LL - the right decision?

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Quote from: goldenegg on December 18, 2015, 04:29:02 AM8cm is not so unrealistic, considering the average of Dr. G's patients is 7cm.  I did 8cm with him. I think beyond 8 may be a stretch and depends on how your body reacts once you actually start lengthening.

I would not go in with the expectation of 100% recovery of running and sprinting because you might be disappointed.

A bit late to answer… I don't mean to sound like a dck but did you really expect a good outcome by lengthening 8 cm? It's been well documented by now that pretty much anything exceeding 6 cm on femurs and 5 cm on tibias is bound to worsen your physical abilities by a significant margin.


Quote from: endomorphisme on January 04, 2016, 12:13:23 PMHaving said that , I still believe that I'm not tall enough, 185 cm is the magical boundary, at 183 cm you can feel short a lot of time , and you re still below average in a couple of countries.

Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else mate – we all know the stats yet you're still confusing your own perception with comprehensive reality. That's fine, but spare us the   talk please.

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Quote from: goldenegg on December 18, 2015, 04:29:02 AM8cm is not so unrealistic, considering the average of Dr. G's patients is 7cm.  I did 8cm with him. I think beyond 8 may be a stretch and depends on how your body reacts once you actually start lengthening.

I would not go in with the expectation of 100% recovery of running and sprinting because you might be disappointed.

A bit late to answer… I don't mean to sound like a dck but did you really expect a good outcome by lengthening 8 cm? It's been well documented by now that pretty much anything exceeding 6 cm on femurs and 5 cm on tibias is bound to worsen your physical abilities by a significant margin.


Quote from: endomorphisme on January 04, 2016, 12:13:23 PMHaving said that , I still believe that I'm not tall enough, 185 cm is the magical boundary, at 183 cm you can feel short a lot of time , and you re still below average in a couple of countries.

Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else mate – we all know the stats yet you're still confusing your own perception with comprehensive reality. That's fine, but spare us the   talk please.

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Quote from: Europa on January 11, 2016, 01:00:00 AMA bit late to answer… I don't mean to sound like a dk but did you really expect a good outcome by lengthening 8 cm? It's been well documented by now that pretty much anything exceeding 6 cm on femurs and 5 cm on tibias is bound to worsen your physical abilities by a significant margin.


Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else mate – we all know the stats yet you're still confusing your own perception with comprehensive reality. That's fine, but spare us the crap talk please.

Hi five!

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Quote from: Europa on January 11, 2016, 01:00:00 AMA bit late to answer… I don't mean to sound like a dk but did you really expect a good outcome by lengthening 8 cm? It's been well documented by now that pretty much anything exceeding 6 cm on femurs and 5 cm on tibias is bound to worsen your physical abilities by a significant margin.


Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else mate – we all know the stats yet you're still confusing your own perception with comprehensive reality. That's fine, but spare us the crap talk please.

Hi five!

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Quote from: Europa on January 11, 2016, 01:00:00 AMA bit late to answer… I don't mean to sound like a dk but did you really expect a good outcome by lengthening 8 cm? It's been well documented by now that pretty much anything exceeding 6 cm on femurs and 5 cm on tibias is bound to worsen your physical abilities by a significant margin.

either you misunderstood or didn't bother to read the OP's posts. he was asking about 8-10cm lengthening and the possibility of 100% recovery, including running. even if you do 6cm femurs you shouldn't assume 100% recovery of running- you're just fooling yourself if you think so. but, of course more lengthening will have a worse outcome for athletic ability.  I knew and accepted that trade off for more height when I went to 8cm.  I was just trying to be helpful to OP, but thanks for your useless comment

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^ No need to be salty because you're hurt, man. Read my comment again — you basically just repeated what I posted.

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Quote from: goldenegg on January 11, 2016, 06:19:24 AMeither you misunderstood or didn't bother to read the OP's posts. he was asking about 8-10cm lengthening and the possibility of 100% recovery, including running. even if you do 6cm femurs you shouldn't assume 100% recovery of running- you're just fooling yourself if you think so. but, of course more lengthening will have a worse outcome for athletic ability.  I knew and accepted that trade off for more height when I went to 8cm.  I was just trying to be helpful to OP, but thanks for your useless comment

... and I do really appreciate that!

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I am also going through the same thing, I am going to India next week for a ll surgery because found a doctor who is doing it cheap but seriously don't wanna go through this because it's a real pain and i hate surgeries.