This is a 6CM increase?
Your tibiae looks about equal to your femur length or perhaps slightly less. I would assume your surgeon measured them thouroughly so it suprises me a bit that you don't know for sure. Proportionally you look alright (I say this as a fanatical proportions nazi), your legs look long but not strangely so and your arms are on the stubby side. Perhaps show us a picture in shoes?
You get plus points thanks to your haircut, very cool.
Yep, exactly 6 cm. We were looking at my standing x-ray on Dr Parihar's computer but I had so much going through my mind that I forgot to ask him about my measurements. He should still have it though so I sent him an e-mail asking for the measurements and then I'll just add 6 cm on top of it to figure out the new ratio.
Agree about the arms. Helps with weight lifting and hooks during sparring but my arm length has been commented on once before when I was on the wrestling team. That could also have been because it was really hard for people to get me in an arm bar so they noticed it more.
For the picture, did you mean exactly like before (with legs exposed) but with shoes or wearing usual clothing to hide the legs?
Looks so so. Not bad as many guys who had surgery with Dr. Sarin but you have high amount of x legs. Maybe Paley can fix it for you before you get joint issue. This is why I wont do this in India.
You know what x-legs are, right? I understand that people have an aversion to India for a number of reasons, but I think Parihar did as good a job as a popular CLL doctor in the West would have done.
I think you could pull off femur lengthening. Maybe you're used to seeing yourself as a person with a thick body and that's why it looks off to you, but it doesn't to me.
That could be it. Not used to my lower body being as thin as they are now. I think my shorter arms is the main hindrance in pursuing a second lengthening.
Thumbs up, KiloKAHN. Yeh, u just need some work out on those legs and they'll be perfect.
Thanks, Bluebarbie. How have you been? Legs feeling good?
Is that only 6 cm? Honestly I shoud say that I think that it is visible that you lengthened, but not too much... Maybe it's just because I know it 
Hah, maybe. I don't think anyone is going to look at me on the street and go "That guy's legs are too long!" although I did go to a diner the other day wearing my walking braces and as soon as I stepped inside a waitress told me "Wow man, your legs look gnarly!"
I agree with MDOW that you could definitely pull off femoral lengthening if you decided later that you wanted it. Your torso would easily handle it. But you look badass as is. What's your weight post LL?
Right now I weigh 176 lbs/80 kg. I'm not concerned about the torso length or body width, it's the arms that discourage me.
have you got your full legs xrays before surgery or now? , measure your femur in the xray, then your tibia and do this:
tibia/femur= x to know your ratio
I have my standing x-ray from prior to surgery. If Parihar doesn't answer my e-mail then I'll see if my local doc can measure with my x-ray film.
if you were 166 before the operation do you think you would have stopped at 5cm, in other words you went that extra cm due to your start height more than anything.
how would you rate the difficulty of going from 5cm to 6cm, i noticed your lengthening rate wasn't lowered a whole lot so i assume it can't be that bad.
I might have stopped at 5 cm. I think getting to 170 cm was important for me mentally so if I got to that point with 5 cm I might have thought "what's a 1 cm difference, I'm still 5'7." It's hard to recall the difference in pain at this point, but I do remember the last stretch being more difficult. The worst days were when I turned 1 mm a day. I only lasted alternating between .75 mm and 1 mm per day for a week though, because the 1 mm days were hell and I had to stop turning that fast.
Since you're too old to have grown naturally, do you foresee the change in height causing any issues when you renew your driver's license?
Before I left for India I had to renew my state license and when I went to the DMV I changed it from 5'5 to 5'7. They didn't say anything to me about it.
You look fine height wise, but you look high-kneed, just as I do in the thread with my pic in the proportions segment. I think 6-7cm can be accomplished on anyone, but it should be done 3cm tibia, 4cm femur, to prevent this high knee look. Just stands out so much, and there's not much you can do to hide it, since the joint is so exposed to the eye's view.
The knees do look a little high in the pictures. Although I think it isn't an issue in most circumstances because people look at you from the top down, which gives the perception that the tibiae are shorter than they really are.
your pinhole scars look just like mine, except i have fewer
whats with these scars??? the scar looks like dead skin to be honest... not flat, dark,etc
same thing with yours?
Some of them look purple and there's still some indentation. They should rise up with time. I probably won't get any scar reduction unless they end up healing really ugly or something.
I'm very jealous of your thick bone structure. You look like you're built like a truck. The tibs don't look bad because you have such beefy bones and thus muscle build. You could easy lengthen another 2 inches in your femurs. Nice alignment too.
Congrats. You are a good candidate for this because you have the bone thickness and total mass of a 6'2" guy. You're lucky that way.
Haha, at 164 cm I think my width made me look a bit ridiculous, tbh. The added height likely helped me look more normal. I want to get back to training my calves again and the added width should help them look shorter, but I need to be completely sure that I'm allowed to train them without worry of bone bending or re-fracture. My local ortho said I shouldn't attempt running for at least 8 months after my frames were removed. Going to ask him if he thanks I should wait that long to get back into doing lower body exercises as well.
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