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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: dragonslayer on April 07, 2023, 03:13:44 PM
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After discharge from hospital and removal of my bandage exposing my leg skins I find my local skin on my right leg is numb, no pain, no tiny tingle, just no feeling, I touch it like I touch something doesn't belong to my body.
It's about one month from surgery. Anyone experienced this and recovered fully? Anyone who knows anything I can do to help it recovering? Thanks.
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hey bro
if i recall you also have precice tibias done too right?
immediatly post op i had reduced sensation in my left leg right by the osteotomy sight.
it was most likely due to swelling and compressing the nerve. over time its been getting better. im 3.4 cm and its 99% back to normal so maybe do some compression and elevate it, hopefully itll get better for you
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oh also i take a sh!t load of fish oil to help with it
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oh also i take a sh!t load of fish oil to help with it
Thanks bro, I wound try the fish oil, and btw, how many mm do you lengthening per day?
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0.75mm/day
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hey bro
if i recall you also have precice tibias done too right?
immediatly post op i had reduced sensation in my left leg right by the osteotomy sight.
it was most likely due to swelling and compressing the nerve. over time its been getting better. im 3.4 cm and its 99% back to normal so maybe do some compression and elevate it, hopefully itll get better for you
Yes, I have precice in my tibias. You had reduced sensation in your whole left leg or just few square centimeters of it? Me just few square centimeters of my right leg, and wasn't swelling for weeks.
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After discharge from hospital and removal of my bandage exposing my leg skins I find my local skin on my right leg is numb, no pain, no tiny tingle, just no feeling, I touch it like I touch something doesn't belong to my body.
It's about one month from surgery. Anyone experienced this and recovered fully? Anyone who knows anything I can do to help it recovering? Thanks.
I have numb points where my nails from monorails where. It took me years to have a better sensation in these areas. Till now I feel them more numb than the other "normal" skin areas and I don't believe they will never be as before but still they are much better that the first months after LL and they don't cause me any problem.
I did nothing to improve the situation and I don't think there are many things that could be done. Only the time helped in my case.
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Yes, I have precice in my tibias. You had reduced sensation in your whole left leg or just few square centimeters of it? Me just few square centimeters of my right leg, and wasn't swelling for weeks.
mine is just a small patch
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I have numb points where my nails from monorails where. It took me years to have a better sensation in these areas. Till now I feel them more numb than the other "normal" skin areas and I don't believe they will never be as before but still they are much better that the first months after LL and they don't cause me any problem.
I did nothing to improve the situation and I don't think there are many things that could be done. Only the time helped in my case.
Feel sorry to hear that, and that's what I worried about, take years and hardly recover. Wish you better and better man. Btw, did you take vitamin B after you found the reduced sensation.
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mine is just a small patch
Yes, me too, just a small patch, besides an incision, I wish I could have a good luck as you, sometimes it felt pressure inside so I don't know if sth still pressed the nerve to avoid it recover.
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I had my entire foots sole numb and now 6-7 months later its coming back, slowly.
Take vitamin B12 supplements . It'll take time, years if not months,
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I had my entire foots sole numb and now 6-7 months later its coming back, slowly.
Take vitamin B12 supplements . It'll take time, years if not months,
Yes, I have taken vitamin B12+B6+B1 for weeks, wish you better and better man.
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Feel sorry to hear that, and that's what I worried about, take years and hardly recover. Wish you better and better man. Btw, did you take vitamin B after you found the reduced sensation.
No I didn't. After all vitamin B6 and B12 are linked with some cancers and I didn't find any reason to supplement only for having some numb poionts in my legs.
But now is almost 90% as before and I really have no problem with the sensation overall.
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Yes, me too, just a small patch, besides an incision, I wish I could have a good luck as you, sometimes it felt pressure inside so I don't know if sth still pressed the nerve to avoid it recover.
i think my "sucess" is definety tied to my slower distraction rate
are yo massaging the incision site? is it hard like scar tissue buildup? ive been massasing mine daily and its getting back to noral
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i think my "sucess" is definety tied to my slower distraction rate
are yo massaging the incision site? is it hard like scar tissue buildup? ive been massasing mine daily and its getting back to noral
I tried to message the skin sometimes but not often. No, it's not hard like scar tissue, I messaged both legs at same partial, fingers felt same. It might already be better than the first days, but I can't 100% confirm, but I would message it more.
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No I didn't. After all vitamin B6 and B12 are linked with some cancers and I didn't find any reason to supplement only for having some numb poionts in my legs.
But now is almost 90% as before and I really have no problem with the sensation overall.
Yes, makes sense, but for me, not just this numb skin, but also nerve caused tingles I cannot stand, so I must take them to avoid the nerve pains.