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[KiloKAHN]

This is a picture of one of my swollen feet. but the other foot looks the same. I get this bad swelling every once in a while after I've done a lot of walking. Sometimes it gets so swollen that it hurts and I can't even move my ankle without enormous pain. Just because you stop lengthening doesn't mean you won't get ankle pains and swelling like this or random muscle pains on your calves. I'm hoping it lessens in severity once the frames are off, but we'll see.

Looking good - Soon will be the 29th - Soon you will be walking without aid :-)

Hopefully. Not sure how many months it will take me to walk without the walking aid. I might also walk around in my leg braces a few months longer than I have to just to be safe.

Have you figured out how you're going to celebrate your frame removal day yet? Make it something special. It's a big day. You've earned it.

Not yet. I might go and buy myself a six-pack of my favorite beer or something. Or stop the low-carb thing for a day and get some french fries.

[crimsontide]

damn, that's swollen

but it happened to me too. definitely has a lot to do with the frames around the ankles. my  feet went down right after i had frames taken off

its better to be cautious and  take it slow.  aim to walk well in around 5 to 6 months.   wont need any additional surgeries this way

[alps]

wow, that's really swollen dude! particularly on the foot because the foot is supposed to be all bony.

Hope it goes away frame removal. Good luck!

[KiloKAHN]

Just filled out my pre-op paperwork and am waiting in the lobby to get called in by the nurse for surgery prep. Little less than two hours and I'll be free of these devices. Surgeon told me he'll give me back the rods, pins, and rings to keep. He's just going to dispose of the sharp wires. I'll have a symbol of this difficult process to keep with me forever.

damn, that's swollen

but it happened to me too. definitely has a lot to do with the frames around the ankles. my  feet went down right after i had frames taken off

its better to be cautious and  take it slow.  aim to walk well in around 5 to 6 months.   wont need any additional surgeries this way

These damn ankle rings and wires, man! Lol. They're the most irritating part about consolidating and waiting. Yeah Im in no hurry to push myself. I'll be cautious for a hood few months.

wow, that's really swollen dude! particularly on the foot because the foot is supposed to be all bony.

Hope it goes away frame removal. Good luck!

Thanks. I hope I don't have clown feet like this forever, hah.

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This is a picture of one of my swollen feet. but the other foot looks the same. I get this bad swelling every once in a while after I've done a lot of walking. Sometimes it gets so swollen that it hurts and I can't even move my ankle without enormous pain. Just because you stop lengthening doesn't mean you won't get ankle pains and swelling like this or random muscle pains on your calves. I'm hoping it lessens in severity once the frames are off, but we'll see.


Hopefully. Not sure how many months it will take me to walk without the walking aid. I might also walk around in my leg braces a few months longer than I have to just to be safe.

Not yet. I might go and buy myself a six-pack of my favorite beer or something. Or stop the low-carb thing for a day and get some french fries.

Oh god.. how long does it take for swelling to subside generally?  Thankfully my legs are not swollen, but I have calf muscle pain in the left leg from a week and as usual ankle stiffness. Now may be due to calf muscle pain, but I am not able to make my knee completely straight. Issues are building up in my left leg, and I am not able to get it back to normal what ever I do. Right leg is completely fine. The only reason I could think of is, left leg has higher degree of bow angle to start with, compared to right leg. Dr. Dhawan is out of country from 10 days. May be once he is back, I will check if he has any suggestions for me.

I think your frames are off by now. Happy for you dude.. !! Post some pics..

[KiloKAHN]

Oh god.. how long does it take for swelling to subside generally?  Thankfully my legs are not swollen, but I have calf muscle pain in the left leg from a week and as usual ankle stiffness. Now may be due to calf muscle pain, but I am not able to make my knee completely straight. Issues are building up in my left leg, and I am not able to get it back to normal what ever I do. Right leg is completely fine. The only reason I could think of is, left leg has higher degree of bow angle to start with, compared to right leg. Dr. Dhawan is out of country from 10 days. May be once he is back, I will check if he has any suggestions for me.

I think your frames are off by now. Happy for you dude.. !! Post some pics..

I don't really know what the average rate is. I think it alleviates in the morning after having them elevated for the whole night. Just keep doing your stretching exercises as much as you can. You're right to contact Dr Dhawan and ask for advice though.

[KiloKAHN]

Update: 6/29/2015
Frames are off after one year and 4 days!

The day has finally come. My frames are off and I instantly feel a whole lot better. My legs feel a bit light and loose after moving without that weight on them that was present for so long.

Now I have these nifty walking braces to wear for the remainder of consoliation.


When I arrived at the hospital at 4:30am I waited for a half hour before the receptionist arrived. She took my info and signature and had me fill out a questionnaire for the anesthesiologist. When the nurse called me in, I was taken to a scale that can fit wheelchairs on it. She weighed me before taking me over to the bed and weighing my wheelchair so she could subtract the difference and find out my weight.

[As of April 2014 when I was last weighed, I was 99 kg or 218 lbs. I found out today that with the frames on I weighed 80.1 kg or 176.5 lbs. A lot of it is muscle loss but it's also fat loss as I've been eating a lot healthier and cut out all the flour and artificial sugars from my diet. Should make it easier for walking around.]

I changed into my patient cap and gown and then my mom was brought in to wait with me while I was attached to an IV and heart monitor. My orthopedist showed up not long after and explained that the procedure would take about an hour, answered some of her other questions, and said because of my muscle tightness I'll need many months of physical therapy to ensure I get a very positive outcome. I also met with the anesthesiologist and my surgeon's assistant, who were both very friendly and answered questions. There was another guy that came out to take me to the OR and once I was inside and transferred to the operating table I had the oxygen mask put on and was out like a light.

I woke up to a very attractive nurse named Stacey greeting me. She fed me a spoonful of ice and cranberry juice to help alleviate the dry mouth I had upon awakening. We made small talk for a while and an Indian nurse stopped to join our conversation once she heard me say I was in Mumbai, as that is where she is from.

When I looked at my legs I could see that the frames were off, but only one of them had a walking brace on it. My surgeon's assistant Roger came out after the nurse called him to ask about that and he explained that for the only size that fit my tibia (medium), they only had a single walking brace there. He made a call and after I left the hospital I went to the building I usually go to for appointments and was fitted with the left one. Before I left the hospital a nurse asked if I wanted the visiting priest there to bless me and I declined. the nurse got mad and said "You do realize that it's because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that you're here on this Earth, right?" and my mom joined in on voicing her disapproval. I ended up running into the priest later when another nurse named Honey escorted me to the parking lot and she asked him to bless her. He touched her head and did a blessing and then said it extends to me also.

I'm not allowed to be near my cat until these holes close up. The skin is wrapped in bandages and I'm taking antibiotics again because some pus was present in a few of the holes when the pins were removed. I've been given a narcotic called Norco for pain relief to be taken as necessary.

Planned to take my frames home but because there are so many parts it was taking hours to sterilize. I'm going to pick them up tomorrow.

[YellowSpike]

My right foot was swollen after I finished LL, right after clicking, but it went away after like a day (and was never that bad). Crazy!

Congrats on getting the frames off man. You are seriously a trooper. Very happy for you.

[microman]

jesus an entire year man, that's way too long.

i noticed on the first page you said you were aiming for 5.5cm, and your 165 which is about my height, so why did 5.5cm take you a year to remove frames.

and yeah pretty funny about that discussion you had with your local doctor about your height you mentioned in the first page, i had same discussion with mine, i was in 3.5cm lifts and we were both the same height, but then again after LL i'd be taller than him so yeah i kinda felt a bit odd in that situation as well.

but i don't see why you should be embarresed about admiting you want to be taller if you were 165 that's really short so yeah.

and yeah your soo lucky to have 170 wingspan, for me its just 1 LL i only have 167 wingspan so i have no hope of getting to 5 9 , so will have to settle on 5 7, such is life.

[itzrammi]

Congrats Kilo

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Congrats Dude.. You should really celebrate this event.. 

[KrP1]

congrats man , it has been hard but here is the recompense

[bluebarbie]

Congratulations

[lumiere]

Such happy for you man, keep us informed about your recovery!

[G-Man]

You did it, way to go man!

[G-Man]

Do you think you got swollen feet as a punishment from the lord/savior Jesus Christ? 

[maximize]

Very happy for you. Post op, post lengthening, and now just getting back to life. And no major complications besides the time it took being longer. Well done.

I hope I'm as successful as you when it's my turn.

Congratulations.

[Overdozer]

"You do realize that it's because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that you're here on this Earth, right?"

Lol'd.

Grats on the liberation. Take care.

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Over a year for 6 cm? LOL

Should have done 10 cm and gone with internals man.

[KrP1]

Over a year for 6 cm? LOL

Should have done 10 cm and gone with internals man.

10 cm in one section will cause disproportion

[KiloKAHN]

Thank you all for the kind words.

Here's a picture of what my legs currently look like. Some granulation tissue needs to be burned out in a couple weeks and it's what makes some of the holes darker than the others.

[microman]

I thought 6cm would take 10 months, was there some issues along the way, sorry if I didn't read the whole diary accurately.

I think maybe you should get scar revision as well, they look like nasty holes, do you know if monorail scars would be worse?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Looks like you didn't have much pin cutting, which would've been painful and made the scars into lines rather than dots.  I had really bad pin cutting.

[KiloKAHN]

I thought 6cm would take 10 months, was there some issues along the way, sorry if I didn't read the whole diary accurately.

I think maybe you should get scar revision as well, they look like nasty holes, do you know if monorail scars would be worse?

My local ortho wanted to take them off after 10 months, but Dr Parihar said there'd be a risk of the regenerate bending if I took them off then, so we waited for the 1 year mark which would equal 2 months of consolidation per cm lengthened. Within the normal healing range.

Looks like you didn't have much pin cutting, which would've been painful and made the scars into lines rather than dots.  I had really bad pin cutting.

Did you have them around both the knee and the ankle? For the other wires by the knee, Dr Parihar made the holes bigger so they'd have some room and not tear the skin there as much. Was kind of irritating because they let out a lot more ooze than the other holes.

[maximize]

Holy   dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went odd nearby and I got hit with the shrapenal", etc. Tell them you were an army get, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob. 

Seriously though, cool scars. I imagine you'll want to get rid of them, but you could also wear them  like badges of honour. Souvenirs of your journey and fight.

[( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)]

I think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?

[maximize]

Holy   dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went OFF nearby and I got hit with the SHRAPNEL", etc. Tell them you were an army VET, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob... 

Wow typos that's what I get for trying to use a phone to post.

I think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?

Agreed. It's clearly all prosthetics, makeup, and Hollywood magic.

[KiloKAHN]

Holy crap dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went odd nearby and I got hit with the shrapenal", etc. Tell them you were an army get, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob. 

Seriously though, cool scars. I imagine you'll want to get rid of them, but you could also wear them  like badges of honour. Souvenirs of your journey and fight.

Hah, I'll probably have to come up with some stories. They should be a lot less noticeable over time though, especially once the granulation tissue is removed since my legs are kinda hairy. The scars don't really bother me though. I'm just happy I didn't get a severe case of x-legs or anything.

I think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?

Shoot, and here I thought my secret was safe.

[maximize]

Alternatively:

• You were wading through the waters of Amazon hunting for rare orchids and you were attacked by a swarm of ravenous snakes/leeches/piranha.
• You were rescuing your buddy from behind enemy lines. On the way back your legs got tangled in some barbed wire ... But like hell if that was going to stop you!
• A woodpecker mistook your legs for tree trunks, and you were too passed-out drunk to notice until after the damage was done.

Okay that's all I've got. I'll stop now.

[KiloKAHN]

The woodpecker one made me lol. I'm going to definitely respond with that one and see how it goes.

[TRS]

Alternatively:

• You were wading through the waters of Amazon hunting for rare orchids and you were attacked by a swarm of ravenous snakes/leeches/piranha.
• You were rescuing your buddy from behind enemy lines. On the way back your legs got tangled in some barbed wire ... But like hell if that was going to stop you!
• A woodpecker mistook your legs for tree trunks, and you were too passed-out drunk to notice until after the damage was done.

Okay that's all I've got. I'll stop now.

I enjoyed reading this, good post

My local ortho wanted to take them off after 10 months, but Dr Parihar said there'd be a risk of the regenerate bending if I took them off then, so we waited for the 1 year mark which would equal 2 months of consolidation per cm lengthened. Within the normal healing range.

Congratulations on removing your frames. Life must be tremendously better now!
What is your local ortho's impression about Dr.Parihar's surgical skills and his work on your legs?