I mean, what advice would you tell him? (First of all, forgive my english, is not my first language)
I'm 5'5" and 23 years old. I've never been much worried about my height but i've been shy and insecure and didn't know why till now. Not too much shy nor insecure with men but with womens. Supposedly i'm attractive to womens but i dont see that way because of my height. I dont care being the smallest man of the room (or not that much) but i do care a lot being smaller than some womens and i dont wanna look a girl and say: She is beautifull but larger than me so forget her.
For a while now i've been trying to lengthen naturally doing intense excercise (to produce more HGH), eating better and streching my legs and back. But im afraid that i wont grow more height.
Maybe a year till now i've been with troubles to sleep because anxiety for being small. Almost everyday i think of my tiny height and that makes me anxiety: Not being able to be with the woman i like because she could be taller than me.
So for a while now i've been reading about height lengthening on enternet and this forum. As you must know, there are trolls and fakes everywhere so i dont know what to believe or not.
That is the reason of doing this post: What would you tell me, that i know just a little about this surgery?
-I know that i want to do LL on femurs with STRYDE and i would like to do as much as possible being realistic; 8cm
-I know that it is painfull, but how much?
-I know that there are risk (like in any of the surgeryes, even with one paracetamol you have posibilities to die), but.. how many? Whose are the worst case scenarios and how ofthen do they ocurr with a proper DR.?
-I smoke, should i give up now and wait at least 1 year to do the surgery or just doing it before the surgery its safe?
-How often the bones dont consolidate?
-Do streching really help? Should i keep streching till my operation day?
And to those who already did it..
-Do you regret something?
-When did you done it? Are you 100% alright? I mean, can you walk and run normally?
-Do you have any pain now?
-What would you like to know before doing it?
Thanks for your time, cheers
What would you say to one person who wants to do the LL surgery?
Quote from: Serilium on April 20, 2021, 06:35:57 PMYou are 23. You're growth plates are closed- producing more HGH whether through exercise or drugs won't make you taller. You will not grow taller naturally at this point.
Worse case scenario of the surgery is death from fat embolism. Which has happened before and is a real concern.
Give up smoking.
Non-consolidation is not particularly rare, as there are plenty of cases of non-union on this forum. The vast majority do have proper consolidation though.
Stretching does help! Stretch always.
Thanks brother. What happens when non-consolidation happens? And why is that? If you are fine it shouldnt happen, doesn't it?
Quote from: Stretch on April 20, 2021, 07:20:41 PMDo you hear of bone grafts occurring often in the LL community?
No i did not, can you tell more? Is about non-consolidation?
Edit: Sorry i didnt saw that was a reply
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on April 21, 2021, 09:12:13 AM@Nomad:
My priorities changed. I went off to college, went to grad school, traveled, and had an all around amazing 20’s. You get back to your normal life and you get really busy and forget about LL and rehabbing to recover your lost abilities. Your day to day life is so normal you forget you can’t run a mile as fast as before or whatever. I was also told by a PA of my original surgeon that high impact activities might damage the lengthening mechanism of the Precice nails in my bones (this was 2014 and they really didn’t know), so I really didn’t want to be in a situation where they cut the bones and the nails didn’t work. Also I wasn’t on the forum or checking out advances in LL so until this year my knowledge of LL was stuck back in 2014 haha
Plus I had several different long term girlfriends that I lived with over those years and I was too embarrassed to any of them tell about my surgery. It’s not like I could just disappear from my girlfriend when we were living together and drop tens of thousands of dollars when I was broke in grad school to extend those nails the final inch.
When I was 27, I finally confided in the girl I was dating at the time about having the surgery. To my surprise she was extremely supportive and understanding. Then I started telling other people in my life and they were supportive too. Now that I am 29 and have a stable career, this fire has been reignited in me to get strong and in amazing shape again and really get the full amount out of life. Especially, with my work as a therapist listening to people talk about their regrets in life and never stepping out of their comfort zone to take chances.
Amazingly after not really running for like 7 years, I have probably recovered about 90+ percent of my athletic ability. Literally the first time I really sprinted a couple months ago, I almost fell down from lack of balance and now I would say I run short distances decently but am still improving rapidly. The body’s ability to heal is truly amazing. And of course I have to add even while I was abstaining from high impact activities, I was extremely active doing low impact things, and I had a background as a soldier in an elite combat unit, so I am sure the muscle memory was still there
Anyway long story short, that’s why it has taken so long to recover... 
Thanks a lot for Your time and the info bud. You did precice? And i have a question maybe a little rare: why are you here? I mean, why did you came back to this kind of forum if you already done it and you are fine? As I read and is pretty normal, the one who does this and everything goes fine, he forget about that and let this things behind. Is it just to help, you are willing to do another one...?
Thanks a lot again
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on April 21, 2021, 09:51:08 AM@Iwanttobetall:
You sir are the smartest person on this forum. 
Why is that? 🤣 you are lying to us?
Quote from: Want-3-inches on April 21, 2021, 12:13:49 PMThis was a rude question, considering he already explained in detail his level of recovery.
I dont think that way, but if he does I apologize. Anyway, reading his posts he just answered that question
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