Growth hormone for petite kids

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Isn’t anyone worried about side effects of using hormones during their most susceptible years?

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a 5’2” 9 year old girl - she would rather be short.

This question almost always comes up for boys only. It’s very odd that OPs example used a girl.

Hypercompetitive UMC and wealthy parents now view taller girls as a valuable asset in both athletics (which is now viewed as important for both college admissions and careers) and the marriage market. The modern ideal for wealthy people is a tall, academic, athletic kid who marries a tall, academic, athletic spouse when they are both in their 20s, upping the odds that they will produce multiple tall, academic, athletic kids of their owns. It's a weird eugenics thing but I'm not surprised some parents are willing to use drugs to cheat the genetic factor.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a 5’2” 9 year old girl - she would rather be short.

This question almost always comes up for boys only. It’s very odd that OPs example used a girl.

I am 47, and 5' (and a woman). My Indian parents asked about growth hormone when I was a kid, though no one would prescribe it then. It's not that shocking to me at all.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency and is on a prescription. I can’t imagine giving him those meds if he really didn’t have GHD! That seems crazy to me. When it’s real it’s not just about height btw.

Can I ask how it was diagnosed? Asking as a parent of an 8 year old who has never had blood drawn or much interaction with pediatrician at his annual about anything. He was in the 50th in terms of height is is more like 30 now.

Usually it’s single digits or less than two inches growth per year that triggers investigation.

My kid was just referred. She was 50-60th percentile in height from birth to age 8. For the last 4 years she's dropped about 10 percentiles per year: 40th at 9, 30th at 10, 20th at 11 and 10th at 12. He dad and I aren't short (nor Asian) so there's no reason to expect that she should be.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency and is on a prescription. I can’t imagine giving him those meds if he really didn’t have GHD! That seems crazy to me. When it’s real it’s not just about height btw.

As the parent of another kid who’s on it for medical reasons, though, it’s about more than height. Has ramifications for bone density.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a 5’2” 9 year old girl - she would rather be short.

Good for her! 5' 2" is a normal adult height. And she's only 9 so she will still grow. Can't stand people making shortness a disease. Eugenics vibes

[Anonymous]

We started on this journey with our late-to-grow DS. The endocrinologist wanted to start growth hormone but we waited and it was the right call.

For what it’s worth, the Dr said growth hormone can maximize your height potential if you are really GH deficient but it will not make you any taller than you would have been if you aren’t deficient.

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Messi did it and it’s basically cheating

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I am very petite and have a petite daughter. DH is on the tall end and was concerned. She's now been to a pediatric endocrinologist and gotten a "might be a problem, but we'll see" diagnosis.

To the parents saying their tall daughters would rather be short, I also have a taller daughter who grew early and she loves it - and I love that she loves it (even though I'm tiny). There are lots of activities for girls where it's a benefit to be tall, even if you don't play basketball or volleyball.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t anyone worried about side effects of using hormones during their most susceptible years?

It's not hormones like that. The biggest side effect they warned us about was weight gain.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency and is on a prescription. I can’t imagine giving him those meds if he really didn’t have GHD! That seems crazy to me. When it’s real it’s not just about height btw.

Can I ask how it was diagnosed? Asking as a parent of an 8 year old who has never had blood drawn or much interaction with pediatrician at his annual about anything. He was in the 50th in terms of height is is more like 30 now.

Usually it’s single digits or less than two inches growth per year that triggers investigation.

My kid was just referred. She was 50-60th percentile in height from birth to age 8. For the last 4 years she's dropped about 10 percentiles per year: 40th at 9, 30th at 10, 20th at 11 and 10th at 12. He dad and I aren't short (nor Asian) so there's no reason to expect that she should be.

Seems reasonable. But this is a common time frame girls can dropped quickly in percentiles. Lots of girls hit growth spurts sometime between 10-13 so if yours haven’t (which is still normal), it can show as a drop in percentile

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t anyone worried about side effects of using hormones during their most susceptible years?

It's not hormones like that. The biggest side effect they warned us about was weight gain.

It can have effects on the heart and bone density as an adult and increases rates of other aliments

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t anyone worried about side effects of using hormones during their most susceptible years?

It's not hormones like that. The biggest side effect they warned us about was weight gain.

It can have effects on the heart and bone density as an adult and increases rates of other aliments

It’s very bad for the heart

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of a 5’2” 9 year old girl - she would rather be short.

?????

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Report button not working but obviously racist troll

Do not quote trolls. That just propagates their message.