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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the poster who has the son on growth hormone.  I think you should see a pediatric endocrinologist who can do bloodwork to cut through the questions. Everyone on this board is telling their personal stories of growth. But that has nothing to do with your child. 
    Doing growth hormone should be mostly s medical decision based on blood test that shows the growth hormone levels. 
    Growth hormone is more than just growth. It impacts bone development, vitamin absorption etc. the most obvious sign can be short stature but that just ne symptom to identify if there might be a hormone level issue. 
    Seeing a couple of top specialists helped us. 
   It was a medical diagnosis after we had growth tip off the issue.

My son is 6 ft but again specialist suggests we continue - as the hormone is significant for bone - cholesterol/ etc  all that other stuff. [/quote]

NP. Could you please share who you went to?

My 17 year old son is done growing per his wrist X-ray. And he’s only 5’4”. I took him to endocrinologists and they all said to wait and see.

Now he also has high cholesterol. He is lean and very athletic. Something has gone wrong somewhere and none of the doctors I’ve taken him to have taken this seriously.

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Why do you assume something has gone wrong?

I ask because my 16 yo is also only 5’4”, but our family is on the small side, and he hit puberty on the early side (11), which tends to be associated with shorter stature. He had a lot of growth from 11 to 13 (which put him briefly ahead of his peers in height), then has grown less than 2” since then. Aside from the early puberty growth spurt, he has followed his growth curve of 5-10th percentile pretty faithfully his whole life. Parents are both 25th percentile, but grandparents are more like 10th. They say height percentile at age 2 is pretty predictive of final height, and it certainly seems to be true for our son.

Given all of that and the fact that he’s healthy overall, we (and our ped) have no concern that anything is wrong medically. Worth considering if this is just your son’s normal, healthy trajectory.[/quote]

This is a healthy outlook.

Yes, your son is probably done growing.  But that's ok.  There's nothing wrong with him being 5'4[/quote]

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