hey all, brand new member here. I’m 21 years old and about 5’6, closer to 5’5 1/2. I have always been just slightly shorter than most of my short friends and that has always really affected my self confidence. I don’t need to be tall or average, but at least within that standard deviation of height would make me feel infinitely better about myself.
Thus, I think I would only want to do surgery to make myself 5’7-5’8. Initially I thought if I’m paying for the surgery I might as well go all out shoot for 5’10 (my dad’s height) but after doing a lot of reading here I’ve learned that there are a lot of long term effects that I would like to avoid as much as possible (arthritis, balance, loss in athletic ability). I know that with any LL at all there are risks and there will be some long term effects no matter what, but how do those problems look when you do say only an inch on the femur and tibia each (which is insanely expensive I know). Would those risks look different than if you did 2 inches on just your tibia?
I feel like if you do 2 surgeries to maintain your proportion (your femur:tibia ratio is supposed to be something like 1 to 0.
and you only do like an inch on each, then that could eliminate at least some of the balance stuff. I was reading a post from a guy who did 3 inches done on just his tibia and he said that he loses his balance when he turns his body too much, e.g. getting out of the car. with his tibias 3 inches longer than they should be, his biomechanics are without a doubt very warped. I would rather be my current height than 3 inches taller and a walking jenga stack so if i go through with this, i would want the best possible outcome to better than that.
One of the things I’m interested to know is with the potential nerve damage, if that same nerve damage occurred with a 3 inch surgery vs 1 inch surgery, if the extent of the damage would be more mild on the 1 inch. My guess would be yes.
can I ask what a food drop is?
also I feel like many people would take the best care of themselves they can during post op, the ones who get nerve damage are the ones who ignore the warning signs?
Also I think I would do 1.2 inch femur 1.0 inch tibia, or maybe 1.5 inch femur 1.2 tibia. wouldn’t want to hit the 2 inch mark on either. Bad scenarios for doing just 1 inch on a bone is a lot less detrimental than going all out and doing 3 inches on a bone, right?
also irrelevant to topic, but I measured my wingspan and found out I have short arms for my height, about -2 inches my standing height, so that has further discouraged me from wanting to do too much lengthening to maintain my proportions.
Quote from: wannabeidol on September 28, 2020, 10:06:35 PMin fact the only people that struggeled with 2 inches femur are the ones that did all 4 at the same time
really? why is that? I imagine they are a lot less mobile during the healing and PT process. I know Debiparshad has a joint offer where he does both femur and tibia, with the surgeries being about a month apart. That sounds kind of nice in theory, just getting it all over with in the same time. I read about it being up to a year before people are walking comfortably again, doing that twice sounds terrible. But a necessary evil if what you say is true.
So theoretically the less you lengthen per day the safer for your nerves?
Quote from: Tartar on September 30, 2020, 06:12:31 PMYou must respect your body, if you feel pain you have to go slower.
isn’t pain unavoidable though? how would i know the difference between unavoidable pain and the pain my body is giving me as a sign?
from my research nerve pain is a lot sharper and “stabbing”. in my experience with broken bones, that kind of pain is more of a throbbing kind of pain. And painkillers slow down the healing process? I’ve never heard of that.
Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on October 01, 2020, 08:53:57 AMIf you use a reputable doctor, and being only 21, you won't have any long-term effect from that short of LL - if you do serious recovery work.
I lengthened 7.5cm quadrilaterally until I had nerve problems (loss of sensation in the left calf), and now 2.25 years later, the sensation is 80% back. Hardly critical to have full sensation there, so it doesn't bother me.
Honestly, 6 months of Covid without gym has had a worse long-term impact on me than LL.
I don’t have the money to do it right now, but I would like to do it by the time I am 26 or 27. I’m a college student studying business and creative design and am working to do my best to make as much money as possible right out of school. I’m a little behind because I am a transfer student and currently taking time off of school because my family and I don’t want to pay for zoom university, so 26 might be a bit idealistic but I would love to be able to do LL within 4 years of graduating. Maintaining my femur tibia proportion is kind of important to me so I would like to maybe do another a few years after my first, which I guess would be early 30s or very late 20s.
When you say lengthening quadrilaterally, you mean lengthening femurs and tibias at the same time?
And do you think your LL has made 6 months without gym a lot worse than it would be if you hadn’t done it? Like in terms of how quick atrophy occurs perhaps?
Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on October 02, 2020, 08:17:08 AMDefine long. I was never much of a running; 1 mile in like 8 minutes was my best. On the elliptical I'd run fine for half an hour after LL.
Anyway, the legs don't seem to not the bottleneck; my cardio shape is. Damn Covid and life stuff. Need to fix that and get back to running a mile non-stop again.
You never run for more than a mile? Because of LL limitations or you just were never into longer distances?
Outside of health and biomechanics effects, I’m also really interested in how exercise and s*xual function are effected. Haven’t heard as much about exercise, but in my head I feel like I might be kind of nervous to do certain leg day exercises like squats. Of course only when a full recovery is made. Also if you aren’t comfortable sharing that is fine, but I’ve heard that some people struggle with certain s*xual positions after LL. has your s*xual function been effected at all?
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