I've been a member on this site for a while now and I have seem countless amounts of people who join up and expect to gain a billion inches in height. I read one persons goal of wanting to go from 5'10" to 6'3" and refused to listen to anyone who told him otherwise.

I also see a lot of people who are between the heights of 5'9.5" - 5'10" (175 - 177) wanting to do this surgery. STOP! Go to a therapist or a psychologist. You're taller than a lot of men already! in fact you're above average height. Okay you may live in the land of the giants but instead of looking to alter your body maybe change country? 5'10" is perfect in America so move from Denmark or w/e to the USA.

If you're not over 18 then get the hell of this forum and anything related to height until you're at least 21. You're may not be growing taller but you are growing mentally and physically in turns of muscles. You may hate being "short" but your body will more than likely fill out from 18-21 with muscles that make your height and body look good. You may also grow mentally and realize that your height is okay and that you're focusing too much on what others think. News flash those people probably aren't even thinking about your height.

You might think why does this even matter, how does this affect you? This affects people like me and you because these idiots who cannot do research and approach this surgery with reason will ask their doctors to do these insane lengthening amounts. This will in turn lead to do a negative outcome as anyone who has gotten 5+ inches can tell you, they will then come here and post about their bad experience which will affect our research because they wont include how stupid they were that they got a 5+ increase for $25k in whoopwhoop land.

Here's a few things I learnt from lurking for over a year:
1. This surgery should not be done cheaply. Save the money, get a loan. Please don't go to some $15k doctor. A nose job costs $10k so a osteotomy on your legs for lengthening will obviously cost a lot more and should!

2. Aim for a conservative lengthening goal! I'd personally say 3" max! I'm 5'7" I'd love to be 6'2" but hey looking at my body and it's limits 5'9" will have to do. You need to think about how it will look, how it will affect your bodies mechanics, how you will age physically our bones do grow weaker as we age.

3. Research, research, research! If you're interested in femur lengthening then read ever diary on femur lengthening. The same goes for tibia lengthening. Record every positive and negative diary on paper, notepad, stickies and then account that in your decision. Remember that people who had success with this surgery are more likely to not post about it and move on with their life as apposed to someone who had a bad outcome. Think rationally on why this person had a bad outcome and why this person had a good outcome, was it the length? the time they took to get it done? the doctor? the price? their pre-op body and physique?