Leg lengthening surgery gone wrong.

I have seen children have leg lengthening surgery if they have very short limbs, but that was on NHS abs the children had other painful disabilities.
For vanity it seems nuts.
Im long legged and was teased about that at school “ Daddr long legs”&c

I'm under 5'1" and love it.

I can get away with blue murder, but can't reach anything on most supermarket shelves 🤨

@Katiesaidthat

I agree. She needs therapy not surgery.

I'm 4'11" when I was younger & thinner I loved it. Not so much now as due to a medical issue I'm much much heavier and it's not easy buying wide but short clothing!

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Jeez. Would you really consider having your actual legs chopped to bits to save having to take a few pairs of trousers up 😂

I’m less than 5ft tall and while I’d very much like to be taller, there is no way I’d put myself through that. Or any other kind of unnecessary surgery, for that matter. Too much can go wrong, never mind the pain and expense.

Getting clothes to fit can be a challenge but I learned to sew as a child so can alter most things or make my own. I’m short in the body so jackets and dresses don’t always hit right at the waist. Being tall is harder when it comes to clothes - cutting bits off is easier than adding bits on.

I’m 5ft 3. I generally don’t have any problems with trousers as I wear leggings almost all the time. On the odd occasion I needed something smarter, I found the petite Next range was usually ok. But overall I buy very few clothes so it’s not an issue. Trying to get things off the top shelf of the supermarket is frustrating but there is usually a lanky youth around to ask. No-one has ever commented on my height. I don’t think my height is unusual or even particularly short, so 5ft 2 not vastly different. DD is 5ft 1 and annoyed that she can’t work as cabin crew (but not annoyed enough to have drastic surgery!)

They're too long

I've always been shorter than my peers but now I'm shorter than a lot of primary school children, what the hell are they feeding them?

Also, looking at her ethnicity she's probably not unusually small, if she were white dutch she'd be a couple of standard deviations away from the norm.

I had bone lengthening surgery 32 years ago on one of my forearms because my radius bone stopped growing in my teens and caused mobility issues in my wrist.

It was not a walk in the park. The muscle didn’t lengthen at the same rate and the bone started to bow so I had to have it broken again. The process should have taken 8 weeks and actually took around 6 months with all the complications.

It’s quite staggering this is offered as a non-essential, elective procedure.

Its really not. I’m just 5 feet on a good day and have absolutely no problems with anything apart from keeping the weight off.

Nobody has mentioned my height since I was about 12, I can reach all I need to and clothes fit just fine. Taking trousers up is hardly a bother. I’m not ambitious career wise but even if I was I don’t think not having my legs broken and pulled apart would help.

I think this is simply a case of having more money than sense, and enough money to have a surgeon as your puppet. Sad.

no there is me as well.

There was a Scottish surgeon doing these operations. He did a few and was then told he wasn’t allowed to do them anymore. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/625680.stm

EDIT: Only two patients according to the article

I don't think that arthritis is a risk as it doesn't involve the joints.

I'm 5 ft 3 and I have learned how to shorten my own trousers in my 20s. I got fed up paying someone to do it.

I found M&S petite works for me however. Now I buy all my trousers from them.

@Thunderandlightningisfrightening but she is fine now as well as being 5’6”. And at no point has the surgeon admitted liability - he suggests she was a nightmare patient (have read the article). Also that she deliberately changed the lengthening device herself (suggestion is she didn’t want to wait and rushed things). They also say the difference was never what she claims. They do admit some things but only those listed as risks when you undertake such a complex procedure.

I’m not taking sides by the way - only they both know what really happened. I don’t trust the newspaper to give the facts.

Me too. Regular length trousers are usually fine but dresses tend to be a bit long.

I hate puff sleeves because they make me look as wide as I am tall.

My tall husband says the same thing.

I’m actually under 5’ and I don’t mind at all but I’m in proportion. Only negative is I get my clothes overseas as it’s nigh impossible here.

Happens all the time, reference to my height. I never think anything of it.

I’m just over 5ft 8.

As a youngster growing up in Fife, my nickname was Giraffe.

How many people who have never had comments work on the trading floor of an investment bank ?

She's very rich. Having worked with this group in Healthcare they tend to believe money can buy them anything.

Unfortunately there are often health professionals around who will agree with them. For money.

Leg lengthening at best is massive surgery and makes you look weird - long thighs with a short body.

5'8 deviates from the norm more than 5'2

But you'd be unlikely to be described as "a bit tall".

Did you ever think about that?!