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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 4:41 am
#51
some guy was 5'11 and did about 1 inch to grow 6' feet. he ended up in a nursing care. dr yuksel butchered him and he has ballerina feet. he only did like 3 cm with bad feet already. just know what your getting yourself into. i thought the recovery was easy but its not.
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 9:18 am
#52
Quote from: Beemer m3 on December 15, 2023, 04:41:16 AMsome guy was 5'11 and did about 1 inch to grow 6' feet. he ended up in a nursing care. dr yuksel butchered him and he has ballerina feet. he only did like 3 cm with bad feet already. just know what your getting yourself into. i thought the recovery was easy but its not.
Wow, he must have gone to quite a butcher if he got botched with only 3 cm of increase. Looked up Yuksel and he's based in Turkey, makes sense.
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 9:21 am
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Quote from: Body Builder on December 14, 2023, 11:50:34 PMEven if you wanted to increase your height you could have done just 5-6cm on femurs and have a good result with not much time and money spent.
3cm on tibias are ridiculous, especially when you are already 6ft and you did femurs too. And 6.4, is not a good height, at least compared to 6-6.2 ft. Thats why I said you harm yourself (because always LL is harmful, no.matter what, just not at the same degree for everyone but that doesn't have to do.only with the initial height but with many factors too) for nothing. And thats the truth.
But its your decision after all so it doesn't really matter to anyone else what someone does with his body.
I hear that, but my concerns are similar to Sky is the Limit's (I want 7-7.5 cm though): What if you have to deal with dysmorphia due to having weird looking legs for the rest of your life due to abnormal femur/tibia ratio? I use lifts and have to take hiding them into account, I don't want to have to do the same with my legs and have to cover them in specific ways, think about what clothes to wear, worry about going to the beach etc. I wanna be taller and then carry on with my life, I don't want to add a new layer of complication to my everyday life post-recovery. If you do double LL such that your femur/tibia ratio is normal that's it, your legs look normal and you don't have to worry about it (or altered biomechanics, arguably more serious).
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 9:36 am
#54
Quote from: Body Builder on December 14, 2023, 11:15:42 PMFor 3 cm on tibias you will need 4,5-5 months. 45-50 days for 1 cm.
For femurs maybe a little less like 40 days per cm.
Very bad decision though to do quadrilateral at your height and for amounts like 3cm. You harmed yourself for literally to gain nothing. Anyway.
Wait, I thought the lengthening is like 0.5-1 mm per day, so for, say, 7 cm, it would be 70-140 days.
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 6:19 pm
#55
Quote from: Body Builder on December 14, 2023, 11:50:34 PMEven if you wanted to increase your height you could have done just 5-6cm on femurs and have a good result with not much time and money spent.
3cm on tibias are ridiculous, especially when you are already 6ft and you did femurs too. And 6.4, is not a good height, at least compared to 6-6.2 ft. Thats why I said you harm yourself (because always LL is harmful, no.matter what, just not at the same degree for everyone but that doesn't have to do.only with the initial height but with many factors too) for nothing. And thats the truth.
But its your decision after all so it doesn't really matter to anyone else what someone does with his body.

As I have already stated in my initial post in this thread, the reason I am going to undergo a quadrilateral lengthening is to preserve the ratios between my tibias and femurs and to keep my biomechanics as intact as possible. I think you are underestimating the benefits of doing LL with a higher starting height. It is a tremendous advantage to have longer bones from the beginning if you are going to undergo LL. The amount of the lengthening is in proportion to the existing (initial) length of the bones very small in comparison to how much is usually lengthened in proportion to the initial length of the bones for people with lower starting heights. I also think that you are exaggerating the risks that may occur in the lengthening process. Sure, you have to take into account all the possible risks that may occur, but since the amounts of the lengthenings that I am planning to do is very small (3 cm + 6 cm or even 2,75 cm + 5,5 cm) compared to the huge amounts many people often do, I can easily undergo a quadrilateral lengthening, i.e. two surgeries in one go (with a couple of weeks in between), and be done with this whole procedure relatively easily. My height goal is 6'3 feet (190-192 cm), which is a much better and more solid height than 6 feet flat.
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 8:08 pm
#56
This is complete lunacy.
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 8:25 pm
#57
Quote from: LG1816 on December 15, 2023, 08:08:43 PMThis is complete lunacy.

I say let these crazies do it. They'll quickly realize how little benefit there is and how that money would've been far more useful on just about any other cosmetic procedure. Hair transplant, rhino, or even jaw surgery. Heck, even braces if you have crooked teeth will do you better !
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Posted on Dec 15, 2023, 10:12 pm
#58
Don't do leg lengthening when you're over 180.
Seriously
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Posted on Dec 16, 2023, 12:30 am
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Quote from: NailedLegs on December 15, 2023, 08:25:52 PMI say let these crazies do it. They'll quickly realize how little benefit there is and how that money would've been far more useful on just about any other cosmetic procedure. Hair transplant, rhino, or even jaw surgery. Heck, even braces if you have crooked teeth will do you better !

Funny thing you are planning on doing quadrilateral lengthening by up to 11,5 cm and you are calling ME crazy?

And just for the record, I am right now at this very moment in the middle of a bimax-surgery-process (jaw surgery). And do you want to know the best part? It's completely free for me! I live in a country with a publicly financed comprehensive healthcare system, and my case goes under specialised health care. So I am undergoing orthognathic surgery where they will perform a bimax and possibly a sliding genioplasty on me. My surgery will be in 1.5-2  years from now. I am now in partial braces and will get full on braces in the spring of next year. Only the braces themselves would cost me at least 6 000 euro if I would do it privately. The cost of the operation can go up to 150 000 ($) done in a private clinic in the USA. I went extatic with joy when I got opted for orthognatic surgery. And this is what opened a window for me to seriously consider undergoing LL.

The biggest question I have for now is: Should I do my quadrilateral LL BEFORE or AFTER my bimax surgery? That is the question. Could you give any advice or input in that?
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Posted on Dec 16, 2023, 12:36 am
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Quote from: limby101 on December 15, 2023, 10:12:26 PMDon't do leg lengthening when you're over 180.
Seriously

Did you read all my posts in this thread before spewing out your unreasonable negativity? For some people, LL is simply just beneficial. Take me for example. I have a quite long torso in comparison to my legs. Therefore, contrary to a lot of your "opinions" here on the matter, I can "afford" to do leg lengthening (not talking in a monetary sense here), beacuse I would look more proportionate as a whole with longer legs, which means that I would benefit from it a lot with a lot less risks that is normally linked to LL-surgery. It's very hard for me to understand how you can say that a person over 180 cm should not do LL, when it is clearly more safe for that person to do it compared to a person who is, lets say, under 170 cm, and is planning to undergo a quadrilateral lengthening. It seriously blows my mind how some people (not talking specifically about you now) logical thinking goes. Because the logical reasoning of many that have answered in this thread don't sit well with their own plans in regard to (C)LL. To me, it seems like some people deep down don't want me to take advantage of LL with the starting height that I have. People here are yelling about craziness and high risks, when them themselves are planning to undergo or have undergone even far more extensive lengthenings without any serious complications. People here should be more supportive and helpful in regard to my leg lengthening plans, because we all have the same goal, which is getting taller. It's not more complicated than that.
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