No More Mal-Kahn-Tent - External Tibias - Dr Parihar

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Interesting to read the varied opinions. Proportions is a very divided topic.

Quote from: YellowSpike on August 12, 2015, 05:26:23 PMKilo, what is your wingspan. I know you were like 165 before the surgery. I was 166/166.5, and my wingspan is somewhere between 172 and 173 (so matches my current height 173 perfectly).

Wingspan is 170 but I think a lot of that is because of shoulder width. Not sure of actual arm length but it might be shorter than the typical person my height.

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I think you could do another 3-4cm and still look entirely ok. Then you'd be like 5'8/5'8.5"

My torso/leg and wingspan proportions are all fine right now, and I think I could pull off another 2 inches (perhaps even a bit more) and not have it be a problem at all. But if I do tibias, I'm just doing 3.5/4cm to keep the risks/astronomical recovery time in check.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 12, 2015, 07:15:04 PMInteresting to read the varied opinions. Proportions is a very divided topic.

I think expectations vary, myself I am not sufficient with looking "passble" or "normal", I want my body to look good. Would rather be average and proportionate than tall and lanky or otherwise weird.

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Quote from: YellowSpike on August 12, 2015, 07:24:30 PMMy torso/leg and wingspan proportions are all fine right now, and I think I could pull off another 2 inches (perhaps even a bit more) and not have it be a problem at all. But if I do tibias, I'm just doing 3.5/4cm to keep the risks/astronomical recovery time in check.

Have you done any mockups yet to aid your decision on whether to do another round on femurs or go for tibs?

Quote from: Uppland on August 12, 2015, 07:25:36 PMI think expectations vary, myself I am not sufficient with looking "passble" or "normal", I want my body to look good. Would rather be average and proportionate than tall and lanky or otherwise weird.

That's something to consider. Posting the mockups on a forum that's primarily populated by women and leaving the height increase info out of it, it would be interesting to see what body type they vote as most aesthetically pleasing. I wonder if anyone has done that before.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 12, 2015, 07:39:44 PMHave you done any mockups yet to aid your decision on whether to do another round on femurs or go for tibs?

That's something to consider. Posting the mockups on a forum that's primarily populated by women and leaving the height increase info out of it, it would be interesting to see what body type they vote as most aesthetically pleasing. I wonder if anyone has done that before.

No but I'm going to. Can you maybe send me a link to do the mockups? Thanks!

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If you're serious about it Yellow then I'd advice you to wear different clothes or make the mockups bodies look different from one another; wouldn't want to make seem like you're gonna alter your body. Or not, mainly up to you.

But I do think people who do mockups or have already gone through LL should do this; getting outside perspective from people that might not necessarily know about this operation would be an interesting case study in terms of aesthetics of the human body.

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I'm the optimist one so if you show pic #4, 99.99% of the population won't see anything wrong with those proportions but chicks will dig the height.

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Update: 8/20/2015
Went to the ortho and got updated x-rays. Will post them after I pick them up. Anyway, the tibiae are solid enough to walk without the braces, so as of now I'm walking without any support. Pin sites have healed fine and there's no more drainage. Ortho said that my legs are still tight so he wrote a referral to continue physical therapy at a nearby clinic. He wants me to continue stretching vigorously because the problem with tight ankles is that when your feet bend upward when walking on an incline it puts a lot of pressure on the area at the top of your feet where the leg starts,  and you can develop arthritis there if it goes on for long enough. He wants to give me six months to try and loosen it up sufficiently,  otherwise he said he'd recommend a tendon release. I really don't want to do that so my stretching is going to be hardcore.

Walking feels okay. I have a little bit of pressure in the middle of my right leg, and when I wake up in the morning my calves are tighter than usual but it goes away after walking around briefly. I imagine I look normal enough walking but I probably won't be able to run for months. I was told to start using an exercise bike though so now I have a reason to unfreeze my 24 Hour Fitness membership.

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Update: 8/29/2015
So this last week was really interesting. I was doing a whole lot better walking, but I think I overdid it at a concert and county fair and ended up with a right ankle sprain that makes it impossible to put weight on it without a great amount of pain at the moment. I went back to using a crutch to get around so I can let it heal. This isn't the first time that walking a lot has caused this problem, but after I heal from it I find that I have more flexibility than before, so this is probably just the way the body gets over muscle tightness.

I also had a ton of sex these last few days and it got rid of a bunch of frustration that was building up over a year of lengthening and recovering. Not only was the woman really fine, but her bf is 6'3 and she was attracted to me to the point where she wanted me to do her despite being 8 inches shorter than him. She even wants this to be a regular thing. Maybe it had to do with people asking me on the street while we were hanging out if I was a military man or a professional wrestler. Was probably a turn on or something. Lol.

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 30, 2015, 12:56:18 AMUpdate: 8/29/2015
I also had a ton of sex these last few days and it got rid of a bunch of frustration that was building up over a year of lengthening and recovering. Not only was the woman really fine, but her bf is 6'3 and she was attracted to me to the point where she wanted me to do her despite being 8 inches shorter than him. She even wants this to be a regular thing. Maybe it had to do with people asking me on the street while we were hanging out if I was a military man or a professional wrestler. Was probably a turn on or something. Lol.

My boy...despite this being somewhat horrible I couldn't be any prouder  . How did you even manage to meet her anyways? hahaha

Those things aside I hope your recovery is going well and that it gets better.