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Man gets surgery to grow 6-inches

New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery

By DENISE MARTINEZ-RAMUNDO and BILL RITTER | ABC News – Thu, Feb 23, 2012

At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.

So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.

"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."

Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.

Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

Most of Paley's patients have severe deformities or dwarfism, but he also sees cosmetic patients.

"The majority who come for cosmetic limb lengthening have what we call, height dysphoria. They're unhappy with their height," said Paley, adding that therapy has little effect on changing a patient's views. "It's one of the few psychologic-psychiatric disorders that you can actually cure with the knife."

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At about $85,000, the procedure is expensive and the process lengthy. It takes at least three months to complete it and it requires demanding and excruciating physical therapy.

Apotheosis is still in recovery and he does not want to go public even though this is his second surgery. "I am still lengthening right now and there could be further complications and I don't want to talk about it successfully until it's been successful."

But he is candid about his leg lengthening journey on www.makemetaller.org, an online forum for people interested in the procedure.

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Reply #1 posted 05/08/12 3:01am

imago	Graycap23 said: Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion? Sorry...here's the pic;
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Reply #2 posted 05/08/12 4:33am

ThisOne	didnt u post this same story about 4 months ago???? if not the wining lotto numbers r 12 24 66 8 7 3 14 mailto:www.iDon'tThinkSo.com.Uranus
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Reply #3 posted 05/08/12 6:40am

imago	ThisOne said: didnt u post this same story about 4 months ago???? if not the wining lotto numbers r 12 24 66 8 7 3 14 I like to inform people about these kinds of things. My threads are always informative and original.
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Reply #4 posted 05/08/12 7:23am

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imago said:

ThisOne said:

didnt u post this same story about 4 months ago????

if not the wining lotto numbers r 12 24 66 8 7 3 14

I like to inform people about these kinds of things.

My threads are always informative and original.

keep postin it,

prince is bound to catch on evetually lol

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Reply #5 posted 05/08/12 7:28am

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KingBAD said:

imago said:

I like to inform people about these kinds of things.

My threads are always informative and original.

keep postin it,

prince is bound to catch on evetually

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Reply #6 posted 05/08/12 7:43am

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ThisOne said:

didnt u post this same story about 4 months ago????

if not the wining lotto numbers r 12 24 66 8 7 3 14

That was me...three months ago.

http://prince.org/msg/100/376629

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Reply #7 posted 05/08/12 7:49am

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AAAH. So nobody is intrested in stuff liek this? I thought it could not be done..being 5'3" and all

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Reply #8 posted 05/08/12 1:24pm

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paisleypark4 said:

AAAH. So nobody is intrested in stuff liek this? I thought it could not be done..being 5'3" and all

so it is you...

I TOLD Y'ALL PRINCE WAS ON THE ORG lol

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Reply #9 posted 05/08/12 2:04pm

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Seems a bit extreme, but I am average height

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Reply #10 posted 05/08/12 2:27pm

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NDRU said:

Seems a bit extreme, but I am average height

It is totally relative. I am 5'11 and have been called short before by people SHORTER than me! omg

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Reply #11 posted 05/08/12 4:24pm

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

NDRU said:

Seems a bit extreme, but I am average height

It is totally relative. I am 5'11 and have been called short before by people SHORTER than me!

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