amount of GH and other stuff

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Hi all

Well Adam's endo feels that his bone age is so far delayed......he said to

me 5.2 or 5.4 years (now I'm not sure if that's his bone AGE or the number

of years behind......either way he's 11 now so that's a wide range). But he

said, due to the extreme delay there is " no way " Adam can be starting

puberty. I asked about the hair and he just repeated about the bone age. I'm

shrugging my shoulders right now LOL!! What can I do? So I'll monitor him

and take it from there.

We've had discussions on here about kids lack of growth on GHT, well the

endo has upped Adam's GHT amounts substantially again. Without getting into

diluent levels, bla bla bla, up until Sept. Adam had 19 cc per night. The

last 8 months his growth velocity had slowed so he threw it up to 22 cc's in

Sept. (usually he increases by one cc at each 4 month visit). Now as of last

night Adam is getting 25 cc's.

Here's what I wanted to tell you all. He said that Canadian standards

measure weight/amount of GHT at an incredibly lower amount that in the

United States (he blabbed the numbers at me so fast I missed it). But the

percentage in Canadian practice is 60% less than you guys do!!! He was

afraid I would be upset that he was adding this much GHT to Adam each night.

So his explanation was " Canada is much more conservative in the amounts than

the US allows, so it's safe to increase this much " .

Interesting eh??

Debby