LON on Femur - 9cm goal height

Hi guys I’m a 22 year old male from America who’s in the middle of the LL procedure right now with the company WannaBeTaller aka WBT. I am going to be documenting my progress in this thread.

Starting Height: 167.5cm
Goal Height: 176.5cm

Update:
Week: 4

It’s been almost a full month since my surgery at Beykent University Hospital with doctor Yunus. I have gained 2.6cm so far from turning my device (not including the .5cm that you start with from the surgery). For about 10 days I lengthened 1.5mm a day instead of the normal 1mm a day because I have a limited time here and I was looking to take some time off of this trip. While it did shave some time off of my process, it was so painful that I could no longer continue doing it. I have since switched back to 1mm a day and I am still in significant pain, but I am hoping this will get better over the next week. My advice to anyone considering this procedure is to plan to give yourself a lot of time so you can take your time with this process. If you want 8cm, plan to stay here at least 4 months. Other general advice, allow your leg muscles to atrophy as much as possible pre surgery and become very flexible (especially in your hamstrings and IT bands). I know it’s sad, but avoid doing any weightlifting exercises that involve your legs for a year before your surgery and just focus on stretching. While I did stretch far in advance, I did not quit working out my legs and as a consequence, my pain is much worse than most of the other patients. I highly recommend you give up working out if you don’t want to be in hell.

Nice progress, could you have done 10cm, or did you or the doctor oppose it?

Quote from: Mocrovich on June 14, 2023, 05:42:12 AMNice progress, could you have done 10cm, or did you or the doctor oppose it?

Any surgeon that cares about their patient would strongly advise to stay within 8cm. It doesn't matter if you have gymnast flexibility and the pain tolerance of Kratos, your body will have to deal with exponential physiological stress.

It’s a good question and there’s definitely a lot of clinics that do 10cm, but we don’t really know the long term effects of going that far past 8cm. I know anecdotally from a few people here who went past 8cm that they already started to have some complications and the recovery process was a lot harder. So as much as I’d want the extra centimeter, I think settling on 9cm (8.5 + the starting 0.5) will be enough for me to be pretty happy and will be overall much better for my long term health.

1 month update:

On June 18th, it’ll be exactly one month since my operation. The pain has been pretty unbearable every night even after I quit 1.5mm a day, although I am hoping this will improve since it has only been 5 days since I quit. To be honest, the pain is so bad every night that I want to quit, but seeing how much taller I’ve gotten in just one month really helps me psychologically have the strength to keep going.

I’m 171cm today in the afternoon wearing thin sandals. I took a picture, but can’t for the life of me figure out how to upload it here. At the time of the picture, I have lengthened 2.875cm on the device, so I still have a little more than 5.6cm to go from here. Should be around 177cm barefoot in the morning.

Glad to see your progress is going good and that your staying dedicated to your journey. Sending prayers your way for a smooth extraction/recovery. Do you think that part of the reason your pain levels are so high beside the amount you lengthened per day is because you continued to weight lift and not stop a year before surgery?

Thank you for your kind words! It’s all speculation at this point but I think the weightlifting significantly affected my experience here. I used to lift a lot of heavy weight on squat, bench, and deadlift, but I thought it would be okay because I was pretty flexible coming into this procedure. But, heavy weighting causes both the muscles and the bones to be very dense, which is why I think it hurts so much seeing as they’re being pulled apart. All I can do is hope things improve and hold out until I am allowed to start taking a stronger painkiller.

Quote from: Stubborn Knucklehead on June 16, 2023, 02:51:21 PMThank you for your kind words! It’s all speculation at this point but I think the weightlifting significantly affected my experience here. I used to lift a lot of heavy weight on squat, bench, and deadlift, but I thought it would be okay because I was pretty flexible coming into this procedure. But, heavy weighting causes both the muscles and the bones to be very dense, which is why I think it hurts so much seeing as they’re being pulled apart. All I can do is hope things improve and hold out until I am allowed to start taking a stronger painkiller.

Your diary will be invaluable to others, i cant even imagine the amount of guest lurkers that are in this forum debating CLL that just quit weight lifting and saved themselves a huge hassle after reading this thread. Your experience will help many. Keep us posted


Keep your head high and your dedication locked in, pain is temporary but the height gain is forever. It will get easier to cope with over time and before you know it youll be a new man. Listen to your body, do what your surgeon and PT say and reap the benefits. Best of luck🤙🏽

Tell me how it goes I know a lot of ppl here don't like going past 8cm, but I feel if your body can tolerate the lengthening past 8cm, I feel like should be good, I'm planning to do 9, to 9.5cm femur if my first surgery I still feel short, but currently pllaning to do tibia with LON to lengthen at 6.5cm to be 5'11