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For guys who've had it all removed what's the recovery time like?
Aside from that lets hear some stories of how you guys broke yours!
I swapped third gear on a sand track downhill, jumped off the bike and thought I would land on my feet and all would be good.... When I landed my left leg hit first slightly higher up the hill than my right and my leg snapped 4 inches below my hip socket, splintered like a piece of wood.
When it snapped I rolled onto my back and when all was said and done my left foot was draped over my right shoulder.
What a wonderful experience
The doc told me the screw would dissolve after a period of time. Was he BS'ing me?
Parks65 - I ask my doctor about the removal, and I believe that you have to spend approx. 6 more weeks on crutches, since the bone marrow has to grow back inside the hollow part where the rod was. As far as pain, i cant tell you because I havent gotten mine removed, it doesnt hurt me at all.
Heres how I broke mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbHM5HGFP4
"eye-balled it" as far as getting it straight.
For me, the femur break has had ridiculous long lingering effects. My knee has never been the same and I struggle with knee pain every single day (especially going down stairs, or sitting down). I know many people that are back up and running with all the hardware and no issues at all, so it is obviously incredibly different person to person.
choice. Excuse the dick x ray but this is for medical purposes lol....
It's a humbling experience feeling the dead weight of your leg when it's broken like that!
Pit Row
Anyone have the same issue? should I remove the bottom screw?
Still debating on taking the rod out. any advise is well appreciated.
And my knee cracks a bit when I bend it. Doctor says its scar tissue but after 5 months??
anyone experience knee cracking sounds or similar?
I had to wait in the hallway for day and a half for bed. The only bed available was in the children's ward in a room full of kids with chickenpox. Since I had chickenpox already, this was better than laying on a stretcher in the hallway for another day or two before I can have hardware installed a hold of them together.
I wound up with a metal plate toward the bottom of my femur and seven screws holding it in place. An 18 inch grizzly scar is on the surface of my leg. Because the wound was so big, staples had to get used. Those were such a pain to pull out toward the end of my recovery because they were getting yanked out of brand-new flesh, as opposed to falling out of dried up scabs. The plates were always expected, like screws and pins, to stay in forever, unless they caused serious issues. Nowadays there's so much more frequency of these things being removed within a year or so of insertion. And the rods for broken long leg and arm bones is such a new process.
Fast forward a few decades, and that area would tend to have pain, usually as the seasons changed, and definitely in the winter, and if there's a lot of humidity. About a year and a half ago, the problems I occasionally had became more regular. The quadriceps would stop contracting. I'd be in terrible pain and be sore as if I foolishly squatted 400 hundred pounds my first time doing squats. I would be limping with awful inflammation. The pain was so distracting I couldn't think straight at times. The vertebrae in my back would get misaligned because I was limping all over the place.
Dr. Hollis Potter at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City is able to conduct MRIs of people with metal in them. That's a first. I happily limped over there to get an MRI and find out that a couple of the screws are irritating the quads and the IT band. That explains all the extremely localized pain and symptoms I was having in the same place and style over the years.
Thankfully, acupuncture is able to resolve the symptoms, restoring everything back to normal after a day or so. But, in the last year and a half, I had this problem so many times to the point that it's become chronic, and acupuncture sometimes is only able just minimize the symptoms. So, I'm getting the hardware removed in three weeks. I still have yet to have another intake appointment with the surgeon to figure out all the details, but everyone's experience here are encouraging.
The winter was the worst, because I could not feel that I was cold and needed to warm up. The bone and metal would have a microscopic tug-of-war since they both responded to the cold and contracted a different rates. Also, I am in my mid-40s now, which is when we start to shrink a little, so that could create some tension. Rubbing BenGay-like Chinese medicinal oils on the area helped keep it warm and helped maintain the circulation. Taoist oil was great because it had the usual formula of camphor, menthol and methyl salicylate in it to promote a kind of heat or cold, but it also has heating properties which were really intense.
Anyway, in talking with the surgeon initially, the concern was since this plate is so old, would it be worth taking out? The answer was yes because I'm in all this damn pain, and the bone hadn't really swallowed up the screws or grown around the plate, allowing it to come out easily. At least, that's how it is predicted.
If anybody still paying attention, I'll write back and let y'all know of my success with surgery.
My main question now is how do I get the process started of getting it removed and how much is covered by insurance or are there any big hurdles in getting this removal covered? I probably have a good idea but first hand experience is appreciated.
F'n thieves!
just curious what was recovery time like? are you able to walk outta there or is it quite a long time?
only getting the screw out, thanks!
Had a second surgery on it from a different doctor because the original one claimed it couldn't be fixed.
They removed the old rod reamed the bone out and put a larger rod in and 3 new larger screws, 8 weeks later it was 100% healed I lost that whole year from it on and off crutches for like 9 months.
Here's photos of it before the second surgery.
I still have all hardware in it including the broken screws they couldn't remove and I rarely ever know any of its even there.
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