Hi my name is Tyler Durden,
I've been short my entire life and have always wanted pursue LL since I was a young, knowing I wasn't going to grow up very tall. I think I have been in denial of my height this entire time and it is causing a lot of stress in my life. I've lurked these forums for the past year now and everytime I am down I just find myself lurking on here, researching doctors, listening to stories, success and horror ones, making measurements, taking a closer look at myself and what height I really envision myself to be.
The way I see myself and the way I look are two completely different people and I want them to become one.
Anyways my current height right now is 5'2½" (159cm). Odd height I know.
Fairly skinny build, I have a proportionate body so equal length femur and tibia.
My desired height is 5'7" (170cm), an additional 4½" (11.43cm) of height. I want to do lengthening on my tibia, external LON. Is this possible?
Picture of my current body height and proportions
4 inches are a lot, do 3, 4 in terms of recovery is hard.
Quote from: durdendec on August 15, 2016, 02:50:27 AMHi my name is Tyler Durden,
I've been short my entire life and have always wanted pursue LL since I was a young, knowing I wasn't going to grow up very tall. I think I have been in denial of my height this entire time and it is causing a lot of stress in my life. I've lurked these forums for the past year now and everytime I am down I just find myself lurking on here, researching doctors, listening to stories, success and horror ones, making measurements, taking a closer look at myself and what height I really envision myself to be.
The way I see myself and the way I look are two completely different people and I want them to become one.
Anyways my current height right now is 5'2½" (159cm). Odd height I know.
Fairly skinny build, I have a proportionate body so equal length femur and tibia.
My desired height is 5'7" (170cm), an additional 4½" (11.43cm) of height. I want to do lengthening on my tibia, external LON. Is this possible?
Picture of my current body height and proportions
You'll need 2 surgeries for 11cms.
tyler,
you're 5'2, so youre never going to be tall. You need to accept this and move on
If you do this, only do around 5 cm, and do femurs. 11 cm is too much.
but id avoid it altogether. Not worth it to be taller, but have functional issues
If he wants to do femurs at least he should do 6 cm, but taking a look in his situation, he could do even 7 cm.But 11 is too much.
Tyler Durden? Do you have maybe...a club I can part of?
You can easily do 7-8cms on your femurs in 1 surgery and IF things go smooth and you have extra time and money, you can do 2 inches on your tibias. That would make you look disproportionate though, unless you have wide shoulders, long arms and a long torso.
170 cm cant be considered short in some countries.
Quote from: durdendec on August 17, 2016, 12:27:17 AMthis is all I needed to know thank you
will have to do separate surgeries for femur and tibia then, I will save accordingly. thanks
I'm surprised that you didn't know that already considering that you have been a lurker for a while.
Basically, no matter what the starting height is(excluding dwarfism), you shouldn't lengthen more than 5-8 cm in one surgery(femurs or tibia).
Quote from: Penguinn on August 15, 2016, 09:06:36 AMTyler Durden? Do you have maybe...a club I can part of?
You can easily do 7-8cms on your femurs in 1 surgery and IF things go smooth and you have extra time and money, you can do 2 inches on your tibias. That would make you look disproportionate though, unless you have wide shoulders, long arms and a long torso.
I'm not exposed to speak any such information to you, nor would I even if I have said information you want at this juncture, be able
and Noted.
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
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