He could probably say they're heel support for some condition and if anyone cared they'd believe him. Unless they also wear height boosters and are very familiar with them.
I've got to look these up. I have one leg that's shorter than the other, adding to my chronic back and hip pain. I've tried inserts, but they slip and slide too much; these might be just the thing.
Best of luck to you! I've found that even in cases where there's no treatment available, there's some peace of mind that comes with just knowing what's going on.
That's the individual symptom, not the root condition. Sort of like if you have a fever, aches, and fatigue, you might have the flu. If you have scoliosis, it may result from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (although it may not). So you're correct, but it's not an "either/or," it's a "yes, and"
Scoliosis is a sideways S-curve. There’s also lordosis which curves forward at the bottom near the hips, and kyphosis (what I have) that curves forward at the top of the spine, starting just below the shoulder blades. I always describe it as a lowercase r-curve.
There's also lordosis, which is what I have! Instead of curving sideways like scoliosis, it sways in towards my stomach. I got my spine fused at L5S1 and it was the best decision I ever made.
I wish you nothing but the best and I hope you get some answers, it's such a scary and draining process when you've got health issues.
If you ever need a hip replacement, they can even out the length then.
You will be very drugged up the first time they make you walk and you might panic thinking they made the leg too long, it may feel like you are wearing a high heel on one foot, that they fixed you the wrong way. You may even need to be sedated you freak out so much.
Hip replacement at 23. Had a degenerative leg disease that took too long to diagnose, allowing it to progress to where the non surgical treatments wouldn’t work. It took 13 months to diagnose. I was a tiny white girl and it usually presents in overweight white boys, first hip surgery was at 7.
Here is a pre hip replacement Xray of my mushroom shaped femur head and awesome bone spurs.
Leg length discrepancy with possible scoliosis (abnormal spine curvature to a certain degree) does lead to asymmetric muscle compensations and resulting pains. It does call for "heel lift" for the short leg as part of the treatment at the mild-moderate stages. Would recommend seeing a doctor (or does podiatry also do this? idk I'm just an osteopathic medical student in the US) to see what options would help you with your pains.
My arch support inserts slid a bunch too, I used some double sided masking frogtape that I had laying around and they actually stopped sliding nearly as much
In 91 I had a bad motorcycle accident that F'd up my back but not bad enough for surgery. After about 3 years I got locked in the stooped position, had X-rays and found out I fractured part of a disc. It also caused my hips to go out of wack so one side is lower than the other. I wish I had known about these back then. It could have limited the back pain I've had over the years by keeping my hips straight/aligned. Now my body just tilts a bit from the base of my back
I have these and they’re to stop blisters, not add height. They’re literally just a stretchy gel feeling material, and only a couple of mm thick. Dudes either a troll or a fool
I was on BBS in the early 90s. I am permanently, terminally online. I hear modems in my dreams. I had a thing for the WILDCAT! system. I have no idea what the fuck a height booster looks like . . . I would never care about that shit . . . the whole height-obsessed "-cel" culture is only a weeeee sliver of the chronically online diagram.
The guy's also named cryptocel. that's name is just a bouquet of pathetic associations. Then again, if it's not a joke, the kind of person that would post this seriously also would lean into both being a cryptobro and an incel.
Yall would read a knock knock joke and wonder “why does the homeowner need extra verification who it is if they don’t recognize the first name”. Like, dude.
I honestly believe this is why my husband wears cowboy boots but I would never say that to him. Im more than fine with his height and I dont want him to think otherwise. Hes pretty tall for a guy either way but society really digs in on height. Its sad.
I wear cowboy boots pretty regularly but mainly at work anymore. Before I was married and went out to bars/clubs I definitely noticed that I got more positive attention from women when I had boots on. And I am 6 ft tall as it is. But that extra inch or two made a noticeable difference, apparently
Lmao I'm 5'3" and I felt so bad for him. I'm like "Oh...brother, just break free from the shackles..." 😭
It's so much easier not to worry about it. Some will think "But what about how other people..." sshhhhh. You stop worrying about them too. That's the secret sauce.
I'm 5'5" (on a good day) and I was short as a kid too. I ended up asking to take daily growth hormone injections when I was a teen because I was insecure about it. At first the needles didn't hurt much but after a while they hurt a fair amount and I just started faking giving them to myself. My parents probably noticed but never said anything about it and after a while we just kinda dropped it and never spoke of it again.
It's possible that taking only some of the hormone caused me to end up being even shorter than I would have been otherwise, but I don't know. I just know that I realized it was easier to be happy with my body than to hurt myself trying to change it. Now I'm fine with being short.
That's what I was thinking. You can't change it (unless you want an expensive and long and painful surgery/recovery) so why do so much worrying about it? I guess cuz I'm a lesbian, I've never cared about dudes' heights but like IDC about anyone's height. You are just you & I have never wanted someone to be taller or shorter. I usually date girls around my size but I never like searched for that, it just happened & I never turned down anyone for being shorter or taller than me.
Because it sucks. These guys are laughing it off, but it really does suck. From dating to professional advancement, it's a moderate to severe disadvantage, and there's jack shit you can do about it.
There's also the reality that it's socially normal to make fun of short guys for whatever reason. Even the most progressive and typically unprejudiced people still hate short dudes. 😭
If you're aiming for a top CEO role, it's potentially more disadvantageous to be short than to be a woman.
(About 3% of fortune 500 ceos are under 5'7", whereas about 10% are women - though that first stat is from a 1995 study, which is why I have to equivocate)
I see you man, and you can't even bring it up without being labelled as insecure. And hell even if you are insecure- I wonder how one gets that way? I can tell you that I was legitimately proud of my height (I genuinely thought it made me unique) until highschool when I was explicitly told I was desired less because of it.
This thread and societies general opinion on this is 'take the ridicule on the chin, overcome it, and NEVER bring it up or we will think even less of you'
Bruh I'm 5'11 and kind of considering these lmao. I know I'm gonna catch some shit for it, but I also accidentally bought a pair of 3" lift boots once and let me tell you, women cared about that 3" of lift.
The majority of people who are and have ever been attracted to me are attracted because of superficial reasons and I've been basically told that over and over, over many years.
So... I mean... idgaf. I guess I'm into it at this point.
if you ever actually get with the woman she's eventually gonna see you with your shoes off. that's as bad as women who paint an entirely different face over their real face to attract a man. it's a plan for the future that completely ignores the future
As someone who is 5'4 I have so many questions, like why would you wear those? Do you wear those everyday? Did people know you before you started wearing those?
WE don't really pay much attention to most people around us. Like, there was a person at my office who complained to their friend that no one had noticed their 20kg weight loss. Only then did I notice that yeah, they looked slimmer than usual.
And as someone who lifts, I'll tell you you'd be surprised how much bigger I had to be before anyone commented, and when someone did, they kinda sounded surprised, as if I'd put on a shitload of muscle overnight, rather than over three years.
And then there was the time when I didn't notice that my sister's fiance had gotten lasic and wasn't wearing glasses. Like, he was doing something different with his beard, and I noticed that, but I didn't realise he wasn't wearing glasses.
I'm a 6'2'' woman and have men obviously shorter than me claim to be my height all the time. They stumble their speech a bit when I ask to compare, because they know I'm not exaggerating my height. It's crazy how insecure men can be about this stuff, so I totally believe that there are guys just walking around in boosters.
Hahaha my friend is maybe 5'4" or 5'5"and her best friend is 5'8" but she swears she's taller or at least the same height. Even crazier she refuses to date men shorter than 6'
As someone 5'3" on a good day I'm all for short guys. My neck doesn't hurt looking up nor do I have to talk to their nipples.
I love when some guy several inches shorter than me claims to be 6'. I'm 6'1" so it's pretty obvious they're lying. I won't call them out on it (unless they're being an asshole) but if someone asks my height after, all bets are off. I've had a few guys get mad at me, and say I should've gone with the lie and said I was like 6'5" or some shit 🤣.
It’s not crazy to me, considering how much weight many women seem to put on height. Granted that kind of discussion is mostly on social media, not real life.
Some people are more self conscious about their height than others. Just because you might not feel bad about your height at all (or enough to wear these), doesn’t mean OP doesn’t.
If looking an inch or two taller makes OP feel better about themselves, then more power to them. Life’s too short to not find ways to feel better about oneself, especially if it’s as simple as a shoe insert.
And it's more a curiosity on my part. But having been ridiculed for my height, insulted, demeaned, etc. it creates a vulnerability. I also spent a chunk of my childhood waiting for the day that I was going to become tall and suffering the slings of finding out I was never going to be tall and then having to rebuild my own self image after that realization.
What Ive realized is people are cruel when they're allowed to be and this is no different. You can either pretend to be something you are not and have people poke at you, make fun of you, and demean you, or you can wear who you are like armor and no one can harm you with it. And when they swing their blows come blunted and you learn to throw back twice as hard. (Just recently: wait I'm short! No way what an insightful revelation! Anyways.)
I think the last time my height bothered me I was a sophomore in highschool. Dating a girl 7 or 8 inches taller than me cured me of any height issues I had. Doesn't mean there aren't practical problems I curse at times.
Man, without a decent pair of shoes I can barely walk after a day of work. How the fuck do you strap something like that on and not have it wreck every part of your body above it?
As someone who was bullied, taunted, and beaten up by several guys over several years in grade school, this story is the stuff of fantasy. The guys they imagine as chads don't even give him the time of day, let alone trip him so bad that his shoes pop off and all of the girls he's happening to pass by even notice his heel inserts more than everything else going on and find it laugh worthy.
Surely these Stacys, whose first reaction is to laugh at a guy who didn't deserve to be tripped, are the women this guy wants to impress. I don't even mean this sarcastically. He just doesn't care about their character any more than he cares about his own. He just wants to sleep with them, just as he imagines all other men who are successful with women, as predators that are just more successful than him. Too bad most men around him actually care about women (and want to sleep with them; those aren't mutually exclusive goals) and most women can tell that he doesn't actually care about them and that he doesn't see himself highly either. They don't need to see his inserts to sniff out self esteem that low.
And trust me, if you're worth bullying by several boys (like I was, apparently), the girls will bully you emotionally too. They don't need a guy to do the work for them.
Well put. And that’s not even to mention that this allegedly took place at an office christmas party…that this would be workplace behaviour from adults is vanishingly unlikely
No you don’t understand, office parties are just like high school where the jocks and cheerleaders bully the nerds, and not poorly catered Xmas shindigs
Careful with that. I've had family with legitimate injuries and a workman comp case have a fuckass private investigator follow them with a hidden camera.
I can only imagine this happened in some workplace that doesn't really have HR, because if it did, I would be in the HR office until that douche bag is rightfully fired.
And on that topic, people love to hate on HR (uSeLeSs!) until incidents like this happen and you have HR to back you up as it clearly violates the company guidelines. And obviously HR is not perfect, and ultimately their purpose is to protect the company, blah blah blah, but often protecting the company means protecting the employees. Not always, but often.
Step 1: don't give a fuck about what others think about things you can't control.
Step 2: that's all there is to do about it. Fuck those people referred to in step 1.
What is it these guys think will happen if somehow a woman happens to magically swoon over the fact that they are 5'11" instead of 5'8" and they actually get back to his apartment? Is this not like shoving an Italian sausage in your pants and pretending you're a porn star?
I think like most people who lie about some obvious aspect of their physicality in this way, they're hoping lust overrides the other person's logic and preferences at that point.
What's the deal with people wanting to be taller? Makes no sense to me why you'd want to be perceived as taller? Do people suddenly get taller overnight with these and think people won't notice or is it like you have a one time chance before you meet a new group of people so everyone just think your as tall as you are? What does being 2 inches taller give anyone anyways?
Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it less of a reality for other people. I also have never been insecure about my height, but I'm tall. There is a lot of social pressure on looks in a lot of different directions. People tend to focus on the things they feel insufficient about. And a lot of people can be very cruel about it, especially in school. It should be clear for you to see how someone who is made fun of for being short would be insecure about it throughout their life.
I am a woman. I am 5'5". I want to be taller cause I can't reach the upper cabinets in my kitchen that would be incredibly convenient to be able to use easily. Also ladders scare me and step stools make me nervous.
I wouldn't know a "height booster" if it laid eggs on my face, you could leave one on my desk with "height booster" written on a piece of paper next to it and I would be like "what is this thing" and I also wouldn't fucking care if I did know.
if this happened in my presence I would literally be focused laser-like entirely on the shit-bag motherfucker who trips people for fun.
My write-up hand would glow blue. I would be sending that motherfucker home. I would be 10/10 furious if one of my employees "tripped" another employee? You mean fucking assault?
It's a weird male thing about manliness and height being related. In china guys started doing leg lengthening years ago and it was purely for aesthetic reasons. On the female side, being taller than guys can be seen as a bad thing. Patriarchical crap.
As a short person, do these things help at all? I can't wear heels.
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u/qualityvote2 13d ago edited 12d ago
u/ChickenWingExtreme, your post does fit the subreddit!