Its obvious that he had internal lengthening, because Paley doesnt use external fixators for cosmetic procedures anymore( which you didnt know), but good guess.
Hey here is a quick update and my thoughts on the discussion Bodybuilder was having regarding his height and women. The audio quality is poor, please use headphones.
thx for the update Iamready.
Happy to hear that you don't have any more complexes and are happy with the way you are 
That's the best result this surgery can have
@Iamready
Fantastic post. It really touched on some issues I've been reflecting on lately, but I won't clog up your thread.
Glad to hear things are going well.
First of all...thanks for sharing your detailed experience and thoughts! Much appreciated!
Question for all the LL veterans and Dr. Paley: what are your thoughts on taking collagen supplements before and after the surgery? Do you think that collagen can help with flexibility and distraction of soft tissue, especially for the older patients?
Note: I have already sent an email to Dr. Parihar, however I don't have Dr. Paley's email address, so I haven't asked him yet.
Hello Stature,
Collagen supplementation is something that has interested me and I put a question to Dr Birkholtz on this forum about why people with achodroplasia are able to lengthen to amounts far beyond what would be considered extreme, his reply -
QuoteAchondroplasia is an interesting one. It is a condition that has its origins in abnormal collagen. You will recall that collagen also makes up most of the muscle and tendon structures. Because of this, these patients have much more supple soft tissues that allow tremendous amounts of lengthening quite safely.
In my opinion, at worst collagen supplementation will do nothing, at best, it may be beneficial.
Hey IAmReady - Any update on how your recovery is going? If you could spare the time, it would be great to see how you are getting on. Take care, man.
Hey man, how's it going? It's been about like a year and a half right?
Do you think you could've been happy with just doing femurs instead of femurs/tibias?
Hi Iamready. Hope you are recovering well from everything.
I wanna know about your humerus lenghtening. How mutch it has affected in your ability to do the same stuff as before?
You are one tough guy to go trough this all!
Quote from: Iamready on November 14, 2016, 07:18:41 PMI met with Dr. Paley today and there is good news for people interested in tibia lengthening. It seems that now when they lengthen the tibia they insert an additional rod?/nail in the fibula and fixate it better to the tibia. I don't have the exact details so forgive me if I didn't phrase it correctly but they have improved their process to prevent any complications- which is always a good thing.
Replying to this 2016-Nov post: I had the tibias surgery in March 2018 and didn't have any additional rods (the fibula is much too thin for any PRECICE nail to fit). My tibia x-rays show two screws securing the fibula to the tibia. One fellow Paley patient had the lower screw come out. Paley fixed this complication at no charge.
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