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[Bohemia]

Hello Everyone,

I have completed both my Fitbone implant and removal surgeries with Dr. Alejandro Monegal in Barcelona, Spain this past week.

It has become a moral necessity for me to protect and support the honor of Dr. Monegal due to a number of toxic posts that have appeared.

1. The Wittenstein Fitbone technology functioned 100% for me every time without any disruption. They also replied to my requests at their help desk immediately with helpful courtesy. They convene with their surgeons annually and closely oversee which doctors they allow to use their technology. In fact, a team of Wittenstein engineers personally viewed my removal surgery on Wednesday. Their lengthening nail has been scientifically proven to function and weight-bear. These facts alone allow you to safely disregard any troll comments.

2. Dr. Monegal has become a dear friend of mine. He implanted and removed my Fitbone nails and has remained in discussion with me by text message for the last two years to personally guarantee my safety and happiness. You may not know this, but he graduated top of his class in medical school, currently innovates the latest procedures, and is considered a top surgeon in Europe. Many apprentices and aspiring medical students travel to intern and watch him.

I would like to place my name on record that I fully support Dr. Monegal and consider myself lucky to have found him and his clinic.

Yours,
Bohemia

P.S. Photo of me, Dr. Monegal, and his radiologist Claudio when they came to my hospital room to help me feel better.

[Whimsical]

I don't like your post. There are many stories about these men in the forum, also about criminal charges. And the Claudio guy isn't a radiologist nor a physiotherapist. Don't bring the bs excuse of friendship to defend them. You aren't his friend. You have a customer relationship. Even if you were a friend of them or worked for them, that wouldn't be a reason to defend them if they were agaisnt the law.
Fitbone worked in your case but it has failed in other cases and the experiences of those patients are as valid as yours. Cooper, Musicmaker, Helloworld and others had problems and, seriously, even MM and HW with their heavy promotion have more credibility than you. I checked your videos, your pics and can't take you seriously. Moose said you were a fake. I don't think you are but I would advise people not to trust you for many reasons.

[Cinderella]

ALERT: troll attack
Welcome back  

[Carlos Uriel]

Guys, new to this forum of chat and wondering if you can help !!!!

Thinking to do Cll next year 2019; I’m thinking dr Monegal is a good option but would consider other doctors recommendations. I’m planning  to do four segments surgery but trying to choose the correct cll doctor, method, Timing, and price

28yo
Very athletic/muscular
Height 165cm
Goal is 12cm
 Can you help ? )
Thank you thank you 🙏

[Whimsical]

Guys, new to this forum of chat and wondering if you can help !!!!

Thinking to do Cll next year 2019; I’m thinking dr Monegal is a good option but would consider other doctors recommendations. I’m planning  to do four segments surgery but trying to choose the correct cll doctor, method, Timing, and price

28yo
Very athletic/muscular
Height 165cm
Goal is 12cm
 Can you help ? )
Thank you thank you 🙏

You'd better consider other options. If you have the money go to Paley or Rozbruch. People here say they are the safest. Other cheaper solutions are Pili or Birkholtz

[Whimsical]

ALERT: troll attack
Welcome back 

Who is the troll? Seriously you talk like Monegal's troll.

[lurker1]

Is Dr. Monegal still at Clinica Diagonal? I don't see him listed on the website.

[Life]

He was removed for mysterious reasons long time ago. I guess reputation related. Not serious at all.

[Cinderella]

He does not appear in the webpage because clinic belongs to an insurance company. He is no longer visiting and treating insurance holders but carries on operating limb lengthening and correction patients.
Regarding reputation he is Fitbone instructor for other surgeons (yagen posted a picture of Dr Lee from Korea, and many others like Solomin have visited him) and one of limb correction and limb lengthening experts at EU. Works at University hospital and he is only 40-41. Not a bad background so far. As all other doctors might have had complications but he is probably the guy with more successful diaries in this forum. Cheers

[Life]

Cinderella are you an alt account of Dr Monegal, Musicmaker, Auron or his mob? You sound exactly the same.

[justice]

I don't like your post. There are many stories about these men in the forum, also about criminal charges. And the Claudio guy isn't a radiologist nor a physiotherapist. Don't bring the bs excuse of friendship to defend them. You aren't his friend. You have a customer relationship. Even if you were a friend of them or worked for them, that wouldn't be a reason to defend them if they were agaisnt the law.
Fitbone worked in your case but it has failed in other cases and the experiences of those patients are as valid as yours. Cooper, Musicmaker, Helloworld and others had problems and, seriously, even MM and HW with their heavy promotion have more credibility than you. I checked your videos, your pics and can't take you seriously. Moose said you were a fake. I don't think you are but I would advise people not to trust you for many reasons.

TRUE. I haven't heard anything about Monegal's criminal charges but the fake PT was criminally charged. He was scamming, threatening, and humiliating patients who paid for his services as if he was a real PT while he wasn't because he wasn't licensed. A group of users verified with the Colegio Oficial de Fisioterapeutas that his credentials were fake and he was reported. This is a serious crime in Spain.

[Auron]

Cinderella are you an alt account of Dr Monegal, Musicmaker, Auron or his mob? You sound exactly the same.

Yes I'm cinderella.

By the way, has anyone seen my glass slipper?

[Life]

Yes I'm cinderella.

By the way, has anyone seen my glass slipper?

Haha man you know what I'm saying. Cinderella shows the typical childish discourse of Monegal's mob, but it's ok guys. You aren't harmful just annoying and zero credibility.

[notatroll]

I want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.

For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. I could finish LL unscathed but many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.

So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.

Cheers

[Body Builder]

Many weird things about Monegal.
And many patients saying good things about him like he was their father...or because they are afraid of something.

All these are too much for me. I just want to do a successful LL, not to investigate what is going on Spain and this very weird case of doctor.
For me, I camt believe that all the bad things mentioned are lies. Maybe some of them are but not all.
After all, for about the money this doctor wants for the unreliable fitbone there are other doctors who perform with the far superior precise 2 so I really don't think this doctor is a good choice.

[Oh So Arrogant]

As for Dr. Monegal, read the following from Cooper, he was a patient who was crippled by Dr. Monegal before he went to Dr. Paley and Dr. Rozbruch to be fixed so he could just walk again.

Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176

"I had very bad experience with Tibia lengthening. I made terrible mistake of doing tibia with Monegal. I probably went through worst ultimate nightmares. I usually write Dr. in front of him but he lost that honorary title long time ago. Ever since I came to US I had some nuisances about right tibia. It felt something did not go well. But I was giving benefit of doubt. I have been telling all LLers’ through private chat tibia should be easy and since this is one leg I should have much better experience than femur.

Late last year I went to see Dr. Rozbruch in New York to check on tibia. Immediately after reading x-ray he pointed out 3 major issues. 1) Provactum tibia bone curving 2) Fibula migrated up. When the monegal fixate tibia and fib bones he somehow pushed the fibula up and fixate. The angulation is not correct this is major issue out of three 3) low callous and possible non-union 4) lost nerve on feet about 25% (not major but had to fix).  Dr. R advised to fixed all three and his assistant wrote a note which I forwarded monegal right away. I asked precisely to Dr. R what can be done with him. The answer was reverse everything and put external fixator for tibia and small monorail for tibia and lengthen. I was devastated to hear that!"

Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176

"I emailed monegal and hoped he can correct the issue. But he denied any of that need fix. Similar response to Crimson: ‘everything is fine' and keep lengthening to your desire 5.5cm. He also advised me not see any LL specialist. I told him ok. But I was not stupid. I knew by then I have major issues and I was only about 3.5cm. I keep lengthening and start looking for a solution to fix right leg and lengthen left leg. I was determined to get it done in US because I cannot take more chances.
The two US doctor I communicated:
1) Paley : first chastised me for going for inexperience doctor second the complication is major and will require more time and money to fix. His recommendation is take out the fitbone, put external fixator to not to loose the distraction gained, inserted non lengthening rod, lengthen fibula by 1cm, plated fibula, fixated tibia/fibula, bone grafted tibia and fibula for non-union, nerve decompression and put new non lengthening rod. He estimated about $100K for fix and left leg lengthening with precise.
2) Rozbruch: fist he did not want to help and asked me to go my first surgeon. I told him monegal is not capable of fixing and cannot be trusted. He said he will help. Cost about the same.

I also contacted few other doctors and everyone agreed on the three issues. I picked one of the US doctor and currently in recovering."

[Oh So Arrogant]

Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176

Monegal Issues:
1)   Dishonest: He did not disclose all the information and lied on patient count and his experience. He emailed he performed 600 bone segments. Come to find out I was third tibia patient. One of his patient told me in Spain everyone lies. His manipulates deliberately and black mailed his patient to write good things about him and defend him as often as necessary. You cannot trust this doctor and his patient specially from Spain!!!
2)   Unethical: If you are not honest than you do not have ethics. Especially in this profession you want to go to doctor who respects patient rights, if something is not right than let the patient know and possible solution to fix. Just not to say everything will be ok. You need more time.
3)   Poor Osteotomy: Most of his patient has issue with callous formation. Interesting part is all of the patient with few exceptions are lengthening less than 6cm. Still have poor bone formation. I have both fibula and tibia non-union and misalignment. Grafted both and I gained only 5.3com. I thought I did 6 but the x-ray show 5.3com.

Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176

4)   Poor logistics: When I had my surgery I was in recovery room for long time. He could not find me and went home without meeting me in person. He later phoned me to say everything went ok. They forgot to put catheter and I did not pee for long time. I screamed and used profanity to get attention at the hospital. The epidural was not turned on and I was in pain for long time. Nursed blamed me tempering with epidural and told monegal I shut it off.
5)   Pain management: I was in 10/10 pain level during first night. The worst pain of my life. Nurses and caretaker does not know how to manage pain. Their respond will be ‘that is normal’. On my last two surgery my pain level never went more than 2/3.
6)   Fibula bone: For monegal fibula bone is not important and ok to have non-union. Even mentioned he can take fibula bone put some place else for bone lengthening while I was in Spain. Fibula is sort of extra bone put in reserve. Such a stupid comment coming from surgeon. His action is not to do anything regarding my fibula non-union.

[Oh So Arrogant]

Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176

7)   Forum: He is using forum to fish new patient and anyone raised flag he tries to shut him off either by himself or through his patient. He gets mad to his patient if anyone writes bad thing and continuously monitor forum thread. He probably spends more time in forum than any of us out here.
   His Patients: most of his patients are good people by heart. We all come from same height neurosis industry and wanting to get taller. I feel forum is fraternity to support each other. This doctor is exploiting forum to his advantage. We need to stop him. I am still in contact with few of them. They need him to fix the issue, correct whatever complication and have to oblige whatever he asks them to write. I would not be surprised if few of his patients come to this thread and try to defend him.
9)   Complication: Almost all of his patient has some complications. Many of them cannot walk without crutches. Complications includes but not limited to premature fitbone fracture, fitbone malfunctions, loose screws, serious nerve issue, misalignment and unkown. Unknown are other complications which patient does not know because they have not seen other LL specialist.

[Oh So Arrogant]

Notatroll's own words-

I want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.

For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. Many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.

So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.

Cheers

[Oh So Arrogant]

Notatroll's own words-

Many patients  I met suffered a lot. Some of my LL friend (successful business men and Ivy League trainees) couldn't help crying. Pain and psychological distress were so unbearable. The bravest patient I met was Musicmaker, with 10 surgeries and more piling up, and she kept active taking on hobbies but I could see sadness in her eyes and at night she used to cry like everybody else. LL is quite hard and not for everybody.

You'd better rule him out for your safety. He's not a good doctor. He has many bad cases and can't handle complications well.

[Oh So Arrogant]

Life as a cripple is sad. I don't know how those patients managed to keep suicidal thoughts away (one of them commited suicide though)

This is so incredibly sad. Dr. Monegal causes the problems with his horrible surgical technique, then he can't fix the problems, so the patient feels helpless and takes their own life.

[patientprivacy]

This is so incredibly sad.

Only a psychopath would use that information to damage the reputation of a doctor.

[notatroll]

This is so incredibly sad. Dr. Monegal causes the problems with his horrible surgical technique, then he can't fix the problems, so the patient feels helpless and takes their own life.

Only a psychopath would use that information to damage the reputation of a doctor.

AGREE. It was a tragedy but we don't know why he did it. Respect my friend.

[Cinderella]

Rspect? You are fake

[Great321]

Thank you for warning. We should be honest about doctors and not sugar-coat them.

[justice]

He has patients with complications but his worst problem is his lack of honesty. He doesn't tell the truth about patient count and the extent of his complications. He's sneaky and of course surrounded by sneaky people. If you go there be prepared to be ripped off. The fake PT who isn't licensed and asks for more money than a real PT. The orthopedist who charges 600$ per chair. Lack of honesty is the main problem if you choose Spain.

[notatroll]

Rspect? You are fake

Sorry but I'm not a fake. Many user here know I'm real. But who are you? Nobody has ever met you.

[Auron]

For everyone who is wondering,

Cinderella is Cooper.

[justice]

I forgot to tell some patients were stolen their money, their bags and mobile phones in Clinica Diagonal and in the guesthouse. Be prepared to be ripped off.

[amigos]

AGREE. It was a tragedy but we don't know why he did it. Respect my friend.

RESPECT mi amigo. Estabamos amigos mucho amigos. Trolls aren't allowed to mention him. I agree Monegal lacks ethics, and perhaps one day I will say why and tell my experience. BUT The memory of my friend shoud be kept intact.

[badexperience]

I want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.

For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. I could finish LL unscathed but many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.

So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.

Cheers

I got a similar impression and I decided not to get the surgery

I had in person consultations with Dr Guichet and Dr Monegal and I have taken them out from my list of possible doctors for different reasons. I will share my experience.

2.   DR MONEGAL: Dr Monegal is the opposite of Dr Guichet in many aspects, not serious and rigorous at all. He was late for our appointment and didn’t offer proper information about LL. He didn’t say a word about motivation letters, training requirements or preop agreements. He wasn’t detached like Guichet, but overtly friendly, inapropriately close I would say. A doctor should be profesional. He talked about facts not related to LL and jumped from one topic to another without answering my questions about LL complications (Musicmaker). His attention was constantly drawn to unimportant items. He talked about football, women and the trolls of the forum with offenssive language and no manners. He didn’t have money in his eyes. He had madness in his eyes. I was really scared. He said he was the best surgeon in the world and spoke messianic   that made me question his sanity (saviour of the world etc). His demeanour was scary, as if he was experiencing a manic episode. I'd never allow this man to touch my legs.