I did 2 surgeries in Yerevan - Armenia.External Femurs and External Tibias, so anyone who is thinking to do LL in Armenia should read what I have to say.
Also guys who want to know a lot of REAL information about limb lengthening should read this first.
My name is Nenad 26 years old and I am from Croatia.I was 178cm which is short in Croatia believe it or not.
Our younger guys are about 184 cm tall and I felt little bit short in my country and i was obsessed with height so I was searching for some good Doctor but not so expensive who will do limb lengthening on my short legs.
I found out for Doctor Mirzoyan and I send him some short email.
He answered me really fast like in 6h or so, after that in some 2-3 days of short emails we went on skype.We talked a little about height and procedures and everything so I decided to go in Armenia and to do LL.
In Armenia one doctor who Is working for Mirzoyan was waiting for me on the airport and then we went to big Armenian hospital where I spent my first night ( room was great by the way).
Tomorrow I met with Mirzoyan and his team. In his team are 3 doctors who are younger then Mirzoyan 2 nurses, 1 manager girl and one older women.People are really nice and I had no problem communicating with all of them.
Most of them don't speak english really good but I am not perfect also as you can see.Doctor Mirzoyan and manager girl speak english really good.
We did ct scan and test my blood and everything else so I was ready to do my external femur surgery.
Double femurs are really hard to do but at the end after 4 and a half mounts I removed ilizarov frames from my legs and my femurs wore perfect.I lengthen 4 cm femurs.The only thing i had ugly was big scars on my femurs but one year later i went to plastic surgery and removed my big scars.So
now they look much better and no one can detect that i did something weird with my legs.
Few mounts after i finished femur procedure i did double tibias and it was like 10 times easier then femurs.In 4 mounts i removed ilizarov frames from my tibias and they were also perfect.I have had curved tibias so we made them straight and they look a lot nicer now.I did 4.2 cm on tibias.
Final result was that i am now 185cm tall and i look really good.My arms are little shorter but you can not be perfect proportion after LL.Or its really hard.I have long spine so my legs-body proportion
is now perfect like i am born whit this legs.Arms are the only problem.They look shorter.But as i sad its hard to look perfect after LL but now i look much much better and i am really tall which was the main goal.
You notice that i did 8.2 cm but i am 7cm taller and not 8.2.Thats because of compression.I had a 0.7cm compression on femurs and about 0.5cm compression on tibias.Compression is real guys if you walk with ilizarov and after you take off ilizarov.So when you want to do 4cm lengthen a little bit more because you will lose few mm when you walk with ilizarov later and when you take of ilizarov.
Doctors sad here that you will lose about 2-3mm when you take off ilizarov but i lost more than double.Maybe because i was able to walk without crutches and without walker.
They wore amazed that i could walk like a normal guy with double ilizarov frames on my femurs and that my bones are growing that fast.So i guess if you walk a lot and if you are active like i was you will compress a little bit more.But i dont recommend you to lay down in your bad or not to be active.
Few patients who were just laying down in their bad stayed here 9 mounts for 5 cm.Because if you workout or walk blood will heal your bones much faster.Dont be LAZY.You have to learn to walk with frames and then when they take them off you will feel like normal human bean.You can lose double time if your not active and its not healthy overall to be inactive in long period of time.
By the way i dont recommend anyone to do external double femurs.I lost about 50 pounds when i did double femurs and i had serious complications.Doctor Mirzoyan told me that no one should do
external double femurs if it's not really necessary but i did not listen.So he was right about that, but my femurs were so short that i had to do them first.He suggested cross lateral surgery (one tibia one femur) but i knew i can
survive anything because my dream was to be taller.My main goal was to lengthen my femurs first.
Now i want to talk about Doctor Mirzoyan and his limb lengthening team witch will interest you the most.Is he professional ? Is he good doctor ? Did he made mistakes etc ?
First of all if you think that you will come here or in some other limb lengthening center and everything will be perfect you are wrong.There will be a lot of complications.
80% of limb lengthening patients have some sort of complications so if you want to do this know that its not gonna be easy.And one more important thing is that no mater who is doing your operation you will have some complications.The important thing is the end result.
My complications on femurs procedure were :
1. severe pain in my lower spine (because of laying down in same position with dual femurs) To fix this problem i both air mattrace.Its good that we found the solution for that problem because i could not survive 2-3 more with that pain.It was weird because on the first days you should have pain in the legs because you have frames in your legs but i had spine pain.And
it was horrible.I did not sleep first 9 days because of that pain.After that i slept about 3-4h per night 2 mounts straight which is not good but i could not make my body to sleep with dual femurs.As soon as i stoped lengthening my sleeping was perfect.8h per night.Without sleeping you can not
recuperate your body remember that.So try to sleep before midnight and try to sleep as much as your body need.Dont stay awake late at night.
2.Right leg frame was not tight and i could not put weight on my right leg.20 days after surgery doctor inserted one more wire in my right leg and he fixed the problem.
He sad that that happens from time to time.My legs were tick and we had to put little larger frame.Larger frame equals less stability.But i am glad that doctor knew what was causing pain and he fixed the problem.He inserted wire while i was awake.He asked me do you want that we put you to sleep or you want that we do it with local anesthesia. I have chosen faster and more ''healthy'' option but with more pain.I was watching how Doctor is making hole in my leg with a special drilling machine and it was painful and scary i must say.But it was not that bad.Now when i think about that it was crazy experience.2-3 days after inserting that wire my leg was more stable and it was much less painful.
3.Nerve damage in my right leg.
After 3cm of lengthening i felt the biggest pain in my life.Sometimes i must say i was crying from that pain.For real.
Because of nerve pain i could not eat, i could not sleep and my head started to shake whit out
me moving it.It was crazy so if you are that unlucky and if you have nerve pain then may god help you.20 days after lengthening my pain went away.Is nerve pain Doctor mistake i think it was a little bit because they could not find the wire that was causing problem and i had to suffer all day and all night.But ok as i sad no one is perfect.
Once again if you have that kind of pain may god help you.
My complications on tibia procedure were :
1.Veins inflammation.
1 day after tibia surgery i was walking with walker and all was perfect I thought that i will not have any complication this time but 5 days after tibia surgery i could not put my legs on the ground.I had incredible pain in my muscles around tibia.And my lower legs wore 2 times the normal size.
I was walking first 4 days and everyone was amazed by that but then on my 5 day i could not put my legs on the ground they wore swollen.
20 days i waited for that swelling to go away.In that time i did not walk..I took some anti inflammation injections and as i sad
after 20 days i was okay and i started to walk again.When i did tibias i was sleeping like a baby.So almost everything was easy.I sleep 8h per night from the first till the last day.Somethimes during my lengtening i wake up in the middle of the night but then i just take one analgin or paracetamol for my pain and then i go back to sleep.
2.Itching from metal alergy.Now you can see this and say ooh its only itching but trust me that was the worst thing that happened to my in my second procedure.I was itching my whole body every day for about 3 mounts.More legs then my upper body but still i was itchi in my upper body as well.
I lengthen about 50 days and in that period and more than one mount after i was itching all day every day.Sometimes i was really angry and stressed because i could not scratch myself anymore.I was taking some natural medicine for my head also because i was really nervous from that itchines.
Finaly after 3 mounts one of the doctors that works for doctor Mirzoyan found some medicine that was working.Everything else that i was taking for itching was not working but that doctor by luck or by his
knowledge found that medicine and i still thank him for that.Pain while lengthening tibias was not so strong for me.So i took painkillers not for pain but for my itching.I hope you dont have
metal allergy because without it i think my tibia lengthening and process would not be easy it would be very very easy.
While i was lengthening tibias and after lengthening i was like a normal guy i could move around i could eat normal i could sit i could sleep and everything else.I had some pain while i was walking in my calf muscle but Mirzoyans physiotherapist streched my calf muscle every day and with his help my pain went away.By the was Mirzoyan physiotherapist is a great guy and which is more important great physiotherapist.
So if you just want height i suggest you to do tibias only.It may not be so easy for you but it would be much easyer then any other surgery (cros lateral or double femurs).
On my second procedure (tibia procedure) i was in hospital only 3 days.After 3 days i moved in to their apartment where the food is a lot better and internet is a lot faster.I played games,watched movies and talked on skype most of the time.You can also talk with other patients in the apartment and then its a lot easyer.I meet a lot of great patients from all around the world while i was doing LL in Yerevan.From China,Japan,America,Poland.Most of the time there were 3 patients in the same apartment.So if you like to talk about height you will probably meet people who are similar like you, and it may be interesting for you to talk with them about all height problems that you had and all better things that are waiting for you when you finish your procedure.
In apartment there is one women who is working for Doctor Mirzoyan.She makes food for patients and her food is
10 times better then food in hospital.So your first goal should be to move from hospital to apartment as soon as you can.When i did femurs i was in hospital first 2 mounts because i had a lot of complications and it was dangerous to leave me in apartment without possibility to call nurse in the middle of the night.But if i did not have that much complications i would be less bored and it would be a lot easier in apartment.They will take you to apartment
if you can alone walk to the toilet and if your safe to live alone.
My end results wore perfect and as doctor Mirzoyan sad at the end ''in 2 years if someone look at your legs on ct scan he will not know that you did limb lengthening".
Now when i look back and when i think about my LL i am really satisfied with Mirzoyan and his team and i would suggest everyone to do limb lengthening in Armenia.
Doctor is not perfect he will maybe make some mistakes but trust me end result is what is important and nothing else.
By the way non of us is perfect so if you think you will do everything right think again.
I have finished both surgery's in 9 mounts total so if you want to be that fast and to get great results please listen to doctors,sleep good,dont eat sugar and junk food and be optimally active.
What i mean by optimally active is LISTEN TO YOUR BODY.When you feel strong do some exercises and when you feel weak lay down in your bad and rest.But after you finish lengthening then you wont have any pain and that is the time when you should start to be more active every day.
After lengthening on both of my procedures i did every other evening about 30min bodybuilding exercises with 45lbs dumbell.Push ups,pull ups, dips...So if you like to lift weights you can do that also.You can do exercises during lengthening period also but dont do them to often because your body will be weak during that period.
Your gonna be more hungry,blood circulation will be better and you will create more growth hormone if you workout.If your more hungry and if you eat more you will heal faster.
And i also did 5-6 times a week 30 minutes exercises after breakfast.I called them exercises for old people.
If you dont know what i am talking about you can maybe search on google what old japanese people are doing in the morning.
You should move every joint in your body from head,shoulders, hip etc...you can lift your legs on the side ,you can do ''good-morning'' exercise and if you did tibias you should try to do squats at the end of your workout by holding yourself and supporting yourself with walker.Those squats can bring your growth hormone levels tremendously up.
Those exercises helped me a lot.At first they wore really hard but then after 10 days of doing them almost every day you will start to love them...when you master those exercises you will gain balance because now your muscles will be strong and you should try to walk without walker.That should be your next goal.To walk without walker with frames on your legs.After that everything will be easy for you because you will feel like a normal guy just taller and with frames in your legs.
I was walking with ilizarof frames on my legs 3 mounts after my surgery's so please do those exercises and you will stay less time in Yerevan or anywhere else where you do LL.
Once again i am really satisfied with Mirzoyan and his team and i would suggest everyone to do limb lengthening in Armenia.
And one more thing.Your end result depends on you.Doctor is about 30 % but you are about 70%.Thats my opinion and trust me i know a lot about limb
lengthening.Those who had problems are always the laziest people who are just waiting for someone to fix their problem.But they are the problem.
I am sorry that i can not write more information about LL.I dont think about height anymore because i am tall and its boring to think about things in the past.Now its your turn.If you want to grow taller like i wanted to grow taller then you will have same results like i had.
good luck and listen to your body.
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