So guys the big question.. Should I actually go through with this...
I'm 200cm tall already.. My inside leg measurment (to the ankle bone) is 80cm on the long leg and about 78.5 on my shorter leg putting me at just over 31" at 6ft7
I've had trouble with my knees before do to the leg difference and this transfers through the whole posterior chain..
After wearing a heel in one foot it does reduce the knee pain greatly but it's abit impractical to always have a heel or special shoe really.. So it makes sense to have the op to even my legs out atleast..
Now.. I would argue if I'm going to go through all the effort of LL on one leg for 15/20mm on one leg I may aswell do a good job and stretch both to an even length +90mm ish (about 29% the tibial length anyway)
Seems reasonable and this would give me a 35" inside leg length which is still fairly short for my height but a lot better then the 31" I'm at currently.
Opinions would be greatful.
I think part of it is the psychological thing. I'm used to towering over most people and I do meet a few guys near enough my height so I kind of like to be really tall.. My proportions do bother me a lot.. If I wear a normal length top and pants then my top touches my belly button from being so short. I walk around constantly pulling my top down and pants up.
If however I wear a specially long jumper I think I look extra short and stumpy.. You don't realise my legs look short until I have that extra length on my body which sort of amplifies it. Now I'm bulking up and stuff I can't hide anymore and need to get longer tops and I'm starting to get stumpier. A lot of it will be in my head but some people do notice.
My brother in law is only 5ft7ish and his legs are not far off my length.
http://imgur.com/a/DjURQ
Hopfully that link will work..
If you look I'm wearing a normal length size large jumper and my jeans pulled up as high as I can go without strangling the old gentlemen. You can see there I don't look to bad but my jumper is as high as my belt buckle and I often end up pulling it down to stop my belly getting out haha!!
Imagine if I was to add enough length to that jumper (ill try and take one when I can) it would make my legs look very short.. Even more so if I wore my jeans in a more relaxed position as most people would..
Perhaps I'm being to picky I don't know but that's what I feel..
I'm not sure how I would feel if I was a lot shorter.. I would be used to my size so maybe I wouldn't be as bad. As a kid I was 6ft1/2 when I was 13 so I towered over everyone. I never had growth spurts just consistently grew at a very very fast rate so it does feel as though people have caught up with me.. All my short friends as a kid are now 6ft4 so not really much shorter.. Probably just a bit silly really.
I'll think abit more about what to do..
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