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[lessthanavg8300]

Im trying to imagine what my femurs will look like at 2 inches (5CM) longer.  And if I walked into a room with people who knew me - what would their first suspicion be.

Maybe a better way to phrase this is: even if your new overall height was not noticed, is your segment length obvious to others?  Can it be hidden easily?

For anyone who had LL I would really appreciate your input.... did people you're close with comment more on your overall height or your specific body parts?  Or both?

[SpeedDialer]

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[lessthanavg8300]

huh?

[SpeedDialer]

huh?

ah sorry basically I misread my post and the realized too late so I deleted the post

[lessthanavg8300]

Oh got it.  No worries.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Overall height.  But then they might scrutinize your body and notice something's a bit off with your legs now too.

[EndGame]

Overall height.  But then they might scrutinize your body and notice something's a bit off with your legs now too.

Completely agree though 5cm femurs fairly easy to hide. Oddly long tibias in shorts harder to camouflage I'd expect

[lessthanavg8300]

Tibas are definitely harder to hide no doubt

[lessthanavg8300]

Good to know.  Im just going to get baggier and wider shorts and hope for the best.  I picture it actually being easier to hide femurs in shorts rather than pants funny enough just because they are wider usually and break up the line.

[RealLostSoul]

Good to know.  Im just going to get baggier and wider shorts and hope for the best.  I picture it actually being easier to hide femurs in shorts rather than pants funny enough just because they are wider usually and break up the line.

Definitely shorts hide femur the best. Even 10-12 cm can be hidden with shorts man.  5 cm will always look basically natural.

[lessthanavg8300]

Music to my ears

[TheDream]

Biggest giveaway will be a different walk / fragile legs. As always the weak point of LL with the current technology & methods is the soft tissue (muscles, joints, nerves etc.) being damaged due to the lengthening process.

No one would notice 5 cm femurs if your walking & legs didnt give anything away. It’s only if they get the initial suspicion from the walking that they start putting 1+1 together.

[lessthanavg8300]

I can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

I think the hanging down of clothes is the key to concealing LL.

A long shirt is the way to hide femur LL.  It'll make it look like your waist is closer to your knees.  Long shorts on their own won't hide disproportion if your knees are still showing below the hem and they're clearly abnormally far from the waist.

Long shorts that go past the knee can hide tibia LL since nobody will see quite where the knee joint is.

[lessthanavg8300]

Yeah that makes sense.  A combo of a longer shirt and going wider/baggier pants/shorts should do it.

Hoping cargo shorts come back in style! lol

[thankscience]

I can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

Do you mean 4 months post-lengthening? If so, my understanding is you might have a slight waddle and be a bit slow with walking at that point, but if you're really careful people might not notice from your gait alone (for weightbearing nail patients).

[1team]

Definitely shorts hide femur the best. Even 10-12 cm can be hidden with shorts man.  5 cm will always look basically natural.

No one is hiding 10-12 cm of femur lengthening lol.

[junior006]

5cm femur is unnoticeable to the untrained eye, even if you were originally very short (<165cm)

[TheDream]

I can definitely see this.  Trying to not underestimate it.  The competitor in me wants to think Ill do better than most people and cut the recovery time shorter but thats prob what everyone thinks going into it and then things just kind of get out of your control.  I really need to look decent in about 4 months (for a short period of time like an evening at dinner) to get away with nobody knowing.

4 months is really early imo recovery takes time.

[EndGame]

Yeah that makes sense.  A combo of a longer shirt and going wider/baggier pants/shorts should do it.

Hoping cargo shorts come back in style! lol

I don't think wider or baggier is that helpful. Long shirt and wear shorts/pants one inch lower than average, like a loose pair of pants that just happened to ride down a bit while you were walking around. Kinda the opposite look of an old man who hikes his pants up to his belly button lol

[RealLostSoul]

No one is hiding 10-12 cm of femur lengthening lol.

Wrong. Look at recent diaries of guys that did 10-12. look at their posted pictures. At least with clothes it can look more normal than you think. One of my LL buddies did 10.5 and he looks great. Couldn‘t tell he did LL.

[lessthanavg8300]

4 months after surgery.  So 2 months into consolidation I'm hoping to be able to go to a restaurant and look normal enough for people to not ask questions.  I wouldnt try going for a hike in daylight with family.  But if I can see them once it will go a long way to normalizing relations and not drawing suspicion.  Maybe its still too ambitious idk.  I really wish I had done this during covid...what a perfect time.

[lessthanavg8300]

Helpful, I get what you're saying.  Basically shifting your femurs lower and elongating your torso.

[RealLostSoul]

4 months after surgery.  So 2 months into consolidation I'm hoping to be able to go to a restaurant and look normal enough for people to not ask questions.  I wouldnt try going for a hike in daylight with family.  But if I can see them once it will go a long way to normalizing relations and not drawing suspicion.  Maybe its still too ambitious idk.  I really wish I had done this during covid...what a perfect time.

With 5cm you don‘t have to worry. I met a friend who I haven‘t seen since surgery, I was at 6cm and he didn‘t even notice any difference (in legs or height . )
Also with 5cm you will recover very fast I think 4-5months is feasible.

[lessthanavg8300]

I hope so.  I ran 3 miles every other day for like 15 years and Im very in shape.  So I'm hoping that conditioning gives me some sort of advantage.  But maybe its completely irrelevant when you break your legs and pull apart your muscle.