies faster

what about other people not know medicine, how you fool them what you gonna say?

[LLSouthAmerica]

Help pain on the lateral side of my knee after being in the gym... hurts much when i flex my knee 

[yagen]

You have to go to PT for a review, but you can try this.



Good luck

[LLSouthAmerica]

Thanks, yagen. Actually, today I woke up much better. I think I overtrained, so I will skip the gym today and tomorrow. I would love to go to a PT, but the doctor told me not to because they do not understand the surgery and may apply force to your femur and broke it. Apparently, it has happened many times before. So I am waiting for a fully consolidated bone and then I will start a proper physiotherapy.

[alps]

But aren't your bones fully consolidated now? How would they break at the hands of a PT?

[onemorefoot]

But aren't your bones fully consolidated now? How would they break at the hands of a PT?

Stress fracture

[LLSouthAmerica]

Actually, a stress fracture occurs when you repeatedly apply force to your lower limbs (e.g running) but due to the stiffness of the muscles it doesn't absorb the impact and it goes to the bone. In the end, it may crack.

But no, alps. I don't know if my bones are fully consolidated. My last post op x-ray was at 2 months after surgery. In one week time, I will take a more recent x-ray (4 months post op), hopefully, it will show that my bones are consolidated. Or maybe I'm not that lucky who knows?

I was talking about the possibility of being mishandled by the PT, sometimes they do passive mobilization of the limbs which may be dangerous.

[onemorefoot]

Programm didnt run And and had a fracture, maybe was for ak early removal, nobody seems to know.

[LLSouthAmerica]

Programm didnt run And and had a fracture, maybe was for ak early removal, nobody seems to know.

Program had the fracture post removal, but duly noted :O

[GOODLUCK]

Just curious, why "female" & "asian" are two risk factors? Any scientific explanation?

[onemorefoot]

Because especially after menopause their bone density is lower than before, also asian people have a pattern of consolidation that is not the best And have lower bone density than other races like black. Maybe if the surgery is done in very Young women, the factor of menopause can be eliminated, this obviously increases the chance of a fracture.

[The Kaiser]

Late growth spurts are great xd, you should stay hidden till you can walk normally, would be easier to fool fools.

what if someone did LL at 26, will people believe him? I think they will just be shocked then deal with it because they know nothing about LL

[onemorefoot]

what if someone did LL at 26, will people believe him? I think they will just be shocked then deal with it because they know nothing about LL

Then is more difficult, use some lifts before to minimize the difference before And after, normally people are not that intelligent, although there are bright ones.

[LLSouthAmerica]

This is something a little bit unexplainable but I used to wear 5 cm tall shoes + 1-2 cm insole. However after lengthening just 1 inch, I "felt" much taller than with my shoes. Now with my 6 - 6.5 cm gain, I look better and taller than with my shoes. I think it's because of the illusion that longer legs give.

2 weeks ago I met with a friend who is a med and she immediately noticed I was taller and walked a little bit stiff. One week ago, I met with my uncle. While he never saw me walk, because I asked my brother to distract him until I sat, he saw me standing next to him and stared at me and then at my shoes. I don't know if he noticed I was taller.

Guys forget it, unless you are around idiots, people WILL notice.