Want to lengthen 3 cm using salamehfix (external only approach) time frame

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What do you think the estimate time frame will be before I get the external fixator off and am walking normally.

Age: 23 (will be 24-25 at time of surgery)
height: 179cm
Weight: 180 pounds
Fitness: Very fit (abs almost showing, abs show when flexing ~14% body fat)
Nutrition: Eat a high protein diet (180 grams of protein/day, take multivitamin everyday, drink around 3-4 glasses of milk/day)


I want to be able to take off the external fixator within 5 months and get back to walking normally. Can this be possible?

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Quote from: Body Builder on July 15, 2017, 07:43:14 PMDoing LL for 3cm is ridiculous and means that you don't really want it and you don't know with what you mess around.
So simply don't do LL, you are not a serious candidate for that.

everybody has different goals.
just because I don't want to increase my height by an additional 2 cm doesn't mean that I shouldn't do the surgery.
What if me being 3 cm taller makes me happy?

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on July 16, 2017, 02:54:24 AMYou are already tall at 179 cm, and 3 cm is barely noticeable and achievable wearing 5 cm lifts (only a little bit taller shoes). You are willing to break your legs, endanger your life and permanently compromise your Athletics abilities for such a little gain. Everybody now thinks this is an easy surgery and that you can change your height as easy as you change clothes but it's not like that. You could die for nothing.

1. I don't wear lifts
2. 3 cm is not a lot and will not take away from my athletic ability by much. And I don't even play any sports, Im willing to let go of 10% of my athletic ability for 3 cm gain.
3. As far as I know nobody has died from cll performed by a respected surgeon unless they had a serious pre-existing condition.
4. I am gaining very little where my nerves/muscles will not be affected as much as some others who have lengthened a lot
5. External fixation technique is a lot safer than internal medullary techniques. No case of fat embolism.


This forum highly discourages people of average height to perform this surgery, but we suffer from the same thing. Height Dysphoria. Everybody in my family is taller than me (6'+), and every case is personal.

You are on this forum. You did this surgery or are going to do it in the future.
Is your life less valuable than mine because I am taller than you? My response to "You could die from this surgery"

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Quote from: Bander72 on July 16, 2017, 04:50:59 AMOh there is doctors that will gladly do it. And probably be happy that they dont have to deal with him too much.

your 175 cm your goal is 180 cm and you wanna be 186 cm with shoes and lifts.

You got room to talk lol

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Quote from: TIBIKE200 on July 16, 2017, 01:09:16 PMWhat? 179 is tallish, 182 is tall and 183.5 is tall. If he wants 3 cm let him. He doesn't own anyone here justification.

  3cm is a well conservative goal and will also be noticeable for him.

thanks man. I appreciate it 

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Quote from: Body Builder on July 20, 2017, 12:39:58 AM3cm means that someone thinks that LL is a game and can easily do it to add just a few cms that noone will notice. For sure he can't understand the risks otherwise he wouldn't mess with that for such a tiny increase.
No sane person would do such an extreme surgery for anything less than 5cm.

but you still are not understanding the point.

5 cm to someone that is 170 cm might give him the same level of happiness
that
3 cm can give to someone who is 179 cm

So me doing only 3 cm does not mean I am insane, and you are sane
different starting heights, with different goals in mind, different reasons for doing the surgery.  It is relative to the person who is doing the surgery. I understand the risks more than 99% of you on here after reading some diaries and posts. I've actually done my own research on this topic, and have not relied on anything this forum posts and I am a critic of everything on here. I use my own resources. Most people come on here and read this forum and decide which surgeons to choose, how much to lengthen, which method to use for highest safety. The fact that I am not trusting any of the postings on here (although most are true) and using my own knowledge and research alone shows that I am serious about this surgery and am not taking it lightly.

So don't judge me for lengthening how much I want to lengthen.
Don't judge me because of my starting heigh.
Everybody has a different story, and it will be best if you just focus on yours.

Furthermore, that wasn't the reason I posted this thread. Everybody has their own demons they are fighting, so stop using your own insecurities of height to dissuade people of average height from doing this surgery.



Hope you have a great day.

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Quote from: TIBIKE200 on July 20, 2017, 05:23:35 PM im curious. To what conclusions have you arrived after researching?

a lot of people on here seem to think internal femurs are safer than external tibias.

Along with all the risks I discussed in this post with internal femur nailing technique,
it also changes the mechanical axis and will change your gait if you lengthen too much. And most people on here want to lengthen ~7 cm on femurs.

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Quote from: cookie on July 27, 2017, 06:46:43 AMwhy is it dangerous for females or asian?

research shows Asian females are more likely to get osteoporosis as well.
It all has to do with bone density. And Asian people have lower bone density than Caucasian. Furthermore females have lower bone density than males.


Great question.

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Quote from: onemorefoot on July 27, 2017, 06:55:11 AMI know Many folks have already wrote that you should use lifts for 3 cm, this surgery is just too much for 3 cm, why not 5? Risks stay at the same level, I agree that show lifts are really problematic but the surgery can be more , at your height It even doesnt worth It that much conpared to below average height people, but is your choice.

You can easily tell when someone is wearing 3 cm shoe lifts.
The only shoe lift you can't really tell from is 0.5 inch(1.25 cm) shoe lifts.
I wear those when I dress up with dress shoes.

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Quote from: onemorefoot on July 27, 2017, 06:55:11 AMI know Many folks have already wrote that you should use lifts for 3 cm, this surgery is just too much for 3 cm, why not 5? Risks stay at the same level, I agree that show lifts are really problematic but the surgery can be more , at your height It even doesnt worth It that much conpared to below average height people, but is your choice.

I am 179 cm with a 6'1-6'2 wingspan and I wear 30 inch inseam....