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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a pediatrician, I don't know why anyone would recommend growth hormone injections for constitutional growth delay. It's just delayed puberty -- CGD itself doesn't have any effect on final height. They just reach it later.

Are you sure you don't mean "familial short stature?"[/quote]

Our endo told us the same thing (in that, why start him on medication just to give him medication) in our DS' case.

I'm 5'7", ex-dh is 6'4". DS is 15.5, bones measure about 2/3 years behind (we didn't have his teeth examined). ADHD and on meds since 2nd grade. He's finally showing signs of puberty now so his was really delayed but based on his bone age scans (we've been discussing this situation for the last two years with his endo) he has a lot of room to grow so she pretty much [i]released us[/i] from seeing her. Last year he grew 4 inches in total so I think it's all finally happening.

That said, I feel you OP on the sports thing. Even now with his 4" of growth last year he's still on the smaller side in his grade and this year, for the first time since t-ball, he didn't want to try out for the baseball team because he felt he couldnt keep up size wise or strength wise which made me sad for him because he was so committed to his sport. [/quote]

What your endo says doesn’t  make sense? Why give him meds just to give him meds? You have been giving him ADHD meds since 2nd grade. That is most likely the cause of delayed puberty and height.

So many boys are affected. Kids at my boys school now ask boys in 9th and 10th grade who haven’t gone through puberty if they have ADHD. [/quote]

My DS had this and does not have ADHD and does not take meds of any kind. There have always been boys like this. My DS finally started growing big time age 14.5/15 and grew very quickly. Around 2yrs behind in bone age. Endo followed him did not recommend any treatment/growth hormones. [/quote]

Of course there have always been boys like this but now there are MORE boys like this because MORE boys are taking ADHD meds. I am still upset I was never warned about this side effect! [/quote]

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