Having femur length outside of normal ratio would also be problematic. Other than making you like you have goat legs one can only imagine the increased knee strain. Taller on the old forum discussed this as one of the reasons he had to do tibia lengthening after his femur lengthening as he was at high risk of arthritis. No way of getting around nature without it fighting back.
Yellospike defenitely has really long femurs, don't know what the ratio is but you an view it in his diary.
Yeah, femurs can definitely become too long too. I can just imagine how I'd walk if I did 10cm femurs...my knees would barely bend with each step, and it would feel like I was dragging my tibias along.
But people definitely have overdone tibias. Look at Calic. Sweden is a much less extreme example. From what I remember, both them had almost equal length segments to begin with but ended up with longer tibiae than femurs.
oh right i thought Calic has equal lengths post op.
Quote from: microman on July 13, 2015, 06:54:21 PMYellospike defenitely has really long femurs, don't know what the ratio is but you an view it in his diary.
That is after 7cm+ of lengthening. They actually look perfectly fine in person. They look long still because they're also still pretty thin. My tibia to femur ratio was 79% before LL.
This is my only concern with doing another inch on femurs, which is why I will probably be stuck doing tibias in a few years, which blows, but whatever. I don't think an inch on tibias will be too terrible (and at least with tibias, you actually get the full amount you lengthen lol).
Quote from: YellowSpike on July 20, 2015, 11:34:19 PMThat is after 7cm+ of lengthening. They actually look perfectly fine in person. They look long still because they're also still pretty thin. My tibia to femur ratio was 79% before LL.
This is my only concern with doing another inch on femurs, which is why I will probably be stuck doing tibias in a few years, which blows, but whatever. I don't think an inch on tibias will be too terrible (and at least with tibias, you actually get the full amount you lengthen lol).
This is the part of LL that scares me. We do one part then for whatever reason you feel its not enough and have to do another segment, then the arms start looking short and those have to be lengthened etc. It causes this flow on effect.
Quote from: theuprising on July 21, 2015, 02:46:30 AMThis is the part of LL that scares me. We do one part then for whatever reason you feel its not enough and have to do another segment, then the arms start looking short and those have to be lengthened etc. It causes this flow on effect.
Yup. I'm not at all worried about my wingspan or torso/legs ratio, I only want to do like an inch/inch and a half more on tibias (Tibias are scary as f*ck to me, so I would only lengthen them like 3-4, just to get me to a solid 5'9" at night).
I believe LL really is only for guys who can clear 5'9/5'10 in one surgery. Or, who are super rich and have all the time in the world to do two back to back surgeries. If you can't clear 5'10", it's just not worth it. I mean...look at all the guys here who are 5'10 and up who want this sh*t?
I'll be breaking my tibias in about a year and a half...can't friggin wait!!!!
Why do tibias scare you?
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on July 21, 2015, 02:20:26 PMWhy do tibias scare you?
Breaking four bones as opposed to only two, longer consolidation period, risk of ballerina, having to choose between an internal method (faster recovery) or eternal recovery and no knee pain...they just seem more prone to complications in general. But I got over the fear one time, I'll do it again. I'm just not gonna lengthen more than 4cm to keep the risks in check.
Don't worry about the fibula even if something does go wrong with its consolidation/alignment. Non-cosmetic doctors routinely raid that bone to use for grafts to use elsewhere on the body. It doesn't do much for you anyway.
Ballerina is pretty much the same as duck ass; just something that happens when the muscles/tendons don't stretch as fast as the bone. I had only mild ballerina after doing 7.5 cm and it went away completely.
Recovery time really depends on your metabolism and bone regeneration ability. Dr. Mitkovic told me to expect to be in fixators for 9 months to lengthen 7 cm with external-only. And judging by my excellent bone growth in Beijing, it probably would've taken less time than that. Knee pain is a risk, not a guarantee, and half of the people who experience it get relief when the nails are removed.
4cm is almost like not lengthening at all. You'll be fine; no need to be scared. Smile. 
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