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

Er, for the reasons I've just given, the importance society places on them. I'm not talking about my personal experiences- as I've said, I've had height insecurities, but not gender insecurities.

That's exactly my point. What he doesn't need is to spend a small fortune splitting his leg bones.

I am a 5 ft 2 girl hahaha!!!


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This is just pathetic. You need to open your eyes and see the world if you think such a trivial issue is worth mulling over.

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.

The difference between 5'10 and 6'1 is marginal, you're just in that group of people who are of average height. People wont treat you differently at all and you're also putting your body under extreme stress that could have long term consequences

Just go to the gym if you want to feel more confident about your body.

Yeah because 5ft 10 is really short
It's your choice but deep down you know it's a waste of money, you could just tell people your 6ft and they won't even batter an eyelid

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.



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I saw a documentary about this surgery once, it followed a couple of guys who had this surgery done from beforehand to a couple of years afterwards. It was at the clinic in the USA that was pioneering the development of the best research in the field and at the leading UK provider of the surgery. Both guys were 5'1''

It was pretty heartbreaking, I wept for them. They basically lost two years plus of their lives in surgery, in physio and in a very great deal of pain. They were left SO scarred, with bad limps (one was still walking with a stick after two years). One had gained an inch in height but walked with such a limp he had developed a bad hip which had affected his posture so his extra height did not show, and the other had encountered so many problems with infection that he had not gained a detectable difference in height.

A guy at out school was killed in a crash over the weekend. Kind of makes you address your priorities, which kind of made me think if you are actually serious about putting your healthy self thru this when you are 5'10'' tall, just to say you are six feet tall, you have some sort of body dysmorphia and need psychological not physical help.

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.

This reminds me of a programme I watched a month or so ago about guys undergoing penis enlargement surgery.. they all had average or above average size penises but regardless underwent dangerous surgery with dubious effectiveness - both of which they knew before going in.

This sounds very similar, OP! I'd understand guys in the sub 5'4'' range considering this surgery - much like guys with micropenises considering the enlargement surgery.

But 5'10''? You mad bro? A lot of guys out there would love to be that tall.

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What are you going to tell people you were in hospital for 6 months for? How are you going to explain the scars on your legs? LOL. If anyone realised you had the surgery just to be a little taller then they'd lose all respect for you. Just get elevator shoes if you're that bothered.

I don't have any issues with cosmetic surgery myself - do what you want, it can be a good investment (for example, if it makes you more confident, you may get a better job). However, would the cost (enough to buy a house in Scotland, or a shed in London) be worth it, or even within your reach?

If you begin to obsess about surgery (as some people do) you'll gradually feel worse about the problem you believe you have. If you can't afford to fix it, you'll get even worse. Perhaps see what your GP thinks?

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

Height isn't nearly as important for a girl.



The cost is not an issue. I can gather the money within maybe a year if I work very hard. They don't leave you in agonising pain. They have painkillers and anesthetics for that

That's the point. Why should it matter what importance society places on their psychological issue? It shouldn't matter, what matters is what the person thinks themselves. Look at the thread, most if not all (including me) thinks that OP shouldn't go ahead with it but yet OP isn't convinced. Does this sound like someone who cares what society thinks?

To you that's spending a small fortune on splitting his leg bones, that might mean the world to him so you're not really in the position to determine what the importance signifies to him.

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Of course it matters, if you aren't a hermit, how people view you will massively effect your life. I don't know what more to say to you if you don't see the difference in signficance of getting a sex change and gaining two inches, it's just self evident.

He can do what he wants, I'm not trying to control him, but why post on a forum if you don't want people's opinions?

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.