Bilateral Femur Lengthening Dairy: May 2021 with Dr Betz and Betzbone

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Quote from: L8GrowthSpurt on September 10, 2021, 04:18:23 PMSirStretchALot - Wow!  Congrats on all the progress and thanks for the diary.  Very inspiring.  Must be crazy good to have all that new height and can only imagine how rewarding that must be.  I’d be curious to hear about reactions from those who observe you after and knew you before.  Good luck with finishing up with lengthening and everything moving forward! 👍

Reactions are funny and sometimes awkward. The look of confusion on people’s faces sometimes made me uncomfortable. It has to be one of the weirdest situations I’ve been in because it really does defy normal logic and people have perplexed looks.

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Haiya. My experience is slightly different than itseasy. Since I was on a weightbearing nail, I continued to socialize with friends and they witnessed my height gains gradually. No one has ever been confused by my height increase because there was never any shock.

I'd imagine this would only be a surprise to family members or bros who were previously your height but is now shorter. For girls and boys who you were already taller than before, there shouldn't be any adverse reaction.

Being able to say 180 or 182cm on a dating profile got me so many more likes. For every 10 people who viewed my profile previously, I'd get probably 6 who matched me. Now it's 8, a 33% improvement. If you want to quantify this, you would be 33% more attractive after LL, haha.

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Damn bro 9 cm!!!

So u did ITB and even with that still getting wide legs?

How's your gait?

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Quote from: Antonio111111 on September 11, 2021, 01:36:45 PMDamn bro 9 cm!!!

So u did ITB and even with that still getting wide legs?

How's your gait?

Thanks. Yeah, ITB release helps a lot, but stretching is still needed to prevent wide legs. However, I'm quite confident it'll narrow since everyone from surgeons to past patients told me it'll narrow with enough stretching.

My gait is quite bad because I've completely lost my glutes. This is normal for all LL patients.

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Hey I noticed your wingspan in 170cm and your new height is 180cm does it look like a big difference in the mirror? I think Henry Cavill has a 10cm difference in wingspan and honestly he doesn't look too bad just wondering what your thoughts are.

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Quote from: GrowANut on September 15, 2021, 04:13:51 AMHey I noticed your wingspan in 170cm and your new height is 180cm does it look like a big difference in the mirror? I think Henry Cavill has a 10cm difference in wingspan and honestly he doesn't look too bad just wondering what your thoughts are.

So 10/170 is around 5.88%. The wingspan difference is barely noticeable unless one measures it. Though, my femur length probably increased by triple this relative to its old length, so I do notice that my femurs are quite long.

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101.46/98.34mm

Hey guys, I'm 3 days away from my right leg reaching 10cm! A few points of note:

1) The nerve pain from even 0.78mm is quite pronounced for the last 5mm. I wake up 3-4 times per night. Pills aren't really effective, so I'd have to tough it out.

2) Stretching has still been effective with hamstrings and IT bands. So now hip flexors or duckass will be my main focus.

3) X-rays show a slight upward bend in the upper screws of my right leg. I am sending it to Betz for analysis.

4) My femur to tibia ratio is around 1.49 which considering the median is 1.28 (2SD ± 0.08), my femurs are indeed considered quite long.

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That's amazing, 10cm is awesome! Congrats!

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Congrats. You are just almost there on the finish line. Just a few days to go

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wow 10 cm just in femurs!! That's impressive congrats hope you can rehab well... and regarding proportions yea for sure your femurs are going to look cosmetically longer than "normal" but who cares at least you'll be almost 4 inches taller lmao.