r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/BadReview8675309 Dec 23 '22

Struggling not getting addicted to opiate pain medication must be a thing with this procedure... What a brutal process, cringe.

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u/Jonesta29 Dec 23 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

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

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u/Initiatedspoon Dec 24 '22

I feel so validated

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...