Should I get LL surgery

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Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
 
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Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
you are the perfect candidate
 
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holy shit this is sad oldcell
 
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just make sure u have an excuse to leave your family for 1 year like migration
 
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Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
 
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If you can afford to focus solely on recovery after surgery for a year and not work, then yes
 
might as well get multiple surgeries for your face as well once you're recovering
 
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I already talked to my family they only got shocked and said absolutely not they won't allow it 😭 I'm more thinking of them than myself, they told me to get therapy instead.

They said if something happens they can never forgive themselves
 
I want to listen to their advice but at this point it feels like I either move to another country where people are shorter or get LL surgery
 
Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
in ur situation bro i would go for it, doesnt matter what ur family says ur mental health matters more, just do it and deal with the stuff later, i recommend to get LL surgery in turkey it family freindly price (ik a surgeon that would do 15cm for around 40-50k dollars if u want hmu on discord : unclemeli) imagine living life at 185+ , the only difference between u and me is that u make 6 figures.
 
in ur situation bro i would go for it, doesnt matter what ur family says ur mental health matters more, just do it and deal with the stuff later, i recommend to get LL surgery in turkey it family freindly price (ik a surgeon that would do 15cm for around 40-50k dollars if u want hmu on discord : unclemeli) imagine living life at 185+ , the only difference between u and me is that u make 6 figures.
ye bros lowkey chilling
 
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work towards fixing and improving your face as much as possible first, it will yield a much higher return and result than going from average height to 6 foot, if you keep improving your face enough you will very likely lose the want to get LL and save yourself from a risky extremely painful expensive long recovery surgery that could affect your mobility a lot in the future

youre already old and will care very little about your height in 10 more years, I think LL is great but getting it in your 30s is very low ROI and leans more towards body dismorphia than self improvement, improving your face will yield much better results in how youre treated and is a lot safer

consider it from a logical ROI perspective, will you really care about being 4 inches taller in 5 years time as you near your 40's or once youve found your wife to be, to be a couple inches above the average height with a femur bone now extended beyond reccomended safe max limits and now permanent stretched tendons and ligaments that your body was never designed to have, it does adapt but not fully you will be on lifelong requirement of physiopherapy or leg excercises at this beyond upper limit limb lengthening

I am not against LL, but it is definitely not a surgery to be taken lightly, for reference I am 6'1 and have even considered it strongly myself but I know the real issue and more important thing is face and that I wont care about height when im in a relationship and that it would be low ROI, so could take my suggestion with a grain of salt

personally I would say definitely do not do it in turkey and cheap out with external fixators, you will have a way higher chance of serious complications and issues and have a hideously hideously super scarred legs and the mental impact of seeing heavy bulky metal frames skewered into your legs that you have to turn with a key daily would be not ideal, live life taller in turkey for example is a butcher house behind the scenes with horrific complication rates and neglect and high bone infection rates

I would say only ever consider this procedure in the best of clinics in first world countries with the lowest complication rates and the best internal rods that are extended wirelessly, do not save money by going elsewhere (example turkey) and using a inferior rod design or external fixator, some are made of significantly stronger materials and let you bear loads early which is crucial for a much better recovery but are much more expensive

do not cheap out on this it will leave your legs scarred like frankenstine and bone growth inferior and worse recovery with a extremely high chance of complications
 
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if u got money then yeah
 
Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
What surgeon?
 
Hello,

Should I get LL surgery? I'm 173 cm 29 years old, always felt insecure about my height and depressed about it. Earlier in life I thought as long as I'll become successful and fit it will be OK. Now I'm looking for a relationship and something long term and struggle a lot. Even though I have worked out for almost 10 years and have a 6 figure job. I feel like all the money in the world is pointless when unhappy.

Being short impacts every aspect in life negatively. I thought I would be happy after fixing my eye area with ptosis repair and fat grafting, but I still struggle with insecurity. I feel a little better but not enough. Think being ND affects me the most, what would you do in my situation?

Could get more face surgeries like genio and rhino but not sure if it will do anything to help my insecurities about my height
173 centimetres is the statistical world average height I think. I am also 173 centimetres.

We are still taller than most women, so that is okay. I would love to be 180 centimetres, but that is just how I ended up, and I do not plan on limb lengthening unless I notice that it seriously affects my chances of finding a partner.
 

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