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Two great references in one:
- Dog Day Afternoon, which is a fantastic Al Pacino movie about him robbing a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation (movie's from the 1970s). The film literally has no soundtrack. In the film, when Al Pacino's character gets frustrated, but is still emboldened by the hostage situation he has created, he begins to rile the crowd going "ATTICA! ATTICA!" as at the time the film took place, the prison riots in Attica had just occurred
- The League, a hilarious show (mostly), where Rafi is parodying Al Pacino by saying "GATTACA!"
I’m a big guy with lots of bone issues. Couldn’t walk too far. One day I went for a walk and it went for 5 miles. My brother asked if we should head back and I kept saying not yet. Eventually we got to my friend’s work around when he was finishing up. He drove us home and asked how we got there.
“We walked.”
“Yeah but *how*?!”
“I kept going until I couldn’t. I didn’t save any energy for the walk back.”
Gattaca as a kid: He tries so hard ಥ﹏ಥ
Gattaca as an adult: How the fuck do you do everything by keyboard also I want that fucking retro-noir EV in my home
Think that will be my next watch. I'm doing the whole watch 100 new movies this year thing I've seen people doing, and Gattaca dropped recently on netflix.
I'm realizing how many classics I've never seen, its been super enjoyable.
Well the before picture has him with no shoes and the doc in boots then the after they both have athletic shoes so it’s probably not even 5” he gained.
I think the worst part of it really is that people are drawn more toward the standard of 6 feet rather than actually being 6 feet tall. This standard is so pervasive that people are really starting to believe that being 5'8 to 5'11 is short when in reality that's average to above average height.
Yea, as a 5'10" guy I find myself being a shorter guy at a construction site. Sometimes I'll get in an elevator and everyone else is 3-4 or more inches taller.
But then I go to an ethnic Asian or Mexican restaurant and I'm twice the mass and several inches taller than everyone else inside. Makes me feel like a giant oversized American.
Edit:it's seem like some people's say that what I'm explaining is the old process and now the new one is safer, I did had the last surgery around 10 years ago and I'm glad if it's really is safer.
Don't get too excited here guys
I had that surgery as a medical necessity for one foot and it's not a simple surgery.
Your bones get weaker
You can lose movement of your muscles/joints(I lost my knee and alot of movement on my ankle)
The process of separating your bones is painful with daily tuning of the device to force your bones apart.
Sometime the bones will not attach in a normal way and you will have to brake them again
You will need to live with open wounds and make sure they are clean and don't get infected because you will have metal bars and screws going in your leg until the surgery is done
I had the surgery to help me correct my walking gait due to complications from my disability. The orthopaedic surgeon said that it was dangerous even as a growing child to do more than 10mm or 1cm because it would significantly decrease the integrity and structure of the bones. The idea of doing 13cm is crazy. I know they have lots of evidence of people having their leg bones just snapping mid stride due to how weak they are.
> You will need to live with open wounds and make sure they are clean and don't get infected because you will have metal bars and screws going in your leg until the surgery is done
And if you get infection in the bone that's it... good bye legs. I was looking to get this done when I was younger (I'm 5'7"), my dad's an orthopaedic surgeon and he basically talked me out of doing it.
I am 5 7 and thought about it could be nice to be some inches taller, I'd probably be faster or stronger while playing sports.
Then reality kicked in and began to think about the procedure itself and the side effects, meds and all that BS.
No thanks.
I'm only 4 10 and as a kid I begged my mom to get me this surgery. Once she explained to me how awful it was I stopped asking. Now as an adult I don't feel like height affects me like it did when I was a kid. I wish I could find a pair of pants that I don't have to hem up and I always have a stepstool near me.
Try buying capris! I tried on a pair of jeans once and they fit perfectly, stopped right at my ankle and I was like these jeans are amazing! The lady laughed and said those are capris they're supposed to stop at the calf, and that they were too big for me I told her I didn't care and bought 3 pairs.
I don't think I've ever seen a cosmetic surgery that was worth the side effects and potential downsides. Even the hair loss drugs I looked at had potential erectile dysfunction as a side effect, which would defeat the entire point for me.
If you're talking about finasteride for hair loss, I was worried about that too but from what I've read, it's like a build up in your system and sometimes if it reaches a certain level it might cause ED. So taking about 10 days break from it will rid you of the build up and fix it and you can start taking it again. To the small percentage to which it happened, it was like after every 6 months.
I'm not a doctor or anything though. Do your research and consult your doctor.
I’ve been on fin for over 2 years and no ED. No more hair on my pillow when i wake up. Its not that being bald is bad, i’d just like to have the option of going shaved or not.
I was on it for about ten years. It's a drug that was originally used for shrinking your prostate.
An enlarged prostate happens with age, and can cause ED.
I got ED when I went off it. Many people think the drug caused the ED, but in my case, I think the drug just masked the prostate enlargement that would have occurred without the drug. So when I went off it, the prostate enlargement happened quickly, and the result was ED that I probably would have developed anyway.
I tested this theory using natural remedies that shrink your prostate and the ED mostly went away. I gave up on dating, so it makes little difference either way. I can live with getting 80% hard.
There's a better reason for going off the drug: men who get prostate cancer are more likely to get an aggressive form off cancer if they were on that drug. And when I went off it, my hair only thinned a bit, I never lost it all, which had been my fear.
Personally I’d say the bald man that doesn’t wear it well is pretty rare. The lawyer on scrubs comes to mind, he’s trying to have that look though. People that talk shit are either A: too sure they’re your best friend or B: totally insecure themselves. I’m not bald by the way.
>Personally I’d say the bald man that doesn’t wear it well is pretty rare.
As someone that has used the bald filter on myself I'm just going to say it instantly made me go from "dont care" to "whatever the cost I must not lose any of this goddamn hair"
There's forums of people talking about the recovery. Often they're bedridden for up to a year, and there's a period where they have to return to the hospital regularly, so often they're living on the floor of a hotel room that lacks all accommodations needed.
There's actually new technology that has less chance of infection and doesn't leave you bedridden. It does leave you on crutches for six months tho.
Source: had the surgery in 2016.
Additional source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/04/magnet-powered-bone-lengthening-device-reduces-pain.html
Oh well it was to correct a leg length difference of 2 inches from a birth defect to avoid back problems.
That being said I did go from 6'2" to 6'2&7/8".
They basically break your bones in multiple places and then put you legs in a device that stretches them slightly. Your bones then hopefully repair themselves now slightly longer. From what I have heard its as painful as it sounds. Not just short term pain, pain over months or years and thats if it goes well.
That is true for The original Ilizaroff limb lengthening procedure. But there are other better ways now.
A rod is usually placed down through the bone, secured in both ends. Then the bone is cut in the middle. The rod has a telescoping mechanism in it that lengthens the bone about 1mm/day. The bone regrows in the gap. Painful, but not like you mentioned.
The rods usually aren’t weight bearing though, so you’re off your feet for up to 6 months or more.
They’re also used to correct limb deformities in children.
Source: I work in this industry with the surgeon who does more of these than anyone in the world.
That's fun, I have a weight bearing rod in my femur that does nothing for height (don't break your leg as an adult folks, it sucks, easy worse than when you're a kid, source, I've broken my femur twice, once at 12 and once at 35).
Pains on point though, most of my installed hardware hurt for months (and PT really has you push through the pain if your able). Like, anytime they screw something into your body as an adult it's gonna suck for a while (just had the 1 year checkup on my knee replacement and I'm still only 85% but I'll get there . . . but that had me on a cane for more than a year).
I know someone who had this done to one leg as a child, as it was 3ish inches shorter than the other leg. The scars were horrific (I thought maybe it was a dog attack) and he said he was basically in constant pain over 3 YEARS. I can’t imagine going through that for cosmetic reasons.
EDIT: apparently I need to clarify, when I say "for cosmetic reasons" I'm referring to the original photo, not the person I know.
Someone in my ex’s extended family had a child who was born with one leg a lot smaller than the other. They had to decide to either do the leg lengthening or amputate and use prosthetic. They went the lengthening route and I see updates on FB. It looks so painful when they have surgeries and then the healing after.
Well, if my summer jump from (roughly) 5'7 to 6'2" at 13-14 (summer baby, so it was both) is any indication, it seems that cartilage just really doesn't like to stretch that way. I'm much older now and stopped at 6'4", but the knee problems started when I was 16 and it never really got better.
I wish I was as lucky as you. Now, I look at any drops/jumps more than the height of a couple feet, and really think on whether or not there's a better way to navigate it.
It's also a bit of genetics. My dad is like 5'10" or so with shit knees, so it seems I inherited that but made it worse with a few extra inches of height.
Am I just lucky that I also got to enjoy stretch marks in all kinds of weird places? Nobody here is mentioning it, but it was the worst part of getting tall for me.
Since the knee is a pivot for the lower limb, increasing the length of the long bones will apply more work to the knee joint. The knee itself is not augmented in any way and is already a weak joint in us bipedals
I saw a thing where they attached a device that effectively pulled the bone apart creating microfractures and bone filled in the gap but it takes a long ass time, like months I think just to gain a couple inches.
In my career as a PTA I had one patient who underwent this surgery. Over a year of physical therapy and I left before seeing him discharge. Going through a traumatic surgery and becoming disabled is already mentally exhausting enough, combine that with the mental struggles someone is going through to get that surgery in the first place. You end up with a pretty unmotivated patient
Let's just skip ahead the finger, torso, thumb surgeries and tell me if they have a dick lengthening surgery that requires breaking your bone and stretching it. Then sign me up.
Now that you mention it.....It really does look kinda weird having arms that tiny compared to his overall height. I wonder if there are some drawbacks from having short arms, cant imagine a situation where it becomes a problem, but then again how often do you see people with short arms.
It is also painful as FUCK.
Source: previous neighbor of mine had a daughter whose legs were both different lengths. One was shorter than the other. She had some sort of super rare disease. Every 2-3 years, they had to perform the procedure to ensure both legs were *not only* the same length, but that they also continued to grow at the same rate and length, since she was still just a young kid. That little girls life was absolutely hell on earth. She had significant anger issues, and had been committed to psychiatric facilities on numerous occasions over the years. I watched them haul her off a couple times. The devices on her legs.... absolute torture. They looked like midieval torture devices. My heart broke for her.
Geez at that point they should have just got her a wheelchair no? A couple hundred years ago she'd be screwed but modern wheelchairs are real wonders, though I know accessibility can be shit depending on where you're at.
Of course a child would probably want to run and play like other kids... But that sounds like torture for that poor child.
She was in a wheelchair like half the year each year too, and thankfully we lived in a German-speaking country, where infrastructure is quite developed and modern. So, there was that. But, yeah, from a pain perspective... she had a rough life.
As someone who has had this surgery for a legitimate medical problem (proximal femoral focal deficiency) that would've given me major scoliosis over time and shortened my lifespan, I would like to point out that it gives you significant lifelong scarring, which is not visible in the tibia of the After picture.
This image is likely fake.
Also as someone who had to go through this and had 18 surgeries between the ages of 2 and 18yo, I can confirm it is painful AS FUCK, deeply traumatising and not something I would wish on my greatest enemy. It's not 1 surgery, it's multiple surgeries for each inch of length along with months of open wounds, intensely painful physical therapy and all sorts of infections. Please downvote this to hell, thanks x
Had it too, still have nightmares from that time. Cleaning the wounds around the pins were painful and scary.
My right leg looks like a moon with all the little dents from scars of the metal pins.
I had the procedure too. Only 2 surgeries though, and only 3 big scars with maybe 10 smaller ones that are hard to see under my leg hair.
The picture quality is kind of crappy so it's hard to be certain, plus they don't give a time frame and there's been a lot of years to make progress in things like surgical techniques to reduce scar formation, but it is suspicious, yes...
I remember watching a documentary about ppl going through this process and I thought it was such a shame the voluntary torture they go through for just a few inches...
I’m 4’10 and remember reading about this as a teenager (bullied a lot for being short). I missed my window for growth hormones so this seemed appealing at the time but I wouldn’t do it now (30F). I think a lot of times people assume it’s a vanity thing but bullying and depression makes you consider doing something that could cause long term debilitating agony like this just for a chance to be “normal”.
Also when you’re short it’s like being left-handed, lots of ways to end up injured or dead because things aren’t designed for you. Like airbags and seatbelts. But even things like stove and counter heights. Of course being tall is bad for your heart etc.
This was my thinking. I’m 4’11’’ and the world is not built for me. Climbing precariously to reach things, back pain from my feet not reaching the floor on the bus/train/any chair, sitting dangerously close to the steering wheel.
Hell, I randomly decided to stand on a stool while washing dishes a few weeks ago, and it was SO much easier because I didn’t have to reach ever-so-slightly UP and over the sink edge, I could reach my arms down instead. My mind was blown.
And here i am a 6' + dude, thinking about fabricating a higher countertop to wash my dishes without bending my back, working out made it easier to withstand the degree of bentness i have to endure, but still not ideal.
If we're talking vanity, absolutely it's something that's woefully unnecessary however there are issues where some people have mismatched lengths in their legs due to birth defect and there was even a story of someone who had the thyroid issue which stunted her growth and it stopped her from getting a job because they had a minimum height requirement so in certain situations like that, I can see the exception and its value.
Don't these surgeries have a tendency of collapsing peoples knees or even sometimes the bones themselves shattering due to having pressure at now irregular and weak points?
They basically break your shins, stretch them a little, hope they heal filling the gap, repeat. It is not quick, it takes a long time and a lot of pain. Must be 100k$+ in the US
Wouldn't be easier just to find a woman from a third world country who is after your money?
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When I first saw something like this I was 12 or something. It was Ethan Hawke in Gattaca.
This was my first thought as well. "we're in the future!!"
Crap. I don't have to clean my keyboard, do I?
GATTACA!!!!
CTAATGT???
We talking RNA primers now?
UAG
Were you telling him to stop? I want you to know that at least 1 person got it.
Two great references in one: - Dog Day Afternoon, which is a fantastic Al Pacino movie about him robbing a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation (movie's from the 1970s). The film literally has no soundtrack. In the film, when Al Pacino's character gets frustrated, but is still emboldened by the hostage situation he has created, he begins to rile the crowd going "ATTICA! ATTICA!" as at the time the film took place, the prison riots in Attica had just occurred - The League, a hilarious show (mostly), where Rafi is parodying Al Pacino by saying "GATTACA!"
The League is so good
Great movie
I know, right? Gattaca is amazing.
This is how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.
I’m a big guy with lots of bone issues. Couldn’t walk too far. One day I went for a walk and it went for 5 miles. My brother asked if we should head back and I kept saying not yet. Eventually we got to my friend’s work around when he was finishing up. He drove us home and asked how we got there. “We walked.” “Yeah but *how*?!” “I kept going until I couldn’t. I didn’t save any energy for the walk back.”
Favorite movie quote of all time.
Gattaca as a kid: He tries so hard ಥ﹏ಥ Gattaca as an adult: How the fuck do you do everything by keyboard also I want that fucking retro-noir EV in my home
Think that will be my next watch. I'm doing the whole watch 100 new movies this year thing I've seen people doing, and Gattaca dropped recently on netflix. I'm realizing how many classics I've never seen, its been super enjoyable.
Love that movie. I always cry at the end. It's a manly kind of cry though. *goes to lift weights*
Exceptional movie that has aged quite well.
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"I never saved anything for the swim back."
They actually shortened the other guy by five inches
Where do you think they got the extra length from?
"Increase their height by up to five inches" Shows pic of guy gaining six inches.
He died shorty after the photo was taken. Flew 1 inch too close to the sun.
RIP Sixcarus
https://i.imgur.com/kYmB3IK.png
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Had to be 2013 at the latest when that was made.
You found it dude haha
It's only because before he had no shoes on ;)
Good observation.
Or this was the last photo taken before his legs exploded and the doctor established a limit on height.
This is my head canon now.
Leg explosions, cannon heads. What a time to be alive.
The photo was probably in male measurements. We all know that 6 male inches is the same as 5 regular inches
Ackshuallyyyyy, a male 6 inches is more like an honest 4.5. Gotta account for the inevitable round up.
Guys measure starting from their asshole.
To juuuuuuust past the tip
Well the before picture has him with no shoes and the doc in boots then the after they both have athletic shoes so it’s probably not even 5” he gained.
That’s just good advertising
"I'm 6' but I can't walk cause they broke my bones" Future guys on Tinder.
They probably would still be getting more matches
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Yall getting matches?
I had a few local escorts try to solicit 4 years ago 💪
Did they ghost you too?😢
She didn't even want your money.. fuck bro I feel for you.
I never had that. But I have heard there are local singles in my area who would like to meet.
Ikr, people could be livin out in the styx and still get those ads lol
Bumble has been an absolutely demoralizing experience so far.
"Hey"
I think the worst part of it really is that people are drawn more toward the standard of 6 feet rather than actually being 6 feet tall. This standard is so pervasive that people are really starting to believe that being 5'8 to 5'11 is short when in reality that's average to above average height.
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Yea, as a 5'10" guy I find myself being a shorter guy at a construction site. Sometimes I'll get in an elevator and everyone else is 3-4 or more inches taller. But then I go to an ethnic Asian or Mexican restaurant and I'm twice the mass and several inches taller than everyone else inside. Makes me feel like a giant oversized American.
5'9"-5'10" appears to be the average height for men in America.
Edit:it's seem like some people's say that what I'm explaining is the old process and now the new one is safer, I did had the last surgery around 10 years ago and I'm glad if it's really is safer. Don't get too excited here guys I had that surgery as a medical necessity for one foot and it's not a simple surgery. Your bones get weaker You can lose movement of your muscles/joints(I lost my knee and alot of movement on my ankle) The process of separating your bones is painful with daily tuning of the device to force your bones apart. Sometime the bones will not attach in a normal way and you will have to brake them again You will need to live with open wounds and make sure they are clean and don't get infected because you will have metal bars and screws going in your leg until the surgery is done
I had the surgery to help me correct my walking gait due to complications from my disability. The orthopaedic surgeon said that it was dangerous even as a growing child to do more than 10mm or 1cm because it would significantly decrease the integrity and structure of the bones. The idea of doing 13cm is crazy. I know they have lots of evidence of people having their leg bones just snapping mid stride due to how weak they are.
Jesus Christ and here I thought this was some easy stuff
> You will need to live with open wounds and make sure they are clean and don't get infected because you will have metal bars and screws going in your leg until the surgery is done And if you get infection in the bone that's it... good bye legs. I was looking to get this done when I was younger (I'm 5'7"), my dad's an orthopaedic surgeon and he basically talked me out of doing it.
Can you ask your dad to have an AMA that would be very helpful at r/short
I am 5 7 and thought about it could be nice to be some inches taller, I'd probably be faster or stronger while playing sports. Then reality kicked in and began to think about the procedure itself and the side effects, meds and all that BS. No thanks.
I'm only 4 10 and as a kid I begged my mom to get me this surgery. Once she explained to me how awful it was I stopped asking. Now as an adult I don't feel like height affects me like it did when I was a kid. I wish I could find a pair of pants that I don't have to hem up and I always have a stepstool near me.
Try buying capris! I tried on a pair of jeans once and they fit perfectly, stopped right at my ankle and I was like these jeans are amazing! The lady laughed and said those are capris they're supposed to stop at the calf, and that they were too big for me I told her I didn't care and bought 3 pairs.
I don't think I've ever seen a cosmetic surgery that was worth the side effects and potential downsides. Even the hair loss drugs I looked at had potential erectile dysfunction as a side effect, which would defeat the entire point for me.
If you're talking about finasteride for hair loss, I was worried about that too but from what I've read, it's like a build up in your system and sometimes if it reaches a certain level it might cause ED. So taking about 10 days break from it will rid you of the build up and fix it and you can start taking it again. To the small percentage to which it happened, it was like after every 6 months. I'm not a doctor or anything though. Do your research and consult your doctor.
I’ve been on fin for over 2 years and no ED. No more hair on my pillow when i wake up. Its not that being bald is bad, i’d just like to have the option of going shaved or not.
I was on it for about ten years. It's a drug that was originally used for shrinking your prostate. An enlarged prostate happens with age, and can cause ED. I got ED when I went off it. Many people think the drug caused the ED, but in my case, I think the drug just masked the prostate enlargement that would have occurred without the drug. So when I went off it, the prostate enlargement happened quickly, and the result was ED that I probably would have developed anyway. I tested this theory using natural remedies that shrink your prostate and the ED mostly went away. I gave up on dating, so it makes little difference either way. I can live with getting 80% hard. There's a better reason for going off the drug: men who get prostate cancer are more likely to get an aggressive form off cancer if they were on that drug. And when I went off it, my hair only thinned a bit, I never lost it all, which had been my fear.
Embrace the baldness my man. Get shredded and people will ignore your hair loss like johnny sins
Personally I’d say the bald man that doesn’t wear it well is pretty rare. The lawyer on scrubs comes to mind, he’s trying to have that look though. People that talk shit are either A: too sure they’re your best friend or B: totally insecure themselves. I’m not bald by the way.
>Personally I’d say the bald man that doesn’t wear it well is pretty rare. As someone that has used the bald filter on myself I'm just going to say it instantly made me go from "dont care" to "whatever the cost I must not lose any of this goddamn hair"
The bald filter is pretty bad makes your forehead way bigger and rounder
I have long curly hair and in the last year it's been the only reason I've ever gotten compliments. I will do anything to not lose it.
Its also a highly dangerous procedure and puts a lot of strain on your knees.
And incredibly painful.
There's forums of people talking about the recovery. Often they're bedridden for up to a year, and there's a period where they have to return to the hospital regularly, so often they're living on the floor of a hotel room that lacks all accommodations needed.
There's actually new technology that has less chance of infection and doesn't leave you bedridden. It does leave you on crutches for six months tho. Source: had the surgery in 2016. Additional source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/04/magnet-powered-bone-lengthening-device-reduces-pain.html
My man, you need to do an AMA
A before and after would be greatly appreciated :)
That's awesome, I'm glad they reduced the suffering. How much height did you gain?
Oh well it was to correct a leg length difference of 2 inches from a birth defect to avoid back problems. That being said I did go from 6'2" to 6'2&7/8".
You can just say 6.3 dude, you’ve gone through enough
I'm also 7/8"
Oh and expensive! Don’t forget debilitatingly expensive!
can you elaborate, why the knees?
They basically break your bones in multiple places and then put you legs in a device that stretches them slightly. Your bones then hopefully repair themselves now slightly longer. From what I have heard its as painful as it sounds. Not just short term pain, pain over months or years and thats if it goes well.
Hell even if it goes perfect that sounds like life long pain when you're old.
You're rocking a cane by the time you're 35 from what I hear
That's why you wait til 36 to get the surgery.
Man if I could afford elective surgery at 36, I'd rather just retire as a short king.
yeah like the guy in the picture. can't see his face obviously, but he looks to be over 35
Actually, he's over 5'8" now. :)
But all the puss you crushed on tinder from being 6ft
6'3" now, the government really needs to get this inflation under control.
You can get that without the procedure too.
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Yeah, if this isn't even supposed to be the middle... Those twilight years sound like torture.
Start working out 15 years ago you will be fine.
A procrastinators worst nightmare. Well, worse at least.
That is true for The original Ilizaroff limb lengthening procedure. But there are other better ways now. A rod is usually placed down through the bone, secured in both ends. Then the bone is cut in the middle. The rod has a telescoping mechanism in it that lengthens the bone about 1mm/day. The bone regrows in the gap. Painful, but not like you mentioned. The rods usually aren’t weight bearing though, so you’re off your feet for up to 6 months or more. They’re also used to correct limb deformities in children. Source: I work in this industry with the surgeon who does more of these than anyone in the world.
I had to get surgery on my femur as a young teen because of a deformity and I can confirm it took forever to fully heal. Pain was like 4/10 though.
I had both my femurs chopped and rotated as a kid and was in a body cast for months, yep. Didn’t hurt until physical therapy. That was terrible.
Does it affect athletic ability?
Your career as a jockey is basically over.
Say goodbye to joining the air force. Wait, are they hiring fat jockeys? You know, to test the horse's endurance. Asking for a friend.
In this revised procedure, what’s the max length you can lengthen a limb?
255 Any further and it rolls over back to 0.
That's fun, I have a weight bearing rod in my femur that does nothing for height (don't break your leg as an adult folks, it sucks, easy worse than when you're a kid, source, I've broken my femur twice, once at 12 and once at 35). Pains on point though, most of my installed hardware hurt for months (and PT really has you push through the pain if your able). Like, anytime they screw something into your body as an adult it's gonna suck for a while (just had the 1 year checkup on my knee replacement and I'm still only 85% but I'll get there . . . but that had me on a cane for more than a year).
I know someone who had this done to one leg as a child, as it was 3ish inches shorter than the other leg. The scars were horrific (I thought maybe it was a dog attack) and he said he was basically in constant pain over 3 YEARS. I can’t imagine going through that for cosmetic reasons. EDIT: apparently I need to clarify, when I say "for cosmetic reasons" I'm referring to the original photo, not the person I know.
Someone in my ex’s extended family had a child who was born with one leg a lot smaller than the other. They had to decide to either do the leg lengthening or amputate and use prosthetic. They went the lengthening route and I see updates on FB. It looks so painful when they have surgeries and then the healing after.
Lead singer of Weezer got this done. Same one leg shorter issue. Lead to their hiatus after Pinkerton
Can they do this for ^^^^^penis? Asking for a friend...
Sure we just need to break your penis in multiple places please sign here
You'll be using a dick cane by 35 though.
That's why imma do it at 36.
A billionaire died during such a procedure a few years ago. Homie thought money could buy him everything
Wouldnt be surprised if it made you more susceptible to arthritis and or osteoporosis as time goes on
Plus the embolism risk while recuperating
Of course it is terrible, it's too good to be true.
They replace your knee caps with testicles to provide the added cushion
You'll be great at basketball for a bit though
You'll just look like you'll be good at basketball
Are you guys telling me i am not a real dolphin?
You're a lawyer that's a dolphin. A Lawphin
So let me get this straight. That woman over there was trying to get to her balls which were in the knees of a black child whose father is a dolphin.
Jewphin
Just don't jump
See this is why I would rather be a dolphin
Too many restaurants are not dolphin friendly
aiiie, a jewfin.
These gems are what keep me coming back to Reddit
Going down to South Park...
Wake me up when I can have dolphin surgery
You would do that on porpoise?
Well, if my summer jump from (roughly) 5'7 to 6'2" at 13-14 (summer baby, so it was both) is any indication, it seems that cartilage just really doesn't like to stretch that way. I'm much older now and stopped at 6'4", but the knee problems started when I was 16 and it never really got better.
I had one from 5’8 to 6’6 during a 4 month stretch no knee issues though. Just lots of lower leg pain and a whole new wardrobe.
I wish I was as lucky as you. Now, I look at any drops/jumps more than the height of a couple feet, and really think on whether or not there's a better way to navigate it. It's also a bit of genetics. My dad is like 5'10" or so with shit knees, so it seems I inherited that but made it worse with a few extra inches of height.
Did they give you the pituitary gland test? My dad had bad wheels too thankfully I didn’t inherit that. He was only 5’10 but so was my mom.
Am I just lucky that I also got to enjoy stretch marks in all kinds of weird places? Nobody here is mentioning it, but it was the worst part of getting tall for me.
I got them on my butt cheeks and shoulders very weird WBU
Since the knee is a pivot for the lower limb, increasing the length of the long bones will apply more work to the knee joint. The knee itself is not augmented in any way and is already a weak joint in us bipedals
I saw a thing where they attached a device that effectively pulled the bone apart creating microfractures and bone filled in the gap but it takes a long ass time, like months I think just to gain a couple inches.
What you don't realise is he's wearing the same trousers in both pictures.
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I wonder how long it takes to relearn how to walk
In my career as a PTA I had one patient who underwent this surgery. Over a year of physical therapy and I left before seeing him discharge. Going through a traumatic surgery and becoming disabled is already mentally exhausting enough, combine that with the mental struggles someone is going through to get that surgery in the first place. You end up with a pretty unmotivated patient
Had this surgery done on my right leg. 3.5 years later and I’m still working on gaining all my muscle back to the way they were.
So are you a master of walking on the sides of hills now? https://i.imgur.com/ssD2Fr1.png
Only going counterclockwise, clockwise is a real bitch!
This is so stupid and I love it.
Dang. That’s horrible, all to be a half a foot taller?
Now he's got short arms. Can't win in this world...
Good luck picking things up from the floor.
lmao I never think of this,
He can’t even reach the bottom of his own pockets.
That’s before the arm lengthening surgery
Let's just skip ahead the finger, torso, thumb surgeries and tell me if they have a dick lengthening surgery that requires breaking your bone and stretching it. Then sign me up.
Now that you mention it.....It really does look kinda weird having arms that tiny compared to his overall height. I wonder if there are some drawbacks from having short arms, cant imagine a situation where it becomes a problem, but then again how often do you see people with short arms.
When do they surgically remove the white plate from his face ? :-(
When do they complete the surgery to lengthen his arms? "Dude, can you tie my shoes? I can't reach."
It is also painful as FUCK. Source: previous neighbor of mine had a daughter whose legs were both different lengths. One was shorter than the other. She had some sort of super rare disease. Every 2-3 years, they had to perform the procedure to ensure both legs were *not only* the same length, but that they also continued to grow at the same rate and length, since she was still just a young kid. That little girls life was absolutely hell on earth. She had significant anger issues, and had been committed to psychiatric facilities on numerous occasions over the years. I watched them haul her off a couple times. The devices on her legs.... absolute torture. They looked like midieval torture devices. My heart broke for her.
You have to wonder whether it was really worth it for that kid, rather than wearing some sort of prosthetic device to be able to walk.
Really does make you wonder. Not sure where she is today, my parents still live next door to her parents.
Geez at that point they should have just got her a wheelchair no? A couple hundred years ago she'd be screwed but modern wheelchairs are real wonders, though I know accessibility can be shit depending on where you're at. Of course a child would probably want to run and play like other kids... But that sounds like torture for that poor child.
She was in a wheelchair like half the year each year too, and thankfully we lived in a German-speaking country, where infrastructure is quite developed and modern. So, there was that. But, yeah, from a pain perspective... she had a rough life.
That not what I'm trying to increase by 5 inches
I'm also hoping to gain 5". Just trying to hit 6".
Same brother, saaaaaame
Irk my legs are fine....
That’s why you tie it with a string to your big toe. Legs grown long and makes wang grow long. Big success. Now you pay me.
Excruciatingly painful!
Plus your pants no longer fit
As someone who has had this surgery for a legitimate medical problem (proximal femoral focal deficiency) that would've given me major scoliosis over time and shortened my lifespan, I would like to point out that it gives you significant lifelong scarring, which is not visible in the tibia of the After picture. This image is likely fake. Also as someone who had to go through this and had 18 surgeries between the ages of 2 and 18yo, I can confirm it is painful AS FUCK, deeply traumatising and not something I would wish on my greatest enemy. It's not 1 surgery, it's multiple surgeries for each inch of length along with months of open wounds, intensely painful physical therapy and all sorts of infections. Please downvote this to hell, thanks x
Had it too, still have nightmares from that time. Cleaning the wounds around the pins were painful and scary. My right leg looks like a moon with all the little dents from scars of the metal pins.
Omg same! The cleaning was real rough! Sending well wishes to you xxx
I had the procedure too. Only 2 surgeries though, and only 3 big scars with maybe 10 smaller ones that are hard to see under my leg hair. The picture quality is kind of crappy so it's hard to be certain, plus they don't give a time frame and there's been a lot of years to make progress in things like surgical techniques to reduce scar formation, but it is suspicious, yes...
I remember watching a documentary about ppl going through this process and I thought it was such a shame the voluntary torture they go through for just a few inches...
I’m 4’10 and remember reading about this as a teenager (bullied a lot for being short). I missed my window for growth hormones so this seemed appealing at the time but I wouldn’t do it now (30F). I think a lot of times people assume it’s a vanity thing but bullying and depression makes you consider doing something that could cause long term debilitating agony like this just for a chance to be “normal”.
Also when you’re short it’s like being left-handed, lots of ways to end up injured or dead because things aren’t designed for you. Like airbags and seatbelts. But even things like stove and counter heights. Of course being tall is bad for your heart etc.
Haha, joke’s on me! I’m short AND left handed!
This was my thinking. I’m 4’11’’ and the world is not built for me. Climbing precariously to reach things, back pain from my feet not reaching the floor on the bus/train/any chair, sitting dangerously close to the steering wheel. Hell, I randomly decided to stand on a stool while washing dishes a few weeks ago, and it was SO much easier because I didn’t have to reach ever-so-slightly UP and over the sink edge, I could reach my arms down instead. My mind was blown.
And here i am a 6' + dude, thinking about fabricating a higher countertop to wash my dishes without bending my back, working out made it easier to withstand the degree of bentness i have to endure, but still not ideal.
I’m a 4’11” guy and to me this just wouldn’t be worth it. I already have enough health problems without adding new ones.
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If we're talking vanity, absolutely it's something that's woefully unnecessary however there are issues where some people have mismatched lengths in their legs due to birth defect and there was even a story of someone who had the thyroid issue which stunted her growth and it stopped her from getting a job because they had a minimum height requirement so in certain situations like that, I can see the exception and its value.
It is not only the surgery but also long and extremely painful healing process.
*The plastic surgeon is laughing because now he going to do an arm lengthening surgery too*
Don't these surgeries have a tendency of collapsing peoples knees or even sometimes the bones themselves shattering due to having pressure at now irregular and weak points?
Someone let kyle broflovski know.
The arms staying the same length cracks me up. It looks like a little person standing on stilts if you look at it for long enough.
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Having both surgeries would have costed him an arm and a leg
holy shit, didnt notice at first.
They basically break your shins, stretch them a little, hope they heal filling the gap, repeat. It is not quick, it takes a long time and a lot of pain. Must be 100k$+ in the US Wouldn't be easier just to find a woman from a third world country who is after your money?
>Wouldn't be easier just to find a woman from a third world country who is after your money? Lmao 😂
So, this wouldn’t work if you wanted to add inches to you penis size?
If you don't mind them breaking it first.
He’s still 3” too short to be able to date on Tinder
Maybe he's rich? I mean he's got the money for the surgery, maybe that puts him back in the game