The amount needed to look abnormally disproportionate is in excess of what most people can lengthen. Ive seen tall people with short legs, short people with long legs, short guys with long arms tall guys with short arms, short guys as wide as door frames tall guys with the muscle development of 10 year old girls. No one notices this cr@p unless you are looking for it. No people in the street look at people and go 'oh his tibias are 52% of his overall leg length he's out of proportion! I wonder what his sitting height is?' No one except the body neurotics on here 99.9% who have not and never will have this surgery. Do any of you notice Phelps abnormally long arms which make swimming far easier? I doubt it! But his arms are longer and he is technically out of proportion but guess what no one notices and no one cares.
very good points! Does anyone here reading this wear lifts? like lifts that make you as tall as you hope to be post surgery?
is there a noticeable difference in the way you are treated/perceived, and the way you feel/ your confidence level?
and to any LL vets - have you switched your shoes or changed the way you dress to accommodate your new proportions?
Quote from: doobiepoo on November 19, 2016, 08:53:47 AM So ive been reading these forums obsessively since i discovered it a week back. I thought "this is badass! you mean i can just throw money at my height problem now?!" Done deal. And i been obsessing over what limb to lengthen and how much and doing mockups and i realized, when trying to figure out at which point my proportions started looking weird (especially in shoes).....that we always look weird.
Why?
Cuz we all kinda look like we're wearing lifts. When a man wears lifts I'm sorry, its obvious. A man looks like he's standing on something, doesn't look any less pint-sized. Has anyone else come to the depressing realization that this surgery is basically 100 000 dollar lifts being surgically added to your legs? It does nothing for the fact that we are all unfortunately small men with small frames.
I came to this conclusion while trying to figure out why i looked great with a modest 5cm increase, but suddenly looked like i was walking on stilts when i put my nike shox on.
You are an imbecile. Its been said many many times that you cannot compare 5 cm on lifts to 5 cm of LL. Go and educate yourself before bitching again...
Quote from: doomsday on November 19, 2016, 10:12:53 PMYou are an imbecile. Its been said many many times that you cannot compare 5 cm on lifts to 5 cm of LL. Go and educate yourself before bitching again...
geez such catty men, no wonder no one likes us short guys lol
It is in your head man. I wear close to 5 cm lifts and never noticed or thought about proportions. In fact I think ny legs look better and I plant to use lifts after surgery too. No one has ever said to me your ltibias look too long.
Quote from: doobiepoo on November 19, 2016, 08:53:47 AM you mean i can just throw money at my height problem now?!" Done deal.
I suspect your nothing more than a troll who enjoys riling folks up, but in the off chance you're on the level, there's a lot more to this than just throwing money at it and you should do more research before seriously considering the surgery. Pain... No sleeping for days even weeks... Lots of hard work... Money is not the hardest part of the equation.
Quote from: EndGame on November 20, 2016, 03:30:58 AMI suspect your nothing more than a troll who enjoys riling folks up, but in the off chance you're on the level, there's a lot more to this than just throwing money at it and you should do more research before seriously considering the surgery. Pain... No sleeping for days even weeks... Lots of hard work... Money is not the hardest part of the equation.
why would u suspect I'm a troll, and then go on to assume i don't know anything about the procedure? I've spent countless hours researching price doctors pain different methods meds recovery time complications accommodations etc.......hell I'm even more or less caught up on the drama with apo/sysop cuz you very catty men do nothing but gossip and talk about each other like a bunch of high school girls.
even if i didn't and was just overly enthusiastic, how do you know i haven't been in a horrible disfiguring car accident in the past or something with many broken bones making any pain from LL seem like a piece of cake? the point of my post was to ask if anyone ever looked at the surgery from the same angle i did, and hopefully had some insight as to WHY LL isn't just 100 000 dollar permanent lifts. best thing i can think of is now i can take of my shoes in someones home without rushing to sit down cuz I'm embarrassed of my height. unfortunately only few responded with constructive replies, I've ben called a few names already and my character questioned lol. sick bunch, some of you here.
Quote from: TIBIKE200 on November 19, 2016, 07:33:20 PMIf you start 165 and add 5cm to your tibs you end up with the tibs of somoene who is like 180-185 so of course you will look disproportionate..The other day, we were discussing tibia length. Kilo's(5'5) pre op tibias were 31.5cms. Mine(5'2) are 33.6cms. Morissette's(5'6) were a shocking 27.87cms. Yet Morissette said he never lived life thinking he had short tibias. I've never thought mine were long or that my legs were long in general, ever.
All these are measured via X-Rays so they aren't wrong.
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=634.msg60615#msg60615
Quote from: doobiepoo on November 19, 2016, 08:53:47 AMWhy?
Cuz we all kinda look like we're wearing lifts.
You are telling me, that after 1 week of research, you came to the conclusion that you shouldn't do LL because it'll make you appear taller? Because that's what lifts do: it raises you off the ground.
Sorry man, you sound like you lack the money and mental aptitude for a hard surgery like LL. Gonna have to grow some balls instead of justifying it with a crappy reason like "look like we're wearing lifts".
There are very few surgerys out there pain wise that will surpass the pain of leg lengthening surgery dont kid yourself! You are stretching soft tissue and nerves and the pain varies per person.
EVERYONE I have spoken to has said this is the hardest thing they have ever done a few of them HAVE been in car accidents before. One guy who was there before me was an army veteran who had seen combat on at least 3 occasions he ranked this procedure as WORSE than his life being in imminent danger. Don't kid yourself about the seriousness of this procedure. As someone else said you are letting yourself in for a lot of pain, mental suffering and sleepless nights.
Personally I think you should forget about it, folk obsessing over proportions are not good candidates for this as likely once it's over you will find something else to obsess over and it will just spiral.
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