From my research, I wanted to compiled together all the possible reasons why people who wish to become taller are willing to choose all forms of height increase techniques except the one that would almost always guarantee that they will see height increase. The one form of method that will almost always give results is through limb lengthening surgery.

For me personally, I don’t mind surgery or going through something invasive, as long as it can give me the results in less time with less pain, and possibly less money. Let’s remember that the reason why so many height seekers are completely rejecting the idea and option of limb lengthening surgery, distraction osteogenesis completely without even considering the idea.

Too expensive – Something like this would range usually around $50,000-$100,000 for each routine

Too time consuming – At least 1 year of one’s life will be lost due to the surgery, the lengthening process, the healing, and the physical therapy, as well as the follow ups, the check-ups, etc.

Too much pain – While the surgery may be not so painful since the person is put under painkillers, the whole process where they will experience the phenomena of getting their bones pulled everyday a fraction of a millimeter would be very painful.

Loss of other opportunities from this commitment – Since this process takes a full year to do, a person will be not just lossing the time of their life, but also missed opportunities towards doing something which would obviously be more fun, less painful, and fulfilling.

Too much risk in terms of other medical complications – I personally think that this type of issue is very small and that people who are too scared, fearful, or don’t know enough blow this part out of proportion.

The surgery that is actually done is not as gruesome as the journalists make it seem. The initial fracture is done with a chisel and hammer to break the hard cortical bone but the scary part are the metal spoke/wires that go through the leg which are then wrapped with metal rings to stablize the now two bone pieces from moving away from the non-union space.

Some movie like Gattaca show the person who is getting limb lengthening surgery have this metal rings around their leg and them going through excrutiating pain. That is true but the main reason for that pain is the nerver endings in the area of where a callus develops from the induced initial fracture which are being pulled apart at a consistent rate.

It looks scary because people don’t like the idea of metal sticking out of their legs and always feelings the pain of agitation caused by tissue-metal interactions activating nerve endings.

We have the reasons for why we don’t wish for an invasive approach very clearly stated however are the reasons really as serious and horrifying as some people in the media make them seem?

What I am suggesting is that maybe us as height increase seekers should take a good look at the one option which most of us completely refuse since it is the one technique that will almost always guarantee longer legs and increase height.