My daughter is 19. She hasn't been tested by an endocrinologist but I feel like she has very similar symptoms to those of ghd like depression, fatigue, is skinny fat even though her stomach doesn't have rolls or anything, less muscle mass. She is an adolescent and I feel like she has arms and legs with barely any muscle on them just tiny limbs like those of a 12 year old. Her stomach is a little extended even though she eats pretty healthy. I know that ghd treatment helps adults in gaining muscle and it wouldn't make her taller at this point. Has ghd helped anyone fill out and help with fatigue, depression? She's naturally skinny but has a large midsection. She never had delayed puberty she had her period on time just she her body never matured into adult size.
Chiming in to say please stop this. Go back to your first question and read all the answers. At this point you are a non medical person trying to make a medical evaluation. Stop using doctor google and go see a read one.
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As many suggested on your prior post, your daughter needs to be evaluated.
No one here is going to recommend anything as serious as growth hormone treatments when you don't even have a diagnosis. Her symptoms could mean anything, or any combination of things!
You can't possibly think that it's a good idea to search out opinions from moms when your daughter has had growth issues for 6 years and you still haven't consulted a specialist. This would be exceedingly dangerous to pursue, even if you could get growth hormones without a prescription, which you can't unless you go into the illegal drug market.
You don't even know what's wrong (if anything) with your daughter. Please, get off the internet and call your physician - and consider a counselor to help your daughter develop the skills for advocacy for her own health, since she is over 18.
Make a list of all of your concerns and talk to her doctor about them.
If it were me - and this was my daughter and I had these concerns - I would talk to her doctor. Or actually, since she's an adult, I would have her talk to her doctor.
A blood test, x-rays etc. can help identify this condition and then they could treat it if necessary. It's pretty rare ... it's unlikely she's reached 19 without a doctor or someone recognizing that she has it. She wouldn't have reached the growth milestones early on from what I know about it.
None of us are experts - why not ask her doctor? That's the best advice we can give.
If you are asking us if you should give your daughter growth hormone, the answer is no. She is at the end of adolescence and into adulthood now. It sounds like only you are concerned about this. In your other post you said the doctor is not concerned. You did not say your daughter is concerned. It is too late to make her grow and you are not going to be able to find a doctor to make that happen. She is a small woman. That is who she is. She is 5'1", so very petite. Many petite, average, and tall women have boyish figures. There is nothing wrong with this! Some body types are never going to be buxom or curvy. She is HER adult size. If she has the other issues, which you list as depression and fatigue, yes SHE needs to have that evaluated. Your two posts are disturbing. If you are passing all this anxiety and non-acceptance on to your daughter, don't be surprised if she keeps you out of all medical issues altogether.
Did you not read the answers from your last question on this same topic?
Your daughter is 19!!!!! It's out of your control at this point.
If you were so concerned... you should have taken her to a Dr before she turned 18!!!
Keep this up and you're going to give her some sort of negative complex about herself but then again, you probably already have. Poor girl... she can't win
You stated in your last question about this that her doctor said your daughter was fine. People come in different sizes, she is not overly short for a girl at all at over 5ft, and being thin is not a growth defect. Leave her alone and stop telling her her body is wrong or underdeveloped.
