Hello guys, i am back here after some time. Many things happened in my life and now i am starting again to think to this procedure. I am not convinced completely because i am aware of the risks (even if I would go with the safest surgery and the safest lenght which is under 5 cm). The real reason i am here is that I am deeply convinced we should always think we have just one life and we should NEVER accept something we are not really satisfied with. We should always pursue our dreams. Now, being tall is one of the things i have always wanted (together with many others i am working on, like being social/popular, having a decent career, having pretty girls like you...) so why should i give up? Why should i accept something i dont completely like for the rest of my life?
Oh I forgot to tell you that i am Italian (central northern Italy, Florence maybe you know) but here i assurde you, i am slighly under the average and Anyway i am perceived by ANY girl as being shorty... I know it is nonsense because in theory i should be on the average side, but i guess the reason is that if you are really short you simply dont exist for many girls, so me, i am on the short side of those "taken into account" by girls...
I will not deny that the idea of being taller comes out also (not only) for a personal "revenge" against all those girls who did not show me any interest because i was not tall/attractive enough... Now, i have changed my face and I think I am enough attractive (not a model of course) but still not tall enough... Being taller than average would complete the process.
To be honest lonelywolf your height is not the problem im sure if you gain 5 cm you will still have the same problems with women. if you want to do the surgery because you dont like your height by all means do it but it will not help!
Just do 5 cm and be over with it man. You live one life, dont care too much about what others think. Your height is not bad at all though, its my height post surgery and I feel great about it.
5'10 in Italy and under average? It's in your head, buddy.
You have BDD. You can do as many surgeries as you want, you will never be satisfied.
It's an interesting question. Dr. Paley says he has found that LL improves one's psychological profile even for relatively taller patients and now he (more or less) won't use starting height as a factor to determine his patients
And at 177.5 theoretically you would be lengthening the legs a smaller percentage of their starting length + you wouldn't need to lengthen as much to get a certain final result. So there are reasons to believe it may even be safer for you than most of us here. You most likely could do 5 cm internal femurs relatively quickly and safely and have a 182.5 cm height, which is considered ideal in many places (6 feet) and have a relatively low risk of complications.
It sounds like you also feel your face is/was holding you back in your interactions with women. If you did LL, but it didn't end up helping much with women, would you still be happy? I think that's the question. It's not necessarily clear cut- the confidence boost from the height might make you happy enough for it to be worth it anyway.
The truth is most men are, in some way, considered second class compared to tall handsome men and it seems to cause some men some negative emotions. Its generally not possible to become a tall handsome man without the luck of genetics. As you can tell from the responses, plenty of people think the pursuit of this is taboo and have certain levels of disapproval because its not sustainable/achievable for most people. However, the truth is in a hypothetical world, if becoming a taller, more handsome man was quite easy without much risk or cost, people wouldn't be as judgemental.
Best of luck.
Italians and French are about the shortest Europeans I have met. Most of my friends are under 5'11. Most of them are in the 5'8-5'10 range.
No way 5'10 is short in Italy.
Same problem here but with 185 i don't feel tall enough.
I’m about 5’9.5 inches, broad shoulders (39 inch wide), 30 inch seam legs, so I’d like to hit 6 feet aka 3 inches.
I’m happy to have that height, and my doctor told me that was my trending height. But I ended up not having that height because of allowed my environmental factors to control me: stress late nights with computer and whole wack of stuff.
So here I am... in this forum, look for answers.
Bottom line I want to be my best self. And I can’t wait to get my femurs lengthened to hit 6 feet.
Do it for yourself, and don’t do it for others.
Go for it!
Quote from: OverSixFeetTall on October 31, 2019, 06:54:09 AMI’m happy to have that height, and my doctor told me that was my trending height. But I ended up not having that height because of allowed my environmental factors to control me: stress late nights with computer and whole wack of stuff.
This is wrong.
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