***179cm male wanting 5cm (2.5 tibia, 2.5 femur) @ Paley***

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I am a 179cm, 25 year old male and I want to get a total of 5cm lengthened split between my tibia and femur (2.5cm each) from the Paley institute. I can just foresee a bunch of you pouring in below with comments like:

-   ‘your tall enough, don’t bother with LL’
-   ‘5cm is so small for such a big procedure, might as well go more since otherwise LL not worth it’
-   ‘Why break 2 bones just for 2.5cm, just do all 5cm in the femur’

With all due respect these comments are not really helpful for what I’m asking. I would appreciate it if you guys could stick to the topic at hand, which is what I’ve laid out in the first line.

I might well eventually end up just getting all 5cm in femurs, however the 2.5-2.5 split is what I want in an ideal world, and to me personally it actually seems quite minimal.

My questions are: How would be the best way to go about getting this done? What would time-frame be like and how long till completely back to normal? While I don’t care about finances as I’m wealthy, a grave concern of mine is scarring. Please discuss below

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Thank you all for the information in response to this thread, I appreciate it and encourage all to continue this thread.

Best,
Fernie

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Interesting

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Wouldn’t mind further thoughts on this

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You all make valid points

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Surely I’m not the only one out here who’s considering LL despite already being in what some might consider an ‘tall’ height range

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Bump

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Any diary’s on here of patients in similar circumstance to me who have gone through with it?

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That is, anyone actually lengthened just for a few cm?

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Do you have any photos, either of you? Who are you doing the 5cm with?