Quote from: microman on September 28, 2015, 03:06:23 PMim doing LL right now and we're about the same height and we are using an external device which is the longest time, im at 4cm and my original goal was 5cm.
however i have been thinking on doing 6cm now, how do you feel about the time it took to do 6cm, do you regret it and wish you did 5cm, if 7cm was an option for you would you take it, or at the end did you feel that you had spent enough time doing this and woudn't want to do 7cm.
i can only do 1 LL due to my wingspan so i guess our positions may be a bit different.
did you find out your tibia and femur bone length, if i do 6cm my femur would be 3cm longer than tibia.
if I had thought to myself that I'd more realistically expect 2 months per cm in cages than 1.5 months per cm, I more than likely would have chosen LON. I'm not sure how Dr Mitkovic's external device's feel, but having the cages on my legs for 12 months really sucked some days and always sucked at night. As it is with external fixation time, I wouldn't have pushed to 7 cm even if Dr Parihar told me that I could. Started to feel like my soft tissues were having a hard time a little after 5 cm, but I pushed to 6 cm just because mentally it felt good to be at the 170 cm mark.
Tibia length post op is 37.5 cm and femurs are 43.0 cm.
Quote from: Uppland on September 28, 2015, 09:34:38 PMI also have a question Kilo: how significant is a 6CM increase in height, and how noticeable is it?
It made a big difference, both in how I perceive myself now and in how others view me. Also with some practical things, like shopping for pants. I think aesthetically I look better than before since I was very stocky for my height to begin with and probably looked a bit silly. A lot of people who know me prior to surgery remarked that I look really good now and saw the difference right away, and those who haven't seen me in a while have said something along the lines of "Something's different about you..." I haven't been called out over my height yet in conversations since I've been back either. That may change since I'm still below average height here, but I think it will happen with less frequency than before.
Not entirely sure, but it's probable that if you increase your height 6 cm it will be less instantly noticeable than when I did it. I think the shorter the starting height, the more obvious the change will be. But going from 5'10 to 6'0 mark should definitely have a social benefit.
