clinkzs t1_iu45mvx wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:44 PM

Reply to comment by Lisagreyhound in If Robert waldow became so tall because of an excess of hgh, then why does taking hgh not make you taller? by Komoasks

For how long were you still growing after your first period ?

I have female cousins who are over 1.80m and they all only grew taller for around 2 years (13-15)

gwaydms t1_iu57n54 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:11 PM

I (f) was 5'5 (165 cm) at 15. By the time I graduated, a month before I turned 18, I was 5'7 (170.2 cm). Over the summer, before starting college, I grew about another ½" to be 171.5 cm. So YMMV.

Lisagreyhound t1_iu6wa21 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:31 AM

They had been measuring my growth since I was about 8, I think. So by the time I was in year 7 they had been tracking my growth for a few years. I went on the pill then (told no one at school what I was on).

I would have been fine with 6ft 1. It was the risk that it could be a lot higher that made me take the drug. It was a risk reduction exercise.

I think it’s a blunt instrument. So I’m a little shorter than perhaps I’d like, but that is the price I paid to reduce the risk.