I hope you are having a good day folks, let me tell you more about me and how my dreams had been crushed up all due my height. I just turned 16 this July, I was expecting a growth spurt since January (for at least 2 or 3 inches, or even 3 cm at least), had been exercising, drinking plenty of milk, etc. etc. and nothing changed. My dad is 5'7" and well, he doesn't seem to care that much about height since he is very bulked up and all he cares is MUSCLE, not for my case; in the other hand, my mom is 4'10" (surprisingly because my maternal grandfather was 6'5-6'7"! And my maternal grandmother is around 5'2"-5'3"). Unfortunately, this is the thing that might surprise most of you... I am 5'1", not a late bloomer, and done growing. I can even grow a full beard at this point. AND NO, I AM NOT EVEN 5'3" LIKE THE AVERAGE "ELF" HEIGHT. I am actually White, my family is european, and here comes yet another surprising and disturbing fact that I hate, I was born and raised in Mexico. It's not like if I hate Mexico but people, especially in America, loves to generalize and say "well it is because you are mexican" like even the native mexicans from here are way taller than me! They are all around 5'8" to 5'10"! However, my dad wants me to be like him, to focus on doing exercise and be healthy but I don't, I am actually underweight for my height as well, I am like 99 pounds with a kind of skinny built up. I already grew chest muscle, a curly strip is going all the way up from my groin to my belly button, etc. etc. I am done growing, that's it, if much I can grow 2 or 3 (I DON'T THINK SO) inches on my back but here is another thing.
My back measures 26 inches, from my belly button to the top of my head, and my legs measure 34 inches from the bottom of my feet to my belly button, in other words, my trunk is big enough for my legs already so big that I don't think I may be able to grow more on my back. I went through a HGH replacement treatment around May to see if I could gain a little height as a last option, all I did was to spend like $1000 dollars in these last 3-4 months and just grew less than a CENTIMETER. My mother and father, however, still insist that I will keep growing until i turn 21, this is all a lie, and it only happens to those who get into puberty late. I started to notice puberty changes at age 12, from when I passed from around 4'6" to 5'1", thinking I was going to be able to grow a little bit more and reach at least 5'5"-5'6", that didn't happened. I am seeking Limb Lengthening as a last chance, since whenever I see my legs I notice that the fault is on them, they are like some tiny chicken legs, they are kind of curved as well, this makes me think that probably i was going to be 5'4"-5'6" (that was also my predicted height at birth, which doesn't seem bad for me), but now at this point of my life it seems that I won't even reach 5'4". I had a knee X-Ray that showed the bone age of my knees, it showed that I was done growing on my limb area and my endocrinologist still insists that I will grow a little bit on my back with the HGH, however, i mentioned already that my back is big enough for my legs already and he still doesn't want to face that (he is like 6'2").
I hope to seek some good information around here about LL and its pros and cons, good doctors, etc. oh and btw I live in the US now, my father is from the US and I got American citizenship, that's how I am sharing with you these great experiences I have had during High School while being surrounded of 6'3" 6'0" black and white teenagers.