Thank you DoingItForMe
I didnt´t understand why do you want yo do just 2 cm.
Are you thinking in tibias or after the experience of this surgery is enough for you?
Quote from: yagen on November 27, 2015, 07:50:03 AMThank you DoingItForMe
I didnt´t understand why do you want yo do just 2 cm.
Are you thinking in tibias or after the experience of this surgery is enough for you?
I never planned on doing 2 cm more. You might be thinking of YellowSpike. I'm happy at where I am right now.
It feels good to be average height. I went to the mall yesterday in my crutches to try to work out my legs and to shop for longer pants - all my old ones don't fit anymore. I plan on walking without crutches some time within the next 30 days or so, so I thought it'd be a good time to start gaining back my legs muscles. First of all, it's very very tiring to walk around in crutches. I think I only walked like 1/4 mile before I got winded. Back then I could walk for miles. Secondly, wow. It's a completely different feel when you're 5'9" vs 5'6". I don't tower over people like a 6' guy would. But I do see people who used to be taller than me now shorter than me. Half the males are now shorter than me. Almost all girls not wearing heels are now shorter than me. And even the ones wearing heels are shorter than me. I'm very very happy that I'm 3" taller. It changed my mindset. No longer am I cursing myself for being born with short genetics - something I have no control over. Being short no longer crosses my mind. It doesn't matter that I'm still 1" shorter than the average white US male. I can't tell that I am. If I ever feel like being taller than average, I just have to put on my 4 cm shoe lifts. But I don't find them necessary anymore. I can walk around without shoe lifts and feel fine about it. Anyway, I'm very very happy with the results. I'm just getting very sick of being disabled. It hurt a lot when I walked yesterday, because my knees were weak and so were my gluts. When I went home, I had aches all over my legs. I don't even know if the pain would be permanent - though, I highly doubt that it is. But not knowing makes me question my decision to do LL. If I had pain for the rest of my life in my legs, would I still have gotten LL? I probably wouldn't have.
I've read from a couple of doctors that when you lengths femurs you don't get the entire lengthening amount due to angle of the bone or something like that. Are you 175cm all day or do you drop below?
Quote from: theuprising on November 30, 2015, 03:56:15 AMI've read from a couple of doctors that when you lengths femurs you don't get the entire lengthening amount due to angle of the bone or something like that. Are you 175cm all day or do you drop below?
Im curious to know Paleys take on this.. To me I've always thought it wouldn't matter because the bone was always at a slight angle and produced your natural height. It's still connected to the hip and knee so you would think a 5cm gap is a 5cm gap. All the people that have lengthened that I have read about, have gained the height that they lengthened....... Yet it also makes sense on a mathematical level that you wouldn't gain as much height as you lengthened.. Would be good to have this put to bed once and for all by the worlds leading surgeon in this area.
Btw DIFM,
I'm 5"6 and it was truely cool reading about your experience at 5"9 at the mall. It's the way I envisioned it.
I feel very lucky to be 5"6 and have the opportunity to be within the lengthening range that will put me at average height.
Quote from: theuprising on November 30, 2015, 03:56:15 AMI've read from a couple of doctors that when you lengths femurs you don't get the entire lengthening amount due to angle of the bone or something like that. Are you 175cm all day or do you drop below?
Sure, if you want to get that technical about it. The angle of my femur is 4.5 degrees - checked on Photoshop. If the longest side of the triangle is 8 cm, and two of the angles are 4.5 degrees and 90 degrees, what's the length of the 2nd longest side - meaning the actual height gained? Answer: 7.98 cm. That's .2 mm difference. So, you're kind of splitting hairs here. I mean, literally, that's like the width of two human hairs.
I'm not 175 cm all day, I'd assume. 175 cm is my morning height. I don't know my night height. I don't have the height measuring machine like they have at the doctor's office.
Quote from: DoingItForMe on November 30, 2015, 06:12:18 AMSure, if you want to get that technical about it. The angle of my femur is 4.5 degrees - checked on Photoshop. If the longest side of the triangle is 8 cm, and two of the angles are 4.5 degrees and 90 degrees, what's the length of the 2nd longest side - meaning the actual height gained? Answer: 7.98 cm. That's .2 mm difference. So, you're kind of splitting hairs here. I mean, literally, that's like the width of two human hairs.
I'm not 175 cm all day, I'd assume. 175 cm is my morning height. I don't know my night height. I don't have the height measuring machine like they have at the doctor's office.
Wow just asking a question don't rage on me. yellowspike mentioned he got 0.5cm less so I was just curious. Most people usually use mid day height as well.
Quote from: Deads on November 30, 2015, 05:20:39 AMBtw DIFM,
I'm 5"6 and it was truely cool reading about your experience at 5"9 at the mall. It's the way I envisioned it.
I feel very lucky to be 5"6 and have the opportunity to be within the lengthening range that will put me at average height.
Yea, the feeling is great, man. I wear some thick soled sneakers, so I'm closer to 5'10" than 5'9" with shoes on. And let me tell that it feels awesome to not have every male look down on you in the literal sense. I also now get to see how a 5'10" would view a 5'5" or 5'6" guy. And... I have to say, I get it. I get why tall guys discriminate against short males. Short males just look less intimidating.
Also, I see how it's so unfair it is for short guys to try to get girls. Even though I'm in crutches, girls talk to me more than when I was 5'6". Oh man, the difference is so significant. It reminds me of the difference between when a girl doesn't know I'm a millionaire and when they find out. Girls are just more chatty and interested in getting to know me more. Now that I'm average height and a millionaire as well, it's like playing the dating game on easy mode. Now I just need to get jacked up again. Muscle atrophy sucks when you're not allowed to go to the gym for half a year. The only muscle group I think that stayed the same or got bigger are my shoulders and traps, because of all the crutch/walker walking I had to do.
Quote from: theuprising on November 30, 2015, 06:30:03 AMWow just asking a question don't rage on me. yellowspike mentioned he got 0.5cm less so I was just curious. Most people usually use mid day height as well.
You misjudged my tone of voice if you thought I was raging.
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