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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, a 15.5 year old boy at 5'3" is going to be in the 10%-25% percentile range, which is within normal range. Are those numbers accurate?

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Not the OP, but....

Growth hormone disorder means your child isn't producing enough growth hormone. It doesn't mean they have to be in the third percentile of height. My son has it and until age 12 or so, was 80th-90th percentile in height. Then suddenly stopped growing. He did a stim test, and yes indeed, he doesn't make enough growth hormone. If untreated, he would have ended up around 5'5 or 5'6 probably -- which is where plenty of non-GHD people end up and that's normal, but he "should" end up closer to 6 feet tall given his mid-parental height and where he was on the curve his entire life.

Giving him the growth hormone he lacked is not just to grow the extra inches, but it is important for other facets of health as well, including heart health.

Most kids with growth hormone disorder are extremely short, but not all. Just because OP's kid is 10th-25th percentile does not mean he doesn't have it.[b] I assume he's done the stim test and been officially diagnosed with it. [/b]That's really the only way to tell.
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OP, did his growth hormone stim test demonstrate deficiency?[/quote]

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