Do you hide you had a LL surgery to get taller to the people you know?

It have some sense to people who are lengthening up to 7cm (2.5 inches) taller probably, is still scusable some way, but those who realize quadrilateral and reach up to 10 cm and more (4 inches) how do you confront people seeing you a lot taller? they surely will ask whats about your absence for a couple months, what do you say?
I need to hear some experiences from you guys

People will notice it but most don't make the connection with CCL, because they don't even know it exists. Now if you want to hide it a little or make the change less abrupt

A solution is to use elevator shoes 50% or 60% of your target height gain and a hairstyle that gives you a few cm for a few months (years obv would be better)
In fact, even clothes with vertical stripes may help, the goal is to get people used to perceiving you taller before surgery, making the transition smoother.

This is my plan before going for quadrilateral CLL

LOL at using elevator shoes prior LL to make people think that nothing happened to you post LL. You guys don't realize the simple fact that LL changes your leg length which is very noticeable starting from an inch of lengthening on any segment. People visually remember you as a whole and when you lengthen your legs by significant amount they will suspect it immediately, along with obvious height increase.

Shoe lifts give about 1 inch of relative height advantage, unless you wear 3 inch heels. That 1 inch is nothing when compared with 3 inch relative height increase you get with femur LL, not to mention that the femur itself becomes much longer physically and visually.

The point of getting LL is to become significantly taller than your starting height so it's silly obsessing hiding it in the first place. It defies the purpose of getting this done.

Now, imagine someone gets quadrilateral LL and does 4 or 5 inches. There's no way you can hide that to your friends and close people. Your proportions will change dramatically and 4 / 5 inches of height growth can't be hidden either, even if you wear 8 inch heels before the surgery.

yeah agree people are going to notice that something is off/change , this is just to acclimatize them, and create possible deniability

also most would not be able to pinpoint what is off, prob gona attribute to weight loss and what not, and ultimate the ones that do call you out, fk it, just dismissed and refuse to explain imo

but agree there is no 100% hiding this

It's impossible to hide more than 1 inch height increase.

This is your 5 inch height difference between 2 men:

https://ibb.co/VJkxkz1

And, remember, this is the amount you can get with double LL more or less safely. Even 6 or 7 inches is possible in 2 surgeries and has been done numerous times.

As you can see, starting from 5 inches height difference becomes too dramatic and people who know you well will simply get stunned when they see you if you gain that much height through LL.

Quote from: Metaphyglv on July 31, 2024, 04:54:56 PMIt have some sense to people who are lengthening up to 7cm (2.5 inches) taller probably, is still scusable some way, but those who realize quadrilateral and reach up to 10 cm and more (4 inches) how do you confront people seeing you a lot taller? they surely will ask whats about your absence for a couple months, what do you say?
I need to hear some experiences from you guys

Why you cares about that ?... You are taller, so why to hide that ?
Only people who are shorter are trying to hide that...

Me, personally I told the truth only to 4 person (and only 2 of them saw me actually), but the rest of them not even know yet. I want to meet them only when I am able to walk normally, so to be a full surprise or to shock them.

I have a joke, when they ask me why I am much taller, I will say to them: "Are you crazy, how could I grow up at my age ?... I am an old man !... Maybe you decreased, because of your age and lack of physical activity..."

Anyhow, it will be a shock for them, because they not even know this procedure even exist. Just thinking to the fact I broke 6 of my bones and I suffered like crazy for 5 months in wheelchair, is hard to imagine ! ... And, at my age, is even more shocking and not understandable !

I have not told anyone directly that I did CLL (even my own wife), the most I have told anyone (when asked directly) is that I had LL for a leg length discrepancy.
I gained 8cm total (171 cm to 179 cm Femur, internal) in my mid 50's, I did unilateral and had some complications so the whole process took 6 years and 4 rods (a Fitbone rod stalled on one leg, and 2 years later I managed to bend a Precice rod on the other leg)!!.
At first (before CLL) i started wearing 6 cm elevator shoes so I appeared ~ 4 cm taller, this was not too much of a gain (and not too painful on my lower back..) and people acclimatized to my new height quickly.
After the 8cm I wore standard ~ 2cm shoes, and then after a year used 2 cm lifts in my shoes.
Some people (friends mostly) have asked me about my height gain over the years, usually this has come from people who have not seen me in years, I tell them my spinal surgery(which I did have 7 years ago) gained me a few cm , and then I had an LLD surgery  which gave me another few cm's, they are happy with my explanation, and if not that is their problem.
If I am not asked then I don't give an explanation, it is my business tbh, and if they wanna gossip then that is on them.