@Donbones: Depends on your goals and motivations. Look within your self, make a reasonable goal that can be realistically/safely achieved and pursue it ruthlessly. It is very hard for anyone outside of the LL world to ever notice proportions, especially with femur lengthening. I think if you are going to spend all this time, money, and pain to break your own legs you should do it on your terms and achieve the height you want to as long as your body complies, your doctors and PTs support you to continue and you are not experiencing complications. If you feel 100 percent sure you are done, then stop by all means. Winning LL is leaving with a feeling of accomplishment.
I started at around 5”6 and got to 5”8, I had an inch left on my nails when I had to stop.
What would you say to one person who wants to do the LL surgery?
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on April 21, 2021, 07:12:39 AM@Donbones: It is very hard for anyone outside of the LL world to ever notice proportions, especially with femur lengthening. I think if you are going to spend all this time, money, and pain to break your own legs you should do it on your terms and achieve the height you want to as long as your body complies, your doctors and PTs support you to continue and you are not experiencing complications. If you feel 100 percent sure you are done, then stop by all means. Winning LL is leaving with a feeling of accomplishment.
I started at around 5”6 and got to 5”8, I had an inch left on my nails when I had to stop.
Thanks for the reply. My intention is to go for 5-6cm only because I want to reduce the risk of pain and complications as much as possible. Then again, it won't really get me to my "dream height"..
@Donbones: 5-6 is a great goal if that is what you truly want. Everybody kind of reevaluates once their legs are broken. You just need to know pain and complications can come at 5-6 CM too. I hear it gets way harder once you pass 6, but idk never got there 
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I think for tibias it is a different story, from everything I’ve heard and seen it really starts to suck after 5 CM and actually does start to get noticeable proportion wise. But again, don’t know from personal experience.
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on April 21, 2021, 07:40:51 AM@Donbones: 5-6 is a great goal if that is what you truly want. Everybody kind of reevaluates once their legs are broken. You just need to know pain and complications can come at 5-6 CM too. I hear it gets way harder once you pass 6, but idk never got there .
I think for tibias it is a different story, from everything I’ve heard and seen it really starts to suck after 5 CM and actually does start to get noticeable proportion wise. But again, don’t know from personal experience.
Hi 6CMFemurs,
you story is very confusing. Did you end up getting the full 8cm after rebreaking? Did you get the nails removed? Are you considering getting rotational deformity fixed?
Quote from: 6CMFemurs on April 21, 2021, 06:19:00 AMTo answer your question as someone who did LL 7 years ago.
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- I can walk and hike faster than I could pre-op (maybe because my femur is longer, idk), but cannot run as fast as before. I can walk for hours and hours and never feel tired (I literally feel superhuman in that regard), but my muscles fatigue fairly quickly when I run. I am currently working on building up my muscle stamina. For the past couple of weeks, I have been hiking up a giant mountain behind my house and running down to build glute strength. The total trek is about 4 miles and I feel it getting easier and easier every day, plus I get the best views in LA 
. My walk does not look normal because I have an external tibial torsion deformity that looks worse due to my inability to compensate for it after femoral lengthening.
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So are you still building your muscle stamina after 7 years? That's a little disconcerting. Of course, I realize that it takes years to recover, but that much time is a bit strange.
@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...
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
@Iwanttobetall:
You sir are the smartest person on this forum.
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: Iwanttobetalleresp on April 21, 2021, 09:39:54 AMThanks 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
This was a rude question, considering he already explained in detail his level of recovery.
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