17 year old boy

Hi, everyone!

I am a 17 year old boy from Canada and have been considering limb lengthening surgery for quite a while. People have made fun of me for my height at school (5 feet 4) and I don't think I'll grow anymore as my growth plates are closed. Doctors say that the growth plates on my legs and arms are closed, but they say that my torso could grow a few more cm if I do stretching.

My parents are the main cause for all of this since all of my other siblings are the taller than me. I have given up and it seems that this surgery could be the only way out. However, people at my school have been are aware of the surgery and I am scared to do anything. I was thinking of going through with the surgery this summer, so that I could be ready for school and walk more normally(my parents are okay with it), but I just don't want it to be well known or obvious.

I have been reading this forum for a while, but I also stumbled upon a d group where there is good feedback from Dr. Becker. Does someone have any experience with all of this and how I can cope, because I just can't take it anymore.

Hey Man,

I'm doing the surgery with Dr. Becker this summer. Maybe we can also talk about mindset, limb surgery is one thing, but I think you have to do it while being in the correct frame of mind. Shoot me a private message if you need anything.

Take care my man!

Quote I was thinking of going through with the surgery this summer, so that I could be ready for school and walk more normally(my parents are okay with it), but I just don't want it to be well known or obvious.

You wouldnt be walking normally after summer. It takes much longer than that. You would show obvious signs.

I think your school summer holiday is July and August. If u have surgery in July, u definitely can’t walk normally in September. If u recover well, maybe you can walk normally in December.

Quote from: SilentGhost on May 13, 2023, 08:13:10 AMHi, everyone!

I am a 17 year old boy from Canada and have been considering limb lengthening surgery for quite a while. People have made fun of me for my height at school (5 feet 4) and I don't think I'll grow anymore as my growth plates are closed. Doctors say that the growth plates on my legs and arms are closed, but they say that my torso could grow a few more cm if I do stretching.

My parents are the main cause for all of this since all of my other siblings are the taller than me. I have given up and it seems that this surgery could be the only way out. However, people at my school have been are aware of the surgery and I am scared to do anything. I was thinking of going through with the surgery this summer, so that I could be ready for school and walk more normally(my parents are okay with it), but I just don't want it to be well known or obvious.

I have been reading this forum for a while, but I also stumbled upon a d group where there is good feedback from Dr. Becker. Does someone have any experience with all of this and how I can cope, because I just can't take it anymore.

oi laddie
here is the deal, you should not spend a single nanosecond thinking about what your school mates would say for your surgery because

1. its your life, and you will suffer for the entirety of your life if you dont do this surgery and get to human height. because of your young age you will think you would be able to make up for it with personality(kek) and accomplishments, but once you get to college age and god forbid, go to college, the true scale of your disability will hit you with the fury of a thousand mike tyson punches

2. those schoolmates of yours can go suck a deek as far as you should be concerned, they are already 5'9 and ++ and have no idea about your suffering and how much you will suffer in the future as well, anything they say of the sort of "its just height bro!", "make it up in other ways bro!", "just be more confident bro!" are useless memes that will only serve to harm you and your chances in the game of life

3. you are lucky as hell that your parents are already on board to pay for your surgeries(yes you need both femur and tibia after)

4. you should skip one year of school to focus on the first surgery(femurs for max increase of 4 inches), you are young so you will recover very well and fast for which you're also lucky

5. youre turbo manlet height so even if your school mates know about your surgery, everyone will forget within like a week, and also you could change schools and block all your friends from your old school if its such a big deal for you

many members of this forum have finally saved the money for this surgery in their 30s so imagine the horror of spending your prime years (your 20s), at your invisible height, girls are height nazis these days so it would be over for you before you even hit 20

Hi, everyone!

I am overwhelmed from all of your support. It really does mean a lot to me.

I was thinking of getting the limb lenghtening surgery for femurs first -- 6-6.5 cm (because the recovery is faster and so I don't make "wide legs"). After some years, I hope to do tibia.

I know you say that school mates can go suck it, but in my school, the values are so messed up, that me, as a 5feet4 boy I don't really have anything to show or prove myself. Doing the surgery would only make me more vulnerable to even more bullying. I was thinking of skipping a year of school (and be online for awhile), but that would again be some kind of a sign.

I don't know...it is just a lot to deal with both physically and emotionally. Furthermore, as I was so depressed these few months, I stopped working out and everything went to  .

I met up online with a patient of Dr. Becker who is in his 40s and he is already on 5.3 cm femurs and he walks great with crutches.

What do you think?

If your parents are paying and you live in the states I would recommend Paley, Assayag and Rozbruch. At your age the recovery should be pretty quick.
This is one of the rare times I agree with the black pill members and think that at 5'3 this surgery is a must in order to have a normal dating life

1. yes femurs first, because you can gain the most on the femur, higher vascularity(surrounded on all sides by thick muscle) leads to better nutrition and oxigenation of the break site

2. if your surgery includes IT Band release you will not get wide legs

3. 6-6.5cm is not the most you can get out of this, you should strive for 10 cm as youre young and can recover this "usually on the upper limit" amount

the thing is, you live in Canada, and there is some female doctor there doing precice, which is a magnetic nail and admittedly the most comfortable nail on the market as you extend it with a magnetic machine that you put on your leg every day 4 times, but precice is a flimsy non weight bearing nail so i would not recommend it. non weight bearing means full wheelchair mode for 5-6 months and insane lower body atrophy. i mean yeah, you can walk with a walker if youre super light, but why risk bending the nail? one wrong step and you bend the nail! after that you need a new surgery to extract the nail and insert a new one, and you pay for the surgery out of pocket too, it wont be free!

so you should convince your parents to let you fly over to Europe where you can pick these WEIGHT BEARING nail options such as "Betzbone" - becker in germany, G-NAIL - dr guichet in london/milano, or G-NAIL with giotikas in athens, greece

the general forum opinion is that G-Nail with giotikas is your best choice out of these 3, as he is very experienced, and charges the least amount of money for it, at 47000 eur

4. you should definitely take 1 year online school, basically when the summer vacation starts plan to do your surgery, and plan to have absolutely free schedule for at least 1-1.5 months after the surgery to concentrate on recovery and the lengthening process and therapy, after that you can start doing some online work for school as you will get into a proper routine

you can fly back from europe to canada in 2 months and then send xrays to the doctor every 3 weeks

5. if youre bullied for your height, you definitely need this surgery. forget about your school mates seriously, focus on the surgery and yourself

6. if you resurface after you can walk properly you can tell you had a late growth spurt and thats it, no biggie


anyway, im hoping your parents are open to the idea of doing the surgery in europe, and arent some blue pilled cucks thinking that you should do it in Canada with gdalevitch(lol, a woman doctor for LL) and then you just get a lower body xray in canada and make online consults with the xrays with becker, guichet and giotikas and you pick the doc you like the most and go for it

TIME TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE BUDDY BOYO

GOOD LUCK

SilentGhost this is genuine advice, from someone who also had height neurosis in high school. I’m talking to you now as I would to my younger self.

Forget about doing LL while in high school. I know emotionally you are in a lot of distress. But it wont end well trying to mix LL with school. It will just cause more pain and difficulties.

You are very young, and you have lots of time to do LL. For now focus on completing school. I know you really desire respect etc. from the others because it is only human.

But realize this: if people are disrespecting you because of your height it is because you are in an unhealthy environment etc.

I would also recommend talking to a therapist about the emotional distress. Not to talk you out of LL. Because that is your choice. But simply to talk about the emotional distress from the disrespect etc. Because they can be a great help in managing emotions in an unhealthy environment and not let it affect your focus in School and the gym.

The best move you can do, and I wish I could turn back time and do this myself, is just to focus 100% on School and gym/sports.

Once you have completed school you could take a year off to focus on LL.

Quote from: TheDream on May 13, 2023, 01:40:08 PMSilentGhost this is genuine advice, from someone who also had height neurosis in high school. I’m talking to you now as I would to my younger self.

Forget about doing LL while in high school. I know emotionally you are in a lot of distress. But it wont end well trying to mix LL with school. It will just cause more pain and difficulties.

You are very young, and you have lots of time to do LL. For now focus on completing school. I know you really desire respect etc. from the others because it is only human.

But realize this: if people are disrespecting you because of your height it is because you are in an unhealthy environment etc.

I would also recommend talking to a therapist about the emotional distress. Not to talk you out of LL. Because that is your choice. But simply to talk about the emotional distress from the disrespect etc. Because they can be a great help in managing emotions in an unhealthy environment and not let it affect your focus in School and the gym.

The best move you can do, and I wish I could turn back time and do this myself, is just to focus 100% on School and gym/sports.

Once you have completed school you could take a year off to focus on LL.

i dont agree with your advice

1. its school, its not college. school doesnt even matter in the grand scheme of things. school is just where you get high enough grades to be able to get into a college with the specialty you want

you advise him to do one more year of school and get 1 more year of bullying memories imprinted forever in his brain

2. gym? what gym at 5'4? lmao


OP should be doing LL THIS SUMMER if he wants to save himself the mental trauma of more bullying, and more depression. take action NOW