MORE DRUGS, LESS LENGTHENING

Every morning I've been writing up a schedule for pill taking and lengthening for that day. I had been creating this schedule around the idea that I'd get about eight hours a night of sleep, but since it's turning out that I'm unable to sleep for more than an hour and a half to two hours at a time, I decided to try scheduling the lengthenings and pain medication dosages throughout the night, too.

Now instead of lengthening every four hours while I'm awake during the day, I lengthen every six hours, including once over night. I'm hoping that stretching out the lengthenings like this will alleviate some of the pain associated with them.

One limb lengthening site I read said that though bone can grow 1 mm a day, the surrounding muscles and stuff really can't grow that much a day, so apparently it's much less painfull to aim for somewhere between .66 mm and .83 mm per day of lengthening.

Since most of my pain has been in my ankle from the stretching of ligaments and whatnot, I can see how a slower lengthening schedule would really help the pain management. But my doctor has me on a 1 mm per day schedule, and since I want to get this done as soon as possible, I'm sticking with it.

And in order to stick with it, I'm allowing myself the full six vicodin per day I've been prescribed. I take one every four hours now, including throughout the night. I even set an alarm clock so I'm sure not to miss a dose, though my leg has been doing a superb job of waking me up when I'm due for one.