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[danspazy]

I've literally done everything I can to increase my height, stretches, drinking tons of milk, daily extercise and yet I'm still 5'5 and I've literally been this way since High School. It sucks.

Anyway, if i go for the procedure, which I'm willing to no matter the pain! my legs will be longer, oh awesome. But what about my arms? wouldn't my whole body be disproportion? long legs, but short arms. Do they do anything about it to make your whole even out?

Btw I'm 5'5, would I be able to at least get to 5'9 or 5'10? maybe even higher?
also I'm a pretty fit person, I love to lift weights, and just be healthy, could I still capable of doing what I love to do after I'm done with the whole procedure? Would I still be able to lift weights and exercise running and jumping?

[KiloKAHN]

It's possible to lengthen arms the same way as you lengthen your legs. Although I have yet to hear of someone doing arm lengthening for cosmetic reasons. There's also a lot of risk involved in CLL and it would be a lot harder to get by in life with a permanent complication on both arms versus both legs.

As to how much lengthening you could get away with, it depends on your proportions already. Have you measured your wingspan and arm length? Are your shoulders broad or narrow? If you have a consultation with a surgeon that performs lengthening you could ask him for an idea of how much you could ideally lengthen.

Recovery depends on multiple factors but the general idea is that the less you lengthen, the easier your recovery will be.

[amatan]

Wingspan doesn't really matter unless your height exceeds your wingspan by a lot, mostly because the difference is distributed between two arms, i.e. if your wingspan exceeds your height by say 6 cm, each individual arm is shorter by just 3 cm, which visually is really nothing.  In my opinion height trumps proportions 90% of the time.  I've seen pictures of people who have lengthened and their height new exceeded their wingspan by 7-10 cm and it looks perfectly within the normal range. Plenty of people naturally don't have long arms and it's not something that looks odd. 

If you want to recover fully/near fully to your pre-op athletic ability, you should not go for a 4 inch gain with one surgery, 7.5 inches per limb is the absolute maximum most members here would probably recommend, and many less than that.  If you want to hit 5'9"-5'10", it's perfectly doable, but you really should do two surgeries (one femur, one tibia) and do like 5-6 cm each.   

[TRS]

If you want to recover fully/near fully to your pre-op athletic ability, you should not go for a 4 inch gain with one surgery, 7.5 inches per limb is the absolute maximum most members here would probably recommend, and many less than that.  If you want to hit 5'9"-5'10", it's perfectly doable, but you really should do two surgeries (one femur, one tibia) and do like 5-6 cm each.   

I agree with Amatan that 5'9-5'10 is doable and I would limit the lengthening to 5-6 cm each segment. While I do place importance on proportion, 10 cm height gain should not really affect your proportion unless your legs are longer than your torso and/or wingspan. Also consider your sitting height if you plan to lengthen more than 10 cm.

[onedayillgrow]

I've literally done everything I can to increase my height, stretches, drinking tons of milk, daily extercise and yet I'm still 5'5 and I've literally been this way since High School. It sucks.

Anyway, if i go for the procedure, which I'm willing to no matter the pain! my legs will be longer, oh awesome. But what about my arms? wouldn't my whole body be disproportion? long legs, but short arms. Do they do anything about it to make your whole even out?

Btw I'm 5'5, would I be able to at least get to 5'9 or 5'10? maybe even higher?
also I'm a pretty fit person, I love to lift weights, and just be healthy, could I still capable of doing what I love to do after I'm done with the whole procedure? Would I still be able to lift weights and exercise running and jumping?

I'm in exactly the same boat as you danspazy. There is probably a 1 cm difference between us both though :p But i'm pretty over weight which i'm working on each and every day so hopefully losing all this weight and daily yoga/pilates will correct my posture and put me at 165-166 cm (strong 5'5 range). But what sucks the most for me is my younger brother of 2 years is 6 inches taller than me He's a strong/exact 5'11 and it pisses me off so much. But gladly hearing about this amazing surgery, i feel pretty confident in reaching a healthy 5'8 - 5'10. Anything beyond that would just be a big bonus for me because i don't want to over do it and risk athletic capability for height. But yea anyways, i have been researching this for a good half a year and i will definitely recommend you to do 2 and a half inches per limb or (6cm as our lovely CLL veterans have pitched to us ).

6 cm per limb would easily make you (and me ) a good 12 cm taller which is equivalent to a strong 4 and a half inches. And That will easily make you and myself :p 5'9 and a half and with a little footwear help make us 5'10 .

Also i wouldn't worry about proportions that much. Only people who have become aware of what proportions should be really see the difference. To normal people we will look perfectly normal if not a little lanky and built like racers :p.
Oh and i would like to add that this much per limb is a good bet for people who want to regain athletic ability You might not be taking part in parkour :p but maybe, hardwork and dedication will help us fit in