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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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 [/quote]

Parent of kid now on GH for medical reasons, and our ped dismissed a drop in percentiles from 25 to 2 as the build up to a growth spurt. I wish we’d pushed back.[/quote]

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