Thanks for your input - Re: 5 y.o. fighting GH shots - any suggestions

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Frances - what a cute idea! I love it! Glad to know things have

turned around a bit for you. Take Care.

- H

> >

> > Hi all,

> > My son, Max, is 5.5 with SGA and maybe RSS (borderline case & we

> > haven't had the genetics tests done yet. Our endo says maybe,

Dr. H

> > says maybe not.) Max started GH (genotropin) at the end of

August

> & is

> > responding very well (growth rate has doubled! yeah!)

> >

> > The problem is he's now really fighting the GH shots - tonight

the

> > battle lasted 22 minutes and is a real emotional struggle for my

> > husband & me.

> >

> > He's never been shy of shots before but we had a couple of bad

> > experiences early on (he has only 8% body fat - our trainer

> measured

> > him) and once or twice the shots were very painful.

> >

> > We've tried giving them in his sleep but the needle startles him

> and he

> > squirms and swats with his hand so that you can't get the whole

> dose in

> > (he gets a 1.0 dose)

> >

> > He's studying graphs at school and we make a graph of how much

he

> > thinks it's going to hurt, how much it actually hurt (almost

> nothing)

> > and how long it took. This worked for the first couple of

nights,

> but

> > isn't working any more.

> >

> > Any suggestions???

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Frances - mother of Max SGA/RSS? age 5.75

> >

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