re: anyone had to do HGH treatments for their child? - UPDATE

Nutrition will help, and dude some guys hit it late, like 15.

I'm not a big guy but I was always the biggest kid in my class. I stopped and others grew.

I was given this treatment 25 years ago when it was first being used... Although not a miracle drug it did work. I went from growing about 1/8 inch a year to 1-1.5 inches a year, so It did not make me "catch up" with the rest of my class mates, it did stop eveyone from saying what is this 2nd grader doing in the 6th grade wing

Thank you for your story. I agree that this is something not to be taken lightly. I keep holding on to this probably unrealistic expectation that one day he will just catch up and grow to be a normal height. I know its probably still possible at this point but I guess I am realizing that I can't keep my head in the sand and pretend that something might not need to be done about it.

Yes, insurance covers it. There are several different types of rGH. The md office should find the one/ones that your insurance will cover. Up until the age of 7 he was trucking along somewhere between the 30th-40th percentile for height and between 5th-10th percentile for weight. The next year he dropped off substantially. He grew 1.5 inches. Kids have slow years sometimes and he didn't fit the description of a kid with gh deficiency (he is lean, athletic, and high energy). Still, the pediatrician said we should just double check. So they did the tests you've done and it indicated a gh deficiency but it was only slightly below normal. The endocrinologist agreed with our request to just monitor for a year. We retested the following year (he'd grown 1.3 inches and gained 1 pound). Obviously, the test showed that his gh production had dipped further and his body had not yet begun to "gear-up" for puberty like it was supposed to be doing. We monitored height/weight for another 6 months. By this time his sister, who is 2.5 years younger was only 1.5 inches shorter and they weighed the same. Doc said there'll be catch up growth the first 2 years then he'll assume a normal growth pattern.

We felt the same way. Did not want it to be true. We kept wanting to wait just a little bit longer. He wasn't unhappy and wasn't unhealthy. He just wasn't growing.

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My son was fed formula and he's fricking giant

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Mine too. He turned 2 on the 11th, hes 34 lbs and 37" tall. I'm 5'7 and my wife is 5'4. When doc did the growth forecast I laughed in his face. I seriously doubt my kid turns out to be 6'3, but hey, maybe my wife was catching crank on the side. If only he didn't look exactly fricking like me...

He sleeps a lot...he gets 10-11 hours most nighst!

Just go no carb and have him drink Shakeology every morning

It'll work itself out

I received daily HGH injections for 18 months at age 13 because I had stopped growing at 4'4" and my dad is 6'0" and mom is 5'7" ended up topping off at 5'10" by my 16th birthday. The reasoning for my issue was that I was born with non functioning Adrenal glands.

I am 6'2" so yea I think so