thanx man. i think no one should do LL in tibias less than 7cms, it is too much effort for such short gain!!! i would say at least 7cms and ideal 9 or 10cms. fk proportion no one notice it only the proportion freaks in these forums lol
i have left leg bowed. I'm going to try to fix it here if my insurance covers it. i hope.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way and people may interpret your statement as fk it, I am not doing less than 7 cm no matter what. While the gain in height is small in 6 cm or less the reduced complications and less time recovering and limping are huge yet sometimes unacknowledged intangible benefits.
I'm doing 5 cm on tibiae and I am pretty satisfied with my decision. It all depends what your priorities are. I was a only 5'4 and with 5 cm it would only put me at 5'6 which is still short. Shorter than a lot of you guys post LL and even some guys pre-LL(those fkers). However I wore 5 cm lifts and I had an awesome life before. Friends, girls, money that I made on my own. I never have to remind myself why I did this because I remember my height was always a personal issue with me. I m just doing this basically to knock that insecurity away.
When I came to this forum I was dead set on 10 cm, but as I learned more about the procedure and weighed the risks against the advantage(which there is only one: you are x amount of cm taller, anything else anyone thinks this surgery will grant them is just a delusion), my expectations for height gain lowered. I was down to 7.5. I consulted with doctors and that eventually lowered it to 5 cm with a max of 5.5 if everything goes smoothly which so far it has.
From reading your diary which inspired me by the way at first, I think you and I have similar ways of thinking, which I interpret to be do what you want not what every one thinks they want of you and you cannot get rewards if you're afraid of taking risks.
That being said this is no bull nose job or going to tan bed(where it appears the Guidos try to see how far can they go), you still have to thread carefully, asses the risks and figure out how that will affect your personal goals, not just during recovery but also post recovery. After the frames and then nails come out I want to put LL behind me and never look back. I don't ever want to have to constantly deal with complications from this or ever wear lifts again. I want to continue my life and do the things that I do best.
also if my personal opinion of you matters to you at all, I think you're a good looking guy(maybe a couple notches better looking than me, no homo).
You should lose the lifts and fix the leg.