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I don’t really know. Many doctors are quite dismissive (went to an endocrinologist and he dismissed me saying it doesn’t matter and that I’m not that below average. Best thing will be to ask my LL surgeon once the time comes. My tibia are not that small. Most of the lost height appears to be in the femurs (I have 36cm femurs). Either it’s genetic, malnutrition, injury or who knows. Either way I think I am lucky relative to the forum. I have a long wingspan, large torso, somewhat long tibiae, long neck, etc. So I’m looking at the positive side, I guess I’m quite literally built for this surgery lmao

I remember @Medium talking about how someone did 2 femur LLs, I guess I could do that due to the femur:tibia ratio being nearly 1.

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Quote from: LongTorso on April 08, 2022, 10:47:04 PMI don’t really know. Many doctors are quite dismissive (went to an endocrinologist and he dismissed me saying it doesn’t matter and that I’m not that below average. Best thing will be to ask my LL surgeon once the time comes. My tibia are not that small. Most of the lost height appears to be in the femurs (I have 36cm femurs). Either it’s genetic, malnutrition, injury or who knows. Either way I think I am lucky relative to the forum. I have a long wingspan, large torso, somewhat long tibiae, long neck, etc. So I’m looking at the positive side, I guess I’m quite literally built for this surgery lmao

I remember @Medium talking about how someone did 2 femur LLs, I guess I could do that due to the femur:tibia ratio being nearly 1.

36in femurs? Yeah you're definitely right femur LL is 100% the way to go. Maybe it's just me but it would be on my mind forever if I knew "what could have been," so idk if it were me I would at least want some sort of diagnosis from the doctor. But yeah, you're probably pretty lucky in that case. I'm just glad that I'm getting this all out of the way in HS so by the time I'm in college, I'll be sorta a new person/have time to focus on getting into med school. This whole ordeal is making orthopedics and endocrinology pretty interesting haha. Best of luck on your journey

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Quote from: five_six on April 08, 2022, 10:58:30 PM36in femurs? Yeah you're definitely right femur LL is 100% the way to go. Maybe it's just me but it would be on my mind forever if I knew "what could have been," so idk if it were me I would at least want some sort of diagnosis from the doctor. But yeah, you're probably pretty lucky in that case. I'm just glad that I'm getting this all out of the way in HS so by the time I'm in college, I'll be sorta a new person/have time to focus on getting into med school. This whole ordeal is making orthopedics and endocrinology pretty interesting haha. Best of luck on your journey

Yeah, 36cm for femurs.

Honestly I don’t blame you. I feel a totally different treatment when I am sitting down (specially if people don’t know me beforehand). LL is definitely the way to go! Have you considered 2 femur LL? If you have long tibiae, you can avoid tibia LL which involves splitting the patella tendon. Many patients get pain from this so it’s worth considering it.

Doctor diagnosis is out of the window for now as they don’t really care unfortunately. I will definitely try to follow this up with someone that cares, this will probably be with my LL surgeon.

Both are amazing fields. I believe that endocrinology isn’t talked about enough in the forum. I hope to stick around to educate people on it.

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Quote from: LongTorso on April 08, 2022, 11:44:24 PMYeah, 36cm for femurs.

Honestly I don’t blame you. I feel a totally different treatment when I am sitting down (specially if people don’t know me beforehand). LL is definitely the way to go! Have you considered 2 femur LL? If you have long tibiae, you can avoid tibia LL which involves splitting the patella tendon. Many patients get pain from this so it’s worth considering it.

Doctor diagnosis is out of the window for now as they don’t really care unfortunately. I will definitely try to follow this up with someone that cares, this will probably be with my LL surgeon.

Both are amazing fields. I believe that endocrinology isn’t talked about enough in the forum. I hope to stick around to educate people on it.

cm* my bad. I got xrays already, and 8cm on both the femurs and tibias would actually create the "normal" tib/fem ratio of .8, plus solve my minor duck feet so that's a plus. I couldn't imagine doing two surgeries on the same bone to be honest

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Quote from: five_six on April 09, 2022, 12:34:14 AMcm* my bad. I got xrays already, and 8cm on both the femurs and tibias would actually create the "normal" tib/fem ratio of .8, plus solve my minor duck feet so that's a plus. I couldn't imagine doing two surgeries on the same bone to be honest

That’s great to know, I will be following your journey closely!

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Quote from: five_six on April 09, 2022, 12:34:14 AMcm* my bad. I got xrays already, and 8cm on both the femurs and tibias would actually create the "normal" tib/fem ratio of .8, plus solve my minor duck feet so that's a plus. I couldn't imagine doing two surgeries on the same bone to be honest

Btw I think you should read Sweden's posts. He did a similar lengthening for tibiae. His posts are very informative!

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Hey bro, may you post another update?

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I stopped taking HGH and I'm now preparing for my femur LL in January-February 2024. Will go for the full 8cm!

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Quote from: LongTorso on November 20, 2023, 05:59:48 PMI stopped taking HGH and I'm now preparing for my femur LL in January-February 2024. Will go for the full 8cm!

Did you stop at 175cm, that was last mentioned or did you manage to get close to the "projected to hit 178-181cm" which you said

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I stopped at the 175 mark because the cost would be the same as doing LL without the guarantee of growing more. Decided to save up for LL instead.