tell them the truth when they notice. they will find out at some point anyways. you cant hide the truth forever.
and it ll make you look even worse.
nobody needs to explain nothing to friends. if its such a problem with some friends you can even leave them. friends are usually temporary anyway.
problem arises with spouse. if your already married then NO WAY you can hide this from your spouse.
But I think most people here are not married and have no GF and want to hide leg length surgery from their wife in the future. theoritically possible but how someone can sleep well at night with such a big secret I dont know. Atleast make up something like you had an accident or something? If possible try to get your doctor to write a letter to that effect so that you have peace of mind. But I dont think any doctor in the states would do something like that. you should hope that you have some deformity which gets written in the surgery papers and not the leg length part.
Quote from: 10cmOnTibiaOrGTFO on February 09, 2021, 05:21:32 PMtell them the truth when they notice. they will find out at some point anyways. you cant hide the truth forever.
and it ll make you look even worse.
This. If you're 30 getting LL, obviously you didn't grow as a late bloomer. And people will notice if you're 2-3 inches taller than the last time they saw you. If you're evasive about it, that'll spur more curiosity and then they'll remember Gattaca or some TV show about dwarves and figure it out. There's no other believable explanation.
If they haven't seen your legs much, maybe you can get away with saying you had severe bowed leg correction.
Quote from: las vegas baby on February 09, 2021, 05:31:41 PMnobody needs to explain nothing to friends. if its such a problem with some friends you can even leave them. friends are usually temporary anyway.
problem arises with spouse. if your already married then NO WAY you can hide this from your spouse.
But I think most people here are not married and have no GF and want to hide leg length surgery from their wife in the future. theoritically possible but how someone can sleep well at night with such a big secret I dont know. Atleast make up something like you had an accident or something? If possible try to get your doctor to write a letter to that effect so that you have peace of mind. But I dont think any doctor in the states would do something like that. you should hope that you have some deformity which gets written in the surgery papers and not the leg length part.
I think it has to do with the fact that people forget they even had the surgery after a long enough amount of time. It just becomes part of your past. Like if you broke a bone when you were a kid, you might remember that once in a while, but you wouldn't think about it every day once it healed. You would even get used to having a taller perspective, and just being taller and it wouldn't be something special anymore.
Quote from: BelowTheMean on February 09, 2021, 06:09:08 PMI think it has to do with the fact that people forget they even had the surgery after a long enough amount of time. It just becomes part of your past. Like if you broke a bone when you were a kid, you might remember that once in a while, but you wouldn't think about it every day once it healed. You would even get used to having a taller perspective, and just being taller and it wouldn't be something special anymore.
good perspective. as a non patient I always think it will be number 1 on my mind if I ever do it. Looks like its not true.
its just very hard to hide it from immediate family tho. I mean parents and siblings. theyve seen you for so long and your probably in their height range. So they will know that youve grown. Now whether to hide it from your spouse given that your immediate family knows is a big question. Your sister will probably end up telling her husband and your brother his wife. so its outside the family now. and then women gossip. heck even men gossip. the truth will eventually reach your spouse.
Depends how much you lengthen. If you lengthen like 5 cm or something, you can probably play it off as posture or something. If someone asks how come you're taller, just say you started doing some exercises and now you stand with better posture or something.
lol, you get LL to overcome your height insecurity then after your next insecurity is the fear of getting clocked for having it done? great job guys, totally mentally stable condition 
If you're past your early 20s and even then it's rare to keep growing, then really there's no getting away from the fact people may well realise. Personally I'd be happy to just tell them. I already wear inserts etc. and dress in a way that makes me look "average height" e.g. 5'10 or thereabouts. I don't care too much about telling people or people knowing. I wasn't able to have the surgery done when I was younger and I can't sadly turn the clock back now on that. Just own it and be proud of your new height.
I just thought of a funny one.
"I had a severe (boating/skiing/paragliding) accident and my leg bones were completely shattered and I fell in a coma. The doctor doing my emergency surgery didn't know how tall I was, so based on the size of my torso and my wingspan he thought I was (+3 inches from original height) and put my leg bones back together based on that. I didn't even realize I had become taller until I woke up from my coma 
"
Probably too incredible, but it would be funny if you convinced someone that this was real.
I dont get all the concerns here to be honest. I would literally say like the Alchemist "Oh yeah? Cant complain" with a smile . Most people probably wont obsess so hard over it anyways so just be cool.
People dont care that much about you as much as you'd think.
If someone were to keep nagging me about it I'd just tell him to stop being so goofy lol.
I do understand it will be slightly difficult for those with a spouse though
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