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Quote from: lelouche on February 29, 2020, 03:54:30 AMwould you advise me against going for 7cm tibias?

Would you choice now femur, even long tibia looks better?

Have you before/After pics of your legs?

thx )

Yeah, I think I would advise against 7cm on tibias.  The culture was different back in 2007: 7.5cm was considered average and reasonable, 10 was extremely ambitious but possibly doable (maybe you'd have to stop at 8.5 or 9), and 5 was a very conservative goal.  LL Forum changed that culture, so I wish it had been around back then.

One of the Beijing guys who did 5 got the feeling that a lot of fellow LLers there thought he was wasting his time and money to go all the way there and leave with just 5cm.  He said he had the means to go to Paley and get internals, but he had a correction that needed to be done also and Paley told him those would be two separate operations.  I think the insurance was going to pay for some of the correction but wouldn't do it if he were combining it with CLL, and he didn't want two surgeries, and that's why he ended up in Beijing.

I don't have any before pictures.

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Hello MDOW. How do you and/or your friends feel about your tibias when sitting while tibias are exactly perpendicular to the floor on a chair?
Did you try experimenting with different clothing techniques to reduce the super-long look at that angle?

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Hi! its been some years since your surgery. How is your life so far? Do you still feel any pain in your legs some time? What are the difference in your legs before and after op? thank you so much

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Quote from: Sanity on March 09, 2020, 06:34:33 AMHello MDOW. How do you and/or your friends feel about your tibias when sitting while tibias are exactly perpendicular to the floor on a chair?
Did you try experimenting with different clothing techniques to reduce the super-long look at that angle?

Nobody's noticed anything while sitting yet, interestingly.  I hardly ever sit like that because it puts a lot of pressure on my feet.  I usually put the shins at an angle.

One person noticed my standing knee height but chalked up to genetic differences.  I think the knowledge that you had LL or the presence of scars might make people think something happened surgically.

I was kind of surprised that pants don't seem to be an issue at all.  The place where the knee seems to be intended to go by the designer is usually right around where my knee is.  Pants fit me a lot better than they ever did.  One of the reasons, in fact the final straw that broke the camel's back and started my LL journey, was clothing.  There was a pair of pants I liked so much... 

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Quote from: mailaozu on March 09, 2020, 02:00:03 PMHi! its been some years since your surgery. How is your life so far? Do you still feel any pain in your legs some time? What are the difference in your legs before and after op? thank you so much

My life is all right.  I'm happier with myself and my place in the world now.  I don't think I'd have that same level of contentment if I'd stayed shorter.  This was a permanent improvement and not temporary relief from a temporary, imagined fixation that wouldn't help me at all.  It certainly did not fix every issue I had in life, nor did I expect it to.

My knees are sensitive right where the doctor opened them up to insert the nails.  I don't notice it unless I kneel, but they're very sensitive if I'm kneeling on a hard surface.  Soft surfaces, no problem though.

The legs feel a bit stiff sometimes.  Unrelated to that, the tibialis anterior muscles are quite weak and get tired easily.  I think the other calf muscles actually were able to grow enough and adapt to the new biomechanics, but not those.  A new discovery as previously I've just told people on here that the legs are weaker, but I've isolated the problem to those muscles based on practicing certain movements that use thsoe heavily and those that don't use them much.

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I am concidering ll i have one question my friend
After 20 year or 15 yrs of lenthening may i encounter muscle stiffness or different sensation in posterior vs interior muscles of tibia does it feel normal seriously thanks in advance sorry for my poor english.

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I don't notice a difference in sensation.

More stiffness in the posterior/lateral muscles of the calf.  Not much stiffness in front, but those muscles (tibialis anterior) didn't develop enough size/strength to handle the new bone length, so they get tired easily.  I had a fasciotomy on the tibialis anterior muscles, and this helped some.

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Why didn't you do femurs?

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Would you say it's harder to put on muscle on your tibia and femur after the surgery? Would you recommend putting on muscle before getting them done?

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Quote from: james696969 on March 30, 2020, 08:57:58 AMWhy didn't you do femurs?

Do you mean instead of or after?