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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just met with endocrinologist last week for 13 year old son. Parents tall and he was about 50% of height but has fallen to 19% and only grown 1.5 inches in 19 months. Typical at 13 1/2 is 2-3 inches a year. They ran test and only one hormone bit low.  Bone age one year behind but Endot wants to read test hersel- results were from local doc and she is going to get X-ray.
   Once bones fuse- no chance to help so we are fast tracking our decision based on that.  If younger, think I would get couple opinions and have growth monitored over two 6 month periods- then endoc with X-ray and blood can give you predict asult height. If that is not reasonable based on genetics- say I’m 5”7 and husband 6’1 and kid shows max height 5”9, then yes, we would proceed.
   We would not intervene unless we felt medically he was not meeting his expected height.  For our son, biggest flag is lack of growth over 18 months. However, they base a lot of this on size of tedticles to determine where in puberty and our son at 1 on scale 1-5 so we feel like he is just late bloomer probably. 
  Again, doc is reviewing bone age again and if it is as immature as testes, then time will work.  If bone age closer to actual age and blood work borderline, we will do an all day in lab blood testing that insurance requires - that will ultimately decide.
   Good doc should make decision path very easy. We didn’t feel like there were that many variables at end of day to decide.[/quote]

Our DS's endo would not give HGH for expected height of 5'9". And she told us that insurance won't pay for it for that height.[/quote]

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