Is this a good idea for me?

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Quote from: DoingItForMe on January 02, 2016, 01:17:41 PMSkydiving and roller coaster rides don't leave you with pain and loss in athletic ability and possibly shortened lifespan afterwards. This surgery is not some trivial matter, and "praying to god" will not do jack for you. There's no guarantee that life will be better afterwards. You're suffering what is known as "the grass is greener on the other side". You THINK that it's better, but unless you yourself went from 5'10" to 6', then you really are in no position to tell him that life would be better. Just because you see 6' guys living a better life than you doesn't mean that you will have the same life as them. I used to be 5'6" and I live a better life than most 6' guys. Height isn't everything.

People here aren't being negative for negativity's sake. They're trying to save someone from an unnecessary surgery where the cons might outweigh the pros in this case. With that being said, I do think that if you're really that unhappy with your height, then go do the surgery. But don't for a second try to think that the surgery is as easy as skydiving or rollercoasters. And don't even think that your life will better afterwards, because it's not guaranteed. You could be having pain even months after lengthening like I am suffering now and other patients are as well. Everyone thinks they're tough and can deal with the pain, until they actually go through with it.

Like I said being short has it advantages than being tall yes you can live a better life than no matter what. I  rather do the surgery and be taller and achieve that new height. The surgery may be painfull it may last up to 2 years but I dont want to die one day knowing that I never got something that I wanted. Some can handle pain and some cannot and yes may lose your legs with this surgery but then you can use prosthetic legs afterwards and live a life even it goes wrong. So it is a dangerous route yes nobody has influenced me to this surgery but I want to have this in my life and let nobody judge me and tell everything can go wrong. People will tell you are nuts go ahead waste the money and lose your legs for your rest of you life but I said to myself leave the negativity aside and be positive hope for the best thats what I want.

Dont get me wrong I have being reading people who have had ll surgery and life improved tremendous  afterwards and I have read some with disaster results . I am young now and let nobody tell me it is worthless to do this dangerous surgery I going to get this surgery done an live happy afterwards.

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Quote from: Alu on January 02, 2016, 04:56:25 PMOr to some degree aren't fully living life when millions of other guys who are around 5'9-5-11 are living life without a care and some of you are stuck in despair. I don't care who gets LL done but I do care the reasoning going into LL. It's such a huge gamble when your account for all the things that can go wrong. It's not a simple nose-job.

Exactly. At 5'9" I don't face discrimination anymore, and it wasn't hard for me to get the phone numbers of really good looking girls. Although prior to LL, I really wanted to be 5'11", because I thought that that's the ideal height for a male - not too tall not too short. Now that I've been through LL, I realize that it's not worth going from 5'9" to 5'11", even if my proportions are screwed up in the femur:tibia ratio. There is simply not anything holding me back from achieving or doing anything at this height.

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well, my friend you said your height is 5 10 right so nice very nice it's still a great height because if you just wear a tiny shoes with small heel you are already 6 foot and I really don't recommend you to perform this surgery but anyways if you desire to become what you want and can't live like this for your whole life go ahead and do this surgery. Best of luck.