is there any chance i could grow taller
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I got my period at 12 and definitely kept growing until I was 16.
The OP made me shake my head in disbelief, though, that anyone could possibly think they could still grow at twenty-six!
anything is possible on these boards
i am sure herbal life will have a shake that will make you grow in 14 days
to the op, just get the dress altered2 -
Therealobi1 wrote: »I got my period at 12 and definitely kept growing until I was 16.
The OP made me shake my head in disbelief, though, that anyone could possibly think they could still grow at twenty-six!
anything is possible on these boards
i am sure herbal life will have a shake that will make you grow in 14 days
to the op, just get the dress altered
She said 2 months, not 2 weeks. Plenty of time to have the dress shortened.
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Alatariel75 wrote: »I got my period at 12 and definitely kept growing until I was 16.
The OP made me shake my head in disbelief, though, that anyone could possibly think they could still grow at twenty-six!CoffeeNCardio wrote: »It's not something you can change.
Yep ... once a woman gets her period, that's pretty much the end of height growth.
After that any addition perception of height is accomplished through high heels and good posture.
Wat? I stopped growing at 11? Pretty sure that's not how that works.
Look it up.
And did you stop growing then? How tall were you at 11 ... how tall are you now?
Yeah, I didn't stop growing until my late teens. I was about 16 by the time I topped my mother in height, but got my period at 11. My stepdaughter is 15 and still growing like crazy, she's just hit 6'
Yup! Got my period when I was 11, almost 12. I was 5' 1". Grew 6 more inches in the two years that followed. Stopped growing at 14 (5' 7").1 -
OP, I know you said you hate heels, but I've found that Ballroom Dance shoes to be the most comfortable. They are designed with feet in mind instead of just looks. The heels also come in a variety of heights, so you don't have to get a crazy high heel. Just a thought.1
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CoffeeNCardio wrote: »It's not something you can change.
Yep ... once a woman gets her period, that's pretty much the end of height growth.
After that any addition perception of height is accomplished through high heels and good posture.
Wat? I stopped growing at 11? Pretty sure that's not how that works.
Look it up.
And did you stop growing then? How tall were you at 11 ... how tall are you now?
Um, no... my sister got her period when she was 9 years old. She wasn't 5' 10" at 9 years old!! I was 13 when mine arrived, I wasn't 5' 7" then either...3 -
I find sleeping on a firm mattress gives me good posture and stretches out my spine, and yoga definitely helps me not slouch. I was 5'7.25" at 24 but after I started yoga, I began to carry myself at 5'8.25". Good posture is key, I suppose.
Also, congratulations on the wedding.
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GreenIceFloes wrote: »I find sleeping on a firm mattress gives me good posture and stretches out my spine, and yoga definitely helps me not slouch. I was 5'7.25" at 24 but after I started yoga, I began to carry myself at 5'8.25". Good posture is key, I suppose.
Also, congratulations on the wedding.
Oh noce this hive me hope actually .. My posture sucks im working at it at the moment. I just started yoga so i hope this will do it for me .. Thanks a lot 0 -
esraad1989 wrote: »GreenIceFloes wrote: »I find sleeping on a firm mattress gives me good posture and stretches out my spine, and yoga definitely helps me not slouch. I was 5'7.25" at 24 but after I started yoga, I began to carry myself at 5'8.25". Good posture is key, I suppose.
Also, congratulations on the wedding.
Oh noce this hive me hope actually .. My posture sucks im working at it at the moment. I just started yoga so i hope this will do it for me .. Thanks a lot
You're welcome! Good luck. 0 -
Not at 26, no. Like a previous responder, I grew one inch in my very early twenties - was 5'0" at 11 years old, grew a LOT that summer, 5'6" at 12 years, 5'7" after that, but then nothing until my early twenties. It may have been that the restrictive eating in my teens held back the eventual height, I don't know but sometime in there I grew taller than 5'8". Probably nobody is ever 100% satisfied with their height, I wouldn't mind another inch of legs. I suppose if I lose height when old I'll be leggier, as that height goes away from the spine, right?
I think high heels are the way to go if you want to look taller in a particular outfit, or just get the dress hemmed to look right. And yes, you may be taller than you think if you have bad posture.2 -
Achieve mental growth- Alter the dress to fit you instead of altering your body to fit a dress. It is easy to hem a dress. It is extremely unlikely/impossible to grow 2" as an adult.
Wear taller shoes.
I am 5'4" and haven't grown any taller since I was 16 years old. Sometimes clothes are too long and I shorten them.0 -
I am 5'3.5 and can't wear heels because of leg braces and my wedding dress looked amazing on me! It will be perfect one it is hemmed to your height. Trust me!1
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There are those sealing hooks that you can use to install body stretching chair. U sit in it for 8h straight every day.0
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I'm 5'1...you seem pretty tall to me LOL. If you hate heels then alter the length of your dress and rock your flats;)0
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I am 33 years old and have always been 5'4. I had a baby almost 12 weeks ago and suddenly seemed to have grown to 5'5. I have no idea how.
Have checked & re-checked at the doctors & hospital etc. and yep I have grown an inch taller.
I would rather have lost the weight to be honest.0 -
esraad1989 wrote: »Im 26 years old im 5.4 ft i really wish im 2 inches taller im just wondering is there anything that can be done at this point ❓❓ i really never had any issues before with this but ive been trying on wedding dresses those past few days since my wedding is 2 months away
You can't outgrow a long dress. Get it hemmed.1 -
CoffeeNCardio wrote: »It's not something you can change.
Yep ... once a woman gets her period, that's pretty much the end of height growth.
That's ridiculous!!!0 -
esraad1989 wrote: »Im 26 years old im 5.4 ft i really wish im 2 inches taller im just wondering is there anything that can be done at this point ❓❓ i really never had any issues before with this but ive been trying on wedding dresses those past few days since my wedding is 2 months away
There's nothing you can do about your height, that's just your genetics. There's no diet you can be on to make yourself grow taller. They can alter your dress to be shorter or you can wear heels (even small kitten heels would work). I'd go with getting the dress altered - if you're not comfortable in heels lets not make the wedding more stressful and force yourself to learn how to walk in heels. You don't want to trip!
Anyway it's up to you, but no, there's obviously no way to change your bones in two months...
Fun fact, even though you can't change your height your foot size can change. Once you become pregnant your feet swell up, your hormones kick in and the bones in your feet shift around to accommodate it. I went from a size 10 to a size 11 and didn't ever go back to a 10
http://www.livescience.com/27583-foot-size-pregnancy.html0 -
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There are rare anecdotal accounts of people who have grown taller later in life after height growth had stopped, but generally these situations are limited to those who did not have a proper diet growing up. Otherwise, any upward change in height is generally attributed to postural improvements.1
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Because you are past epiphyseal closure, even absolute excess of growth hormone along with other factors involved in body growth - would only make your bones go wider rather than longer, thus creating an abnormality known as acromelagy (large extremities, such as hands, feet and lower jaw). So it is purely biologically impossible to get taller.1
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I am 33 years old and have always been 5'4. I had a baby almost 12 weeks ago and suddenly seemed to have grown to 5'5. I have no idea how.
Have checked & re-checked at the doctors & hospital etc. and yep I have grown an inch taller.
I would rather have lost the weight to be honest.
Yeah, they kept measuring my height at the WIC office with my last baby (I was almost FORTY) and i asked them why, I had been the same height for almost twenty years and already had 3 kids, and they said "you never know, we measure height because sometimes women do grow during pregnancy". So maybe that is a special situation?0 -
http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/10/21/even-more-evidence-that-pregnancy-can-lead-to-height-increase-this-must-be-considered/I am 33 years old and have always been 5'4. I had a baby almost 12 weeks ago and suddenly seemed to have grown to 5'5. I have no idea how.
Have checked & re-checked at the doctors & hospital etc. and yep I have grown an inch taller.
I would rather have lost the weight to be honest.
Yeah, they kept measuring my height at the WIC office with my last baby (I was almost FORTY) and i asked them why, I had been the same height for almost twenty years and already had 3 kids, and they said "you never know, we measure height because sometimes women do grow during pregnancy". So maybe that is a special situation?
http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/10/21/pregnancy-causes-hand-feet-extremity-increase-in-length-and-width-and-height-increase-strange/
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Growth happens mostly in your long bones (think arm and leg bones). Once you pass puberty, those bones physically cannot grow any longer. Better posture can make you look taller, but there's pretty much no chance of you actually growing any taller.0
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I gained 1/4 of an inch in height after a spinal fusion at age 50, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But it did make me 5"1' exactly!0
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CoffeeNCardio wrote: »It's not something you can change.
Yep ... once a woman gets her period, that's pretty much the end of height growth.
After that any addition perception of height is accomplished through high heels and good posture.
Not true. I was 4'8" when I was 13 and started. I was 5'2 when I finished high school, and grew two inches between ages 18 and 24 to end up at 5'4". (However, with spinal surgery, I'm now 5' 3.25", So, I've shrunk.)
But expecting a late growth spurt at 26 is a little too much. Wear heels, get your dress altered (Hems are easy to do yourself if you can't afford professional alteration). Also, it's a dress you are going to wear ONCE. As long as you don't trip over it walking down the aisle, no one is going to notice if it sweeps the floor.1 -
I actually grew 0.5" after losing the weight at age 40ish. I didn't believe it, so I had the nurses at my gyn's office and my primary doc, as well as the pre-surgical nurse for knee surgery, double-check. Yup I'm now 5'3" not 5'2.5".
Of course, I didn't really "grow", just that my posture improved a lot. I did lose a lot of weight though - 1/3rd of my body weight in total.0
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