maybe you should re-check, do you have a stadiometer, I do and I measure myself in morning and night, its pretty much always 164.5 or 164.3.
yeah the sneakers you mention are lifts, they are just 1cm lifts, its still a lift of sorts, you get them from formal wear shoes, some boots and some sneakers.
Im getting some 9cm lifts soon and at that point i should be able to see your new height and maybe I can judge a little better.
but do you not feel guilty about not being fully happy with your height when you see guys that shorter than you all the time?
I am thinking maybe it's because you lived a life of being a 5' 6" short man and now you want to even the score, to have a one up on a lot of men by only being fully happy with your height at 177, i have a feeling if you naturally got to 172 then you would't give a thought to your height.
Yellowspike - Dr. Guichet, Internal Femurs, Late 2014
Lol, I was more like 5'5 1/2" my friend, possibly a bit lower than that. I agree with you...I think if I were naturally what I am now, I wouldn't care as much and I doubt I would have done LL. I think for me it's the mentality of my height being very borderline right now...like, I'm right on the threshold of where "short" begins. And I want a little more height as a buffer to that. We'll see. Maybe someday before I die I will make it happen. Have to recover from this one first, though.
Feel a bit embarrassed myself as I am quite tall for an LL-prospect.
I wake up at about 179,7 and shrink to somewhere in the 178 range before I go to bed. Consider myself 178CM though because I'm the kind of guy that rounds down.
I'd like to be 186 at night (dad's 186,5 at night) but that's too much in one surgery in my opinion. I'm also something of a proportion nazi and so I would rather be going for 6-7CM in actual height increase.
Do you guys think it's possible to permanently increase torso length by maybe 5mm?
In that case I could lengthen 6,8-7CM which would translate to an actual height increase of maybe 6,5CM. I would be 185CM at night which isn't really tall (in N. europe) but respectable and normal for a young man which really is all I could ever ask for. Perhaps in the future I might be able to gain an extra CM and finally see eye to eye with my father.
What do you guys think?
LOL yeah Uppland you are quite tall for this...but if you want to be as tall as your dad...if it really bothers you that much...just know that LL is really hard, really long, and the recovery period can seem like forever. I mean...I don't have tall siblings, a tall father, or live in a tall country...so I can't comment on how I'd feel in your situation. But if it bothers you that much, then go for it.
I also round down, so I take my evening height as gospel. I still have some duckass (a fair amount, actually), but not counting on it to help at all. I'm fine with saying I'm 5'8" because some days my evening height is a bit over, some days a bit under. It's fine for now. At worst, I suppose I consider myself a very slightly weak 5'8", which isn't too terrible.
I honest to God think I would feel 100% satisfied at 5'9" or even like 5'8.75" evening height. To me, that's on the lower end of average, but still safely within the average zone and above that critical 5'8" mark (which I'm right on the line right now). If you've done half as much online dating as I have, you see the following three thresholds a lot: 6ft, 5'10 and 5'8. I'll never see 6ft or 5'10, but as long as I'm safely over 5'8/pushing 5'9"...I can totally live with that.
id say 172 is a weak 5' 8", 174 is 5 8.5".
well i guess it's how you feel at the end of the day, but i would look at other people in the world rather than a figure you see in your head as what you think is a good height, and in that case you will notice many men shorter than you, and at that point, you will realise you are a good height, I think.
yeah Uppland wow 178, I wouldn't do LL even if it was for free at that height, even 174 i wouldn't do it. i know like 10 guys at 170, none of them care about their height.
YellowSpike you said LL is a long and hard process, if you did 5cm would you feel the process isn't that long, the length of time it takes along with the mental strain etc. is my main reason to go for 5cm over 7cm, keep in mind i will be doing external tibia.
upland go for it.. i had the same reason as u. i have tall siblings. there something that can really bother certain people about feeling belittled by people in their family. and getting out of ur head is near impossible. if you are serious enough about it its a small sacrifice that , yes will be tough at the time, but you will be glad uve done it in the long run. people shorter than you are naturally going to say that they wouldnt do it at your height, but u have to remember they arent you. 5'10 to one person can be completely different to another person. everyone told me i was crazy for doing it at my height but at the end of the day your doing it for yourself. noone else
Yeah well obviousy it does bother me, a lot. That said I couldn't say if lengthening my legs is really the way to go, it's a tough decision and right now it feels as if I'm fukked either way. My shrink says I should forget about it which had the opposite effect, still I'm not very old so this might be an immature response.
Maybe I could do the surgery and then recover to a point where I can forget about it, I feel uneasy permanently changing my body though -especially since it's for the worse in many ways.
Enough about all that though, this is yellowspikes diary after all. Have you tried running yet mate?
Quote from: Descreteuser on May 29, 2015, 10:25:56 PMupland go for it.. i had the same reason as u. i have tall siblings. there something that can really bother certain people about feeling belittled by people in their family. and getting out of ur head is near impossible. if you are serious enough about it its a small sacrifice that , yes will be tough at the time, but you will be glad uve done it in the long run. people shorter than you are naturally going to say that they wouldnt do it at your height, but u have to remember they arent you. 5'10 to one person can be completely different to another person. everyone told me i was crazy for doing it at my height but at the end of the day your doing it for yourself. noone else
How tall were you then, and how have you recovered?
Oh, and thanks! I usually have my parents to confide in but I dare not tell them since I'm afraid they would dismiss the idea out-right.
181 to 185.. im 2.5 months post op, finished lengthening a week ago.. im currently stretching out my ballerina which is very minor and gradually getting flexibility back in my legs.. walking with walker at this stage. on track to have frames off in 4.5 to 5 months
oh and i am also doing this secretly.
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