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[quote=Anonymous]I am the one posting about our 13.9 year old son who is going thru testing. I do want to clarify there are those testing or considering HGH to get taller because they don’t want to be short.  And those who are considering hormone treatment because of medical situation.
   Or son was sent to endocrinologist beacause he has only grown 1.5 inches in 19 months.  The average for his age is 2-3 inches a year so he has failed three 6month growth tests.
   Since he’ll be 14 in October, the specialist is concerned about his lack of growth this late in the game.  I’m 5 7 and my husband is 6 ft— so we are both fairly tall. We weren’t even really cognizant of problem— primary doc just noticed lack of growth reviewing his chart at physical and some low levels of hormone in blood test.
   I don’t think he’ll qualify because expected height is still 5”9 but he meets the two other criteria- so we”ll know more after some all day blood draw (every 30 min while giving some drug to test for hormone)—end of the month.[/quote]

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