01-17-2015, 02:19 PM
My oldest daughter took HGH for a year and now she's 21 and the exact same height and weight as your son. She was always the smallest kid in school, but the doctors never thought anything about it because she was proportionate. Then when she was 12 her doctor referred her to an endocrinologist just to make sure nothing was wrong with her hormones. They checked her pituitary gland which was fine and then they measured how much growth hormone she produced by giving her a blood pressure medication that makes you fall asleep. I guess when your sleeping that's when your body produces it. Hers turned out to be low.
She didn't have any side effects from it and once she hit 5'2 she stopped taking it. For girls once you get your period your bones began to fuse and you're not going to getting any taller. For boys it's after they've fully gone through puberty, the later puberty begins the taller they will be. So when he goes to the endocrinologist that might be the test they do on him. If it turns out he's producing adequate amounts of growth hormone and he's just naturally short I'm not sure the doctor would still give him HGH. But I have heard of them prescribing it anyway if they think a boy isn't going to make it to an acceptable height. I know some short guys and they seem to be fine with it, but I imagine it kind of sucks to be a man and only 5'4.
She didn't have any side effects from it and once she hit 5'2 she stopped taking it. For girls once you get your period your bones began to fuse and you're not going to getting any taller. For boys it's after they've fully gone through puberty, the later puberty begins the taller they will be. So when he goes to the endocrinologist that might be the test they do on him. If it turns out he's producing adequate amounts of growth hormone and he's just naturally short I'm not sure the doctor would still give him HGH. But I have heard of them prescribing it anyway if they think a boy isn't going to make it to an acceptable height. I know some short guys and they seem to be fine with it, but I imagine it kind of sucks to be a man and only 5'4.