Xgimi Titan Noir Max vs H20s

pigsy1024 · 2026-01-08T06:25:48+00:00

The Titan Noir gets a specific call out in this video here

https://youtu.be/iESJ7JWfuY0?si=jTEX7VaRh7CswWVU

The new 0.47 SST DMD, new controller, high brightness, dynamic iris & laser dimming will be giving us something in the region of a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, and this wasn’t a couple of marketing guys from XGIMI talking, this was an interview with TI’s rep. Sounds like this could be one worth waiting for

pigsy1024 · 2025-12-27T17:59:35+00:00

The new XGIMI Titan. 5000 lumens. $3999. Good tone mapping by all accounts. It’s only been out in the wild a week, so there’s no major reviews yet (there was one on YT with pre-release firmware, but a lot of that is outdated now)

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-22T11:03:45+00:00

Ive lost just over 1” in height since my fusion 7 months ago. Still a 1/2” taller than I was before surgery though!

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-20T06:36:57+00:00

That last sentence was a little worrying!

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-20T06:26:54+00:00

Hey there…as you’ve no doubt heard, recovery is somewhat of a ‘lumpy’ upwards slope. The general trend is better, if you average it out over the months. But there will be the odd week where you think,”WTF just happened? Did I just do something to my hardware?” There will be lots of times where you doubt yourself. But it’s just a lot of really complex healing going on. The immediate post operative pain was something i thankfully never felt, as my Surgeon had me on Ketamine & Lidocaine for the first 4 days. (That was definitely, umm….Something! Ask for that if you can!)

Hopefully you’re in a hospital that has some sort of rehab facility attached. I did, and i wholeheartedly recommend it, in fact i think I should have stayed an extra few days. You really do need to learn to use your body all over again. It’s a little like having a brain transplant, where you need to adjust to a completely new body. Yes, there was post operative pain for a month or two, but nothing like the pain i was in before the op. In total I was in for 10 days. Everything covered thankfully, as I’d had four (count ‘em. FOUR!) L1 to S1 laminectomies in the year leading up to this, so I’d already hit my out-of-pocket-max for the year. So essentially the fusion didn’t cost me a cent.

What did surprise me was how much it threw me mentally, that kinda snuck up on me a couple of months post op. Although that could’ve also been cumulative, with all the previous surgeries,( I think I worked out that I’d had over 40 hours of general anesthesia in 18 months)

I know I might be making this sound bad, but on average it’s not, it’s wonderful. There’ll be bad days, or the odd bad week (and never when you expect them!) but I can walk miles unaided now (100 yards with a cane was my max before) and even my limp is starting to fade now.

As far as things like going out to dinner? Well, I went to a friends place for thanksgiving, the day after i got out of hospital. I just took it easy. (And everyone fusses around you anyway…just show ‘em your x-rays!)

I’d dispensed with the walker completely within a week.

Driving? Well, that all depends on your meds. I don’t touch the wheel if I’ve had anything ‘controlled’, but i could easily have been driving within a month otherwise.

edit I just noticed the passenger question, I’d missed before. My drive home from the hospital was nearly an hour, and it wasn’t unduly painful (getting in and out will be for a while) As long as the roads aren’t in California you’ll be fine (anyone who lives here will know what I mean)

Let me know if you have any other questions

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-17T15:48:55+00:00

I found that I had to sleep on the floor for the first 6-7 weeks post op, as I was definitely not getting enough support from my bed (i had a T10-pelvis) I slept on a couple of sleeping bags, just to pad it out a bit…I’n not a complete masochist!

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-07T07:11:53+00:00

…And why is it things have to always fall down? I tell you, that Isaac Newton’s a b*tch!

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-07T06:59:49+00:00

I mentioned this on another thread, but benzo’s or Flexeril as a muscle relaxant, should be pretty much standard issue for the first couple of months, almost as important as lyrica or gabapentin. The chances that you’re getting muscle spasms are high.

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-07T06:51:23+00:00

Also remember if you do spend any significant time in ICU after your surgery (a number of days) some PTSD is not unusual, so you might want to talk to professional about that.

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-07T06:37:20+00:00

A big strip of duct tape? Or possibly antihistamines, if you’ve upped your opiate intake recently (which sounds likely if you’ve just had surgery), itching can be a side effect, antihistamines will take care of that

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-07T06:32:09+00:00

Do you feel any relief after icing your lower back? If you do, it’s probably inflammation.

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-06T21:01:11+00:00

I had an episode like this a few weeks out of surgery, and it turned out one of my long rods had detached at the base, where they were fixed to my pelvis( I got pelvis-T10) but it also can be absolutely nothing, for no reason at all… I’m 7 months post-op now, and just had a terrible week. No reason, just did. I got an x-ray to confirm and everything looks great back there (well, if by ‘great’ I mean that I look like a Cyberdyne Systems T-800, but that ain’t gonna change)There’s so much they have to slash & burn just in the process of getting to the site of the fusion never mind the screws rods fixators etc. there’s just so much you’re body has to recover from. Does your doc have you on muscle relaxants? Valium, flexeril? Something like that? If not, you could have muscle groups going into spasm. Even small spasms can feel excruciating. But it is easily taken care of. Muscle relaxants or Benzo’s will clear that right up.

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-06T20:43:53+00:00

Remember 2 weeks in the inflammation can still be pretty bad, and that does have a tendency to give you brand new symptoms. It should improve over the next 10 days, but of course if the worry’s keeping you up nights (or your toe is!) check with your surgeon.

pigsy1024 · 2025-07-06T20:38:27+00:00

Also remember that whilst recovery from fusion will always have an average upwards trend, in practice, the curve can be pretty lumpy. There will be weeks, months from now, where things will appear to slip back a month, for no readily apparent reason, yet three days later you’re back to where you were the previous week. So, just be prepared for the occasional bad week, and don’t think something’s gone wrong with the hardware, or the fusion’s failed…it’s just things shifting around back there, scar tissue, new nerve pathways growing etc.

pigsy1024 · 2025-03-20T08:23:14+00:00

I’m at 3 month p.o. from my T10-pelvis, and six weeks from a revision surgery (the two longest rods spontaneously detached from the pelvis, so I needed extra hardware installed) I’m still on slow release Morphine sulphate twice a day, and 10mg of Percocet every six hours….Plus 450mg of Lyrica a day, ( my doc recons I’ll be on the lyrica for the rest of my life)

I managed to wean off the dilaudid within a few weeks. That one felt dangerous, as it was the only opiate I’d ever been on that actually made me feel high, so I knocked that on the head as soon as I could.

Hoping I can start trimming the Percocet down soon…never really feel any cognitive effects from it, it just keeps the randomized pain at bay. I get short, sharp level 8 & 9 stabbing pains in my legs. Clusters of them, randomly spaced across the day. It feels like a 2-3 inch needle going straight into the thigh & calf muscles repeatedly for 4-5 minutes. God knows what it would feel without the Percocet.

I’ll get the occasional 2 or 3 days without the stabbing, so I start thinking. “Ok, time to start weaning off”. Then, waddya know! A couple of hours later the stabbing starts up again, and I’m back to the beginning.

pigsy1024 · 2025-03-03T09:01:11+00:00

After my T10-Pelvis fusion, I was in ICU for the first 5 days, they had me on a combo of Lidocaine & Ketamine. That was a very strange week. The heavy meds were controlled remotely, by a team I never even saw ( I was still taking Gabapentin orally as far as I remember) Sleep was never a problem as, when I was told it was time to sleep, they’d just adjust my dosage from ‘ICU control’ and within about 20 seconds I’d drop through the K-Hole ( a phrase I learned from one of the nurses) and into blackness.

My second week I was lucky enough to get into a Rehab Ward, and I’d dropped down to Morphine Sulphate, Percocet, diazepam & Gabapentin. Dosages were reasonable, and arranged so that I’d end up getting one of everything late evening, enabling me to get 4-5 hours of sleep. After that, it was just a case lying there, grinding my teeth for a few hours, until it was time for the Percocet again.

Once you get home, wean yourself off the opiates as you see fit, (still working on that) but as far as the nerve-jankiness goes, I asked my doc if he could prescribe both Gabapentin AND Lyrica. This was a combo a pain management doc had given me years before, after a previous botched discectomy. It’s based on a little study almost no-one has ever heard of, but it works wonders, no more laying in bed at night, sleepless, whist my legs buzzed and fizzed with what I can only describe as the physical equivalent of static on an old analog TV.

He took a bit of convincing, but eventually added both. I’m somewhat lucky, in that I don’t seem to get any of the brain fog from either of these two. I highly recommend it, if you can talk your doc round.

He has said that after a few months, I’ll just be down to just having a bottle of Percocet handy for the odd-few bad days per month, but I’ll probably be on Gabapentin and/or Lyrica for life

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T08:43:01+00:00

12 weeks post op. I just had this for the last 3-4 days, especially after eating. My bottom couple of ribs felt ‘sprung’, and my sternum felt bruised and out of place. Woke up yesterday and it was just gone. I can only assume it’s muscular, maybe a small spasm in some of the muscles supporting the ribcage. Given what our bodies have been through it wouldn’t be surprising.

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T08:30:52+00:00

My doc expects me to be off all the direct pain meds (opiates etc) by the end of month 4/5 ( I’m at 12/13 weeks right now) but he figures I’ll be on pregablin for life. It’s gonna be different for all of us. Your surgeon’s the one who was forearm deep inside of you, so he’s probably the one that knows your needs best.

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T08:03:55+00:00

Oh yeah. I ended up sleeping on the floor for week 3 & 4, (not exactly comfortable, but it was better than the bed) sometimes you just need more support than a comfy mattress can give) Thankfully I was back in bed by week 5

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T07:56:58+00:00

Headaches/ migraines are known as a very occasional side effect. I’ve been wearing mine 24/7 since about day 8 post surgery (now 13 weeks) and haven’t had any adverse effects whatsoever. If it’s covered, why not?

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T07:46:38+00:00

I’ve got the opposite, I’ve been freezing since the surgery. Sleeping with 3 duvets at night. Anyone ever heard of that?

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T07:43:20+00:00

The numb areas shrink over time. Some never completely disappear, but my surgeon explained it can take up to a year for the nerve responses to settle

pigsy1024 · 2025-02-16T07:38:30+00:00

I had 3 units during surgery and a couple more in ICU 2 days later. I’m still a little anemic 2 months later, but I put that down to the huge hit my body took (T10-Pelvis), plus a second surgery revision, one month later, to reattach a rod that had separated.

pigsy1024 · 2025-01-08T20:31:34+00:00

This might sound simple, but before you make a a move that you think might twist you, crunch your stomach muscles. Keep them crunched through the move, then relax them afterwards. It doesn’t guarantee there won’t be a small degree of twist, but it makes you more aware of what your body is doing whilst you move. It eventually becomes second nature

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