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[Sambollio]

Hey guys how do you intend to/ already did prepare for the post surgery and recovery pain? I’m mostly talking mental but all preparation methods are welcome!

[Jamesy998]

Hey guys how do you intend to/ already did prepare for the post surgery and recovery pain? I’m mostly talking mental but all preparation methods are welcome!

I did not prepare beforehand but here are some tips.

Use heat a lot as it gets your blood flow going which seems to ease the pain for me. In the early period of the surgery when there is swelling use Ice packs often. Also eat a crap tonne of pomegranate, it's the best source to cure inflammation.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

I didn't even think about it.  Just accept it as inevitable.  If you want to break your legs and spend thousands of dollars because you're unhappy with your body, you have to endure the pain also no matter how bad it is.

[Jamesy998]

I didn't even think about it.  Just accept it as inevitable.  If you want to break your legs and spend thousands of dollars because you're unhappy with your body, you have to endure the pain also no matter how bad it is.

But I think we can both agree it is a serious blow to everyone waking up with broken legs no matter how hard anyone prepares for it or how great their imagination might be in regards to picturing how it might feel after the surgery.

[BelowTheMean]

My personal anecdote is that I didn't really have any post-surgical pain. The worst part mentally is just how freaking long the distraction phase takes. Literally disabled (to a certain extent) for months at a time is the tough part for me psychologically. In terms of actual pain, I did have bad nerve pain for a few weeks, and unbearable nerve pain for one day, but there's nothing I could have done to prepare for that.

[readyprecisestryde]

Surgical pain was not bad for me either. Nerve pain was the worst part of it.

[Sambollio]

Do you remember at what length you felt the nerve pain kick in? What did it feel like?

[readyprecisestryde]

Started experiencing nerve pain around 30 mm ..symptoms are tingling, burning, shooting electric type of the pain going down the leg and numbness on left tibia

[readyprecisestryde]

My doctor prescribed me Gabapentin. I also reduced the daily distraction from 1mm to 0.75 mm and physical therapist worked with me to come up with stretches not to bother the nerves. Gabapentin and doing less lengthening per day helped a lot to make the nerve pain more manageable.

[BelowTheMean]

My nerve pain experience is/was somewhat different. It started around 3.5cm and was manageable with a bit of numbness and shooting pains. It would hurt, but as long as I could do a squatting quad stretch the pain would go away immediately. I slowed down and took breaks from lengthening which helped, but the nerve pain didn't go away entirely. This was fine all the way until about 53mm which was the day I had the worst pain of my life. I had three 1-2 hours sessions of constant severe 7/10 nerve pain on my left shin, inside ankle, and calf area all in one day. Each time it struck all I could do was curl up in a fetal position, try and hold back my tears, and wait for it to go away. My doctor had me shrink the nail 4mm over the next few days. Since then I've been going pretty slow and I haven't had any major nerve pain, though I can still feel nerve activity on both legs. I'm still on Gabapentin right now and it doesn't really do anything for me.