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Wishing the best of luck and healing for you.
I'd make sure you are taking about 75-100ug of Vitamin D3 each day to make sure
a) your immune system is working properly and
b) you don't catch the flu
(Flu is a symptom of Vit.D deficiency, very common in winter as the sun is rare - use google to find the studies and articles by doctors on this). Additionally hospital staff may have had a flu jab which according to a CDC report causes them to expel 6.3 times the amount of flue virii into the air than non vaccinated people.
Good luck.
I'd make sure you are taking about 75-100ug of Vitamin D3 each day to make sure
a) your immune system is working properly and
b) you don't catch the flu
(Flu is a symptom of Vit.D deficiency, very common in winter as the sun is rare - use google to find the studies and articles by doctors on this). Additionally hospital staff may have had a flu jab which according to a CDC report causes them to expel 6.3 times the amount of flue virii into the air than non vaccinated people.
Good luck.
Dibble, me old Mucker - I’ve only just read this thread for the first time.
Did no-one ever teach you to look ahead and plan?
Sorry you’re having some healing difficulties - some people will do anything for a few extra weeks off work! Take your time, don’t be in a rush to get back to normal & good luck.
As an aside, I’ve just taken up two wheel motoring, so we’ll go for a ride out when you’re better.
Did no-one ever teach you to look ahead and plan?
Sorry you’re having some healing difficulties - some people will do anything for a few extra weeks off work! Take your time, don’t be in a rush to get back to normal & good luck.
As an aside, I’ve just taken up two wheel motoring, so we’ll go for a ride out when you’re better.
Sorry to hear you're still suffering Dibble, hopefully they'll get you sorted out soon!
Long-term it also looks like it has a reasonable reduction in mortality as well.
Globs said:
Wishing the best of luck and healing for you.
I'd make sure you are taking about 75-100ug of Vitamin D3 each day to make sure
a) your immune system is working properly and
b) you don't catch the flu
(Flu is a symptom of Vit.D deficiency, very common in winter as the sun is rare - use google to find the studies and articles by doctors on this). Additionally hospital staff may have had a flu jab which according to a CDC report causes them to expel 6.3 times the amount of flue virii into the air than non vaccinated people.
Good luck.
Actually I don't think it'll prevent flu infection, but it may help with other respiratory illnesses (bacterial) which can leave you vulnerable to flu.I'd make sure you are taking about 75-100ug of Vitamin D3 each day to make sure
a) your immune system is working properly and
b) you don't catch the flu
(Flu is a symptom of Vit.D deficiency, very common in winter as the sun is rare - use google to find the studies and articles by doctors on this). Additionally hospital staff may have had a flu jab which according to a CDC report causes them to expel 6.3 times the amount of flue virii into the air than non vaccinated people.
Good luck.
Long-term it also looks like it has a reasonable reduction in mortality as well.
Krikkit said:
Actually I don't think it'll prevent flu infection
No need to think, just to read 
. Sorry I said google, other search engines are fine too, e.g:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Flu+is+a+symptom+of+Vita...
All cheap simple precautions are worthwhile when a bone is not healing, it'd be rude not to
kermache" to pass the time. Just seen this thread.
Broke my femur back in 1999. Happy memories of pooing through a polo mint!
From reading your thread it seems I had a pretty easy recovery, although it didn’t feel like it at the time. I was worried that the bone wouldn’t heal but fortunately for me it did.
Almost 20 years on the right leg still feels different but overall hasn’t really stopped me doing stuff. Did give up riding on the road for 16 years though.
Best wishes for a good recovery. Hopefully the referral will work but have you thought about going private to speed it up?
Broke my femur back in 1999. Happy memories of pooing through a polo mint!
From reading your thread it seems I had a pretty easy recovery, although it didn’t feel like it at the time. I was worried that the bone wouldn’t heal but fortunately for me it did.
Almost 20 years on the right leg still feels different but overall hasn’t really stopped me doing stuff. Did give up riding on the road for 16 years though.
Best wishes for a good recovery. Hopefully the referral will work but have you thought about going private to speed it up?
Dibble said:
Cheers for the good wishes.
The lack of healing is a bit of a mystery at the moment. The previous previous orthopaedic consultant was a wrist specialist (not a euphemism) and punted me off in December to a lower limb specialist. Since day one, my local hospital have been extolling the virtues of the Royal Liverpool as the "go to" place for anything tricky, while at the same time being very much "wait and see". I've been asking for at least a second opinion from Royal Liverpool since July.
The plate giving way was the final straw, so to speak, and rather than let the local hospital "try something different" (their words) I've insisted on the referral to Royal Liverpool. It's been nine months so I think we are safely at the end of the "wait and see" period, something a little more proactive needs to happen.
The consultants I've seen so far think it is down to continuing infection, possibly... I spent six months plus on some fairly hefty antibiotics (Rifampicin, turns everything that comes out of you Irn Bru orange, and Doxycycline). I had a bone scan last Monday, where I was injected with radiation (Technetium) and the scan showed my bone cells were merrily pinging away and trying to heal, so that is at least positive.
I'll have to wait and see what the new specialist says tomorrow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium?wprov=sft...
Is the infection under control now? Have you had hyperbaric treatment, that worked for me...The lack of healing is a bit of a mystery at the moment. The previous previous orthopaedic consultant was a wrist specialist (not a euphemism) and punted me off in December to a lower limb specialist. Since day one, my local hospital have been extolling the virtues of the Royal Liverpool as the "go to" place for anything tricky, while at the same time being very much "wait and see". I've been asking for at least a second opinion from Royal Liverpool since July.
The plate giving way was the final straw, so to speak, and rather than let the local hospital "try something different" (their words) I've insisted on the referral to Royal Liverpool. It's been nine months so I think we are safely at the end of the "wait and see" period, something a little more proactive needs to happen.
The consultants I've seen so far think it is down to continuing infection, possibly... I spent six months plus on some fairly hefty antibiotics (Rifampicin, turns everything that comes out of you Irn Bru orange, and Doxycycline). I had a bone scan last Monday, where I was injected with radiation (Technetium) and the scan showed my bone cells were merrily pinging away and trying to heal, so that is at least positive.
I'll have to wait and see what the new specialist says tomorrow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium?wprov=sft...
Sorry to hear about the setbacks 
Any reason they didn't nail it in the first place? When I smashed my femur into assorted bits it was nailed with a steel rod inside the bone and I was back on my feet in a couple of weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramedullary_rod
Any reason they didn't nail it in the first place? When I smashed my femur into assorted bits it was nailed with a steel rod inside the bone and I was back on my feet in a couple of weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramedullary_rod
Right, here's the plan (sketches are mine, not from a medical text book, just in case you were wondering (apart from the first one, obviously)).
A femur should look like this:
Mine currently looks a bit like this:
The consultant thinks there's quite a bit of dead and/or infected bone, which will never heal. She's going to chop out about 16cm of the damaged/dead/infected stuff, take out the damaged metal, then insert some antibiotic laced cement, which will temporarily fill the gap. The cement will actually touch the ends of the bone where it's been cut back to the healthy stuff. This is all held in place by a temporary external rod, for about six weeks:
Second lot of surgery, the cement and temporary rod are removed, an external rail/fixator is attached to the bone and then the bone is cut at the top:
Then all I have to do is "wind down" the fixator 1mm per day. New bone grows in the gap at the top and the ends at the bottom get closer:
After 16cm of winding, 1mm at a time (yep, 160 days...), the gap is filled. Surgery three is to remove the rail, possibly add an internal plate and make sure the bone is lined up correctly and fusing at the bottom:
This is the kind of thing I'll be sporting this summer:
Sorry the photos are sideways, it's the Thumbsnap/iPhone glitch.
Any questions?
A femur should look like this:
Mine currently looks a bit like this:
The consultant thinks there's quite a bit of dead and/or infected bone, which will never heal. She's going to chop out about 16cm of the damaged/dead/infected stuff, take out the damaged metal, then insert some antibiotic laced cement, which will temporarily fill the gap. The cement will actually touch the ends of the bone where it's been cut back to the healthy stuff. This is all held in place by a temporary external rod, for about six weeks:
Second lot of surgery, the cement and temporary rod are removed, an external rail/fixator is attached to the bone and then the bone is cut at the top:
Then all I have to do is "wind down" the fixator 1mm per day. New bone grows in the gap at the top and the ends at the bottom get closer:
After 16cm of winding, 1mm at a time (yep, 160 days...), the gap is filled. Surgery three is to remove the rail, possibly add an internal plate and make sure the bone is lined up correctly and fusing at the bottom:
This is the kind of thing I'll be sporting this summer:
Sorry the photos are sideways, it's the Thumbsnap/iPhone glitch.
Any questions?
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