Limb Lengthening Forum
Limb Lengthening Surgery => Height & Proportions => Topic started by: 53dude on November 29, 2015, 10:56:25 PM
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My proportions 5'3 and 5'8 compared (2.5 inches both Tibia and 2.5 inches both Femur)
Hope to get some thoughts in how does that look
5'3
http://i.imgur.com/4nSjWRH.jpg
5'8
http://i.imgur.com/sGXJLSd.jpg
5'3 Legs and Top Body comparison
http://i.imgur.com/KugnDd5.jpg
5'8 Legs and Top Body comparison
http://i.imgur.com/upbJdR9.jpg
5'3 Casual clothing
http://i.imgur.com/WDqAYan.jpg
5'8 Casual clothing
http://i.imgur.com/LUFEVK9.jpg
5'3 Casual clothing legs and top comparison
http://i.imgur.com/sDHh6yx.jpg
5'8 Casual clothing legs top comparison
http://i.imgur.com/mqB6WET.jpg
5'3 and 5'8 side to side comparison
http://i.imgur.com/aF9STAS.jpg
5'3 and 5'8 side to side casual clothing comparison
http://i.imgur.com/y4Bl4a3.jpg
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Honestly it looks bad like you have put a Child torso on adult legs. You can try and hide it with clothes but it only looks slightly better. Try 5'6 and how that looks.
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Try 5'6 to 5'7
You wouldn't look too bad with at 8 or 10 cm frame increase. And say you reach 5'7 you'd be perfectly fine wt that height.
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Maybe I`m a little too greedy, I would reduce to like, 5'7 and 1/2, my torso is the length of a 5'7 guy
I`m 1.60m with 1.71 (+11cm) should be cool dont you think?
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I think the 5'8 with casual clothing one looks okay. The 5'8 underwear pic doesn't look good to me, though.
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Basically you can go for my own plan of reaching 5'7 and then simply wearing sneakers or any other sort of casual shoes that give a minimum of 3 cm (like Nike Airmax and most other formal shoe wear). It's a noticeable increase without lying to much.
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That is what I thought initially, maybe I fked up at some point, the underwear pic isnt the best pic thou
5'8 would be the perfect but, anyways If it is to get 2 surgeries I`ll aim 5'7 1/2 something like (1.71)
Also I want to get more details on my measures somehow
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This is exactly what I dont want, i want to be able to go out on my shorts and flip flops just as good
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Then really accepting your limitations proportion wise would be the best outcome; it's essentially what I came to terms with myself. I know I can perfectly find happiness in being 5'7. It's an inch above my dad, it's average for my ethnicity (Mexican-Americans; 5'7), I'll be taller then most girls now, and really I may be called short here and there; but A) I won't be discriminated against, and B) if they call me that with malice that's on them for their ty attitude and close-mindedness.
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I think I`ll do well with like 5'7 1/2, it is basically 5'7 which would fit perfectly with my height now, the 1/2 is just so I can fit in my country`s medium height
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That is what I thought initially, maybe I fked up at some point, the underwear pic isnt the best pic thou
5'8 would be the perfect but, anyways If it is to get 2 surgeries I`ll aim 5'7 1/2 something like (1.71)
Also I want to get more details on my measures somehow
Nah, you didn't screw up. I once tried to simulate a 5" gain with shoe lifts + my LL. I noticed that if I pulled my jeans all the way up so that my jean's crotch area was tight against my crotch, I looked very disproportional, like your underwear pic. But if I pulled the jeans down 2-3 inches, I looked proportional. You can get away with it if you're wearing clothes. Take off your clothes... and you'll look like a long-legged freak. Add that in with the scars, and any person will probably be able to tell that you had LL. You might have well save yourself the trouble at that point and wear shoe lifts.
But having gone through LL myself, I highly recommend that people try getting LL on femurs first before considering tibias. You don't know how difficult doing LL is until you do it. All the waiting. All the pain. All the physical therapy. And then to do it all over again a second time? Man.
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Nah, you didn't screw up. I once tried to simulate a 5" gain with shoe lifts + my LL. I noticed that if I pulled my jeans all the way up so that my jean's crotch area was tight against my crotch, I looked very disproportional, like your underwear pic. But if I pulled the jeans down 2-3 inches, I looked proportional. You can get away with it if you're wearing clothes. Take off your clothes... and you'll look like a long-legged freak. Add that in with the scars, and any person will probably be able to tell that you had LL. You might have well save yourself the trouble at that point and wear shoe lifts.
But having gone through LL myself, I highly recommend that people try getting LL on femurs first before considering tibias. You don't know how difficult doing LL is until you do it. All the waiting. All the pain. All the physical therapy. And then to do it all over again a second time? Man.
I won't know what I'm truely talking about until I go through it myself, but if you lengthen over 2 surgeries and don't cross the 5cm barrier on either limb, then the whole LL experience should be a much quicker and easier experience all round. That's not to say that 5cm is an easy road. Just quicker and easier than 8!
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I won't know what I'm truely talking about until I go through it myself, but if you lengthen over 2 surgeries and don't cross the 5cm barrier on either limb, then the whole LL experience should be a much quicker and easier experience all round. That's not to say that 5cm is an easy road. Just quicker and easier than 8!
53dude wants to do 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) on each. While the 6.35 cm on the femur would be slightly easier than my 8 cm, the 6.35 cm on the tibs are about the same experience as my femurs if not worse. Tibias are 1/4 slower to lengthen and heal than femurs.
But the hardest part of the surgery is actually the first 2 weeks after the surgery. So even if you do just 2 weeks of lengthening, you'll still experience the worst 2 weeks of your life. And if you do a second surgery, that's a month of agony.
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I think that everyone who goes to this surgery is already expecting the most excruciating pain for as long as it takes to length
But yeah reading your diary I might ask for Oxycontin/Advil, and stay the whole procedure on a hotel nearby or even in the hospital if possible
I consider myself as someone that handles pain extremely well thou, I already went to procedures that even the doctors said that would be painful without flinching
I would go down to 5cm on tibia if i judge the first 6 on the femurs too much
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legs look too long, i would not go above 5.7.
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Even in the dressed pics? I think I should take better underwear pics because this one does`nt looks good compared to the dressed one
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Even in the dressed pics? I think I should take better underwear pics because this one does`nt looks good compared to the dressed one
Sure, you will look fine in the dressed pics. But what happens when you need to get nked or wear shorts?
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Underwear pic is terrible looking- honestly it looks like an anime character. As a 5'3 dude myself i sympathize because 5'7 is my goal as well. I advise wearing jeans at waist level and getting shirts that run a bit longer, it will help your aesthetics tremendously. Other than that looks fine you won't look weird or anything just skinny.
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5'8 looks like your legs are stilts. Way too long.
And as a 5'2 guy who plans on going to 5'5 I can empathize a little, but you should keep a reasonable goal like 5'6. Us very-short guys look weirder when lengthening because of our initial length. For example, a 5'0 guy lengthening 4 inches will look like his legs are way too long, but a 6' guy going to 6'4 won't look that bad.
tl;dr
If I were you I'd do 5'6.
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What's your wingspan?
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You need to take a pic where your arms are by your side, in your undies, with no shirt on. THEN do the mock-up..
In long pants you do look okay. But like DIFM stated, what happens when you wear shorts? Are you going to end up being insecure about wearing anything but jeans and a shirt?
If I was in your position, this is what I'd do; lengthen to 5"6 and wear 5cm lifts. The lifts will take you to 5"8.. By doing this, you have the choice to go to the beach in your board shorts and look great.. Having a night out on the town or going to the mall? Whack the lifts on with your jeans and shirt and look acceptable.
.. Or hit 5'7 and be satisfied.
Either way, 5'8 is a little out of your realm if you want to look normal with little clothing on.
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Don't listen to them man, just get the surgery done and enjoy your new life.
Nobody in their right mind when meeting you on the street will assume u had LL since nobody fking knows this thing exists. Some people naturally have longer legs. I know such person who is 175 cm but has legs of someone who should be 182-283. If you are in a night club among many people, do you think anybody watches your legs ?
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Don't listen to them man, just get the surgery done and enjoy your new life.
Nobody in their right mind when meeting you on the street will assume u had LL since nobody fking knows this thing exists. Some people naturally have longer legs. I know such person who is 175 cm but has legs of someone who should be 182-283. If you are in a night club among many people, do you think anybody watches your legs ?
Generally I would agree with this statement if we were talking about 3-4 inches tops.. But he's lengthening 5 inches.. Though if you feel like you really want 5"8, go for it.
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I`ll see I`m probably going to 4" or 4.5", thou I discovered that my mirror was inclined so I`ll take some better pictures.
I`m getting more worried about the pain recently thou, I'm planning to do in 4-5 years, so maybe the new generation will be already there and it will be less painful as they promise, that is something that gets an atheist praying my friends.
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I`ll see I`m probably going to 4" or 4.5", thou I discovered that my mirror was inclined so I`ll take some better pictures.
I`m getting more worried about the pain recently thou, I'm planning to do in 4-5 years, so maybe the new generation will be already there and it will be less painful as they promise, that is something that gets an atheist praying my friends.
Haha yeah an incline mirror will fk things up.. Get someone to take it for you.. I think that 4 inches is a really noticeable increase in height and you'll be happy with the increase. 5"3 to 5"7 is huge. You might be still classed as shorter, but you'll feel a ton different. 5"3 in my eyes is very short for a man, so to go from very short to just short of average is breaking some huge barriers.
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Haha yeah an incline mirror will fk things up.. Get someone to take it for you.. I think that 4 inches is a really noticeable increase in height and you'll be happy with the increase. 5"3 to 5"7 is huge. You might be still classed as shorter, but you'll feel a ton different. 5"3 in my eyes is very short for a man, so to go from very short to just short of average is breaking some huge barriers.
The medium height in my region is on the range of 5'7 to 5'8 , bit even here I`m very short, so one that I know that is 5'7 here ever was said that they are short, even thou I`m not planning living here my whole life, my height would be on the medium for were I was born so I`m totally fine with it, jumping from very short to average would be amazing
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Don't listen to them man, just get the surgery done and enjoy your new life.
Nobody in their right mind when meeting you on the street will assume u had LL since nobody fking knows this thing exists. Some people naturally have longer legs. I know such person who is 175 cm but has legs of someone who should be 182-283. If you are in a night club among many people, do you think anybody watches your legs ?
If I saw someone with the body of a 5'3 male and incredibly long legs(like he unfortunately looks in these pictures) I would absolutely notice. And people might not notice in a night club but these proportions are for life, while walking, sitting, talking in broad daylight...people definitely notice after a certain point.
Not trying to rattle anyone's goals but being reasonable is important.
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Alright fixed my mirror now, the result is FAR more accurate, check it out
In order 5'8 - 5'7.5 - 5'7 - 5'3 (actual height)
http://i.imgur.com/RJFPpVb.jpg
As I measured, I`m 85 cm sitting and 160cm tall, (10 cm diference) at night, I measured using a ruler but should be around that
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5'7 max.
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You look a little leggy at 5'8, but nothing beyond what could occur naturally. I think 5'9 would be too much, though.
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5'9 would be too much indeed, I personally think that I look ok 5'8, maybe I look better if I do some excercises but proportion wise, people who have long legs are normal, no one would notice I think
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I honestly think you can pull off 5'7 greatly. I have a friend who's pretty leggy and looks like your 5'7 mock up. Considering that you'd have to do 5 cm on each, which is a great standard limit, and your proportions are suited for 5'7 I'd say you have nothing to worry about in your future except going to a good doctor. Congrats, 5'7 isn't bad.
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You seem to have short legs. If your body allows it you can easily go till 5' 8"- 9" proportion wise
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Thanks, its weird because I xsmall shirts are way to small to me, they just work when it is a elastic tissue and I want something really really tight, usually small and sometimes medium are what fit the best, but I have to buy 14-16 year old pants, no adult sized pants ever fitted on me
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Thanks, its weird because I xsmall shirts are way to small to me, they just work when it is a elastic tissue and I want something really really tight, usually small and sometimes medium are what fit the best, but I have to buy 14-16 year old pants, no adult sized pants ever fitted on me
Have you tried pants from AE, Hollister, Levi's etc.? AE has 28" inseam pants. All of them carry 30" inseam pants.
Here's a brand for not so tall people. You can try this one. Although it is slightly more expensive than typical brands.
http://www.petermanningnyc.com
Shopping at kids section can be demoralizing to some, I admire and give props to those people. But hey, it's cheaper!
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5'9 would be too much indeed, I personally think that I look ok 5'8, maybe I look better if I do some excercises but proportion wise, people who have long legs are normal, no one would notice I think
5"7 looks good!
Much better pics btw.
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5'8 Casual
http://i.imgur.com/oWWtpNC.jpg
5'8 Pajamas
http://i.imgur.com/Xfj1slz.jpg
Now with some clothes, in my opinion I look legit, I know people who have that body type and they are just fine, my legs are a bit skinny thou, maybe if I got a little buffer I`ll look even beter, in this 4-5 years I`ll try to work out and get more fit as well as do some yoga to get more flexible and all that
Thoughts?
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No sorry dude. 5'7 max. Even with the casual look yout still look way too long legged.
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5'8 Casual
http://i.imgur.com/oWWtpNC.jpg
5'8 Pajamas
http://i.imgur.com/Xfj1slz.jpg
Now with some clothes, in my opinion I look legit, I know people who have that body type and they are just fine, my legs are a bit skinny thou, maybe if I got a little buffer I`ll look even beter, in this 4-5 years I`ll try to work out and get more fit as well as do some yoga to get more flexible and all that
Thoughts?
I think you can pull it off... Post a pic in a t-shirt and shorts.
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Ahhh the only shorts I have are way to small for me now, I hardly use them, but I`ll try to post a pic tomorrow
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Ahhh the only shorts I have are way to small for me now, I hardly use them, but I`ll try to post a pic tomorrow
Just buy a new pair that fit.
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Ahhh the only shorts I have are way to small for me now, I hardly use them, but I`ll try to post a pic tomorrow
Or boxers? I've say to you what I said to others: You can get away with 5" growth in legs if you use clothes to hide your proportions. In your pics, you look fine, because your proportions are hidden. What you look like nked or briefs is a different story. But at the same time, I don't think having disproportion is that bad if height is your main source of dissatisfaction. Most of the time, you're not nked or in briefs.
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Or boxers? I've say to you what I said to others: You can get away with 5" growth in legs if you use clothes to hide your proportions. In your pics, you look fine, because your proportions are hidden. What you look like nked or briefs is a different story. But at the same time, I don't think having disproportion is that bad if height is your main source of dissatisfaction. Most of the time, you're not nked or in briefs.
I agree with this... I know it sounds gay, but you haven't posted any pics with no shirt on.
You need to be realistic and see what you'll look like in clothes and out of clothes..... So, grab some shorts/boxers. Post a pic with shorts on and no shirt. Shorts with a shirt and one just in your underwear.
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While you're at it, might as well post a pic with a shirt on but no boxers. 8) ;D
On a serious note, I think you'd be able to pull off 6.5cm femur + 4.5 tibia, for a gain of 11cm or ~4.33in. You'd have acceptable amounts of legginess, a good recovery and still be able to maintain natural biomechanical ratios.
Cheers
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While you're at it, might as well post a pic with a shirt on but no boxers. 8) ;D
Yeah I would do this combination, but add a cap in the mix... And turn it backwards. If you don't have one, add it to your shopping list.
On a serious note, I think you'd be able to pull off 6.5cm femur + 4.5 tibia, for a gain of 11cm or ~4.33in. You'd have acceptable amounts of legginess, a good recovery and still be able to maintain natural biomechanical ratios.
Agree with this.. That would make you 171cm right? That's only 1.7cm off of 5"8. Any normal pair of shoes would add about 1.5-2cm and put you right at 5"8... dont even need to wear lifts... And recovery will be better than normal with those numbers.
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I dont know, I dont think I`m disproportionate at 5'8 at all, I know people like that and with that my upper body will be the same height as my upper body, which is dandy, I also think if I gain more body mass it will looks perfect.
http://i.imgur.com/bVrusQs.jpg
I`ll be posting those other pics later today
I was targeting 12cm go to 172cm making me 0.7 off 5'8 but its just 0.7
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Shorts pics here people, remember that it is as tight as it cam possibly be, so they are slightly over my hips
5'8 Shirt
http://i.imgur.com/cMYtuja.jpg
5'8 Shirtless
http://i.imgur.com/jRaQxg9.jpg
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Alright that looks much better...but I still don't think it be wise to go all the way to 5 inches. You and I are set on our goals so let's just take it one step at a time and go from there.
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I dont know, I dont think I`m disproportionate at 5'8 at all, I know people like that and with that my upper body will be the same height as my upper body, which is dandy, I also think if I gain more body mass it will looks perfect.
http://i.imgur.com/bVrusQs.jpg
I`ll be posting those other pics later today
I was targeting 12cm go to 172cm making me 0.7 off 5'8 but its just 0.7
I think you look fine too.. When posting mock-ups it gets to the point where you have to make a decision for yourself regardless of what others say.... If you think you look good, if you are happy with the end result, it doesn't matter jack what others think.
Do what you want to do.
Btw... I just remembered you posted pics in your underwear on the first page. My bad.... What height are you at in your underwear on this page??
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In that one I made me more wider as if I had worked out a bit,
http://i.imgur.com/RJFPpVb.jpg
this one is 5'8 - 5'7.5 - 5'7 and 5'3 (original)
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In that one I made me more wider as if I had worked out a bit,
http://i.imgur.com/RJFPpVb.jpg
this one is 5'8 - 5'7.5 - 5'7 and 5'3 (original)
You can't edit width. It doesn't work the same as with real life gym work. You still have the same frame, you're just putting size onto that frame.. When you edit, you are manipulating your natural bone structure.... It would work on your limbs but not your shoulders.
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Yeah I figured that out, but even thou I dont look out of proportion at 5'8, what I think is the process of lengthening the image makes the legs a bit skinnier than they would actually be