Quote from: ghkid2019 on July 11, 2020, 01:44:48 AMUnless you're a teen, your growth plates are closed. What's the point in dwelling in the past? It's incredibly unhealthy to keep dwelling on the past for things you can't control or change anymore. I used to blame my parents for not pushing the doctor hard enough to get me some hormone treatments. But they didn't know better. They trusted the doctor, what most parents would do. No point in revisiting the past anymore, what's done is done. Ok if you lost 2 inches from not sleeping, so what?
The thing is man, I just wanted to know the truth. And me and my parents could have been a little wiser and smarter.
Quote from: Guilt on July 11, 2020, 06:34:50 AMIn my case, what I did was asking my doctor, asking a traumatologist... I also recommend you ask your old pediatrician, that would be helpful. There are scientific studies on the Internet I read long ago, but this things should be asked to a professional rather than a forum anyway.
You say it was from age 7-8 only. If your nutrition was good during this period so you weren’t suffering any vitamin/mineral deficiency (iron, calcium, vit D), and you weren’t suffering from a disease then your growth would have been normal. You were healthy, everything else was okay only you were insomniac. The body is not in survival mode like when you’re malnutrited and lacking vitamins/minerals, dehydrated. Moreover, there’s catch up growth, ever heard of it? You say this lasted a year, maybe 2? At 8-9 you started sleeping normal again, at that age you were still growing. Let’s say if your growth somehow did slow down for that period, you would catch up after. Besides, at that age you were a child and a child isn’t responsible for their actions, you cannot blame your 8 year old self because he was suffering from insomnia.
Hey, I'm sorry for not being clear from the first place. I should clarify that I meant to say that it's probably began somewhere between at the age of 7-8, and it kept going and got worst overtime till the age of 17.
But I try to remember it again. If I am not trying to be too conservative, It's probably more around the 5th grade where it started. That means age 10-11 until 17.
And yes I do think about catch up growth, which is my original question in the thread by the way.
Also, every early morning, I woke up because I was forced to, by school. It was never voluntary, at least most were not. It's hard for me to get the idea, that you are short because you're sacrificing your years of sleep for something that's not only so unnecessary but also made you suffer so much during your childhood and teenage years.