Quote from: CCMidwest on April 23, 2016, 12:52:12 PMThanks DIFM, wise words.
You stand 5'10 in your shoes? I stand 5'9 in my boots after an additional 1/2" lift, so not that much shorter.
I feel short, I won't lie. Part of it is the area of the country I live in, they really are taller in the midwest. When I travel for work I don't feel as short...then I come home. I'm actually planning a move to a more diverse area just to get past that.
With body shape, I have my own in house gym, so I've been a weight lifter for years. Honestly, part of my problem was joining the bodybuilding . com forum and seeing all the height garbage on the misc. Laughable I know, but that is part of what started all this. (inb4 Alu schools me on being butt hurt over hyperbolic internet comments, lol)
I do it for the love of reason and logic. I've had the internet for most of my life, I know how stupid it can be. And how god damn hilarious it can be as well:
https://twitter.com/meninisttweet/status/695351898447065088
DoingItForMe's Precice 2 Internal Femurs with Dr. Paley
Quote from: chineseguy on April 23, 2016, 07:42:30 AMDIFM, thank you for answering
do you mean you are an asian blood?
do you recommend this it to someone who is 167 cm like me?
Yes, I'm Asian. Do you have a lot of money and free time, and feel physical and mental pain when you look at a mirror? If so, then this surgery might help you get past that feeling of disgust when you look in a mirror or pictures of yourself next to taller people. But I want to make it very clear that that's the only real benefit from LL. Some people have these wild ideas that life is so much better being taller. And it is better, but it's only slightly better. Like now I can date a girl who's 5'8", when before I couldn't. But, before I'd date a girl who's 5'5". No big difference in my opinion, because in both cases, I was not single. Some say that they'll make more money being taller. But I made more money than 99.99% of the world while being really short. So I don't think it matters as much as people think it does. Some say that less people will make fun of them for being short. But you simply just have to ignore them, because if they don't make fun of you for that, they'll make fun of you for something else. There will always be something someone will not like about you.
Quote from: CCMidwest on April 23, 2016, 12:52:12 PMThanks DIFM, wise words.
You stand 5'10 in your shoes? I stand 5'9 in my boots after an additional 1/2" lift, so not that much shorter.
I feel short, I won't lie. Part of it is the area of the country I live in, they really are taller in the midwest. When I travel for work I don't feel as short...then I come home. I'm actually planning a move to a more diverse area just to get past that.
With body shape, I have my own in house gym, so I've been a weight lifter for years. Honestly, part of my problem was joining the bodybuilding . com forum and seeing all the height garbage on the misc. Laughable I know, but that is part of what started all this. (inb4 Alu schools me on being butt hurt over hyperbolic internet comments, lol)
I don't get jealous over billionaires, I do get jealous over guys my height or shorter that have a stronger mental frame of mind though.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
Man, that bodybuilding forum is toxic along with any old forum with that height garbage. I used to be like you and looked at study after study about how being short is disadvantaged. It really beat my self-esteem down. But there was a period of time even before LL when I stopped letting my own height bother me. And that was when I stopped browsing height-related forums such as this forum. It lasted for a good two years that I didn't think about my height. My mistake was looking into LL again, and then again going back to hurting myself by looking at how short people got the short end of the stick. It really helps to stop looking at forums like these, because you will end up feeling bad about yourself if you do. And why subjugate yourself to that torture? Focus on what's going great in your life. Measure your self-worth based on what you've accomplished rather than your height.
And yes, I know what you mean by feeling short by being surrounded by taller people. My best friend since childhood is 6'1". So you can see how I always felt short. But the reason why I was cured of my height neurosis even at 5'8", was because I was taller than most girls at that point. It was very rare for a girl to be taller than me. Plenty of guys taller than me, but I was almost always taller than the girls. And that really changed my perspective. I just tuned out all the guys and didn't really pay much attention to their height. And only focused on comparing myself to the women I saw. And then I felt tall. It also helps that I'm no longer an entire head shorter than my best friend. But surrounding myself with shorter people and/or only paying attention to shorter people really helped.
Quote from: Alu on April 24, 2016, 04:06:44 AMI do it for the love of reason and logic. I've had the internet for most of my life, I know how stupid it can be. And how god damn hilarious it can be as well:
https://twitter.com/meninisttweet/status/695351898447065088
lol
This forum needs voices of reason like you Alu! There are people here who are literally insane. (I hope I'm not one of them 
)
DIFM,
You should of been a therapist instead of a wildly successful app developer.
Just kidding, most therapists and shrinks make very poor money.
But yeah, I let the internet (and some irl events) destroy my self-esteem. Validating to know I'm not the only one that has fallen down that rabbit hole.
Thanks for the reality check.
thanks DIFM, I have a lot of time , my parent support me, my salary from being java programmer on xiamen is not enough. i dont envy rich people . i envy tall people who is 175cm. this thing start after i graduate college. I see i am taller than my mom just by 3 cm and my brother is now 177 cm tall. my dad is 173cm, also job require most 170 cm in china, height discirimation is too much in china, i hated it will be harder to have a 165 cm wife but not imposibble just harder
how your best friend feel when you do this? any bad reaction, did your friend notice it? what you say to him?
why did you choose femur over tibia before? I was thinking doing tibia before but i hate scar and i can still wear lift when doing femur
why not guicet too
Quote from: chineseguy on April 24, 2016, 03:24:26 PMthanks DIFM, I have a lot of time , my parent support me, my salary from being java programmer on xiamen is not enough. i dont envy rich people . i envy tall people who is 175cm. this thing start after i graduate college. I see i am taller than my mom just by 3 cm and my brother is now 177 cm tall. my dad is 173cm, also job require most 170 cm in china, height discirimation is too much in china, i hated it will be harder to have a 165 cm wife but not imposibble just harder
how your best friend feel when you do this? any bad reaction, did your friend notice it? what you say to him?
why did you choose femur over tibia before? I was thinking doing tibia before but i hate scar and i can still wear lift when doing femur
why not guicet too
None of my friends know that I had LL. I wore 2" lifts prior to surgery to get my friends used to my new height. But I didn't start with 2". I slowly eased them into it with 1", then 1.5", then 2". To them, I've just been getting taller and taller gradually.
I chose femur because I figured that it's easier to lengthen. I also heard that tibia can cause permanent knee pain when kneeling. I don't think I'd have gotten 8 cm on tibia. My shin muscles are very thick and not very flexible to begin with. And yes, it's easier to hide scars with femurs, because you can still wear shorts and the scars are hidden. If you wear shorts with tibia, scars will be visible. But scars can also be removed with laser scar removal surgery. I plan on getting that after I get my rods removed, so that there's no evidence of LL.
Hey DIFM, quick question, have you physically measured yourself on a height scale or even a tape measure to make sure you gained what the surgeon told you did, or are you basing it strictly on the Precice CM gain that is calculated on the X-ray?
I am asking because I've been told by others the physical gain is differing from the gain shown on the X-ray.
Thank you again for all your entries, you're a hero and helping others tremendously
T
I personally feel like I gained more than the precise cm.
Quote from: Iamready on May 07, 2016, 11:18:06 PMI personally feel like I gained more than the precise cm.
I think the important is what you fill like! Not the exact cm. right?
Quote from: Tiger5 on May 07, 2016, 05:29:38 PMHey DIFM, quick question, have you physically measured yourself on a height scale or even a tape measure to make sure you gained what the surgeon told you did, or are you basing it strictly on the Precice CM gain that is calculated on the X-ray?
I am asking because I've been told by others the physical gain is differing from the gain shown on the X-ray.
Thank you again for all your entries, you're a hero and helping others tremendously
T
The gain was a little over 8 cm when they used the height scale at the beginning and end of my lengthening. Either they measured me wrong in the beginning or my spine decompressed from all the lying around in bed. Or maybe a combination of both. I also went home to measure myself to make sure that they weren't lying about the gain. It was correct. I used a measuring tape to measure the height of a marking I made on the wall where the top of my head is.
What you might have heard is that the x-ray and actual height are a bit different. That is because the x-rays aren't accurate. But the doctors are aware of it and do tell you how much you should/may have actually gained.
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