After postponing for years I have finally booked my appointment for April 2021 to do external Tibia 5-6cm (max) with dr Kulesh and Solomin. I lost my old account info but I’ve been on this forum for about 3-4 years.
I pulled the trigger one day and started planning and working toward it and told myself not to turn back on it. Can’t really believe I’m doing this, I was always serious about having LL done but actual going through the process I am barely holding myself from turning back. I already submitted me and my wife’s passport application ( she knows about this choice, told me she does not care at all about my height and did not want me going through with it, we are both 167cm). Everything in my life is going great, I have an exotic, I’m married to a beautiful person inside and out, I have attractive features, I have a decently successful business (with covid I make about half profit what I used to make before covid but still doing ok). Height is honestly the only thing really bothering me in life, of course life isn’t perfect and there are always other things but besides height those things are not that significant.
I am a 167cm 23 year old male from Florida. I have about 60k cash usd saved to my name. Originally, I was thinking about doing LON femur but told myself to just start off with tibia and do precise/stride the next year and just pay for it. This lengthening should not cost more than 12-15k usd for everything. Kulesh offers it at 4 different hospitals, One of them is double the price as the one I chose but I really don’t see that much difference in them besides that they are placed in a higher end area and the doctors speak English, and also the expensive one is a private clinic while the other is municipal.
Russia airbnb is about 500$ a month/4 star hotels 600-750$ a month. The airbnb is really nice. Going to a foreign country is pretty cool, I had a somewhat bad view of russian safety but online it says St. Petersburg is safe aside from pickpockets.
An important note, I have slightly moderate bowed legs, it never affected me much and I’m very active, but I hope to correct this also, I wonder if this will add 1-2cm I’m trying to prepare as best as I can. A plus for me is that I will have someone to help me and take care of me during this process. Lengthening alone must be super mentally boring and emotionally challenging.
I have a million cautions running in my head, like what if my kidney is stolen, or if the anesthesiologist hurts me, or how am I going to react to a catheter. Solomin/kulesh seem good in the forum except for Android who had nerve damage but that probably was due to a risky method he used
whatever happened to him? and also I believe he did 1.5mm a day? For femurs
An advantage I might have is that I used to wrestle in high school and run track, however after high school I sadly did pick up vaping/smoking hookah which I quit a couple months ago as it is bad for healing/bone consolidation. I am light but lean and muscular and plan on doing some heavy leg workouts before this surgery to aid with atrophy/stretching.
Please comment any advice, thoughts, etc
If all goes well, hopefully next year I will do internal femurs with giotikas or parihar since precise/stride isn’t certified in Russia by the government so they don’t allow it
Currently at 167cm, 6-7cm (considering bow leg correction added to lengthening) I will still be short but only by 1.5-2’ to the average in the us. At my height I’m in like the bottom 5-10 percentile, being 5’7 1/2 or 5’8 is really not that bad. Sure, it would be a lot better / great to be 8cm on top of that which is why I plan on going for femurs after, but even At my height with 1’inch lifts I have been able to accomplish a lot in life and also have had very attractive girlfriends even with my height in the past, which is why my height neurosis isn’t mentallly damaging to me as much, it’s not obsessive, but it is an insecurity I want to improve.
Edited* Reason I chose Russia 1: LL originated here 2:USD is strong against ruble, surgery and hotels are cheap (the price) 3: the experience of kulesh and Solomin
Obviously best choice would be paley since he’s 3hr drive from me or USA, but not everyone has 100k+ to blow
This hotel is 600$ a month, deciding between this and a very nice airbnb I saw
https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/Saint%20Petersburg/entity/ChkI7b--46-b_JsUGg0vZy8xMWMya3pkOV93EAE?g2lb=2502548%2C4258168%2C4306835%2C4317915%2C4328159%2C4371334%2C4401769%2C4416724%2C4419364%2C4463263%2C4463666%2C4464463%2C4481897%2C4482194%2C4482438%2C4485851%2C4491875%2C4270859%2C4284970&hl=en-US&gl=us&un=1&ap=MAFaAGgA&q=hotels%20in%20st%20petersburg%20russia&rp=ogEVU3QgUGV0ZXJzYnVyZywgUnVzc2lhOAFAAEgC&ictx=1&utm_campaign=sharing&utm_medium=link&utm_source=htls&hrf=CgQIPBAAEgIIGiIDVVNEKhYKBwjlDxAEGAESBwjlDxAEGA8YDiABsAEAWAFoAZoBFxIVU3QgUGV0ZXJzYnVyZywgUnVzc2lhogEcCggvbS8wNnByNhIQU2FpbnQgUGV0ZXJzYnVyZ6oBEwoCCCESAggVEgIILxIDCJECGAGqAQoKAggSEgIIaBgBqgEHCgMIoQIYAKoBDgoCCBwSAghzEgIINhgBqgEaCgIIERICCCoSAghAEgIIOBICCFcSAggrGAGqAQ8KAgguEgIIVhIDCIMBGAGqAQ8KAghQEgMIhAESAghMGAGSAQIgAQ&ved=0CAAQ5JsGahcKEwj459ek77TuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCA