Severe Proportions Neurosis Post LL

Sounds good, I’ll write nice and neat just for you next time.

Any thoughts on this neurosis bs? I dont give af about being a half inch taller and getting to 5’10.” Too many people on this forum chase every little ounce of height gain possible even when it won’t look right. The point of this surgery is to boost your appeal, which means proportions should be factored into the height gain ten fold.

For example, a guy that goes from 5’ 5” to 5’ 10” with normal starting proportions will almost never look like a true 5’ 10” guy (narrow clavicles, short torso, short arms, likely small hands) so why chase a high number when it will not be much of a benefit publicly speaking and completely ruin your appeal. If you actually have the ideal proportions to lengthen 5 inches (which almost no one will have) then go for it, but otherwise you are literally making yourself uglier which is not worth the trade off.

Sure, maybe I do have severe proportions neurosis as I doubt many other patients on this forum would do quadrilateral surgery to lengthen under 4cm per segment each. But if there’s one thing I’m grateful for, its that I knew my limits and stayed in a conservative enough range to where I can jump from 15%ile to 50%ile height without anyone batting much of an eye. There are tons of patients on this forum that can’t say the same because they over lengthened and look like uncanny t-rexes.

I respect your opinion, I’m just sharing what I personally think about proportions because everyone seems to think differently on the topic.

I myself noticed that I look far better barefoot now than I do in any shoes over 1” whereas before surgery it was the opposite and I looked far better when wearing 2” platforms. I think what this means is that although I may look “acceptable” or even pass completely unnoticed in a bad way to the untrained eye, that I over lengthened beyond the “ideal” amount for my specific case.

Again like you said, everyone’s starting proportions are different so how much length looks good post LL always depends. I feel that I wouldve looked better at +5.5cm than I do rn at 7.5cm taller. I think getting a revision shortening surgery is very extreme, and I wont do it unless this bothers me for a while and until I fully recover first. In the meantime I’ll just cope by wearing low-profile shoes that add under 1” and avoid platforms or thick sneakers. Seems to help with the proportions neurosis a bit.

As someone trying to make a half-decent athletic recovery, I definitely wont be doing arm lengthening and would rather just shorten my legs a bit if this still bothers me long enough.

Sounds good, I’ll write nice and neat just for you next time.

Any thoughts on this neurosis bs? I dont give af about being a half inch taller and getting to 5’10.” Too many people on this forum chase every little ounce of height gain possible even when it won’t look right. The point of this surgery is to boost your appeal, which means proportions should be factored into the height gain ten fold.

For example, a guy that goes from 5’ 5” to 5’ 10” with normal starting proportions will almost never look like a true 5’ 10” guy (narrow clavicles, short torso, short arms, likely small hands) so why chase a high number when it will not be much of a benefit publicly speaking and completely ruin your appeal. If you actually have the ideal proportions to lengthen 5 inches (which almost no one will have) then go for it, but otherwise you are literally making yourself uglier which is not worth the trade off.

Sure, maybe I do have severe proportions neurosis as I doubt many other patients on this forum would do quadrilateral surgery to lengthen under 4cm per segment each. But if there’s one thing I’m grateful for, its that I knew my limits and stayed in a conservative enough range to where I can jump from 15%ile to 50%ile height without anyone batting much of an eye. There are tons of patients on this forum that can’t say the same because they over lengthened and look like uncanny t-rexes.