can a person get shorter?

Question

i dont need to hear that i should be happy at my height or osteoporosis jokes i just want to know if anyone knows a way please help

Answer 1

you get shorter as you get older

Answer 2

Barring some kind of accident that would alter your posture or remove part of your feet and legs the only way you would get shorter is by getting osteoporosis. You DON'T want that - osteoporosis is NO joke. You can bump your hip and break it. Then you need a hip replacement and 25% of people who have this surgery are dead within one year. My mother had osteoporosis and at the end of her life she had lost four inches of her height. Sorry, there is no healthy way to become shorter. You are stuck with your height.

Answer 3

The answer is yes - age will do it, or work that regularly compresses the spine - ski jumpers will often lose a couple of inches over their career

but it sounds like you WANT to get shorter. It CAN be done surgically but it is very tricky and more than a little dangerous, because it involves playing with the spine, and if a nerve gets cut or damaged, you can find yourself a LOT shorter - like spending your life in a wheelchair.

Unless you are extraordinarily tall, I'd say play the hand you were dealt.

Answer 4

Please Listen. As you progress into your mid-twenties particularly tall women "stand out in a crowd'. Tall women are strikingly beautiful. By site alone demand more stage presence when speaking. Believe me, tall intelligent ladies go far in the Corporation business world.

I've always dreamed of dancing with a lady of my height (6' 4"). My wife is 5' 9" and two daughters are 5' 11" 1/2 .

Yes in answer to your question.
As you age the discs between your vertebra tend to get thinner because of a lifetime of standing, lifting, running etc. The most you will ever loose in height is an inch to an inch in a half.

I guess if your independently wealthy your three leg bones, humerus, femur and radius could be shortened. You may stand disproportionate as your human trunk may be long or tall also and you can not change that. That's all a "hocas pocas" guess. I've never herd it advertised. too bad my younger daughter or wife 's not here their both Rn's and they could tell me if it's possible!

Answer 5

Not intentionally, no, sorry :( I started shrinking in my late 20's due to mild scoliosis and early osteoporosis. So far in 7 years I'm down 1/2 inch or so.

Answer 6

No, not quite. Although I did see a documentary about a very short man who had his leg bones broke in half and then "stretched" This process had to be performed over and over again with very painful results. All in all I think over a year or 2 he only "grew" 3 inches. And this was taken place in another country. Feel free to try it out. I'd say.. be short live happy

Answer 7

After a certain age, yes some people get shorter, but if you persue an active life - sports, walking, go out everyday rain/snow/shine etc.
My father is really really active and his height has remained the same, whereas my mother's has shrunk (inactive)

Answer 8

yes - with age - i hope i dont cause i'm only 5ft (and i just make that)

but with that - i know that people can get surgery to get taller i read a few articles a few years ago of when a girl wanted to be a air hostest so she streached her bones - painful but she gained a few inches. I'm sure that if you have the fiances you could chat to a plastic surgen to see if getting smaller is possible.

Answer 9

as time goes on, the general wear and tear on the body does take its toll, stresses on bones cause them to reduce in size etc. its even been proven that people are taller in the morning than they are at night because is the morning the muscles are relaxed more, its a natural thing for people to loose a few inches..typically end up gainin them back else where..horizontal instead of vertical.

Answer 10

with time, gravity will make a person shorter. which is why we say "little old ladies" as aposed to just old ladies.

i would trade you. i hate being short. but there is a way for me to get taller, where they break my legs, and extend the bones. maybe they can do the oposite for you. it would definitely be a huge cost, and a painful thing to do, and finding a surgeon would be hard.

Answer 11

yes with age from 0-mid 20s you grow you stay around that height for another 20 years or so and then as your age increases beyond that you slowly go down in height