Hello, I've posted here before but I'm here again anxious about my height and thinking more about this surgery.
I'm 170 cm, 16 years old and before I say anything, I've been heavily drinking and smoking since the age of 15 where I've only grown about 2-3 cm since then. My dad is about 180 cm, my mum is about 160,
My arm length (from around the top of shoulder to my middle finger) 30 inches of 76 cm. My sitting height is about 90.5 cm.
I compared my arm length to my 5'9 friend and we have about the same, my arm length looks about the same as his when I'm on tip toes making myself 176cm (1 cm taller) - and his arms look pretty long and lanky but somehow I have 'longer arms' than him or the same.
Anyways, but when I compare with my 6'2 friend, his arm length is ridiculously long, he's lanky and when I'm on tip toes standing at about 176 cm (without shoes), his arm length is a little longer than mine. He has really big hands too.
Is comparing my arm length with someone 6'2 always gonna make me look like I have short arms and does he just have really long arms?
If my goal height is 180 cm and my arm length is 76 cm is that nothing to worry about, or will I be a t-rex?
I don't consider doing this surgery until the age of 18, but if by then my height and arm length hasn't changed, will a +10 cm increase look okay if I have 76 cm long arms and a sitting height of 90.5 cm?
Also, what are the chances that anyone without knowledge of LL notice I did this surgery? Will I look somewhat proportional to someone of the same height as me when I increase to theirs? For e.g. If I have a friend of 180cm height and I get LL to 180cm, will I look normal? Or should arm lengthening be considered as well?
Because today I was comparing my sitting height to a friend that is 2 cm taller than me, and I'm at least 5 cm taller than him while sitting down, meaning I have a pretty large torso compare to an average person of my height.
Is there a way that I can also remove the scars from LL or if I consider doing arm lengthening, is it also removable? I have no problem with having less sports ability even though I'm really good at it, right now what is killing me is being short. I know I'm not 'really short' but my height is a problem for me, I feel as if I need to make-up for being short, for e.g be attractive and be funny, whilst my taller friends just seem to be more 'masculine'.
Most of my friends are taller than me and even some younger kids are taller than me. I also seem to have a short wingspan but long arm length, how is that possible? Anyways, if anyone has time, please read my questions and answer :3, thank you for your time!
Also, I was on roller skates and I am about 180 cm on them, I seem to look very 'suitable' with that height my mum has said, I've even compared myself with her in the mirror and she says I look proportional and no one is going to be checking for your arm length unless they're as "crazy as you when it comes to proportions".
My own thoughts is that I just look long-legged, my torso looks kinda short in this picture but in real life it looks pretty average compared to my 6'2 friend haha.
http://i.imgur.com/fkL7bCD.png
Btw, in this pic I'm 170 cm without shoes and I didn't edit the pic, I just put my roller skates on and then cropped my feet on-top of it.
Haha what are your opinions?
Sorry for the spam,
and without comparing the 'new height' of 180cm to my 170cm height it looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/rJoeLdv.png
Thanks for the reply guys, well I Guess I'll wait until I'm 17-18 to get the surgery? I'm planning to get 5cm on femurs and 5 on Tibias, is this recommended? How much will It averagely cost, in how long time will I be able to walk? I'm planning in doing this surgery at 17, will I be suitable for the army by 18 or probably not..
Either ways, my greater concerns aren't about being able to run and be athletic, I just don't want to walk weirdly, so will I be able to walk normal after these lengthenings? If so, in how Long time?
Also, my arm length is smaller when I'm at this height to my 6'2 Friend, is that normal for a 5'11-6'2 ratio?
I figured out how to edit, btw guys my wingspan is 172cm but my arm length is 76 cm (30"), since my arm length is of a guy of over 175cm+ I think I'll look proportional to other people of my 'new height', that is not the problem now for me. My concerns now are recovering and how well I'll recover, since I'm a really fast runner (10.024 seconds /100m), will I ever be able to compete at these speeds again?
If not, will I at least walk normal?
A lot of people tell me they think I'm lying about my 100m speed until they see me running, I run at one of the best speeds of my age in Singapore, even though I don't really care about my speed because no one will notice it until I beat the world record which is like at 9.6 or smth. All I know is that when I was timed by the P.E Athletes my record was a little over 10 and they were impressed because that is considered professional level, even though all records have been set below 10, so a little under 10.1 is not all that impressive nowadays.
If your regions best doesn't have anyone below 10, then that's a slow place, because no Olympic for men will let anyone run unless they have a chance to beat the world record and if they run at 10+/100m, obviously they won't be signed up.
And that means that I would be running slower than a lot of slow/overweight guys? Since usually in my school the average slow guys run at about 16 seconds / 100 m
In 10 years time after the surgery, it won't be possible to increase the score? It doesn't bother me anyways, just that 20 seconds in 100 meters is too slow to be true. That time is like jogging speed or a quick walking speed.
I've decided that I don't mind running slow, as long as I can run, I won't care whether it's slow but that I can do it for exercise purposes.
My problem now is the proportions, everyone who saw my picture, are my legs on the Long side or short side? With this lengthening will I look normal? About how much will it cost?
Thank you lads.
Also, should I take a pic without the trousers to see if the proportions will be more judgeable? Also I showed a Friend and he said even look better in the picture with roller skates than without
I don't know what to think anymore.
I dwarf all my 5'7 friends in sitting height, I actually have like almost the same sitting height as one of my 187cm friends which is ridiculous.
My dad has short legs and I've been told I have too.
For e.g in this picture http://i.imgur.com/kvqdxrU.png,
my legs look really short and that's how they look in real life.
And also comparing leg length with my friends (sitting-wise) I have shorter than them, like a pretty big difference. I think I have +6 cm sitting height over them. Like all of them, my sitting height is bigger.
I did a terrible job at editing, but this is what I would look like with underwear: http://i.imgur.com/dFFiXeH.png
I do look somewhat long legged but I think no one will ever guess I had LL unless I met one of the guys in this forum :] or maybe not even they could guess.
Plus I'm only considering this, but if I was to do it, would I look good?
The message above mine made me doubt the surgery even more.
Thanks for the replies, about the sciolosis, I showed a Friend and his Cousin has it and he says I don't look anything near to him, but idk. Showed my mum too, she said it doesn't look like it but maybe I have bad posture, cus I game a lot.
I know I'll never be the same athletic wise but tbh, I rather be tall than sporty. I feel really insecure walking around when 70% who pass me are about 6 foot. And I'm here being 5'7. If only a few people would make me insecure, the 6ft ones I wouldn't mind, but this is a constant reminder of how short I am. (I know there are shorter people but being under 5'8-9 is considered short where I'm from, in fact, even 5'11 is a little short.", but imo, it will boost up my confidence by light years.
And the editing was done again by putting on the roller skates and moving my tibia up a little, my knee down and my femur down. Thank you guys.
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