betterthanthealternative

My daughter had a pituitary gland problem as a young adolescent, and was prescribe HGH injections by her specialist. It has made a huge difference in her quality of life, allowing her to grow into a normal height and weight range. She's now a senior at an excellent university, doing quite well, and this would not have happened without the HGH.

Her specialist believes that in ten years or so, taking HGH in small doses from middle age on will become a normal medical practice, like taking vitamins is now. It has remarkable impact on healing and retarding the aging process, and in small doses isn't harmful (because that's what our body makes naturally up until middle age).

The primary reasons this isn't happening how are:

1) it is expensive because there aren't many labs producing it, and insurance companies don't want to pay for it.
2) it can be harmful in large doses
3) tradition in the medical community.

maverick4

interesting.

PatsSteve1

10 years??? I'm 57 now. I guess I better start searching the net.

Patsfanin Philly

There's a pharmacy in Orlando........oh never mind.

psychoPat

Croox

Thanks for the info, it saved me the time to search it on google, I was wondering what the hell it was and what it did

Patriot Missile

My wife had a pituitary tumor removed and was prescribed HGH because her pituitary was only 1/2 functioning. After a few weeks of taking it she had felt better than she had in years. I too agree that this will become legal one day and don't fault people in the least for taking it for health reasons. I'd take it in a heartbeat if I could get it,or afford that is. My insurance pays 2 to 3 thousand a cycle for this stuff.

I truly believe that more than 1/2 of the major sports injuries are being aided by HGH. Especially athletes in their 30's.

BradfordPatsFan

Good story. I had a student a few years back who began taking small amounts of doctor prescribed HGH and she is doing great now heading into HS. She was, at one time, a very nervous, shy girl because of her tiny stature but she is now a confident young woman who I believe will go very far and some of that change is her new found self confidence in being at a more "normal" height.

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patchick

As I understand it, this is a very controversial area of medicine right now -- do you prescribe HGH to otherwise healthy kids just because they're small? Apparently there's a lot of pressure from parents, especially parents of boys.

Wotan_the_Wanderer

Girls also in the more developed nations of the far east where medical ethics and attitudes are a bit different than in the US. I actually know a pianist who's around 5'9" and she has no qualms about admitting that her parents, both doctors by the way, administered a regiment of HGH to both her and her brother. Evidently, it's not at all uncommon for those who can afford such treatments. I just want to clarify that in none of the things I listed above am I making value judgements in support or in opposition to HGH usage especially in the last anecdote because it strikes me as getting into an area bordering on social engineering that I'd rather not get into.

And to the OP, glad your daughter is healthy and doing well.