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“Don’t do it!  You will be ok for ten years or so. Then you will experience pain and weakness. You will always have trouble with your legs.
I had leg lengthening to correct a discrepancy from previous surgery. You will have a callus of bone where it regrows. Look into this area of research. You have a chance of amputation from infection or injury. You will also go through excruciating pain to get the length. I cannot imagine a doctor who would do this unless absolutely medically necessary. You won’t always be young.”

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Quote from: chicitita on December 01, 2021, 08:20:24 PM“Don’t do it!  You will be ok for ten years or so. Then you will experience pain and weakness. You will always have trouble with your legs.
I had leg lengthening to correct a discrepancy from previous surgery. You will have a callus of bone where it regrows. Look into this area of research. You have a chance of amputation from infection or injury. You will also go through excruciating pain to get the length. I cannot imagine a doctor who would do this unless absolutely medically necessary. You won’t always be young.”

How true is this?

Last I was aware, there's no real data looking decades later at cosmetic leg lengthening patients and whether or not they have developed joint problems, arthritis, etc.

What's true is that any surgery has a risk of complications and you have to consider the risk vs reward for you personally.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on December 01, 2021, 08:46:17 PMLast I was aware, there's no real data looking decades later at cosmetic leg lengthening patients and whether or not they have developed joint problems, arthritis, etc.

What's true is that any surgery has a risk of complications and you have to consider the risk vs reward for you personally.

He talks about pain,infection and amputations but :
He probably did externals and depending on the segment it probably have been really hard .
Also ,the risks he mentioned are real and we know but with a good surgeons (not even a good one just a regular ok surgeon)..infection that requires amputations seems really beyond my imagination .
Maybe in india with a bad doctor .
Pain and difficulty are also things we already know .
Only new thing is the long term problem he mentioned  but it's the first time I see such a thing after the post of many years ago about this guy s apparent convo with a doctor who said same things to him .
The doctor was not mentioned in that topic .

So idk but knowing who said this/mehod/doctor would be helpfull

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The first part has some kernel of truth in it, we don’t know the long term effects very well, but that doesn’t mean you WILL have these things happen. He has a bias from his own experience and it genuinely sucks that he sounds like he is struggling. In the US at Least the risk for  amputation is basically zero. The statement you won’t always be young can be used against his own point, maybe LL will greatly improve your life in your young years.