Those 10 months are too long though. Unless you have alot of funds and don't care about losing job or seeing friends and family.
What do you say to someone if they ask did you get taller?
Even if you do Lon, you should have the frames for about 5 months and then you won't be able to do all the things you used to with your kegs like running, jumping, dancing etc cuase of the risk of nail bending.
Furthermore, with Lon you need another one (not so minor) surgery to put out the nail about 2 years after you stopped lengthening.
Imo, if you have time and patience, external only in tibias with good fixators is always better than external with LON.
If I turned back time I'd again do external only but this time with Ilizarov and not monorails. The second is more convenient but with Ilizarov you can walk as it is weight bearing and this decreases the risks of muscle atrophy and ballerina foot.
I haven't walked at all for more than 5 months when I had monorails and I am maybe lucky that my leg muscles are somewhat back to normal.
To people, I told that I had a bike accident and thats why I wore external fixators.
The height is something that almost all saw but hardly anyone mentioned to me and after some times they comoletely forgot about that and I think they thought that it was just because they have to see me for a long time due to my "accident" and nothing changed in my height.
I don't know what they thought to be honest.
But when I'll do my second LL then I don't think I can hide the new height. I will never admit that I did anything like LL but I'm sure that many people would understand that something has changed.
Anyway, I don't really care for the others, I just want to be relatively tall and hut 5.11. Thats only matters for me.
@ yourspaceboyfriend: if you prefer Birkholz or any other doctor who uses precise 2 from monegal who uses fitbone because this nail is not weight bearing, you would be dissapointed to read that precise 2 is not weight bearing too.
So do a better research before writing things that you don't know. You have many posts here so your knowledge about LL should be better than thinking that fitbone is not weight bearable while precise 2 is.
The only weight bearing nails are the obsolete guichetnail and betzbone, no else, at least for now.