What is the bigger give-away that you had LL: proportions or overall height?

Edit Post

Music to my ears

Edit Post

Biggest giveaway will be a different walk / fragile legs. As always the weak point of LL with the current technology & methods is the soft tissue (muscles, joints, nerves etc.) being damaged due to the lengthening process.

No one would notice 5 cm femurs if your walking & legs didnt give anything away. It’s only if they get the initial suspicion from the walking that they start putting 1+1 together.

Edit Post

I can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

Edit Post

I think the hanging down of clothes is the key to concealing LL.

A long shirt is the way to hide femur LL.  It'll make it look like your waist is closer to your knees.  Long shorts on their own won't hide disproportion if your knees are still showing below the hem and they're clearly abnormally far from the waist.

Long shorts that go past the knee can hide tibia LL since nobody will see quite where the knee joint is.

Edit Post

Yeah that makes sense.  A combo of a longer shirt and going wider/baggier pants/shorts should do it.

Hoping cargo shorts come back in style! lol

Edit Post

Quote from: lessthanavg8300 on November 21, 2022, 03:38:30 AMI can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

Do you mean 4 months post-lengthening? If so, my understanding is you might have a slight waddle and be a bit slow with walking at that point, but if you're really careful people might not notice from your gait alone (for weightbearing nail patients).

Edit Post

Quote from: RealLostSoul on November 21, 2022, 01:40:30 AMDefinitely shorts hide femur the best. Even 10-12 cm can be hidden with shorts man.  5 cm will always look basically natural.

No one is hiding 10-12 cm of femur lengthening lol.

Edit Post

5cm femur is unnoticeable to the untrained eye, even if you were originally very short (<165cm)

Edit Post

Quote from: lessthanavg8300 on November 21, 2022, 03:38:30 AMI can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

4 months is really early imo recovery takes time.

Edit Post

Quote from: lessthanavg8300 on November 21, 2022, 04:59:00 AMYeah that makes sense.  A combo of a longer shirt and going wider/baggier pants/shorts should do it.

Hoping cargo shorts come back in style! lol

I don't think wider or baggier is that helpful. Long shirt and wear shorts/pants one inch lower than average, like a loose pair of pants that just happened to ride down a bit while you were walking around. Kinda the opposite look of an old man who hikes his pants up to his belly button lol