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[jexus]

Coming soon.

[onemorefoot]

Very Happy to see a new diary le turkey

[jexus]

Bonsoir tout le monde

I've just reached 6 cm.
Waiting for 6,35 = 2,5 inches.

My starting goal was 7 cm but since it has got much harder after 5, I lowered my aim to 6,5. Then due to my really painfull nights when reaching 6, I've decided to go for 6,35 as it exactly 2,5 inches. I still distract 1 mm's a day.

I will write my journey since its beginning, but for now I can have your questions if you like.

Jex out.

[onemorefoot]

First ir all, good Luck And Hope you finish this thing very soon. The price of surgery is still like before? What is the opinion or the doc about Achilles lengthening?

[jexus]

First ir all, good Luck And Hope you finish this thing very soon. The price of surgery is still like before? What is the opinion or the doc about Achilles lengthening?

Thank you onemorefoot.

The price of LON with monorails for tibias is about 57.000 TL. But I guess you can bargain for like 10K.

As I know from the diaries in this forum and a friend of mine who lengthened 7 cm on tibias, he usually does Achilles lengthening. I didn't speak with him yet about that but I absolutely don't want it.

[jexus]

Good evening guys please help me,

I can't stand unaided when my both feet looking forward, my knees are not bend and my legs are close to each other. My heels don't touch the ground, my ass pops out and my chest leans forward to maintain my balance.

I am really worried about it.

How can I stand still ?

[CiniCengiz]

Hi Jexus ,
i have had this operation in may , i think I saw you.I'm the one who was operated on the achilles tendon. I wish you a lot of luck and do a lot of stretching exercises
dr Inan is the best doctor I know.

[CiniCengiz]

at how many mm are you already?do not worry with the achill tendon. It heals fast and you have no pain. dr inan has its own method. No pain

[jexus]

Minutes to my frame removal...

About the Achilles Tendon,
Dr Inan and his crew observe your achilles under general anestesia after removing the frames. Due to the fact that under general anestesia the muscles are completely relaxed it is the best way to understand if someone needs achilles tendon lengthening. Also logically by this procedure you can’t know if he is going to do ATL before the surgery.

[jexus]

Hey guys,
Removed my frames and had a muscle lenghtening by percutaneous cuts. It is not achilles lengthening as doctor Inan said. Right now I’m under epidural and cant lift my left leg. But the right is okay. It didn’t hurt but the cast they’ve put is irritating.

[jexus]

I've decided to write a quick resume of my journey so far here we go:

SURGERY DAY (DAY 1) (10 July 2017)
Me and my parents in the room at around 6 AM. A man came and shaved my legs in the shower. I felt quite nervous. Asked myself what am I doing but I did not go back. I waited patiently till they take me . At the elevator they gave me a tranquilizer. I felt like I was drunk. A surgeon took me and joked "Now we'll have your kidney". I laughed unwillingly.

I woke up. Felt almost nothing. My girlfriend was right there next to the bed. I took her hand.  A felt asleep again.

DAY 2
Day 2 was the most painfull day of my life. They cutted my epidural to get me on my feet. I fainted. I counted minutes to my next epidural injection. People always tend to forget pain very easily but I still remember, 11 July was a torture.

DAY 3-20
I can't sleep well. I have constant pain. Not too much but constant, does not go away with parol. I started lenghtening on 6'th day (maybe 7 I don't remember) after the surgery. Lengthening is painless. I spend time with my girlfriend watching netflix. But when there is constant pain you can't enjoy anything. One thing I could advise is that to have sxx or to masturbate can be a great relief of pain at least during the time till you ejaculate.

DAY 20-57
I'm painless. No constant pain. No ballerina. Till day 37 (3cm's) I didn't use walker or cruches to walk. Then suddenly the front of my left leg started to hurt as I put pressure therefore I passed behind the walker.

DAY 57-70
In line with what they always say: things start to crap after 5cm. Suddenly I started to have ballerina at 5.5. From 5.5 to 6 cm I had so fking pain. My legs were shouting me to stop. Even the tops of my feet were incredibly acheing. I can't sleep. At 6cm I had huge ballerina.

DAY 70-90
I stopped lenghtening and things started to get better. I'm painless again. I still have ballerina even that I do everyday 2 sessions with maybe the best PT in the world. I also go to plates 3 times a week and work my legs. I sent my xrays to Dr Inan. He sad me to do 5mm more and then go 5mm backwards as this stimulates bone growth. I did what he wanted. But as this compresses the new forming bone, I can't give any weight to my legs. I can't even walk with the walker.

Finally I'm around 6.3-6.5 cm's.


Last thing that I would like to mention is that being elastic before the surgery didn't work for me. I had incredible ballerina. I was like a gymnastic artist. I could touch the ground with my elbows with my legs straight. Now I'm elastic like an average guy.

[jexus]

Hey Guys,

Hope you all doing great.
It's the 109'th day of my surgery and things are much better now.
I'm going back to my normal life. I can walk unaided since the 100'th day of the surgery even though I have casts on my legs. I didn't think I can walk this soon. Of course, I'm walking really weird and my hips are swinging left and right but it's okay It will pass. I'm somewhere between 175-176.5 and I feel completely normal. I would want to be 1.80 but I don't care that much as long as I have long legs and gain 3cm's from the shoe I'll look like 1.80+ Hope my bones heal quickly.
If I knew the Muharrem Inan's gastrocnemius lengthening was painless I would go for 7.5 but who cares.
I'm eager to return to my normal life. I miss hanging out with friends, smoke and drink alcohol.

I'm here for your questions, also you can pm me.
Best wishes,
Jex

[hype88]

Congrats bro! Are you able to share photo's?

[jexus]

what kind of photos u want bro ?

[LAGrowin]

Thank you for keeping us informed Jexus and for sharing your experience.

How does the new height at 176 feel?

Wishing you continuous recovery. You are so close. Congratulations.

[jexus]

Thank you for keeping us informed Jexus and for sharing your experience.

How does the new height at 176 feel?

Wishing you continuous recovery. You are so close. Congratulations.

Thank you so much, man.
It feels great at 176. Not only the height but also my legs. I had really short and ( ) type tibias, after the lengthening, they look really straight and normal. My body looks much more proportionate after LL.

[jexus]

Thank you onemorefoot.

The price of LON with monorails for tibias is about 57.000 TL. But I guess you can bargain for like 10K.

As I know from the diaries in this forum and a friend of mine who lengthened 7 cm on tibias, he usually does Achilles lengthening. I didn't speak with him yet about that but I absolutely don't want it.

My friend who did 7 cm is also completely fine, his Achilles' tendons were surprisingly really good and he didn't have ATL. He had the surgery 1 month before me and walks unaided with a device called AFO on his legs at the moment.

[LAGrowin]

Thank you so much, man.
It feels great at 176. Not only the height but also my legs. I had really short and ( ) type tibias, after the lengthening, they look really straight and normal. My body looks much more proportionate after LL.

That's so good to hear. Encouraging. Good for you.

 I'll end up at 175.5, if God willing I can make it to 7.6 cm, but planning on femurs.  I visualize the 175 daily and cannot wait!

Enjoy it man.

[hype88]

It would be cool to see a before and after shot of you

[3inchhope]

Do you know if he still does internals and if so at what price?

I found his profile page where it lists a range of prices.

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=592.0

Classical Ilizarov Technique: 30,000 TL
LON: 44,000 TL
Lengthening and then Plating: 44,000 TL
Internal Methods: 150,000 TL

However, the information posted at above link seems to have last been updated in May 2014. Given that you mention you were charged 57,000 for LON, im guessing the prices have increased.

[jexus]

Do you know if he still does internals and if so at what price?

I found his profile page where it lists a range of prices.

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=592.0

Classical Ilizarov Technique: 30,000 TL
LON: 44,000 TL
Lengthening and then Plating: 44,000 TL
Internal Methods: 150,000 TL

However, the information posted at above link seems to have last been updated in May 2014. Given that you mention you were charged 57,000 for LON, im guessing the prices have increased.

Actually the prices are increased for Turks and decreased for strangers. Because in 2014 1 dolar was approximately 2 Turkish liras. This year 1 dolar has become like 3,90 Turkish liras due to political issues and Erdogan’s behaviour.

[3inchhope]

 I see so it may be more benifit to a foreign due to foreign exchange movements but if it went from 44000 Turkish Lira in 2014 to 57000 turkish lira in 2017 then the price has increased.

So can you confirm if internal methods is still 150000 turkish lira?

[jexus]

I see so it may be more benifit to a foreign due to foreign exchange movements but if it went from 44000 Turkish Lira in 2014 to 57000 turkish lira in 2017 then the price has increased.

So can you confirm if internal methods is still 150000 turkish lira?

If I can reach Dr.Inan I can of course confirm but I'm not in Istanbul right now.
I believe they are around that price.

[jexus]

It may sound weird but I'm not feeling an euphoria.

Maybe it is because I gained a lot of weight and almost lost my 6 packs.
Or maybe it is because I can't smoke. I was a heavy smoker. I feel that this surgery will be completely over for me exactly on the day that I will be allowed to smoke.
I think I've lost my interest in height. I can't feel the thing that made me do this. I can't remember the feeling which depressed me so much before the surgery. Was I obsessed? Could I be happy with that height and that legs? Or did I really need this and should be very happy? Me before 5 months would be so happy to himself at 1.75-76. Am I getting used to my new height and forget what it feels like to be 169-170 with short and slight varus tibias?

I still can't believe I did this surgery.
I was constantly saying that I would but even I wasn't believing myself that much.

How would my life be if I scared the crap just before the surgery while my legs were getting shaved and withdraw from doing this, would I be reading someone's diary and be jealous?

I think I will be really happy after I gain my muscles back and go hang outside and smoke.

[jexus]

Btw it would be fun if this forum had live chat amongst all online members.

[jexus]

It would be cool to see a before and after shot of you

I don't have any before photos that show my whole body wish I had taken one before the surgery
But I will share after photos and also X-Rays once I take some.

[jexus]

Hey guys,

Today they've taken my casts off. My legs have become SOOOO THIN they look really ugly. I have a muscular body and super thin lower legs. I look like a chicken. Anyways I had some X-rays taken today look a bit weird because the casts were still on when they took it so check it out.

Btw way I guess sometimes Xray can show the distance a bit wrong. That's why there is a 0.7-0.8 cm discrepancy between my legs on the X-ray. Normally they both should be like 6.3-6.5 but it shows the right one 6.9 and the left one 6.1-6.2.

Today is my 117. day since the first surgery. 3 months and 27 days Please let me know what you think about the bone growth.

http://hpics.li/e3d14af

http://hpics.li/17cbdeb

http://hpics.li/d06a94b

http://hpics.li/3051292

http://hpics.li/ecbef97

[Body Builder]

Your callus formation is average and normal as I can see.
You don't have a very fast formation rate but not a bad either.
So nothing to worry imo, everything seems good.

[jexus]

Your callus formation is average and normal as I can see.
You don't have a very fast formation rate but not a bad either.
So nothing to worry imo, everything seems good.

Thank you man,
What you said made me feel good.

I will share also my friend's (who did 7cms) Xrays if he lets me.

Do you know why there is a length discrepancy between left one and right one?

[Body Builder]

Thank you man,
What you said made me feel good.

I will share also my friend's (who did 7cms) Xrays if he lets me.

Do you know why there is a length discrepancy between left one and right one?

It can happen for many reasons. Most of the time some minor nail bending makes lengthening not exactly the same as you rotate the screws between two fixators so this may be the reason.
Maybe even x rays can have some differences compared to reality due to view point. Ct scan is always more accurate.
Anyway still nothing to worry about. The discrepancy is small and it will be fixed before you stop lengthening by lengthening a few days more on the shorter leg when you stop lengthening the longer leg.

[jexus]

It can happen for many reasons. Most of the time some minor nail bending makes lengthening not exactly the same as you rotate the screws between two fixators so this may be the reason.
Maybe even x rays can have some differences compared to reality due to view point. Ct scan is always more accurate.
Anyway still nothing to worry about. The discrepancy is small and it will be fixed before you stop lengthening by lengthening a few days more on the shorter leg when you stop lengthening the longer leg.

I already finished lengthening and had the frames removed. Ct-scan seems logic actually. The weird thing here is that they were almost equal on last Xrays three weeks ago and now there is 0.7 mm's between them. I guess it is from the point of view of the X-ray but the left is shorter in both the AP and BILATERAL X-rays.