
kanderior
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Recovery in 3 months? I thought the new nail just allows you to walk unassisted 3 weeks after surgery.And what do you think, will you get it? With the new tech coming out making recovery only 3 months (supposedly) I might get it when i get money. As long as you get it with Paley or in SK and not in slums of Turkey i think it's safe
But as far as doing it, unless my life magically transforms in the near future to the point where I have 100K to blow on a surgery (and have the kind of job where I can just take 6 months off), no it's just a fantasy. Assuming I had the money to go to Paley, Donghoon or another top-tier doctor, I've concluded the following:
- It's expensive af. Theoretically manageable.
- Recovery period is like 6 months, and up to a year before you can walk normally. Less feasible but still theoretically manageable.
- The first few days are very painful for most people. Having experienced very bad post-op pain due to hernia surgery, dunno if I could deal with that, the painkillers really fucked me up mentally. It's not the physical pain per se, but having a tendency to depression and anxiety, who knows what it and strong painkillers would to to my mental health.
- There's ALWAYS some kind of complication during your recovery the doctor has to deal with. No LL goes 100% smoothly, every patient will experience something different. Pre-mature consolidation, ballerina foot, bent nails, bow legs, negative reaction to some medication, nerve pain, some bullshit will always come up.
- And what I'm still researching and what scares me the most: can you recover 100% from this? Given enough time, and a recovery that went well, will you return completely to normal, or will this surgery haunt you for the rest of your life?
What makes it tempting for me right now is that I only need 2-3 inches to reach the perfect male height, and since I'm already tallish, a smaller percentage of my bones has to be lengthened, so the risk for me should be the same as a short guy lengthening 1-2 inches. Cause these "max 2 inches for tibias" "max 3 inches for femurs" safety numbers you hear are general approximations (and probably made with short guys in mind, the typical LL patient), the real safety limits are defined by what bone length percentage you increase.
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