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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the PPs who went and got the bone scans, were they within the normal range?

DD8 has premature adrenarche and no breast buds but her bone scan was age 11. Hopkins endo said there's nothing to do. Her height and weight is 50 percentile (with parents about average height). [/quote]

I’m sure 3 years is more than 2 standard deviations. But because she’s 8, it’s early normal, not premature. Did she also have hormone levels tested and an ultrasound?

Mine at 8 had breast buds, but no body hair, but her bone age scan was a year younger (1.5 standard deviations). So she’s being monitored. If her bone age was advanced or had other signs, she would have gotten blood work to rule out thyroid issues, tumors, etc.

Our ped endo said isolated breast development can often be caused by a rogue ovarian cyst that spits out estrogen for a time until the cyst goes away. That can happen at any age, but  the breast development only goes away when it happens in much younger kids (toddlers, etc.). Older kids usually keep the breast buds until puberty starts for real. [/quote]

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