Dont get caught in the number game. You did this thing in order to not be short. Not in order to be one of the tallest guys in the room. Do what's best for your body, not for your ego
Nice video.
Glad you've had a relatively easy journey with femurs, even though you are suffering.
Get to the 5 cm and call it quits dude. 10 cm is a great gain overall, and it can lead to a great recovery. That mindset you have I 100% agree with and glad you changed your mind. Hit it and quit it mate.
Lastly, I don't think you really mentioned in your videos, even though I asked (not blaming you for glossing over it), but how is it at 8 CM? "Proportion-wise," how does it all look for you?
The videos convey so much more about how you feel than text ever could. Really helps to better understand the journey you are on. Thx!
You mentioned you might stop around 10cm total and possibly come back in a year to max out the rods. If you find your soft tissue basically maxes out at 5cm on tibs and 5cm on fems, is that only a temporary issue in general? Meaning a year later, muscles and tendons further adapt during recovery and it becomes possible to do another 3cm and 3cm for 8 and 8 on both?
If you do stop at 5 and come back in a year do you think you'd rather do both tibs and femurs at the same time? Or one then the other? I was thinking the trauma of reaming and nail insertion would be absent making a follow up lengthening less traumatic, but perhaps that's just what I want to believe since it'd be faster doing both at once.
Good luck and stay strong!
Thank you so much for the videos. I feel like I can tell you're doing a little better now too. 5cm is fine man, I'd rather walk normally at 5'9 than risk more injury to walk at 5'10. After you're done lengthening, can you just go home? How do you fix your tightness and learn to walk again? Any estimated time table?
Learning to walk is just a matter of effort. It's something your body can regain by itself with hard work but a trainer can help with weak spots you may not be paying attention to. At 8cm proportions look normal. Whereas the 8cm on femurs alone looks a bit long, not hating just mentioning- and by long I don't mean that people will hate but they'll probably notice and say wow your quads are long-, I think that spreading it out on both Tibias and femurs makes it much more natural. But then again I went through hell and a lot of cash to look proportional. This is something I'll discuss in another video so people don't get the wrong idea about my statement.
Coming back a year later to max out the rods is the safest way to do it but it costs more money and requires coming back and revealing the bone. It is an outpatient operation and you are able to lenghten right away with minimal trauma to the body. I might do both or just one depending on how much more I want to grow.
I can go home after lenghtening but I don't know how long it will take to consolidate since my Tibias and femurs are making bone at the same time. Once I get the clear for crutches il move to that then get the clear for full weight bearing. J assume it will take 2-3 months post lenghtening for me to consolidate to weight bearing since I seem to create bone quickly.
Thanks for your comments it really gives me energy.
Quote from: Iamready on March 31, 2016, 12:55:44 PMAt 8cm proportions look normal. Whereas the 8cm on femurs alone looks a bit long, not hating just mentioning- and by long I don't mean that people will hate but they'll probably notice and say wow your quads are long-, I think that spreading it out on both Tibias and femurs makes it much more natural. But then again I went through hell and a lot of cash to look proportional. This is something I'll discuss in another video so people don't get the wrong idea about my statement.
You're right that 8 cm on femurs is disproportionally long. And when I'm nked, it does look weird. But with clothes on, nobody has ever commented that my femurs look too long. But yea, if time and money were no factor, splitting the height between both sections would look the best.
Quote from: DoingItForMe on March 31, 2016, 08:59:10 PMYou're right that 8 cm on femurs is disproportionally long. And when I'm nked, it does look weird. But with clothes on, nobody has ever commented that my femurs look too long. But yea, if time and money were no factor, splitting the height between both sections would look the best.
"Wow, you have long legs"
Or...
"If only you were taller"
I'll take the leg comment I think.
Yea like I said. It's not something I meant bad by. It's just something that makes me not regret getting both segments done because up to this point I've never looked at my legs and thought they looked long for my body. I feel like they are finally becoming what they should have been originally.
On the flip side I went through some traumatic so I don't even know what to reccomend to people when it comes to just getting femurs done or split it between both segments, because in my opinion the technology for a complication free tibia surgery isn't quite there and you have to accept that it will be a gamble and you better come with that extra 35k. This is of course in reference to the precise internal system.
Isn't that because you were wearing lifts for a while which shortened your tendons so they had to slow you down?
Also I think I remember in another video you said you could dunk in basketball, if that's the case you need to have serious musculature in your legs at your previous height, which seems to be a theme in complications and pain (muscles fighting against lengthening)
Still looking forward to seeing your recovery! Please don't dip out of here once you're done lengthening.
what is your sitting height?
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