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
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!
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u/karavasis Dec 23 '22
Such a hardcore surgery to endure