16 year old male at 5'4 considering LL in the future

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Quote from: 120sunflower on February 20, 2018, 09:33:54 PMmom is 5'4, dad is 5'11, MGF is 6'2, MGM is 5'2, FGF is 5'9, GFM is 5'6.

as I said though, my brother is 13 and a good 2-3 inches taller than me, and we always had the same diet, sleep, everything.

Genetics really suck. I'd even suspect something had gone wrong in your system, given your parent's heights. However, you have followed with an endocrinologist, so he'd have already mentioned whether you were HGH deficient...

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Yeah, had 2 blood tests already to test for any defincies, once when I was 7, another when I was 14, if there was im assuming he would've told me.

He said I may have some rare genetic disease that causes low growth and that my parents were both carriers, did another blood test for that and have yet to hear the results, don't recall the name of the disease.

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Quote from: 120sunflower on February 21, 2018, 02:21:06 AMYeah, had 2 blood tests already to test for any defincies, once when I was 7, another when I was 14, if there was im assuming he would've told me.

He said I may have some rare genetic disease that causes low growth and that my parents were both carriers, did another blood test for that and have yet to hear the results, don't recall the name of the disease.

If it's not some disease, I'd guess it's some gene from your MGM's line.

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Wow I'm like you as my little brother is 6 foot and I'm 5.7, He passed me when he was 13y olds lmao !

My Dad is 5.10 and my mom 5.3, so you have taller parent than me !

If it can comfort you, once I finished growing by 16 I was 168 cm and I gained 2-3 centimeter (1 inch) in the back until I reached 5.7.5 (171cm) at 20 years old.

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it is plain and simple stupid to do this procedure at 16 or 18 or even think about this procedure. Immature people cannot be trusted to make right choices for themselves. This post should be deleted.

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Quote from: 419 on February 27, 2018, 08:30:00 PMit is plain and simple stupid to do this procedure at 16 or 18 or even think about this procedure. Immature people cannot be trusted to make right choices for themselves. This post should be deleted.

You’re legit retarded. Nothing changes drastically in your psyche after you’re 16-18. You know who you are and it’s set in stone.

The only thing that changes is the short guys start aiming lower and lower for single moms and fatties and forget about the 10 years where they’ve just been ignored after chasing attractive women.

Or they open a business or make a lot of money or work out a lot and are able to get a decent girl who is into them but still treats them like   and when he gets dumped it’s game over for him for at least a few months until he can convince another girl he’s not so bad for being short.

If anything, I would say the younger and earlier you can get LL the better. To make memories as young as you can, and even to give a better impression as you start your career.

What you said might be acceptable for some moronic 16 year old on here who is 5’7 5’8 and is a little insecure crybaby. But 5’4? I would pay for this kids LL if he was my son and bless him through it. Starting adult life at 18 years old and 5’4 is a big slap in the face. You are excluded from 99.9% of the new endeavors all of your other friends will be experiencing.

Any short man who would say otherwise is regretful and resentful of the years and experiences he’s missed from not getting LL earlier.

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God that hit close to home @Captainamerica, I think personally being 5'4" I have become introverted because of my height. When I was a prepubescent boy I always dreamt of becoming taller one day, seeing everyone even the girls being taller then you and enduring those short jokes, becoming the class clown just so people would give you attention and take you seriously. The positives of being tall always outweigh the negatives unless it's abnormal (ie:Gigantism).

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Bit of an old thread, but I somehow get the feeling he'll still grow until 18, despite the results from the x-rays.

Quote from: 120sunflower on February 20, 2018, 09:36:53 PMYeah, the only bones not fused yet he said were my arm long bones, meaning theres next to no chance of substantial growth in my legs.

It's strange that he is his mother's height, but mentioned he looked fairly normal sitting next to his 5'11 father at 5'4. That'd most likely mean he's all torso with really small legs, at least at 16. Or maybe his father is the one who's all legs and no torso. 5'4 and 5'11 are so far apart that it's hard to imagine a close sitting height.

I do know we have this pic here:



But women, or at least Dutch women, have been shown to have taller sitting heights than expected, given the height difference among the biological sxxes (average is a 10~12cm height difference between males and females of a same ethnic background, assuming the average height for both).



Despite this, the mean sitting height for the Dutch man is 95cm and the woman is 90cm. I guess it makes more sense if you think of the gender height difference as being halved for sitting height. Even then, women tend to have shorter torsos and longer legs when compared to men (proportionally speaking, not in absolute numbers).


Anyway, my point is that OP must have really unique proportions. So unique that it makes me think he might still grow more.

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Quote from: myloginacct on February 20, 2018, 10:42:27 PMGenetics really suck. I'd even suspect something had gone wrong in your system, given your parent's heights. However, you have followed with an endocrinologist, so he'd have already mentioned whether you were HGH deficient...

Why is it so hard for people to accept that height is a genetic roulette? You either get your dad’s height or your mom’s height. It’s a 50/50 chance but we all tend to believe we all tend to inherit our father’s height because that’s the maximum alottable height to be achieved.

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As a 20 year old who first started to develop height neurosis at that age I can relate; particularly regarding IQ stuff, I've had people come up to me and tell me they would never suspect me of being so smart. I suggest you take a valid IQ test though such as the WAIS or Stanford-Binet.

 I haven't grown since I was 18 and was 165cm but in the past month I've grown 3cm so anything is possible for you at just 16.

I'm also 25% Italian but I live in the UK