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When I was diagnosed at 12 the doctor said I would end up about 5' 9". Which is tall considering my parents height. Now I am 18 and 5' 5" thanks to the crohns. Stupid endo refused to give me HGH last year:(

so how tall are you?
 
hi,

i was diagnosed when i was 18, i was always small for my age and very thin. I'm 35 now and i'm just 5 ft . My consultant said that because my crohns wasn't diagnosed in the early stages my growth was stunted.

but you now what they say "the best of goods come in small parcels" !!!!!

Geri
 
i'm 5'4" - which i think, was my nature-intended height, as my mum is 5'3" & my dad was a bit taller.
 
6' 3" If it stunted my growth, I am glad it did. The smoking did not seem to stunt it either.

Dan
 
I was told I was going to be about 6' tall but you can never trust those height chart things. I ended up 5'8''.
 
Hey BubbleBoi! I work for an endocrinologist. You shouldn't just settle for your doctors decision if you want to take HGH. I am quite certain you can find an endocrinologist that can help you.
I'm 5'5" and think that because I was symptomic in my mid 20s that I grew to my full height.
 
5'10'', but my Crohn's just kicked in at 21... I'm pretty sure I was done growing a few years before then. From what I've read, Crohn's is a part of a person's genetics, but doesn't actually kick in the symptoms until some later point -- does it still effect the body before the painful symptoms start, or is it just completely dormant? Like Chris, I'm also the shortest of my brothers (I'm 5'10'', one brother is 6', and another is 6'3'') and my younger sister seems like she might out-grow me, too (already 5'9'').
 
i'm 6' 3" + a fraction or two... my oldest is now a couple inches taller. I started to smoke at the age of 9, so I don't think it actually stunted my growth. as for IBD n poor absorption/nurtrition/health causing growth to be stunted, it's possible. with HGH, my understanding of it is that the 'time window' of taking it/prescribing it all depends on the fusing of certain bones... AND at the size of the person. Think a lot of docs try to avoid going that route if one is within the normal range... and for those who say to themselves .. 'it's easy for him to talk, he's 6' 3"... " IF you think a certain height (or more thereof) makes life just peachy... " Finding clothes that fit right, paying more for jackets/coats/suits, getting poleaxed by the occasional low branch or treelimb on a sidewalk at nite... walking into a bar/tavern, w/o looking for trouble, and it finding you JUST cause you're tall(er).. Or getting stuck in the backseat in every school, meeting, theatre... etc.., Or try hitch-hiking as a youngfellow when you didn't own a car, and lived out n the boonies where there was no public transport... OR getting stopped/questioned by police or authorities. I'd not done anything wrong to warrant the attention - just the officers typically felt a little uncomfortable - usually called for backup/assistance - and then had a strong desire to find a reason... any reason... to justify the extra manpower.

OK. Said my piece. I can honestly say there are really only two real benefits to being a tall(er) male.. Anyone care to guess as to what those benefits may be



CLEAVAGE
 
I am 5'5, my mother is 5'10 and my father was 6'4, but my grandmother was only 5'. My symptoms didn't fully start until my mid 20's and I'm sure I was done growing by then.
 
While my grandmother was only 4'11, my grandfather was 6'4. All of the men on both sides of my family are between 6'1 and 6'4, all the women excluding my grandmother are between 5'7 and 5'10.

I ended up being the shortest, thinnest, and least 'bulky' person in the family at 5'4 and averaging 110-120 pounds. Everyone else has a stockier, tall and strong frame.
(They're all Castilian/French/Italian/German/Irish folk, my father added Egyptian to my blood -- still a tall, sinewy family)

It is believed that I've had Crohn's since I was about five or six, so I'm assuming it stunted me.
 
I'm 5'11", father is about that, maybe an inch shorter at most...mother is about 5'7" I'd guess? Never asked her...My only true biological brother is about 5'10", he has a spinal issue though, some curveture of the spine, nothing major, you wouldn't even know it unless he tells you, all it affects is he's unable to do major heavy weightlifting etc...other than that he's active and healthy (no Crohns...yet, thankfully).

Honestly, the rest of my family is sort of "shattered" and I don't know much about heights, I never met 2 of my 4 grandparents, and the other 2 were so "aged" while I was alive, their heights were no longer their adult heights, they slumped over too much to have any idea. Makes me realize I don't know much about my genetics I guess...sort of worries me.
 
I'm 5'9" and I was full height before I became symptomatic. My dads side of the family is short, my sister is 5'2" and my grandmother was 4'11" so I think I got to where I was supposed to be.
 
I'm not sure how much genetics enter into the equation... except that there is a 1:4 chance... mothers dominant, mothers recessive, fathers dominant, fathers recessive gene pool to draw upon. And with each generation, those odds get higher (or is it lower?).. for example, in my direct ancestry, theres a distant great, great (however many it was) uncle who grew to be 7' 10"..
He didn't have any children (and if you were a woman during his time, do you think you'd want to take the chance of bearing his children w/o the aid of any modern medical science? I think not).. Anyway, apparently the only iota of his genes we inherited was shoe size.. I'm a 14, my oldest son is now there and still growing... yet my youngest, who appears to be a carbon copy of me in all other aspects, has neither my height or my shoe size at age 19...
Why? I dunno... The whole nature Vs nuture debate comes into play. He was not exposed to the hard physical life I was during his formative years, and his diet and mine were/are vastly different. So, it just doesn't come down to one's ancestry/family genes. Which augments the theory that ones health HAS more than a passing influence on ones physical development...
 
Im 5 foot nothing, and seeing as i was diagnosed when i was 8, im positive it stunted my growth. im 20 now, and my 11 year old brother is taller than i am.

i have a really tall family, the group pictures are of giants with one short one.
 
I'm 5' 6.5" ...like a few of you here, i didn't start getting any signs of an IBD until I was 21...and I didnt fully get Celiac until I was 19, though it likely started when I was 11. So I am sure I may have been taller, but this is good enough lol

~ Lisa ~
 
I'm 5'7 which I think is pretty average. My brother who is a Crohnie is 5"11, and my father who is suspect is 6"0. There is height in my family though.
 
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I'm 5' 2". I think I take after my mom and my brother and sister take after our dad. My sister is 5' 9" and my brother is close to 6' if not taller. My mom is 5'2"...I also think she has crohns but doesn't want to get it checked. I also got my dads overbite...you know a combination of everyones bad genetic material wound up in me
 
I was also 12 when I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I know this was posted awhile ago, but I hope this gives hope to some young person out there who is worried they'll be short forever.

I was 4' 11" until I was 14.
I was 5' 4" by the time I was 16.
I was 5' 5" by the time I turned 20.
I am now 5' 6" at the age of 23.

Thing that helped me include doing yoga (every other day) and eating regular red meat (NOT Organic--It probably has to do with the fact regular meat is loaded with hormones). *Please don't eat red meat if you think or know it's not good for you.

The most important thing, though, is to work to be as healthy as you can; whether that be diet, lifestyle, medication, etc. Every time I was healthy (as close to remission) for 6 consecutive months, I would grow a 1/4 or 1/2 inch.

I haven't actually stopped growing yet (and I'm nearly 24) so don't listen to people who say you stop at 18. It's not true! Every body and everybody is different.
 
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