Hi there, thanks for the interest. I update again, we have 4 non smirking days in a row here so I'll be at home during the whole time without physio or anything. Nothing we can do so I'll try to do my best on my own.
Pain has almost disappear. You feel the typical soreness here and there depending on how you move or what muscles work. Could be because of the pain medication, although I'm not taking much, much less than before. The only time you can really say is too painful is at physio and in the morning after the whole night without moving (yes, now I can sleep 6-8h without waking up to take painkillers). The pain is like if someone hit your legs with a bat the whole night and then you wake up. Fortunately it lasts just 1 or 2h.
Regarding my flexibility, I've recovered quite a lot this week. Physio it's been super intense and now I feel much more flexible. I also stretch by myself a lot, but normally after physio my muscles are so sore (like if you workout one muscle for 3h), that I can't stretch intensely. But I try to stop gentle stretchings most of the time to keep it going. The only thing that bothers me is a sharp pain like a knife in my right knee that completely blocks it to go to full extension. I can do it after warming up and going slowly, but when it gets cold again it comes back. Looks like some muscle tearing due to overstretching ot something like that, it's going better, but it's pretty annoying.
One thing that's been awesome, following dr B recommendations, it's been a warm bath. I took one today for about 1h doing nothing, just relaxing, and my muscles got relaxed to a point I haven't seen in a long time. Right after I could stretch them a lot more. Although later o.k. they came back to the normal tightness, I think that if I do that regularly it can help a lot (although going in and out the bath it's deeper complicated in this condition).
Peaceout. Thanks for the wishes, dr B told me he would see me next week. I believe he wants to speed up again to avoid consolidation. I'll keep you posted
Ouroboros. I guess so. Last consultation dr B seemed pretty busy, it was by far the day when he's been the least talkative. I think he was pretty stressed. So his answers were basically there's nothing to do, we spped up or it will stop before we wanted. I'll ask him next time of I have the chance. He didn't really give me alternative options that day, let's see
Goldenegg. Thanks for your words. Yes it's definitely better to have a strong bone for the long term that the opposite. I just hope we can lengthen faster than it heals. As you said I'm doing as much PT as I can (although now we have lots of holidays). I do bike but I try to don't do much, because my muscles get quite tight after that exercise and it's more difficult to lengthen afterwards. We have to be careful to no overstretch or damage the muscles, at the same time that we stretch them as much as possible. If you get muscle tearing or contracture cause you went too fast, you'll lose a lot of time recovering it.
Nightwish. I hope the update answers your question
Btw I'm having a lot of problems with my laptop since last week (all related to windows). If there's an IT guy around here, please comment or send me a PM, I just don't know how to fix this thing before it breaks completely
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Topic: Bilateral femurs with PRECICE 2. Dr Franz BIRKHOLTZ. South Africa. Feb 2016 (Read 32097 times)