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[privacy]

I come from a culture where it's considered ethical and correct to disclose medical conditions and past surgeries before marriage. In fact families ask around about the groom-to-be to ensure if he is of fit body.

I don't want to entirely hide this procedure because it would be a horrible mistake and considered immoral socially. I want to tell my fiancee and her family that I had an accident and broke my legs. That should be enough, but my problem is that my fiancee will meet all my friends and family, some of who will definitely notice the height change.

I am as tall as my sister but after LL I will be taller than her. So I fear that eventually this topic will come up one way or the other and my wife will want to know what surgery I had exactly and to show proof. If I have a doctor's letter stating that I had some other genuine procedure then I would not have to worry about anything.

How do I get a letter like this? This surgery should be written off as deformity correction or fracture treatment.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

My doctor did this.  He wrote a letter talking about some corrective bone surgery that doesn't even exist.  I looked it up and there's nothing about it anywhere.  You can tell people his English isn't good and then say it was whatever you want them to think.

www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=64

[BelowTheMean]

I wouldn't ask my doctor for this. The second they Google his name I'm outed

[volt]

My way of thinking about it is that if you sell it as more just a cosmetic thing rather than a drastic measure to alleviate yourself of an insecurity that makes you feel inferior, people won’t think as much about it. Cosmetic surgery, except when obsessively overdone, isn’t really seen as something shameful. Maybe a bit vain, but it’s been around since before Jesus even walked the earth.

I’m not sure about your proportions, but I have a long upper body (average size for someone about 8-10cm taller) and very short legs. I’m about 167 cm and my girlfriend is 150 cm (and has good proportions for her size), and our legs are almost the same length with mine being only slightly longer.

I plan on just telling people it was a cosmetic thing for me to have better proportions. If people ask about the added height, I will say it was just an added bonus. If you are cool and confident about it and treat it as nothing more than getting a little cosmetic work done, people will not really care just like they don’t really care about when people get nose jobs.

If asked also, I also plan on downplaying the amount of pain. “It hurt but it was manageable”

[las vegas baby]

I wouldn't ask my doctor for this. The second they Google his name I'm outed

thats why its important to get this done with surgeons who dont specialise in leg length surgery.

you would not have this problem if you went to a normal trauma surgeon

belowthemean, you need more foresight in life my dude...

[las vegas baby]

My way of thinking about it is that if you sell it as more just a cosmetic thing rather than a drastic measure to alleviate yourself of an insecurity that makes you feel inferior, people won’t think as much about it. Cosmetic surgery, except when obsessively overdone, isn’t really seen as something shameful. Maybe a bit vain, but it’s been around since before Jesus even walked the earth.

I’m not sure about your proportions, but I have a long upper body (average size for someone about 8-10cm taller) and very short legs. I’m about 167 cm and my girlfriend is 150 cm (and has good proportions for her size), and our legs are almost the same length with mine being only slightly longer.

I plan on just telling people it was a cosmetic thing for me to have better proportions. If people ask about the added height, I will say it was just an added bonus. If you are cool and confident about it and treat it as nothing more than getting a little cosmetic work done, people will not really care just like they don’t really care about when people get nose jobs.

If asked also, I also plan on downplaying the amount of pain. “It hurt but it was manageable”

what are you smokin' bro? 

geting this done for height is far more acceptable that getting it for "proportions"

"yOu bREak YoUR LEgs And STREch TheM foR MonThs fOR PrOpOrTions??"

[tallmen]

I wouldn't ask my doctor for this. The second they Google his name I'm outed

Your doctor is the brand ambassador of this surgery.

[tallmen]

I come from a culture where it's considered ethical and correct to disclose medical conditions and past surgeries before marriage. In fact families ask around about the groom-to-be to ensure if he is of fit body.

I don't want to entirely hide this procedure because it would be a horrible mistake and considered immoral socially. I want to tell my fiancee and her family that I had an accident and broke my legs. That should be enough, but my problem is that my fiancee will meet all my friends and family, some of who will definitely notice the height change.

I am as tall as my sister but after LL I will be taller than her. So I fear that eventually this topic will come up one way or the other and my wife will want to know what surgery I had exactly and to show proof. If I have a doctor's letter stating that I had some other genuine procedure then I would not have to worry about anything.

How do I get a letter like this? This surgery should be written off as deformity correction or fracture treatment.

You can say you got bow leg correction and gained some height because of that. It's unlikely that people will notice that much.

[volt]

what are you smokin' bro? 

geting this done for height is far more acceptable that getting it for "proportions"

"yOu bREak YoUR LEgs And STREch TheM foR MonThs fOR PrOpOrTions??"

Uh yeah? I go to a fashion and design school and in terms of aesthetics, proportions are far more important than how tall you actually are. At the end of the day this is a cosmetic surgery, and cosmetic surgeries are concerned with augmenting perceived beauty. You stay in whatever world initiates that kind of hostility I just got from you and I will stay in my own.

[th]

when are you getting surgery?