Limb Lengthening Forum
Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: Kal el on March 25, 2020, 01:16:22 AM
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Hi guys I am student and I wanna prepare for my exams during LL can I do that or is the pain too unbearable and I wanna lengthen around 6cms on tibia with external method and 6.4 in femur after a year break....plz help..can I study during LL or not..thank you.
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Probably not. My energy level and motivation were so low during lengthening that I don't think I could have done it.
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I couldn’t. So much dull pain and lack of energy I could barely respond to an email during distraction.
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I'll be rather challenging, better not to think LL is a little vacations that you can catch up on reading or study, it's an all day event... 24/7 until distraction ends. sharp pains, dull pains, sleepless nights, won't have much energy to study when you don't have enough sleep on you.
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What about after the distraction phase..when I am in consolidation phase..can I study then..I mean at least after 3 or 4 months post OP..btw thank you for your replies.
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What about after the distraction phase..when I am in consolidation phase..can I study then..I mean at least after 3 or 4 months post OP..btw thank you for your replies.
After distraction it's doable but I still wasn't t 100%. Even after distraction I believe my body was still dedicating a lot of calories and energy to the process of consolidating the bone so I still felt tired such that any intense cognitive thinking was probably at 70 to 80% capacity. It wasn't until I became fully consolidated until recently (not 100% sure as I haven't gotten x rays but I feel as though I am) that mentally I'm back to 100%. For someone who did 8 cm that meant 6 months post op.
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Okay I get it..thank you for your reply alchemist. :)
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What about after the distraction phase..when I am in consolidation phase..can I study then..I mean at least after 3 or 4 months post OP..btw thank you for your replies.
I did internals at Paleys, two surgeries.
The first few weeks are typically pretty gnarly and it's difficult to get much done. After about a month or so, it is possible to do some work; when I had the second surgery, I worked from home part-time after the first month.
Generally once you're a couple weeks into consolidation, you'll feel (mostly) back to normal, in my experience.
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What about after the distraction phase..when I am in consolidation phase..can I study then..I mean at least after 3 or 4 months post OP..btw thank you for your replies.
Yeah, that's doable.
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very hard in my opinion, count urself lucky the days u succeed :D