jbfjbj4:
So, you have done 9.5 cm femurs only? What was your initial height?
I can't afford internal femurs but can do LON femur in Russia in about 2 years and gain 9 cm to become 5'9 and wear lifts to stand at 5'11 until I do tibia 5 cm.
Do you recommend that route though? I can do 2.5 inch tibia in about a year but wearing lifts will be out of question as it will look weird until I do femurs.
Do you think that waiting for 2 years and getting 9 cm femur worth it compared to doing external tibia in about a year and gain at most 6 cm and being in fixators for about a year? With LON femur I will remove fixators in about 100 days and be done until nail removal.
Yeah, I only did 1xLL. I was 171cm to begin with. Did the surgery exactly 1 year ago now, recovered 100% normal walking, my running still isn't great tbf but it gets better each month and it's unimportant anyway to me.
Your reason for doing femur was basically the same as mine (i.e. with femurs you can always put some lifts in for a few more cm, you can't really with tibia, plus I felt that at 171, adding 5cm still leaves you in that danger 'short' zone, whereas at 180 you're much more securely average).
Realistically, if you're 5 ft 5 now (which I infer from you saying 9cm would take you to 5ft 9) then I'd say you're going to need to do 2 surgeries anyway, so if you can get the tibia one done first, then you might as well get the ball rolling with that one. 5ft 7 is still going to be decently better than 5ft 5 (and honestly, just wear the lifts until you get the femur surgery too, being disproportionate is way less of a fail than being short, I'm very far from 'proportional' now according to ape index's and the usual measurements, literally only 2 girls ever commented, both saying I had 'really long legs', but neither said it in a negative way and both of them slept with me afterwards, and in day to day life no one can tell how big your tibias vs femurs are as you're wearing pants).
LON femur is supposedly brutal, but then again so is being 5ft 5.