Do I have Growth Hormone Deficiency?

Do I have a growth hormone deficiency?

• I've asked the doctor about it before, but he's more concerned with making money than actually helping his patients. I'm 4'9" and I'm a 16 year old girl. My dad is 5'11", with his parents being 6'1" and 5'6". My mom is 5'8" with her parents being 5'11" and 5'7". I've always been shorter than my peers. I was small from birth, weighing only 3 pounds 3 ounces and being 16 inches long. I was born 6 weeks early, and I quit growing my last 3 weeks being in the womb due to a calcified placenta. I was always the shortest person in my class. I've asked my doctor and he checked my blood and my thyroid is normal. He also x rayed my wrists and said I was done growing. Which I know. I quit getting taller when I was 11. My body still matured, but I got no taller. I have 4 siblings are all average height. My 14 year old brother is 5'10", my 12 year old brother is 5'5", and my 10 year old sisters are 5'2" and 4'9". My doctor never bothered to look into why I wasn't growing at a normal rate when I was younger, claiming I'd catch up. Does this sound like a growth hormone deficiency? Even though I went through puberty normally? Although, it does seem as though my younger sisters are going through it faster than I did.

• Answer:

  lol you are the classic runt of the litter. if it is not growth hormone problems then it would be that you are wat they call a "late bloomer" if you were on any type of medicine when you were younger for a long period of time then that could effect your size.if you rarely drank milk or was not breast fed when u were younger, or both of those, that could add to yuor shortness in teh area of calcium problems. or your family might be housing a dwarfism geme in there dna. if so then u are scrwed lol