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[Elhemioe]

Like genuinely I don't get it, even provided you can save 10k a year which is quite impressive, it's still going to take you ten years to save up the 100k to have the procedure done, I genuinely don't understand where y'all get the money ?
Also, every vid I ever sees post op has people walking awkwardly, does anyone ever truly recover ?

[jerrytheman]

A lot work in tech, and total comp (stocks + salary) usually goes within the 500k-1mil range a year. Less or more depending on how the individual company stock does.
Recovery is 6-8 months, and most of these tech jobs are WFH so you stay in your room all day anyways.

Yes you can walk normally in around 8-12 months. And prob back to 95% athletic ability 18-24 months post op.

[Tehn84]

Like genuinely I don't get it, even provided you can save 10k a year which is quite impressive, it's still going to take you ten years to save up the 100k to have the procedure done, I genuinely don't understand where y'all get the money ?
Also, every vid I ever sees post op has people walking awkwardly, does anyone ever truly recover ?

For a start ignore what anyone tells you about their wealth on the internet. I've come across more multi-millionaires online than I have guys who live on minimum wage, despite the 2nd group outnumbering the former thousands to one. Funny that...

However, you basically can't work a typical wagie job. You either have to get lucky somehow (a good stock investment, some inheritance, your crypto  coin happened to go up etc), have your parents get the surgery for you, or be in a very high end job. Yeah, earning $40,000 a year as some middle class corporatecuck pen pusher isn't going to cut it.

Yeah people recover, most of the videos you'll see are from guys posting a few weeks/months after they've completed lengthening. People move on with their lives and don't come back to give a 2 year video update, plus most won't post any videos anyway for privacy reasons - as you'll understand, this surgery has a lot of stigma and the vast majority wish to keep it a secret.

[JJ299]

I mean this is why vast majority in this forum don't get the surgery and even if they do they go to cheaper countries like India/Turkey. Besides that lot of people I talked to saved up during their 20s and did it in their 30s, some got their families to finance for them, and there was this one guy in his 20s that took out 7 credit cards and maxed it out or something.

[TheDream]

No one recovers 100%. If you took an Olympic Athlete and even just lengthened 1 cm femur, the athlete would never be able to get back to 100%.

However, you can recover a lot, and it will be dependent on how much you lengthen, which segment, the physio therapy, the method, and at the end of the day just downright luck.

As to exactly how well you can recover, this still remains somewhat of a mystery. We dont have any real scientific data. The orthopedic doctors just focus on the bones regrowing. Which they do. But athletic recovery is much more complex than just the bones. You have soft tissue like muscles, nerves, joints, center of gravity etc. that all interconnect in a complex way.

It seems that some research is being done on LL affect on arthritis ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26398436/) but this is still a very small part of the larger question which is final recovery.

At the end of the day, from what we know on what people have posted afterwards, you should be able to walk, jump, workout and run, but you will tire faster, and be able to do less.

Again, there are a lot of variables. How much you lengthen, which section, the achilles tendon, the IT band, so maybe it is possible that some combination of these lead to much better outcomes and very good recoveries while others lead to worse outcomes.

Hopefully, we will get more data one day.

[Confidence]

Like genuinely I don't get it, even provided you can save 10k a year which is quite impressive, it's still going to take you ten years to save up the 100k to have the procedure done, I genuinely don't understand where y'all get the money ?
Also, every vid I ever sees post op has people walking awkwardly, does anyone ever truly recover ?

Depends on one's lifestyle.  Personally I'm not even a top 10% software engineer but I live with my parents, work remotely, and am relatively frugal so I can save ~60% of my take home income which over 50k+/year of just pure liquid cash.  I'm also investing some of it in a low volatility ETF for another ~10k a year.  I also work a part time job to supplement my income and to keep up with LL + goods and services inflation. 

10k is really not that impressive at all unless you are paying down a mortgage at the same time or are living in a HCOL area with insane rent prices.  Or, if you live in a third world country.

[BelowTheMean]

I don't know how other people did it, but I saved a lot and some smart investment choices helped move things along. If you want it badly enough, you'll find a way lol

And I don't think anyone recovers to 100%. I'm 2.5 years out from surgery and I don't think I'll ever recover to where I was before in running or jumping, or anything agility related. However, in day-to-day life, or even in the gym, basketball court, or tennis court, the people I hang out with have never noticed, so I don't think it's a big deal. It's not like I could beat a really good basketball player as a short guy even if I didn't do LL