Do you know anyone that has had to have growth hormone injections for their children?
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I know a paernt whose child is receiving the hormone.\n\nFirst of all she has not had problems with the hormone.\n\nBut I also saw a show about it, and it is very important that you get this done. Your child's life can be adversely affected if she is unusually small, as she may have trouble making friends and having a healthy social life. For girls it might not be so bad, but for boys it is an absolute MUST.
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Was you not treated for this??  My son also has this disorder his started when he was 6yrs.  If they did not treat you then you may stop growing at a young age.  I am not sure weight has anything to do with this or not.  They put my son on Lupron for this disorder  but he had to be taken off due to a rare side affect.  \nYou really should go and see a endocrinologist and ask her this question and get a checkup to see if you are done with puberty or not.  Good Luck..
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My 19 year old son had the procedure last month.\nHe was a bit sore for a couple of days, but nothing more. He was back to his normal busy self within a few days. The procedure took about 2 hours from beginning to end, and he was sedated enough that he fell asleep. best thing we ever did!!
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The one thing I know for sure is that your body releases Human Growth Hormone (HGH) at night, in stage 4 deep sleep.  If kids don't get enough deep sleep they can stunt their growth.  For the rest of us, it means that we don't heal as well (HGH helps regenerate and repair cells in our body), and our immune system suffers.  You can get HGH as a supplement, but it has never helped me much.
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actually, they think now that both parents have to be carriers ,but my sister has it, and we can only trace it through my dad's side of the family. but still, she is worried about passing it to her kids, to the point of not wanting to bare her own. diabetics can live full lives, but it is a lot of stress, and the complications can be pretty serious. it is understandable that diabetics would not want their children to go through what they did.
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Growth hormones are very dangerous, one of my friends took them in high school HGH is what he took, he is now mentally disabled from a pulpose in his brain. They also can make parts of your body start to grow, ie your hands ears head and nose. There are many ways to gain the weight naturally why dont you talk to your trainer?
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wow, i did when i was 20 y/o, and it was scarey, but all went well with me, and now i'm doing great...just have to take a thyroid supplement every day, and make sure you have it checked reg. throughout your lifetime...for me, i had to have thyroid removed and then a radiation treatment (I-131)...not all people have to go through this step
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YES! My sister had to have surgery at about that age as well because she wasn't gaining weight and throwing up ALOT. They found out the muscle there was too big and so it wasn't allowing her to digest right, instead it was being forced back up. She did really well and today is 15 years old with no problems what-so-ever. Good luck with your son, I'm sure things are gonna be just fine.
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This happened to my daughter repeatedly, turns out she has a cyst on her ovary and right now they are trying to treat it with hormone therapy.
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This is from a website that doctors use called UptoDate  \n"If growth hormone deficiency is congenital and complete, the diagnosis is relatively easy to confirm. Affected children present with severe growth failure, delayed bone age, and very low serum concentrations of growth hormone, IGF-I, and its major binding protein, IGF-binding protein-3 [19]. Provocative testing of growth hormone secretion with insulin-induced hypoglycemia, as may be performed in adults with suspected growth hormone deficiency, is not recommended in children (show table 4). (See "Diagnosis of hypopituitarism").\n\nIn children with less severe growth failure, whose height may still be within the normal range for age, the decision to undertake detailed testing should be based on strict auxologic criteria. It is therefore mandatory to obtain accurate serial measurements of height. Any evidence of central nervous system disease or other anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies should lead to testing of growth hormone and IGF-I production.\n\nThe rare children with growth hormone insensitivity have high serum growth hormone concentrations but low serum IGF-I and IGF binding-protein-3 concentrations [19]. In its complete
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Growth hormones. You need to get a test done at your doctor or specialist first.
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no but i have type 1 diabetes... and alot of kids have it. if u go and talk to ur diabetic educator they have support groups for the kids and the parents of diabetics.. just where u learn more and the kids can interact with other kids with diabeties and know that they're not alone. im not sure what they do wehere your from but where im from they go on camps and its just like a little youth group ment to be alot of fun!! worth checking it out. i've never been myself i was 15 when i was diagnosed so i was too old. but i heard its a good thing for both the parents and kids
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Hi don`t no but you could try taking some supplements from internetshopuk.com i have been taking them and mine have firmed up after having 4 children and they also are getting bigger they are all natural supplements so no crap.
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yep. it happened to me. when i was born i had spina bifida and my mom ditched me. the entire community pitched in to help me get an operation, and i came out in good condition.
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I used low carb & metaformin to concieve with my daughter. Who knows which really worked, but I know it has. I have 3 lovely kids,and the last was concieved w/o meds, just the old fashioned normal way, lol.\n I got alot of good information at this site. Hope it helps....
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Two months ago, I had given this answer to your Q.\nWhat were the points you didn't like or you didn't understand?\nWhat are your criteria for a "good" answer?\nI am posting again the answer (copy and paste) and I am waiting for your feedback. Why do you refer especially to the GNC company?\nAre you aware of some studies that they did using aminoacids that could potentially influence growth?\nWere they OTC supplements?\nPlease, let us know and in the mean while have another look to my posting.\nRegards\n\n\nHuman growth hormone is administered in the cure of diseases and not in order to make people taller !\nEvenmore, it is a prescription only medicine acting in a small gland situated in our brain. I think they are used also for the dopping. \nTell me now : would you ever trust to give your child such a medicine that could potentially interact with the surrounding field?\nThen you are talking also about OTC products ; they are food supplements I suppose. I don't know what this kind of products are, but I have to say that I had a bad experience from food supplements sold via networking marketing, last spring.\nSometimes they are not so innocent as they look like; they can cause allergies.\nWhy don't you think to adopt a healthier lifestyle? This will help more effectively in your child's case. And it is also more natural, it has no adverse effects, as medicines do .\nI want to add just this : control obesity! Obese children don't get tall and there is also the scientific explanation for this.\nI think that the answer given previously, be happy with yourself, with what you are was wisdom.\n\n\nI have to add that:\n\n1st: It is not just growth hormone that controls growth; there are also other hormones, like TSH(thyroid stimulating hormone), ACTH(adrenocorticotropic hormone), LH(luteinizing hormone) and FSH(follicle stimulating hormone).\nThe small gland situated in our brain, is called pituitary gland.\n\n2nd: You are talking about injections: they are administered just if a GH deficiency is diagnosed; this involves hospitalizing the child because GH is produced in bursts. This means that we can't have a result from a single measurement of this hormone in a blood sample. We need the result of the measurements of a 24 hour period.\nFrom what you say, your child has not been diagnosed from that.\n\nYour child can find more information , articles suitable for the public and educate himself on the GH issue from the site of the Foundation for human growth. It is a patients organisation.\nhttp://www.hgfound.org/growth.html\nEducating himself, he will understand that he really doesn't need any injections of growth hormone in order to get taller and - hopefully - he will adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to grow well.\nOr - if he prefers - he can navigate in the site of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/growth_hormone\nTake care on scams! A big research project has started this year in the US that will elucidate some obscure points in the area of food supplements that are on sale for this purpose. \n\nKaterina
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As a mother, (and I hope you are a nurse or Dr), My daughter responded great to her nurse laying her down on the bed with her legs hanging down over the side.  Then she had me at her head holding her hands up and she leaned against her legs and she gave her the shot without her moving hardly at all.  The needle went in and out before my daughter could even shed a tear. I cried more than she did!  It was the only shot that this was done on, and all of the others were traumatic for my little one!