Quote from: portnoy on February 16, 2023, 08:36:28 AMNot to be rude, but I feel like some of the guys are underplaying the risks (or ignoring them completely) due to height dysphoria. And I do understand that, I am also pretty desperate to increase my height, if I wasn’t I wouldn’t be considering this surgery. But I do think we still need to try to stay logical and not romanticize the surgery/results.
The more I look at some LL results the more I think it looks off. Longer femurs, worse leg/body ratio, short arms in comparison etc. Maybe I’ve only seen the extreme ones but it is discouraging. I’d like to go back to normal life not having some other issue besides height in the back of my mind.
there is genuinely a very low risk of anything permanently bad occurring as long as you do the surgery with a good doctor dont lengthen insanely, and take it seriously. It's a well studied surgery. The proportion stuff is a valid concern but in the vast majority of cases things look fine. Leg to body ratio is irrelevant unless you are on the extremes of either end, arms will be fine as long as you're within probably 2inches (likely more but im unsure where to say the line is, scientific data says it literally doesn't matter but it MUST look strange at a point). Longer femurs is actually a commonly strange looking thing but still in most cases I think it looks fine... and its much much easier said then done but for someone like me who plans to do 2 surgeries my femur and tibia ratio will barely change.
and by permanently bad I mean an actual disability or chronic pain, not running worse. of course there will be tradeoff in athletic ability. but too many people on this forum act like they are professional runners and basketball players.