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Stand Taller diary - The first day of the rest of my life (Betz Bone 14.01.2022)

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6CMFemurs
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Posted on Mar 21, 2022, 10:13 pm
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I will come at this one from the opposite perspective. I really regret only doing 6 CM on my femurs. Within a few years after the surgery, my long femurs became my favorite part of my body. I think no matter how much you lengthen, you can have positive feelings about your proportions. Trust me, you will be the only one who notices, nobody else will even register it.
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thaw1010
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Posted on Mar 21, 2022, 10:18 pm
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Quote from: tallertree on March 21, 2022, 08:37:37 PMThere are two main problems. The first is my sitting height, i look completely ridiculous when i sit down. Before LL i had height dysphoria, not im worried that people will notice my very strange proportions instead.

The other one is that my agility is basically completely lost. I can run, but not properly. My agility is more similar to someone 50-60 years old than to someone 20 years old.


When you loose your agility you realize that its actually a bigger part of your masculinity than your height. If you go for 11cm as you are planning, the only thing you will get is height - at the expense of proportions and agility and i can safely say that its not wroth it.

If you truly want to reach around 175cm then i recommend to stop lengthening and later in life when you have the money you can lengthen your tibias by about 3cm.

The problem guys do when they do this surgery is that they aim for a magical number. I can already tell in your last post that you are also obsessed with numbers when you mentioned that you had reached 170cm, as if it was some kind of milestone. Being 168cm vs 170 is no different at all, the guy who stopped at 168 is just more healthy since he didn't overlengthen.

Could you maybe send a blurred picture of what you look like now? I'm in a similar camp (planning on lengthening more than usual) but obviously, if proportions gets too wacky I'd obviously reconsider.
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Stand taller
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Posted on Mar 23, 2022, 10:13 am
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Proportions after lengthening 11 cm

Many of you have been asking and talking about proportions and this is something that will improve a lot after I reach 11 cm of lengthening. I've linked a mock-up of me that I did a long time before surgery with 12 cm longer femurs. I am the one with the blurred face, and my friend is around 180 cm tall. As you can see, our knees and shoulders are almost exactly the same height. If we are nitpicking you can see my torso is shorter, but that may also only be because since I have (I mean I had) short legs I would always buy shirts that where as short as possible so my legs wouldn't look even shorter. Going up one size in shirts may eliminate my "shorter looking torso" completely. Either way, people are different and have different proportions so I am not at all worried. I will look much more normal after reaching 11 cm than I did when I was 165 cm.

When I am sitting my seating height and the top of my knees are at the same height as my brother in law who is 178 cm tall.

Here's the mock-up:
https://ibb.co/kS1KwLN
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Stand taller
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Posted on Mar 23, 2022, 10:59 am
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Tibia and femur length

I tried measuring my tibias and femurs now, and not sure I did it 100%. Does anybody have a guide on how to meassure.

Tibias are 37cm
Femurs are 45cm (measured from the middle of my scar on my hip - which where the nail went in. So maybe I should meassure a little less lenght here)

I've read that normal tibia to femur ratio ranges from 0,83 - 0,77. And now if my measurements are correct I am at 0,82. After reaching I should be at around 0,74 which is a little outside the normal range, but still fine.

But....

I am guessing I meassured my femur to long and in reality the end results will more like

Tibia 37cm
Femur 48cm
Ratio 0,77

Let me know how to measure properly!
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randy
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Posted on Mar 25, 2022, 4:49 pm
#45
Looks pretty good. You can also the same analysis while sitting on a chair seen from the side. That would reveal both the  joints: hip, knee

Hey, unrelated question :- do you know if Betz is training a junior surgeon as a successor? He is 72 or more and seems to have built a great setup, so I was wondering what lies in the next decade or two for Betz institute.
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Stand taller
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Posted on Mar 25, 2022, 10:04 pm
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Yeah, I am happy with the proportions.

He is at least training one successor, and that is Dr Becker (mid 40s) in Freiburg. I believe Dr Becker has been working with Dr.Betz for around three years. I think the plan is to move the clinic to Freiburg within a few years. Dr Becker has been my main doctor though this procedure and If am not mistaken my surgery was done by him with Dr Betz supervising.

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Posted on Apr 15, 2022, 6:56 am
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yes, even in my 50's i regretted losing my agility and simple ability so squat and lift (eg picking up a three year old without struggling)
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randy
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Posted on Apr 15, 2022, 8:42 am
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Hi Stand Taller
I take it you do not speak or read German. Before the surgery were you asked to sign paper work written in German to sign? How did you go about it if you did not understand what was written?
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Limbfan2020
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Posted on Apr 15, 2022, 3:56 pm
#49
Hi Stand taller,

do you know how many LL surgeries Dr. Axel Becker has already performed?

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Stand taller
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Posted on Apr 16, 2022, 9:37 pm
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Quote from: randy on April 15, 2022, 08:42:25 AMHi Stand Taller
I take it you do not speak or read German. Before the surgery were you asked to sign paper work written in German to sign? How did you go about it if you did not understand what was written?

I speak a little and can read a fair bit of German. When in hospital I basically communicated in German with most of the staff, even though most spoke English.

That being said, all the documents with Dr Betz where in English and he walked me through it all step by step. And If I had any questions he explain it in detail. I felt that the paper work was taken very serious and was gone through thorough.
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