What did you ped recommend for short stature?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the standard protocol for a pediatrician to refer you to a pediatric endocrinologist, often as PP mentioned to just rule certain issues out.

This is part of why health insurance is so expensive. No indication at all there is anything wrong with the kid but yes, go to an expensive specialist and run a bunch of expensive tests, just to see.

Agree. Dcum loves to whine about US healthcare and how much better it is in Europe and Canada. Yet the same ones that insist on seeing an endocrinologist (or several) if their kid might be shorter than average in order to get hormone shots. US privilege. Enjoy!

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If the endocrinologist doesn’t recommend the full day of hormone testing is that a bad thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, I'm the OP! Just stumbled on this on here again.

We took him to an endocrinologist and I'm glad we did - turns out he was actually in the 5th percentile (not 2nd; he wasn't being measured correctly at the ped) and she has no concerns and does not recommend growth hormone, which is great. Now I don't worry about it as much - he's likely to be short, but as long as he's healthy, that's ok with me. I do think it was worth checking out rather than wondering though.

Thanks for the update OP!

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Anyone else?