Wow, your husband is the brute squad?
I find it amusing that there are so many people in the thread who find it hard to imagine people wanting to be shorter. I’ve pretty much come to terms, at this point with being “too tall” (about 5’10") but any time before I was about 25 if I could have shed a couple of inches in a painless way, you bet I would have.
Not to say that given the disadvantages of currently possible techniques it would be a good idea for the OP (I don’t think it would) but the desire in itself is perfectly understandable
Hey, OP, if you’re not gonna use those two hunks of femur post-op, can I have them? I’d be all over height addition surgery.
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It’s that the OP is so bothered that he would contemplate a surgery that easily result in bone infection( which can be fatal), badly weakened muscles or could leave him so crippled that walking is not possible.
You’re a lot shorter in that wheelchair.
Muahaha!
There are nowhere near enough 6’ women in this world. Please do not reduce their numbers.
I don’t think that’s fair. It doesn’t seem the OP knows that much about the subject. That’s why they are asking about it.
At least, I sincerely hope that all this talk about the downsides are discouraging the OP. The technology is not to the point where it is a good option unless it is somehow medically necessary.
ETA: My former aunt just got her leg cut off to her knee because of infection. There’s another way to make you shorter. And I’m not sure the other options are much better.
I’m 6’ 7". I guess I don’t find it an awful pain in the butt to travel, I do it a lot. I certainly attempt to make it easier - asking at the ticket desk about bulkhead or exit row seats, or making sure I rent a larger non-Ford car (Fords have poor dashboard design for larger people, and your knees will almost always be crunched into them). But if I can’t get a good airline seat, I just deal with it.
I’ve never let my height keep me from doing anything I wanted to do (although, from my understanding, I cannot skydive, which is something I would have liked to do).
Now, if I could keep from being asked “how tall are you?” 10 times a day, that would be nice. Just stop asking. Yes, I’m tall. Is it important that you know exactly how tall? Hey, you’re fat. How much do you weigh, stranger I don’t know and will never see again?
Just remembered my Father’s parents, they were born in Bristol, SW. England about 1900. In maturity they were both over 6’ and even in their 80’s were 5’ 8’’+, a great advantage when all your furniture etc. still functions for you rather than against.
If a combination of evolution and better nutrition is increasing the median height of Homo Sapiens then why not get the front of the queue?
Coincidently I knew a pair of twins, two male and two female in west London. Although they all knew of each other they’d never met saying ‘it would probably freak too many people out’!
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This thread reminds me of an eye-popping reunion I had many years ago. My favorite childhood neighbors, all seven of them, moved away when I was about 10 years old and I didn’t see them again for over twenty years. The oldest, my best friend, was my age. He was the tallest of their clan (not including the parents who I only remember being taller than my parents), but hardly taller than average—I still had a good inch or two height over him when they moved away.
The following three siblings (age-wise), a boy followed by two girls, were even less remarkable by way of verticality, and youngest boy was quite the pipsqueak. They all looked up to me, physically, if not figuratively—I was the big kid in the neighborhood and I liked it that way.
Fast forward ~20 years: My hard-working epiphyseal plates calcified my height at a respectable 6’2”. So, when circumstances transpired such that I found myself in the same city as my long lost neighbors and they invited me to a family reunion (all seven of the core family and a sprinkling of aunts, uncles, nephews et al), I was prepared to once again look down on the whole lot and bask in my relative tallness—I’d like it like that.
But, alas…I was wrong. Dead and completely wrong, in fact. Not only was I not the tallest person in the room, I was, instead, the shortest. In descending age of siblings: my former best friend: 6’6”; boy: 6’7”; girl: 6’3”; girl: 6’4”; pipsqueak: 6’11”. Mom, Dad and the rest of the family (Sequoia) tree also looked down on me. I’m pretty sure even the cat had me by a few millimeters. Amazingly, there was not one basketball player in the bunch—a complete waste of height!
Well, I had an aunt who had height-reduction surgery, but not by choice. She was hit by a car (and even got ticketed for it because she was jaywalking!), injuring the shin bone in both legs. She ended up, post-surgery, 3" shorter than she had been previously.
I understand what a PITA it can be to not be ‘average size’, but surgery is risky, painful, and (unless you can defend it as medically necessary, thereby getting your insurance to pay), expensive. I do hope the OP will work on coming up with ways to cope with the inconveniences of being so tall. Also, the way things stand now, I think you’d have a tough time finding a doctor that would even perform such a surgery electively!
Yes, this post was mostly an information-gathering sort of thing. Don’t misunderstand: I would very much like to reduce my height if it could be done, but there’s so little information out there that I thought I’d try asking here.
Some of the posters are correct when they point out that the worst feature is how one gets accorded “freak” status. I don’t have it as bad as others who are even taller, but I still get pointed at, whispered about behind my back as if I can’t hear, called “a freak,” “intimidating,” and “a giant.” Monday I got “larger than life,” which is an improvement at least. Of course my unhappiness with words and comments from strangers sounds petty, but I feel that it would be difficult for a normal person to relate to: almost always a conversation with a stranger turns to the topic of height sooner or later. If, for example, you had a deformed nose and you realized that people are constantly staring at it, you would probably grow to be very self-conscious about it. It’s not really something you can hide, either, although a rhinoplasty sounds like a much easier surgery than height reduction!
Reading all of your replies it’s hard to justify such a surgery, as I enjoy weight training and mountain climbing and would hate to risk losing those activities.
For other tall people, I would also suggest that stretching and exercise are especially important. When I was younger I was essentially inactive, which lead to discomfort in cars and back pain. I took up weight training a few years ago and have strengthened and stretched my body considerably. Result=no more back pain at all and airplanes etc are somewhat more tolerable.
I’m a woman and I’m over 6 feet tall. I find it rather annoying how I tower over almost all other women and even a lot of men, really.
I’d love to see a study that counts scars on peoples heads and correlates by height.
It’s not so much the head, rather I’ve got to watch out for my hands and elbows. When it comes up in conversation, I usually talk about a buck deer with its antlers and how it can slip through thick brush intuitively: it just knows where its antlers are and its eyes are very close by, so it avoids entanglements or unwanted collisions.
It’s not uncommon, though, to make a sudden motion with my hands and arms and hit something, or to bang my knee under a table.
I know short klutzes, and don’t know of klutz reduction surgery. 
I’m the same height. Seeing over crowds is great, especially at concerts and such. The dating pool is bigger. Dicey situations are often avoided or better controlled (allow yourself to feel confident in your stature).
Believe me, I’m quite familiar with all the possible/occasional drawbacks already noted. But I wouldn’t want to be shorter.