Hi all I'm new here and really enjoyed reading the Thyroid threads that are around. I found a lot of great info. but most was for adults.
Does anyone have insight for children?
The history: My dd who will be 7 in April has always been short and round and and such a cutie because she looks so much younger that she is. My dh is vertically challenged and round so we always just said, "she's daddy's girl."
But it always bothered me that she seemed to grow so slowly and her legs, arms, feet and hands seem abnormally short so I mentioned it at her check-up in June. Her ped. did a bone age xray just to ease my mind and we found out that her bone age was 3 years. The ped found this odd and we had an app. with an Endo in November. He assured us that her small size, slow growth and delayed bone age was due to a double whammy of my dh's short stature and my being a late bloomer. But he did some blood tests to verify this diagnoses.
Fast forward to now: we called and called and called but still could not get the results of her blood test. So my husband drove to the office and demanded the information. The doc was glad to see him because some of her numbers were bothering him.
And apparently they had lost her whole file, well they have a folder with her name on it but no papers inside. So my husband had to remind the doc of our dd and what he had told in the appointment nearly 3 months ago!
The doc said that she may have mild hypothyroidism causing the slow growth and he wanted to redo the tests.
Her first numbers:
fT4: 0.9 (ref 0.9-1.6)
TSH: 4.83 (ref 0.50-4.30)
Her second numbers:
fT4: 1.0
TSH: 3.81
So he emails me back and says her numbers are well within normal and she is fine.
Well this bothers me. Should I be bothered? I read that the limits for TSH have been changed. And what is with the fluctuation? Does the time of day matter?? Not to mention her paternal grandmother was diagnosed with hypo as a teenager but was never treated and only stands 4'11". Couldn't it get worse if nothing is done now?
Sorry of the long post and thanks for listening,
Ronny
Does anyone have insight for children?
The history: My dd who will be 7 in April has always been short and round and and such a cutie because she looks so much younger that she is. My dh is vertically challenged and round so we always just said, "she's daddy's girl."
But it always bothered me that she seemed to grow so slowly and her legs, arms, feet and hands seem abnormally short so I mentioned it at her check-up in June. Her ped. did a bone age xray just to ease my mind and we found out that her bone age was 3 years. The ped found this odd and we had an app. with an Endo in November. He assured us that her small size, slow growth and delayed bone age was due to a double whammy of my dh's short stature and my being a late bloomer. But he did some blood tests to verify this diagnoses.
Fast forward to now: we called and called and called but still could not get the results of her blood test. So my husband drove to the office and demanded the information. The doc was glad to see him because some of her numbers were bothering him.
And apparently they had lost her whole file, well they have a folder with her name on it but no papers inside. So my husband had to remind the doc of our dd and what he had told in the appointment nearly 3 months ago!
The doc said that she may have mild hypothyroidism causing the slow growth and he wanted to redo the tests.
Her first numbers:
fT4: 0.9 (ref 0.9-1.6)
TSH: 4.83 (ref 0.50-4.30)
Her second numbers:
fT4: 1.0
TSH: 3.81
So he emails me back and says her numbers are well within normal and she is fine.
Well this bothers me. Should I be bothered? I read that the limits for TSH have been changed. And what is with the fluctuation? Does the time of day matter?? Not to mention her paternal grandmother was diagnosed with hypo as a teenager but was never treated and only stands 4'11". Couldn't it get worse if nothing is done now?
Sorry of the long post and thanks for listening,
Ronny
