Hey everyone,
I've been diving deep into the realm of limb lengthening surgery lately, intrigued by its potential to add up to 8cm (or about 3 inches) to one's height. Over recent years, advancements have made the procedure safer when performed by skilled professionals, though it remains quite costly, carries its risks, and demands patience during recovery and rehabilitation. For those interested, I've found some insightful resources like Dr. Shahab Mahboubian's Instagram and the Cyborg 4 Life YouTube channel that showcase patient journeys and provide a wealth of information on the subject.
Now, onto my personal situation - I stand at 175cm (5'9"), living in Southern Europe. Despite being financially stable, I'm not in a position to easily drop the $70k needed for this surgery. At 26, with all male family members towering over 180cm (6'), I often find myself contemplating my height. I'm channeling this contemplation into motivation for starting my own business, hoping it could eventually fund the procedure.
This brings me to my main question for this community: Do you believe that increasing my height would significantly boost my value as a man? I feel confident in enhancing my value in various aspects of life, but this height issue feels like a sticking point. I'm especially keen to hear from those around my height or shorter - your daily experiences and whether you think such a change could meaningfully impact one's self-worth and how others perceive us.
Your insights and personal stories could really help me (and perhaps others) navigate these thoughts.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
For the love of God just no.
No
There are FAR better solutions in life
rodrick_10 1y ago
What kind of solutions? I feel this is one of the only aspect in life that you cannot improve :/
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
This is so myopically stupid i don't even know how to respond to it
Height isn't everything in sex, stop being retarded
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
Get some serious clinical psychology treatment for your body dysmoprhia and cognitive thought problems
Permacultist 1y ago
Bro, turn to Jesus and away from the corrupt ways of this world.
Permacultist 1y ago
Oh, and btw, I'm 5' 8" and i mostly hang with lovely ladies closer to 6'...
rodrick_10 1y ago
And you never felt somehow inferior to them?
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
Imagine how inferior you'd feel having to tell a woman you had to spend 70k just to be slightly taller than her for fake height
rodrick_10 1y ago
I see your point... What bothers me the most is the fact that I should have been 6', but due to poor nutrition (I decided to diet very early, without my parents' approval), I stopped growing at 14 years old.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
Yeah and regret (even if that was why) is not going to fix your inner game.
You're going to have imposter syndrome on hard mode if you do this. This is extreme cope. You should spend a fraction of that $70k on therapy and learn to how stop thinking like a black pill incel
Plus what are you going to do when your legs and joints and nerves inevitably end up fucked when you're older. Don't tell me you researched zero side effects. You can't break your bones and reconstruct yourself like that without long term consequences
rodrick_10 1y ago
I don't believe I would experience imposter syndrome from this procedure because it would simply bring me to the height I believe I was meant to reach. Moreover, achieving this requires significant effort and investment on my part.
I view limb lengthening for men similarly to how breast augmentation is perceived for women. Do you think women who undergo breast augmentation struggle with imposter syndrome?
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
I think women are retarded and 80% of the things they do to attract men, if not more, is counterproductive and self-defeating.
Comparing yourself to women's shitty and sabotaging sexual strategy decisions in the modern era is not a good metric to compare against. Further men and women choose mates on different things. Why are you comparing apples and oranges?
This further illustrates that you don't actually understand the things that would actually help you here. You are plain and simple operating on a bedrock of faulty thoughts and misunderstandings about the world, hence why you are not only deeply invested in, but are even considering this retarded and expsensive surgery
I gaurantee the mere thought of it would repel and disgust women. You will make your situation worse honestly. Women will not respect you at all for it. This is such an extremely needy and validation seeking plan you have
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
"I think women are retarded and 80% of the things they do to attract men, if not more, is counterproductive and self-defeating."
agree x 100.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
Thanks
Yeah comparing anything women do with how men should behave for anything other than the sole purpose of mockery of, or illustrating why, said behaviors of women are bad, there is not much of a point in painting parallels. The sexes are too different
redhawkes 2 1y ago
Use that money for brain cells transplant, you obviously need more.
Boosted_Arrow 1y ago
Southern europe? Like italy?
As a fellow european let me tell you: the whole 6 ft is an american meme, it doesn't exist here. Rather get the motivation to get into the gym and get jacked.
AbusiveFather1 1y ago
No. Too many potential side-effects, and you'd be pretty much guaranteeing you'll be less athletically capable for the rest of your life.
Join an MMA gym, work hard at it and get good - feelings of inferiority, especially concerning women, will magically dissipate. I personally know dozens of 5'5 guys that will fold 99% of 6'3+ guys on the planet like folding laundry, gymbros and athletes included (unless they're combat sports athletes).
Diabs 1y ago
I agree with most of what you said except the 5'5 guys beating guys a foot taller than them. they have weight divisions for a reason and with the same ability a bigger guy will win its natural law.
Basically you're just saying you know guys who are good at martial arts.
BDATA 1y ago
@Diabs You're right but here's what you don't understand. Weight division only applies if you do the same sport. You kind of give me a vibe that if the guy is strong and tall and he is trained in sport, games that requires strength or technique, he can beat a combat level 5'5 guy. Let me clarity that a bit more, a 6'5 inch monster of a body builder would lose against a trained fighter as easy as a fat dad bod. If you think the muscles will help him. It'll actually tire him faster. Let's take a notch above now. If you think some 6'5 heavy ass strongman can beat a trained fighter, you're wrong again. In fact, in a real fight strongmen will get killed in no time against a 5'5 fighter. This has happened in reality. Now let's get into fighter category itself. If a 6'2 huge fight trained boxer get in with a 5'5 guy who is skilled in Muai Thai + BJJ, the small man will win the second the trained athlete goes down.
If you want to win a fight, you need the skill to fight.
Even when we take it to the extreme, a tall and fat guy might not win because being so tall and fat isn't really good for fighting. You're not nimble enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plQnUT92bo
AbusiveFather1 1y ago
That’s why I specifically mentioned “unless they do combat sports” in parentheses.
What I said was that 5’5 combat athletes will beat 6’3 non-combat athletes in a fight, which makes sense.
Diabs 1y ago
Exactly, you said a person who does martial arts can beat someone who doesn't. Pointless comment is what I said.
imissedherbrightside 1y ago
Dude, you're fucking average height..
Wear platformed shoes or buy platform insoles that you can fit into your Jordans.
rodrick_10 1y ago
I did that a few times, but that's when I feel the imposter syndrome because that's not my real height... nevertheless, I understand the comment :)
redpillretard 1y ago
Good, actionable advice
BDATA 1y ago
I'm shorter than you at 5'7. I live in a country where the average height is 5'7. Most people are of my height but some are really taller than me. One of my friend is 6'2. Another one is 5'6. Another one is 6'' and another one is 5'11.
I think how people see you is a complex issue with multitude of variables. Height is just one among that. I think by your standards 6'2 guy should get the most respect but it's not so. He's not taken that seriously by many people because he's kind of goofy.
Also, the act of trying to be the best among others is just futile because people don't have best interest on you but just themselves. So how others perceive you - be it 6'2 or 5'6, nobody gives a crap about others anyway. They think about themselves.
In my opinion, the most important thing that people need to work on is not height or muscle but mind. If you're mentally strong, that's more important than anything else. This is what I'm trying to work on. That can make your life way better than just physical things. We often do things to attract other people but all these people are going to leave you one day. So you should satisfy your own mind first. Don't get me wrong here. You can't get a strong mind without a healthy body but height isn't important there.
I have never felt difficulty in getting women. In fact, I'm in an LTR now. I had no problems getting plates too. I have never felt that I'm weaker than the 6'2 guy. In an all out fight, I'll win 10/10 times because I'm a trained fighter and he is not. In an arm wrestling, he can't win me because he doesn't hit the gym so he's weak. Now this doesn't mean that a tall guy can't beat me in anything. Many tall guys will beat me in all these but there will be a shorter guy than me who can beat those tall guys too. There's always a better fish in the sea mate. All you can do is to max yourself and it's a journey.
rodrick_10 1y ago
Thanks for your comment! It really inspired me :)
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
Retarded post.
Fix your brain, not your legs. Of all the guys that I know that are outliers at pulling (triple digit body count) NONE of them are / were over 6 feet tall. None of them.
I think the number 1 rule of RP is this: ignore what women say, and instead focus on what they do.
Women all say that they want tall men, but when you actually analyse who they are sleeping with, height has zero to do with it. Women say they want tall me for all sorts or reasons. It's similar with money. They all say that they want rich men, but I have noticed no correlation between wealthy guys and body count, in fact, I suspect the reverse is true. The guys that I know who have very high body counts are on the lower income scale.
The factor that I see with guys with very high body count is that they devote their entire lives to game. They went out all the time, whether they wanted to or not. They behaved like pussy addicts. Everyday, all day they were running day game. Game is a skill, just like table tennis or a computer game. If you want to be good at it, it requires hundreds or more probably thousands of hours of practice. It requites huge amounts of time, patience and dedication.
It sounds like you are devoting your life to pussy chasing (and really not being very successful at it). To be brutally honest, I doubt that you will ever be any good at it.
My reason for saying this is because you are considering leg lengthening surgery - which reliably informs me that you have NO IDEA what women actually want.
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 1y ago
Don't do it.
At least you were wise enough to seek counsel before permanently altering your body like that.
There was a user on the trp.red side of the site a while back who started posting to seek validation for having already done the surgery. Everyone there roasted the shit out of that retard until he flounce-quit and deleted every stupid post he ever made.
You can check out some of the various replies and roasts at the following three links. When you view the posts in the search results I link, I recommend expanding them as much as you can for as much context as possible, rather than just reading the individual posts within the search results. Here are the links:
https://www.trp.red/feed/search/all/%2Bmagashiv%20%2Bheighttranny
https://www.trp.red/feed/hashtag/HeightTranny
https://www.trp.red/feed/search/all/%2B58to62LegLengthening
On top of all that, women are terrible at estimating height anyway. Don't sweat it. Just get muscles and learn game. I know dudes as short as 5' 3" who get pussy without any real issue.
coolsocks00 1 1y ago
As a shorter guy: you’d have to be fucking retarded to go through with this. Fix your mentality brother
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
"boost my value as a man?"
OP, just re-read that sentence that you wrote, a few times please. If that doesn't sound the alarm bells, I don't know how we can help you.
Durek_The_Bald 1y ago
I had the same problem, couldn't afford the leg extension surgery either. So I went with the cheaper option, and had an extra 10 centimetres silicon implant installed at the top of my skull. Totally changed my life. Definitely get it done, either the leg extension (if you can afford it), or the head implant. Don't listen to the haters.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
I don't think I'll ever get tired of justifiably warranted troll answers like this
@Typo-MAGAshiv @Lone_Ranger
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
Troll post? Nonsense. Both @Durek_The_Bald and I opted for the head implants for those extra inches. That is how Durek got his name - I can see his shinning conehead from about 400 yards away in a crowd, esp now that his is so tall.
Only retards go for the leg lengthening in 2024. The OG chads know this one simple trick for getting tall - they are all getting coneheads. I got mine in Turkey, where surgery is waaaay cheaper. I'm now around 6"9 and could not be happier.
Budget around $1k per inch of extra 'headroom'. I went ahead and got an extra 6 inches. I now drive around with my conehead sticking out of the sunroof of my car, and it does get a bit cold in the winter, but its worth it to hear all the bitchez sighing and panting as I drive by.
The only downside is that I can't find a motorcycle helmet to fit, so I am going to get have to get a customer one made.
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 1y ago
Did you get the... Max Headroom?!
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
I'm so sorry cc: @Durek_The_Bald I shouldn't have immediately assumed you guys were trolling. I'm downvoting myself as penance
Clearly this should be in the sidebar. Lifting and dressing well takes effort. Gonna find some conehead surgeons to add to the mod team and EC list
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 1y ago
I gave you a downvote as well.
Let this be a lesson to you.
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
I did as well. He is discriminating against conehead, and I don't feel safe.
Lone_Ranger 2 1y ago
I am wondering whether we need a dedicated resource in the side bar, so that when people look up 'limb lengthening' they get re-directed to conehead extension surgery. It's for their own good.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 1y ago
Yes 100%
This forum is going to be repurposed as a plastic surgery forum. We've been doing this wrong the last 12 years
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 1y ago
Conehead?!
Problematic_Browser 1 1y ago
Dude, no.
MentORPHEUS Senior Endorsed 1y ago
In addition to everything people are saying about the damage this will do to your bones, muscles, and nerves long-term, consider this angle.
Extending just your legs won't magically make you look like a well sculpted Adonis. Instead, you'll look like a doll that had a different doll's legs swapped on, with scars to boot. You'll look odd and out of proportion.
That's just the physical aspects. Spending $70k and like a year in physical rehab and therapy won't fix your inner mental game, which is where the actual problems in attracting women lie.
Take it from me, a naturally slender 6'3 with blond hair and blue eyes. As a young man, I was filled with blue-pill ideals but was absolutely clueless about game and what women genuinely want. Thus, I had a LONG painful dry spell between my High School GF and the next one. Then several girls in a row turned ugly in their behavior and treatment of me because I didn't know shit about frame or leadership. The point is, you can have all the physical advantages yet still continuously duff your game with women.
Therefore, don't pin all your hopes in "If only I was taller, I'd be on easy mode with the ladies!" THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT THE CASE!