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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would get a 2nd opinion asap and try to start the aromatase inhibitor if you can find someone to prescribe it. Did the endo read the bone age and compare it to the book? Most endos do their own reading of bone age X-rays. The Dr my kids see pulls out the book and looks at various points and sometimes agrees and sometimes differs from what the radiologist said. Qualifying for growth hormone treatment is not an easy process so the aromatase inhibitor can buy you some time. There is an online tool that can do a reading of the bone age for you, easy to find with an google search. Also lookup the Magic Foundation as they have many resources.[/quote]

I agree that the x-ray was performed to determine bone age - did you get a bone age reading for your son? I don't think these x-rays are used to determine whether growth has stopped altogether. For example, my daughter is in early puberty and the x-ray determined determined her bone age is about 1.5 years ahead of her biological age. Our endo then compared her height (for which she's like 60th percentile for her age) to the chart for kids of her bone age (for which she's like 10th percentile for height) to predict her adult height. Obviously this is still just a prediction, we'll have to wait and see. Since her adult height is close to the height of her paternal female relatives, we decided to not intervene (after considering pluses and minuses.) In our case, I'm 5'5" (about 60th percentile for a US woman) and DH is 5'6" (about 10-15th percentile for a US man), so it's not really a shocker.

I would for sure to the following:
- get the bone age from the endo
- see if you can get the bone age from the radiologist 
- get a 2nd opinion because I think your endo is crap either way

I don't think you should try to get anything prescribed until you follow up on this, because there's a lot of confusion right now.

Also, for others on this thread- there's a 4 inch difference in average height between men and women. A 5'6" woman is tall, a 5'6" man is short. How is this so hard to understand?[/quote]

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