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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#1
Being this a forum about people willing to do an COSMETICAL high risk surgery, with probable secuels, it surprised me there are not so many guys talking about their mental health, so i'm doing it right now.
Im a 24 years old guy standing at 158 cm tall at night (about 5'2 to 5'3), and every day is to me a constant social anxiety situation when i go to college or some social event, i know people are surprised all the time seeing a adult dude that short, and that is so uncomfortable to me.
 I can do quadrilateral some day to reach, lets say, about 167 cm tall (5'6) which is totally reasonable to me and it could be so relieving.
At some point, i think that will solve all my problems, after all, i have so many other positive features, like a very cute face (strikingly cute at some point, the only thing that allow me to have some lucky with girls time to time), and my father, a completely self made man who born in poverty, built a fairly successful construction business over the years.,which i'm going to inherit someday, so my biggest problem rn by far its that i have the height of a 13 years old child.
It's kinda weird how much there are not so many guys my height at this forum, i guess that just confirm how much i am an outlier in the male height distribution.

I'm planning to do it at 30 years old like an upper limit.

A few years ago i proposed to my parents this surgery after realizing i was going to be this height the rest of my life, at 19 years old, so, a long time ago, and even my mother understood me and at some point she was ok with the proposal, my dad thought it was a total madness. Some months ago he told me he was worried about me not having a girlfriend since i was a teenager. Maybe he is right about how much this is a madness, because after all its a madness, mainly of you are not that short, but he doesn't seem to be aware how invisible you are to girls at this height (he is about 5'10)
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#2
Being this a forum about people willing to do an COSMETICAL high risk surgery, with probable secuels, it surprised me there are not so many guys talking about their mental health, so i'm doing it right now.
Im a 24 years old guy standing at 158 cm tall at night (about 5'2 to 5'3), and every day is to me a constant social anxiety situation when i go to college or some social event, i know people are surprised all the time seeing a adult dude that short, and that is so uncomfortable to me.
 I can do quadrilateral some day to reach, lets say, about 167 cm tall (5'6) which is totally reasonable to me and it could be so relieving.
At some point, i think that will solve all my problems, after all, i have so many other positive features, like a very cute face (strikingly cute at some point, the only thing that allow me to have some lucky with girls time to time), and my father, a completely self made man who born in poverty, built a fairly successful construction business over the years.,which i'm going to inherit someday, so my biggest problem rn by far its that i have the height of a 13 years old child.
It's kinda weird how much there are not so many guys my height at this forum, i guess that just confirm how much i am an outlier in the male height distribution.

I'm planning to do it at 30 years old like an upper limit.

A few years ago i proposed to my parents this surgery after realizing i was going to be this height the rest of my life, at 19 years old, so, a long time ago, and even my mother understood me and at some point she was ok with the proposal, my dad thought it was a total madness. Some months ago he told me he was worried about me not having a girlfriend since i was a teenager. Maybe he is right about how much this is a madness, because after all its a madness, mainly of you are not that short, but he doesn't seem to be aware how invisible you are to girls at this height (he is about 5'10)


hey buddy which area of the world are you from?

you can absolutely fix your situation and please dont feel bad about asking your dad for money, he is after all the one who procreated with your mother and let us guess, she is 5 foot tall?

your dad's height 5'10 is a real good height for males before social media so he would have absolutely no clue or ability to relate to your struggles

anyway, thats besides the point, what's done is DONE, time to fix this!


You want to do first limb lengthening on the femurs with an internal nail, and the safe limit for that is 8 cm, this will get you to about 166cm

after you recover from that you can do 5 cm more on the tibia for a perfectly reasonable 170-171 which would get you to actual human level. you will still be short, but at least at that point you can have your other qualities work for you, like your face and dad's money

beetches really care for money mainly, so you're set there, and at least at 170 you can shoemaxx to 175 so you wont have other men try to intimidate you all the time like right now


tell us which part of the world you're in so we rec some doctors for you to consult
let me know if you have questions!
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#3
I'm from Argentina, kinda average for word parameters i guess(?) maybe the average male height its about 175 cm tall or a little bit more.
 My mom its about 5'1.
Nah, my dad is not going to give me money for this, he is kinda right about how crazy is to do this surgery, the only thing i cant explain its how much struggle it means for a man being this short, and its compehensible. I will earn it in a few years (i hope) anyway, so i will do it with my money.
And... i want to keep myself in a conservative amount of lengthening to avoid at all cost injuries and long term problems, so i put my limit at 9 cm doing quadrilateral.
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#4
I'm from Argentina, kinda average for word parameters i guess(?) maybe the male average height its about 175 cm tall or a little bit more a little bit more. My mom its about 5'1.
Nah, my dad is not going to give me money for this, i will earn it in a few years (i hope) anyway, so i will do it with my money.
And... i want to keep myself in a conservative amount of lengthening to avoid at all cost injuries and long term problems, so i put my limit at 9 cm doing quadrilateral.
Thanks you for your reply bro

hey buddy i want to caution you against this high road youre taking where "I'll earn it on my own in a few years", first of all how are you going to earn on your own 75000 USD for internal precice max femurs?

why waste 2 more years of your life living on nightmare mode on top of somehow earning 40 000 USD per annum free and clear savings in a third world country? HOW? WHY ?!

do yourself a favor and go sit down with your dad and explain to him that you're living life on nightmare mode, are considering suicide, and you want him to invest 80 000 USD in fixing his own mistakes for impregnating a manlet factory garden gnome sized woman

tell him that after you finish the process you want to go into his firm and learn about how he does business so you can run the company together

work his heart strings buddy boyo, you cant afford NOT to

besides your height, you lucked out with a rich dad who can pay for this, while 99% of other boys your size have to actually save up working some wageslave type of job


and dont even tell me you plan on doing cheap a$$ lon femur in turkey, that's nonsense and you should forget it


when youre done your femurs you should do internal tibia, i hope by 2026 when you do it they would be using the precicemax on tibia freely


so your dad should prepare 150 000 USD to get you to 170 so that you actually have some enjoyment out of the next 60 years of your life

and also about muh long term problems, its 8 femur + 5 tibia not 9 cm combined which is nonsense, how do you have 75 posts here and not know this?


cheers buddy boyo keep us updated how it went with the dwarf chaser
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#5
This is what happens when short women will only get with tall men.  They don't have the foresight to think that if they have boy children, they are going to be very short.  ...and the cycle repeats. 
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#6
you can do a lot cheaper than 150k. 20k for tibs with Parihar and around 50k for femurs with Birk
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#7
If it means that much to you, you just need to grind. No way around it. I've read stories of people Ubering in the evenings after work and saving every penny to afford this surgery after a few years. If it's what you have to do, then you just gotta commit and grind it out. Good luck!
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#8
You should convince your dad to help you out. It's not crazy you want to do this surgery. He doesn't get it cause he's 5'10. I'm 5'2 as well. Life at 5'2 is unbearable. It's even slightly lower than the average height for women. It's not just women but getting respect from peers your age and other people. It's so demoralizing to be a short guy in any given space. You just feel like sh*t and worthless. Most short guys know what I mean.

Yes you can do it at 30 but do you want to lose out your 20s living and feeling like this? You're lucky cause your dad has the money he just doesn't get the gravity of what's it like being this height. Trust me there is no dignity or macho in slaving away your 20s saving for this surgery. We were brought into this world by our parents. We have no choice in our height. No choice in whether we want to be born to our parents so the least they can do is help us level the playing field to live a decent life.
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#9
You should convince your dad to help you out. It's not crazy you want to do this surgery. He doesn't get it cause he's 5'10. I'm 5'2 as well. Life at 5'2 is unbearable. It's even slightly lower than the average height for women. It's not just women but getting respect from peers your age and other people. It's so demoralizing to be a short guy in any given space. You just feel like sh*t and worthless. Most short guys know what I mean.

Yes you can do it at 30 but do you want to lose out your 20s living and feeling like this? You're lucky cause your dad has the money he just doesn't get the gravity of what's it like being this height. Trust me there is no dignity or macho in slaving away your 20s saving for this surgery. We were brought into this world by our parents. We have no choice in our height. No choice in whether we want to be born to our parents so the least they can do is help us level the playing field to live a decent life.
I don't think it's feasible to convince his dad. We all know the difference from 5'2 to 5'10 and you can't expect a normal person to really empathize what it feels like being wheelchair-bound. A more feasible plan is to deceive his dad that he gotta use this money for something else. And yeah I totally agree with you. I am only 5'3+ and I already feel life is very unbearable(ntm I come from China whose average height is way lower) and I can even say height really 'shapes' my life. If I were taller everything would change way a lot.

We gotta admit one's appearance really leads one's life a lot. I am not saying you should feel victim to blackpilling ideologies like if you are short you should kys but it's acknowledgable that life quality is influenced a lot by appearance.
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Posted on Jun 18, 2026, 8:25 pm
#10
Being this a forum about people willing to do an COSMETICAL high risk surgery, with probable secuels, it surprised me there are not so many guys talking about their mental health, so i'm doing it right now.
Im a 24 years old guy standing at 158 cm tall at night (about 5'2 to 5'3), and every day is to me a constant social anxiety situation when i go to college or some social event, i know people are surprised all the time seeing a adult dude that short, and that is so uncomfortable to me.
 I can do quadrilateral some day to reach, lets say, about 167 cm tall (5'6) which is totally reasonable to me and it could be so relieving.
At some point, i think that will solve all my problems, after all, i have so many other positive features, like a very cute face (strikingly cute at some point, the only thing that allow me to have some lucky with girls time to time), and my father, a completely self made man who born in poverty, built a fairly successful construction business over the years.,which i'm going to inherit someday, so my biggest problem rn by far its that i have the height of a 13 years old child.
It's kinda weird how much there are not so many guys my height at this forum, i guess that just confirm how much i am an outlier in the male height distribution.

I'm planning to do it at 30 years old like an upper limit.

A few years ago i proposed to my parents this surgery after realizing i was going to be this height the rest of my life, at 19 years old, so, a long time ago, and even my mother understood me and at some point she was ok with the proposal, my dad thought it was a total madness. Some months ago he told me he was worried about me not having a girlfriend since i was a teenager. Maybe he is right about how much this is a madness, because after all its a madness, mainly of you are not that short, but he doesn't seem to be aware how invisible you are to girls at this height (he is about 5'10)

good news, with quadrilateral you can reach something like 171 or even a bit more like 172/173, which is a decent height especially with 175 avg.

bad news, your dad is retarded. I do not have the will to have the conversation with my parents, maybe I will soon because I have less and less to lose with the day, and they may be in a situation to actually help financially. But also my dad is a similar height to me, so I don't know if he would understand or tell me to deal with it because he was able to a successful life

But you dad is 5'10, he should know. You seriously need to sit down with him, and really tell him what it's like, tell him in graphic detail, be deadly honest. Tell him you're doing it no matter what, but you simply cannot afford it on your own. Tell him he has one son and ask if he really wants you to live like this.

Maybe bring some studies and clips of what people say about short men to show him.

Seriously you need to hammer it home to him, if he can afford it easily and is denying you it, that is in my opinion an extreme level of abuse, and maybe he doesn't realize that.

If I was a dad and my son had such a problem, and I truly understood it as it was, I would do every single thing in my power to help. But most people are completely ignorant, or liars, and don't understand.

In fact I consider that if I have a son I would save money for at least 1 LL, just as important as I would save for a college fund, actually in my mind even more important. unless they were  like somehow 175cm then I'd tell them to get the money themselves.

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