I'm strongly considering undergoing limb lengthening surgery. What would you think?

So you're entirely aware it is a PSYCHOLOGICAL problem, and are still willing to pay a LOT of money to be in excruciating PHYSICAL pain even without complications, never mind if anything went wrong?

Without trying to sound controversial, isn't this psychological problem similar to people who feel like they were born in the wrong body or the wrong gender and want to pay a lot of money for surgery? Why is everyone telling him to just ignore something that is clearly a psychological issue that he has the means to improve on through surgery?

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Without trying to sound controversial, isn't this psychological problem similar to people who feel like they were born in the wrong body or the wrong gender and want to pay a lot of money for surgery? Why is everyone telling him to just ignore something that is clearly a psychological issue that he has the means to improve on through surgery?

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Can you really compare feeling like a woman stuck in a man's body to feeling like a six foot man stuck in a five foot ten man's body?

Cosmetic surgery is not the answer to psychological issues. This treatment is extremely expensive, brutally painful... it's hard to see how a mentally healthy person would want it.

Surgery won't fix his issues. Insecure people stay insecure.

Either way it'll probably go wrong and he'll regret it.

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Anon for obvious reasons. This post may sound troll-like when I mention my height but hear me out please.

My mum is 5 foot 6 and my dad is a little over 6 foot (he says he was 6'1 when he was in his 20s but has shrunk a bit since). I have put these values into numerous height predictors which say that my final height should have reached somewhere between 5 foot 11.5 and 6 foot 1 (the most common answer which comes out is 6 foot).

But my height is only a touch over 5 foot 10. I know people will say things like that's a fine height, that's only a little under what you were predicted to reach, you're average height for a man in this country, these height calculators are rubbish anyway, height doesn't matter, wear special height increasing shoes and a bunch of other crap. The truth is I want to be taller. Not by much, but by enough that I can say I am 6 foot, I have reached by potential and I can stop feeling inferior. This is destroying my confidence. I have a brother and sister who reached their genetic potential, so why didn't I? I want to be able to look my dad and brother in the eye, not be looking up to them. The same goes for looking many other guys in the eye (most adult males I observe are taller than me).

I have done some research on this already. I have come across this FAQ http://www.makemetaller.org/index.php/topic,4261.0.html about limb lengthening surgery. Any length up to 7.5cm can be done fairly safely (beyond that there are complications). This would put me easily at 6'1 and increase my confidence dramatically. There are complications of course and the cost could be substantial, although I am prepared to pay that amount if it increases me above 6 foot.

What would you think of this? Does this sound viable?

For those guys who are shorter, I would recommend gathering the funds to get an operation like this done. I want it for my peace of mind and my confidence more than anything. I feel like I have come up short of my genetic potential height and it gets me down all the time.

Yes I am comparing them because I don't see the difference. What exactly makes them so different I your eyes? I am curious.

It might not simply be insecurity though. He says his siblings and dad are all taller than him and he feels like he is supposed to be taller than he is. I agree with your second paragraph though but it's still his choice to do. Posted from TSR Mobile

Well for society generally, gender is an extremely important thing, it affects the way people treat you, how everyone perceives you. I can fully understand how hard it is for people who feel their sex and gender don't match.

Society doesn't treat five foot ten men and six foot tall men significantly differently. Bloody hell, it isn't unusual for someone to be two inches off in guessing someone's height. It's such a petty thing.

I know what it is like to be insecure about height. When I started secondary school, I was the smallest kid in the entire school, hundreds of kids, girls and boys. I was one of the smallest right up until sixth form, I can't have been significantly over five foot when I turned sixteen. Then I had a spurt, and in a couple of years I was my final height, five nine/ten. Of course I was insecure when I was small, no girls would ever want to kiss me, people took the piss, but it still wasn't the end of the world.

If you look at the financial and physical cost, just for a couple of inches, this just isn't worth it.

Without trying to sound controversial, isn't this psychological problem similar to people who feel like they were born in the wrong body or the wrong gender and want to pay a lot of money for surgery? Why is everyone telling him to just ignore something that is clearly a psychological issue that he has the means to improve on through surgery?

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How can you compare insecurity to a much more serious issue? Wow

I know they're on different wavelengths but that doesn't make it any more insignificant.

Trust me I'm not telling OP to go ahead and I'm not saying it's a good idea but I don't see how people can tell others that they can use surgery to fix their psychological problems and disagree with this one. All surgery has its own complications.

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Confusing double negative, but height (talking about someone being average height and wanting to be a bit taller, not dwarves) is less significant than gender The main difference being that people aren't treating him differently because he's five foot ten, it's in his head. If he starts dressing as a woman, people will treat him differently. One is a problem someone can get over, the other isn't.

Because situations are different. If there was a quick and painless surgery for a hundred quid that would gain him two inches, I'd say fine, this isn't purely a principle thing. To any rational person, the cost massively outweighs the gain.

Why is it less significant to you? Because you think so? How do we decide what is significant and what isn't when it pertains to psychological issues? This is a subjective dilemma and I wouldn't just easily dismiss it as insignificant. What the OP and all other people with psychological insecurities need is therapy and counselling.

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Anon for obvious reasons. This post may sound troll-like when I mention my height but hear me out please.

My mum is 5 foot 6 and my dad is a little over 6 foot (he says he was 6'1 when he was in his 20s but has shrunk a bit since). I have put these values into numerous height predictors which say that my final height should have reached somewhere between 5 foot 11.5 and 6 foot 1 (the most common answer which comes out is 6 foot).

But my height is only a touch over 5 foot 10. I know people will say things like that's a fine height, that's only a little under what you were predicted to reach, you're average height for a man in this country, these height calculators are rubbish anyway, height doesn't matter, wear special height increasing shoes and a bunch of other crap. The truth is I want to be taller. Not by much, but by enough that I can say I am 6 foot, I have reached by potential and I can stop feeling inferior. This is destroying my confidence. I have a brother and sister who reached their genetic potential, so why didn't I? I want to be able to look my dad and brother in the eye, not be looking up to them. The same goes for looking many other guys in the eye (most adult males I observe are taller than me).

I have done some research on this already. I have come across this FAQ http://www.makemetaller.org/index.php/topic,4261.0.html about limb lengthening surgery. Any length up to 7.5cm can be done fairly safely (beyond that there are complications). This would put me easily at 6'1 and increase my confidence dramatically. There are complications of course and the cost could be substantial, although I am prepared to pay that amount if it increases me above 6 foot.

What would you think of this? Does this sound viable?

For those guys who are shorter, I would recommend gathering the funds to get an operation like this done. I want it for my peace of mind and my confidence more than anything. I feel like I have come up short of my genetic potential height and it gets me down all the time.