DoingItForMe's Precice 2 Internal Femurs with Dr. Paley

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DIFM,  thank you very much

is it possible to wear lift after?

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Hmmm...none of those positions are that hard for me. The one that I think you and I were both talking about requires a tad more effort than others, but I can do it. My flexibility has been improving because I've been making it a point (however annoying) to stretch every day.

I can almost touch the floor with the palms of my hands, but not quite. Hope to be able to do that again shortly. I probably would have recovered faster as well had I not slacked off with stretching. A big part of recovery from this is walking and stretching as much as possible. Having to work (read: sit too much) literally right as lengthening ended made it hard for me to focus on recovery.

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did you also think your gene in height and worry your children height will be short?  thank you

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Quote from: chineseguy on April 21, 2016, 11:19:50 AMDIFM,  thank you very much

is it possible to wear lift after?
Yes. And sometimes I wear one to balance out the ratio between my femur and tibia. I only do this if every inch counts and I'll never see these people ever again, such as a public event or business function. Most of the time, I don't wear one, because I feel that I'm tall enough already.

Quote from: YellowSpike on April 21, 2016, 01:58:49 PMHmmm...none of those positions are that hard for me. The one that I think you and I were both talking about requires a tad more effort than others, but I can do it. My flexibility has been improving because I've been making it a point (however annoying) to stretch every day.

I can almost touch the floor with the palms of my hands, but not quite. Hope to be able to do that again shortly. I probably would have recovered faster as well had I not slacked off with stretching. A big part of recovery from this is walking and stretching as much as possible. Having to work (read: sit too much) literally right as lengthening ended made it hard for me to focus on recovery.
Sitting on my feet is still painful to me and spreading my legs out further than 90 degrees is impossible. So that's probably why I have a lot of trouble with these positions. Prior to LL, I could spread my legs about 135 degrees or so. I'm able to touch the floor with the palms of my hands. Although prior to LL, I was able to touch the floors with my wrists. I try to sit with my legs folded now to give my legs a stretch even while sitting. I'm able to put my legs behind my head. So it seems like the areas where I've been stretching often has returned almost back to where it was prior to LL, but the ones that I haven't been working on much haven't. I'm changing that now and stretching more where I lost flexibility.Quote from: chineseguy on April 21, 2016, 03:13:30 PMdid you also think your gene in height and worry your children height will be short?  thank you
No, I don't care if my children are short. If anything, this would help my children be taller, because I could date taller women and add some "tall" genes to my children's gene pool. Anything above 5'5" is above average height for a girl, so if I date anyone above 5'5", I'm already helping my kids.

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what happened here

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You know, DIFM...I quit the forum and decided against LL partly because of your diary and recommendation against it. You seem intelligent and level headed, so I value your opinion. Trying my best to put this height nonsense behind me and just live my life...

Then curiosity got the best of me and I lurked the forum to see if iamready had an update. He did, and I hope he heals ok, but I ended up reading your update too...

I'm glad you are doing better, but now you say LL is an '8' on the "worth it?" scale?!?! (money is no problem for me)

That's pretty darn high.

But you also say that you would of been happy at 5'8, which I assume means if you were 5'8 to begin with, you would not of done this? (hard to know that for sure, I know)

I am 5'7.5...just 1/2 inch under the height where your neurosis was gone. (I put a 1/2 lift in my shoes to get to 5'9 with a 1" heel)

Man, I'm so confused. Half the time my rational mind is like, "5'7.5 is fine, never had any trouble...you are 5'9 in your boots" and then the irrational mind is like, "YOU COULD BE 5'9 OR MORE!!!!!"

Wouldn't be my first cosmetic surgery either. (not that the others are remotely comparable to LL)

I could be a 5'9, decently attractive, muscular, and very outgoing millionaire. Tempting AF!

Or is it all just a dream?

Man, why ya gotta change your recommendation? lol

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Quote from: DoingItForMe on April 22, 2016, 01:45:00 PMNo, I don't care if my children are short. If anything, this would help my children be taller, because I could date taller women and add some "tall" genes to my children's gene pool. Anything above 5'5" is above average height for a girl, so if I date anyone above 5'5", I'm already helping my kids.

I'm 5'7.5, my wife is 5'9

Our first kid: 75th percentile for height.
Our second kid: 30th percentile for height.

There are no guarantees.

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My personal feeling is that between 5'7 and 5'10 (a very frustrating range), every inch is almost its own "sub-league."

We already know below 5'7", and you're SOL (sh*t outta luck) in many ways. At 5'10" and over, you're safe, and if you want LL at 5'10" or over, you're just doing it for vanity/I wanna be 6ft reasons (but if that's your choice, then mazeltov).

5'7" is often the bare minimum for many women, 5'8" is meh, 5'9" is ultra close to being free from most height related issues (discrimination from women and other men), and at 5'10", you're fine 95% of the time (unless all your friends are super tall or the woman in question is just a straight up heightist b*tch, and you don't want those anyway).

For me, a strong 5'9" is where I want to be (based on evening height), because it's almost the same thing as 5'10", and you're 5'10" in basic shoes (and over in certain sneakers) at that height anyway. I'd rather be a proportionate and healthy 5'9" than a disproportionate/take forever to recover 5'10".

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Yellowspike,

Is there realistically any recovery difference between the 8cm or so that you and DIFM did, and the 3-5cm i'd have to do to hit 5'9?

Edit: I'm seriously considering DR. Guichet. I'd still wear my boots with the 1/2 inch lift, would put me at 5'10.5 in them. Being from the Midwest I often wear cowboy boots that give me a bit over 2" heel too, that's 5'11

DIFM sorry to clutter your diary

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Quote from: CCMidwest on April 22, 2016, 06:03:34 PMYellowspike,

Is there realistically any recovery difference between the 8cm or so that you and DIFM did, and the 3-5cm i'd have to do to hit 5'9?

Edit: I'm seriously considering DR. Guichet. I'd still wear my boots with the 1/2 inch lift, would put me at 5'10.5 in them. Being from the Midwest I often wear cowboy boots that give me a bit over 2" heel too, that's 5'11

DIFM sorry to clutter your diary

If you're doing just 3.5cm on femurs (especially with DR. G), you'll have a very, very fast and easy recovery. You'd have the first 2.5cm in just two weeks, and then I think maybe another week and a half for the remainder.

I'm just dreading having to do 3cm on tibias...hopefully it won't be bad for such a small amount of lengthening. Just sucks I gotta do that to my tibs to get where I need to be.