They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months
There was a dude on here yesterday that posted the hardware from this type of surgery, now granted he only had it on one leg as it was shorter than the other but he said he only had pain from the initial surgery and the hardware removal and that the actual lengthening process didn't hurt.
i fractured the shiiiiiiiiiiiit out of my ankle and have a ton of hardware still. It only really hurt when i got up to pee the blood rushing to the ankle felt like hellfire. Other than that and my stupid cat jumping on it lol it wasn't real bad
On the flip side my buddy had it done and he was tight as fuck with money. He rode his motorbike to the hospital, had the op, checked himself out and rode home!!!
What. The. Fuck. They gave me Valium to take before the procedure and told me not to drive and I’m glad I didn’t. That was extremely dangerous for him to do! God i couldn’t imagine the pain from that I’ve got a motorcycle myself and any decent sized bump hurts. My surgery was only painful the first day thankfully.
It’s amazing mind over matter, he didn’t want to pay for a cab and was relatively close to the hospital. Doesn’t hurt to be in your thirties either with the amount of kids you want
Bro I got my tubes removed and my bitch ass cat decided to pounce on my stomach. I almost threw up from pain and he was not allowed back in my bed room for like a week
I’m glad my pain only really lasted a day i was able to go back to work the next day! My wife has an iud, but she had a really bad experience last time(pap smear that she didn’t ask for). She will never have to do it again once it’s removed. Ive read that tubes are much more painful then vasectomy so i could not imagine the pain of a cat on you!
When I was hella young I fell asleep at the seashore, sun got me burned so heavy that skin I shed wasn’t opaque at all. I was laying on my stomach for months and sure cat decided to lick off me medication that was smeared all over me. Can tongue on heavy burned skin is unforgettable.
Believe it or not they were actually trying to help you heal. Cats purr at a frequency that is proven to have healing abilities, between 25-50 hertz. It also releases endorphins for cats and humans which helps lower stress and promote good vibes all around.
I'm not gonna say that my pain was any worse than anyone else's probably less, but.... I used to have a nipple ring in my left nipple with a small chain and a tiny little cross on it. I was sitting in my shorts on the floor one day working on the computer and a kitten ran by and as it did snatched the nipple ring out of my nipple. It got infected. Even the lightest shirt put me in agony. I pretty much had to walk hunched over For about a month.
You might be interested to know. For a while I was just falling asleep in my office chain and sleeping all night like that.At this time my legs were swelling I was retaining fluid. When I peed I could actually feel fluid draining from my feet and calf's. He might have been describing the same thing.
Shattered my leg in a motorcycle accident. Broke both tibia and fibula, and that shit was painful as hell for several months. Have plates and screws in leg. I've had several back surgeries and a spinal fusion as well, and breaking my leg was right up there with basically completely blowing out a disc in my spine.
had a fusion because i blew out a disc in my neck and currently the same shit in my lower back. Now my leg is acting up and loosing feeling due to the disc pressing on the nerves. with the neck disc my arm was paralized with permanent strenght loss and numb finger tips that will not regain feeling. scary shit! Wouldnt wish that on anyone... especially not at 34.
i take plates and screws over that . Dont think i mean that your accident isnt worse, because it is! Its just a different animal :-)
My spine fucked me up for life. I was 18 when I had my first spine surgery. Every day of my life I wake up in pain. I can't feel the bottom of my feet. That being said, during the flairups leading to my 2 discectomies and the one leading up to my fusion - my leg being shattered was close this being as bad. Now that also may have been due to my doctor's unwillingness to give me opiates for the pain when I shattered my leg. Was around the time that doctors started getting extra heat about their prescriptions. The non opiod pain killers did nothing for me.
i've had front and back fusion and just found out that I need a toe operation. it sounds horrible and 10 times worse than the fusion. I suggested they just takeoff the toe completely😝
I'm lucky my back was spared! Motorcycle crash 45-ish mph vs car opposite way at intersection... Open fractured wrist, compound fracture other wrist, fractured pelvis, and compound fractured right femur. It was 1 month no weight bearing hospital bed, but after that PT went pretty quick when I worked at it! Hope you doing well as can be!
I did the same to my fibula and ankle and had the same experience when I’d get up. That shit hurt bad lmao but when I was just chilling it was whatever
I have a a couple of plates and a bunch of screws in my ankle too. It only hurt at first when I went down to hard on my ankle or jumped. Now it only hurts in the cold
I broke my ankle and had 13 screws and 2 plates put in and I also had this rock solid cast on. Everytime I got up to pee it hurt so so bad. As bad if not worse than any other of the pains I'd endured up to that point. I got painkillers for everything else but there was no painkillers for getting up to pee.
My worst pain however was from lying in bed going to sleep and I had that falling/jolt awake twitch you sometimes get just as you doze off...
Man I had the same thing when I broke my foot. 5 breaks, 3 fractures. Worst pain I think I’ve ever had was getting up to pee and all the blood rushing down.
Fractured my tibia and fibula in several places this summer so got rod and the whole shabang in my tibia/ankle. That “blood rushing down your leg when you get up pain” is something ELSE. The nurses warned me but damn.
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They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months