Are you satisfied with your CLL decision poll?

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Hello,

To those who have underwent CLL, overall, are you satisfied with your choice to undergo this procedure and would you do it again? I am trying to collect a decent bit of numerical info from CLL patients so prospective patients have a better idea of what to expect if they decide to undergo this expensive and long surgery.

Feel free to elaborate.

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Quote from: Confidence on January 15, 2023, 11:05:44 PMI could be wrong but my intuition is the majority of people who have already done this surgery (with good doctors) are satisfied with it and thus never really visit these forums or think about height again because they're busy with their lives now.  Because of that, you could easily be getting a pretty skewed distribution for this poll   

Yeah good point, the majority of people who have done CLL are probably long gone from this forum. I talked to Cyborg4life and he said pretty much everyone who had no complications had no regrets & wish they did the surgery earlier, but It is hard to tell without numerical data from a large sample of CLL patients.

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Quote from: Confidence on January 16, 2023, 02:01:22 AMYeah, I'm a firm believer that overthinking about LL could easily make someone go crazy.  It's already bad enough that a lot of us have body image issues about height. 

There's really only like 4 things to think about when going for this:

• choose a good doctor
• keep a calm mind and prepare yourself financially/mentally
• be aware of the risks and optimize your health/nutrition to help prevent those risks
• take care of yourself as much as you can throughout distraction/consolidation via nutrition and stretching

I think a lot of people get stuck on the 2nd point, start over-thinking complications/proportions, and just ultimately never end up going through with the surgery.

Yeah its easy to overthink and go crazy, there are a ton of things (finances, clinic, etc) that you really need to research. As long as you go with a good doctor / clinic with a reliable nail, 95% of the time things should go well with little complications, as this is a pretty common procedure.
For me, I already have an idea on what nail / doctor to go with & I know who to avoid, but honestly the biggest thing holding me back is the fear factor of the pain. Breaking both of your femurs sounds very painful and I am not sure If I would be willing to accept the pain to get taller.

Also added a few options to the poll about the surgeon/clinics.

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