Your're right. Do you feel short at almost 5'9 / 174 cm? I'm going to be that after lengthening my femurs most likely. What made you stop at 3.2 cm? I heard that betzbone / Gnail isn't recommended because of the clicking method and how multiple patients stop early, cuz they can't click or too painful??
I feel a hell of a lot better than before the surgery thats for sure. Do I wish I got that last CM? Yeah absolutely. But I'm pretty content. No I dont feel short anymore I feel very average and I've been to quite a few social events. It feels like my height isnt scoring me points (Im not tall) but its not holding me back anymore. I dont feel like a walking anomaly or like a girl would be embarrassed to be with me. Getting out of the 5'7 zone gets you over the hump where people look at you as short. And this is backed up in the numbers when you look at height bell curves. Going from 5'7 to my current height gets you so far up that curve.
But I think with this surgery you want to do the least amount possible where you can still feel content. Even with just 3.2cm I can still feel it in my knees a bit and have a bit of tightness. This surgery stretches out your ligaments and tendons and they just take forever to repair and strengthen. Its nothing bad at all and doesnt cause me pain but I can tell Im still recovering to feeling really youthful like before. Nevertheless Im out and about all day walking, biking, ellypical, etc. Ill start running when I get the clear.
What made me stop was most likely tough callous as I had an inability to click. It wasnt a pain thing it was a I literally cannot rotate my leg enough degrees to get clicks anymore unless I rip my knee out of its socket. This always happens to a few patients in the lengthening rotation and often what happens is they go under anesthesia clicking to loosen the callous again. But I was so close to my goal that I just called it a day.
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