A valid reason why I'm not growing?

[Cats123]

Okay, I think I have come up with a reason to why I'm not growing! I'm 14 and I'm well into puberty and I should be having a growth spurt right now and reaching my peak height velocity, but I grew an inch last year and then half an inch before that, which leaves me at 5'7". (In other posts I might have said I was 5'6", but I'm actually 5'7"). But before I suddenly slowed down drastically at growing I grew about 7 inches maybe 8 at age 11 in one growth spurt! It lasted .5 years to 1 year, so it probably ended a bit before I was 12. Different people have different growth rates, and I seem to have a massive spurting growth pattern rather than a gradual one. So this means that the reason I'm growing so slowly now is because I am not in a massive spurt, and when I will be in a massive spurt I will grow VERY rapidly. Considering I grew 7.5 inches in one year in my last spurt, I might grow even more in my next spurt. Will I grow 8 inches or over in this spurt? That'll be painful...
It's Either that or I'm nearly ending puberty and I will only grow an inch more. Which seems unlikely because I started puberty at age 11, so my peak height velocity couldn't have started that SAME year just a few months later. However I am well progressed into puberty, so I could be done. I have noticed that shorter people stop growing earlier. It might just be done for a reason I don't know. Do people who grow in spurts grow in these extremes from 1 inch a year to 8, does that ever happen?
So anyway, do you think this is a valid reason (the first reason)?
Also do you think the second reason is also a valid reason?
Which reason do you think is more likely?

If I am done growing I would be shorter than I should be.
If I am not done growing and I haven't reached my peak height velocity or pubertal growth spurt I'll be taller than I should be.
Or maybe I'll have a small pubertal growth spurt of only 4 inches total, does that ever happen?
Oh god this is horrible not knowing with such a big difference between the numbers! :L
Please Answer My Questions as I'm very lost. :(

Update: Um... I guess I was self-measuring myself (yeah I have to self measure because the "doctor" didn't measure my height at my physical) wrong and I'm actually 5'8". So now I know why everyone looked shorter then they actually were, I was comparing with a 67 inch measurement rather than a 68 inch measurement. Okay well this changes things! This means I grew 2 inches from last year, which means that I have started my growth spurt! That's odd though, I'm never hungry. Which means I haven't been eating enough, so how many inches have I lost already from not enough calorie intake? I have been trying to lose weight recently, which you apparently shouldn't be doing in puberty. Let's see, in school I didn't eat much for the last quarter, which is like when this spurt probably started, and I have been eating even less since summer started, and in the last two weeks I have been eating a lot less. So is my growth spurt almost over and did I already lose 2 inches from my height? I guess I wasn't hungry because I always ignore my hunger. I still think I would have noticed if I got hungrier though. So because I didn't notice maybe I didn't deprive myself of calories, because my body didn't tell me it was deprived. Well for the past 3.5 days I have been eating only 500 calories a day, I stopped that now, but how many inches might I have lost from that? Yeah teens can't lose weight or else they will stunt their growth, allegedly.

[Balthor]

You're only 14, and it would be pretty unlikely for you to stop growing now. I was like 5'6 at 14 and now I'm 5'11 and I'm 15. Also, if you do happen to stay at 5'7, don't worry about it. 5'7 isn't short to me.

[Cats123]

You're only 14, and it would be pretty unlikely for you to stop growing now. I was like 5'6 at 14 and now I'm 5'11 and I'm 15. Also, if you do happen to stay at 5'7, don't worry about it. 5'7 isn't short to me.

You DIDN'T ANSWER my QUESTIONS! :mad:

I'm REALLY angry!

Okay I calmed down a bit, thanks for responding I liked you did that, but I would like you to have an answer to all the questions you can format in a list or in a few sentences. As long as I can see you have an answer to every question I asked. If you don't know the answer to a question please state that you don't know or else I think you skipped over it. :)

[Straya]

i think your over worrying about this and to answer your major question it takes years of malnutrition to affect your height not a few weeks

[CrazyPerson101]

Okay, I think I have come up with a reason to why I'm not growing! I'm 14 and I'm well into puberty and I should be having a growth spurt right now and reaching my peak height velocity, but I grew an inch last year and then half an inch before that, which leaves me at 5'7". (In other posts I might have said I was 5'6", but I'm actually 5'7"). But before I suddenly slowed down drastically at growing I grew about 7 inches maybe 8 at age 11 in one growth spurt! It lasted .5 years to 1 year, so it probably ended a bit before I was 12. Different people have different growth rates, and I seem to have a massive spurting growth pattern rather than a gradual one. So this means that the reason I'm growing so slowly now is because I am not in a massive spurt, and when I will be in a massive spurt I will grow VERY rapidly. Considering I grew 7.5 inches in one year in my last spurt, I might grow even more in my next spurt. Will I grow 8 inches or over in this spurt? That'll be painful...
It's Either that or I'm nearly ending puberty and I will only grow an inch more. Which seems unlikely because I started puberty at age 11, so my peak height velocity couldn't have started that SAME year just a few months later. However I am well progressed into puberty, so I could be done. I have noticed that shorter people stop growing earlier. It might just be done for a reason I don't know. Do people who grow in spurts grow in these extremes from 1 inch a year to 8, does that ever happen?
So anyway, do you think this is a valid reason (the first reason)?
Also do you think the second reason is also a valid reason?
Which reason do you think is more likely?

If I am done growing I would be shorter than I should be.
If I am not done growing and I haven't reached my peak height velocity or pubertal growth spurt I'll be taller than I should be.
Or maybe I'll have a small pubertal growth spurt of only 4 inches total, does that ever happen?
Oh god this is horrible not knowing with such a big difference between the numbers! :L
Please Answer My Questions as I'm very lost. :(

Update: Um... I guess I was self-measuring myself (yeah I have to self measure because the "doctor" didn't measure my height at my physical) wrong and I'm actually 5'8". So now I know why everyone looked shorter then they actually were, I was comparing with a 67 inch measurement rather than a 68 inch measurement. Okay well this changes things! This means I grew 2 inches from last year, which means that I have started my growth spurt! That's odd though, I'm never hungry. Which means I haven't been eating enough, so how many inches have I lost already from not enough calorie intake? I have been trying to lose weight recently, which you apparently shouldn't be doing in puberty. Let's see, in school I didn't eat much for the last quarter, which is like when this spurt probably started, and I have been eating even less since summer started, and in the last two weeks I have been eating a lot less. So is my growth spurt almost over and did I already lose 2 inches from my height? I guess I wasn't hungry because I always ignore my hunger. I still think I would have noticed if I got hungrier though. So because I didn't notice maybe I didn't deprive myself of calories, because my body didn't tell me it was deprived. Well for the past 3.5 days I have been eating only 500 calories a day, I stopped that now, but how many inches might I have lost from that? Yeah teens can't lose weight or else they will stunt their growth, allegedly.


Dude you're 14 and 5"8 , I am 15 and I'm 5"4 & 1/2. Not eating enough doesn't stunt your growth. You'll have more growth spurts up till about 21 and then however tall you are is how tall you will be. You're good, don't worry. It only takes time and patience.

[Cats123]

First of all you people didn't answer my bloody questions, but whatever.

i think your over worrying about this and to answer your major question it takes years of malnutrition to affect your height not a few weeks

Well so many people are like, "ERMAGHERD if you skip a meal you DON'T GROW!!!" I doubt I was not eating enough, I mean I'd feel sickly all the time wouldn't I?

Dude you're 14 and 5"8 , I am 15 and I'm 5"4 & 1/2. Not eating enough doesn't stunt your growth. You'll have more growth spurts up till about 21 and then however tall you are is how tall you will be. You're good, don't worry. It only takes time and patience.

I'm not exactly worried of my height, but more my growth pattern. Like why is so strange, and then what it will be like in the future, will I grow or not?

[Svan]

A lot of guys are just late bloomers, man. You're going to grow, no worries. Is it genes? Are other dudes in your family short?

[Cats123]

A lot of guys are just late bloomers, man. You're going to grow, no worries. Is it genes? Are other dudes in your family short?

None are "short". They are all are a very similar height of like 5'11" to 6'1". A few go over that range, but not under. However I'm not late. I'm developing in everything but height, usually height and sexual development coincide pretty well in people, but there are different hormones for height and sexual development, so actually they do not have to coincide at all. So I'm thinking that I might just be lacking in HGH, and the reason to that would be because I tend to grow in big spurts, so only a little HGH would be released before that and when the growth spurt would start a lot would be released suddenly. I think I just recently started my growth spurt because I grew two inches since I was 13, but before I only grew 1/2 an inch and before I grew like 7 inches which is evidence that I grow in spurts. It makes a lot of sense that this would be true, but maybe it's not and I'm barely going to grow anymore? I have no idea!

[Philleeep]

Guys can keep growing in height into their 20's. You should certainly not be worrying about your height. I'm 18, 5'6.5". My dad is 5'11" but he didn't stop growing until he was 24 when my mum first met him! He was shorter than I am when he was my age. It varies hugely.

[ksdnfkfr]

You DIDN'T ANSWER my QUESTIONS! :mad:

I'm REALLY angry!

Okay I calmed down a bit, thanks for responding I liked you did that, but I would like you to have an answer to all the questions you can format in a list or in a few sentences. As long as I can see you have an answer to every question I asked. If you don't know the answer to a question please state that you don't know or else I think you skipped over it. :)

You're actually expecting kids around your age to give you some detailed scientific analysis point by point? Seriously? Have a pediatrician check you out if you are that seriously bothered by it. I think Tom Cruise is around 5'7". Lots of men are. Maybe you'll be one of them. I'm turning 14 in 3 weeks and I'm barely 5 feet tall. That's short for 14. 5'7" is pretty damn tall for 14 actually.

[CrazyPerson101]

[QUOTE=Jacob G.;2884796]First of all you people didn't answer my bloody questions, but whatever.

First of all, MAYBE if you'd get to the point a little faster, we could help you better. The extra details are nice but I have NO idea what you're asking except : if you skip a meal, will that stunt your growth.


Well so many people are like, "ERMAGHERD if you skip a meal you DON'T GROW!!!" I doubt I was not eating enough, I mean I'd feel sickly all the time wouldn't I?

Dude.... You can eat as much as your stomach can take everyday and you still won't grow. You'll grow when your body is ready to. I can't tell you when its gonna grow and when its not. All food does is provide you the energy and nutrients for your body to run efficiently and correctly. Your Pituitary Gland ( a small part of your brain that controls hormones and plays a part in puberty ) is the "messenger" throught your body when it comes to puberty. It tells your body when to grow and when to stop and start and so on. Hope this helps a little bit

[Cats123]

You're actually expecting kids around your age to give you some detailed scientific analysis point by point? Seriously? Have a pediatrician check you out if you are that seriously bothered by it. I think Tom Cruise is around 5'7". Lots of men are. Maybe you'll be one of them. I'm turning 14 in 3 weeks and I'm barely 5 feet tall. That's short for 14. 5'7" is pretty damn tall for 14 actually.

No, I'm just want you to try to answer every question, and I did say if you didn't know it you could say you don't know it. I'm just tired of not getting the answers. 5'7" pretty average for 14, 5'0" is short your right about that.

[QUOTE=Jacob G.;2884796]First of all you people didn't answer my bloody questions, but whatever.

First of all, MAYBE if you'd get to the point a little faster, we could help you better. The extra details are nice but I have NO idea what you're asking except : if you skip a meal, will that stunt your growth.

Well so many people are like, "ERMAGHERD if you skip a meal you DON'T GROW!!!" I doubt I was not eating enough, I mean I'd feel sickly all the time wouldn't I?

Dude.... You can eat as much as your stomach can take everyday and you still won't grow. You'll grow when your body is ready to. I can't tell you when its gonna grow and when its not. All food does is provide you the energy and nutrients for your body to run efficiently and correctly. Your Pituitary Gland ( a small part of your brain that controls hormones and plays a part in puberty ) is the "messenger" throught your body when it comes to puberty. It tells your body when to grow and when to stop and start and so on. Hope this helps a little bit

Okay I do tend to add a lot of extra details, but it's your job to sort through the details and find the questions I ask. It's pretty easy because every question ends in a question mark. If you were reading carefully and actually understood what I was talking about it'd be even easier to find the questions.

Uh... I didn't ask 'if you skip a meal will you stunt your growth' I obviously know that one meal won't make a difference. I'm not going to tell you what I asked because I forgot what I asked, and it's not my problem to be guiding you through my post.
I know that you won't grow just from eating and it relies on hormones. However I also know that if you don't consume enough calories, whatever enough is, your growth will be stunted. My question would be what 'enough' or the minimum number of calories a teen boy can intake without the boy's growth becoming stunted? So that's my question in this message, no wait I have another. I read this minimum was 2,000 to 3,200 calories a day. Which basically means that if a teen goes below their growth is stunted. Well when you exercise you lose calories and that's how you lose weight. So you may eat 2,000 calories, but lose 600 to a run, resulting in an intake of 1,400, which is below the minimum meaning stunted growth. So any form of weight loss as a teen stunts your growth, according to this online article. What do you think about that?

[ComfortableInChaos]

Do people who grow in spurts grow in these extremes from 1 inch a year to 8, does that ever happen?
So anyway, do you think this is a valid reason (the first reason)?
Also do you think the second reason is also a valid reason?
Which reason do you think is more likely?

If I am done growing I would be shorter than I should be.
If I am not done growing and I haven't reached my peak height velocity or pubertal growth spurt I'll be taller than I should be.
Or maybe I'll have a small pubertal growth spurt of only 4 inches total, does that ever happen?
Oh god this is horrible not knowing with such a big difference between the numbers! :L
Please Answer My Questions as I'm very lost. :(



When I had growth spurts, which I'm done with now is what my doctor said (but I may get a couple more inches taller), I grew like 3-4 inches in about a month and then about 6 months later, another 3 inches or so and that was when I was about 14 or 15... I don't know if it's possible to go from 1 to 8 inches in a short period, then again I don't know more about height than I already do so... There's no way you're near ending puberty, most guys stop in puberty when they're 18-21 so you've got more time. Don't give up on it. You'll probably have smaller spurts at different times. That's what usually happens, as far as I know.

I don't think that eating enough, too little, or too much changes your puberty mile-marks, I guess you could call it. It's like saying this "Eat pizza, your dick will grow." No, it doesn't happen that way. Your dick grows, or in this case, height grows based upon genetics. I'm more like my grandparents than my parents in that I am taller than both of them like my grandpas both were. I don't eat much because I don't get very hungry that often. If you find that eating a certain diet works for you, then by all means, you go for it. I find that staying to a strict vegetarian diet helps me more than beef and meat did, nutritionally. I find that eating vegetables, nuts, beans, seeds, fruit, and some dairy, you can really get all of your nutrients that you need. Also, dark chocolate helps you a lot more than milk chocolate does, I'm glad someone actually sees that...

Oh, btw, I don't think either of those reasons are the reason why, to be quite honest.

[CrazyPerson101]

No, I'm just want you to try to answer every question, and I did say if you didn't know it you could say you don't know it. I'm just tired of not getting the answers. 5'7" pretty average for 14, 5'0" is short your right about that.

[QUOTE=CrazyPerson101;2884912]

Okay I do tend to add a lot of extra details, but it's your job to sort through the details and find the questions I ask. It's pretty easy because every question ends in a question mark. If you were reading carefully and actually understood what I was talking about it'd be even easier to find the questions.

Uh... I didn't ask 'if you skip a meal will you stunt your growth' I obviously know that one meal won't make a difference. I'm not going to tell you what I asked because I forgot what I asked, and it's not my problem to be guiding you through my post.
I know that you won't grow just from eating and it relies on hormones. However I also know that if you don't consume enough calories, whatever enough is, your growth will be stunted. My question would be what 'enough' or the minimum number of calories a teen boy can intake without the boy's growth becoming stunted? So that's my question in this message, no wait I have another. I read this minimum was 2,000 to 3,200 calories a day. Which basically means that if a teen goes below their growth is stunted. Well when you exercise you lose calories and that's how you lose weight. So you may eat 2,000 calories, but lose 600 to a run, resulting in an intake of 1,400, which is below the minimum meaning stunted growth. So any form of weight loss as a teen stunts your growth, according to this online article. What do you think about that?


Okay..... I know its not your job to guide me through your post but still, the extra details kinda threw me off your questions in the post. Anyway I don't know honestly what would be "enough". I'm not a doctor so I couldn't say what the proper amount of calories you'd need to take in, I also don't know how active you are and what shape your body is in and alot of other details. Um I don't know about the article. My body burns calories like there is no tomorrow so I am 89 pounds and losing actually. I eat 3 times a day and I sometimes snack in between. I'm not super active but I do alot of different things ( family reasons ). I could be short from not eating enough and it could just be me winding up to be short idk. I wouldn't be like super calorie conscious though, cause I did and I went through a starving phase where I wouldn't eat anything ( a couple times actually ) and I don't have to eat as much as I used to to be full so to answer your question : Idk about how much you'd need to take in but somewhere around what you said and if you burn said energy, eat something to put it back. For the article, Idk either, Im not a doctor so I can't say its wrong or right, It could very well be true but Idk.

[Cats123]

I don't think that eating enough, too little, or too much changes your puberty mile-marks, I guess you could call it. It's like saying this "Eat pizza, your dick will grow." No, it doesn't happen that way. Your dick grows, or in this case, height grows based upon genetics. I'm more like my grandparents than my parents in that I am taller than both of them like my grandpas both were. I don't eat much because I don't get very hungry that often. If you find that eating a certain diet works for you, then by all means, you go for it. I find that staying to a strict vegetarian diet helps me more than beef and meat did, nutritionally. I find that eating vegetables, nuts, beans, seeds, fruit, and some dairy, you can really get all of your nutrients that you need. Also, dark chocolate helps you a lot more than milk chocolate does, I'm glad someone actually sees that...

Oh, btw, I don't think either of those reasons are the reason why, to be quite honest.

While the maximum height you can grow is based on genetics, the minimal amount of height is not. So, if a growing child does not intake enough calories in their childhood to reach their maximum height, they will be shorter then that height. It is based on genetics, but more on calorie intake. I mean if you don't eat food what happens?

Oh really, you don't think any of those reasons are valid? Could you tell me a reason that is valid, and it cannot just be that it's just normal growth, because it is not normal growth. Someone my age should have gained more then 2.5 inches in the past 2.5 years, and it's not common to gain 7.5 inches in a growth spurt at age 11. So clearly my growth is abnormal, meaning is can't be normal growth! It may not be something to worry about, but it's still not normal. Okay thanks for answering my questions, I don't think you answered them all, but you did pretty good, and I like how you formatted that you object to my primary question of is this 'a valid reason why I'm not growing?'.



Okay..... I know its not your job to guide me through your post but still, the extra details kinda threw me off your questions in the post. Anyway I don't know honestly what would be "enough". I'm not a doctor so I couldn't say what the proper amount of calories you'd need to take in, I also don't know how active you are and what shape your body is in and alot of other details. Um I don't know about the article. My body burns calories like there is no tomorrow so I am 89 pounds and losing actually. I eat 3 times a day and I sometimes snack in between. I'm not super active but I do alot of different things ( family reasons ). I could be short from not eating enough and it could just be me winding up to be short idk. I wouldn't be like super calorie conscious though, cause I did and I went through a starving phase where I wouldn't eat anything ( a couple times actually ) and I don't have to eat as much as I used to to be full so to answer your question : Idk about how much you'd need to take in but somewhere around what you said and if you burn said energy, eat something to put it back. For the article, Idk either, Im not a doctor so I can't say its wrong or right, It could very well be true but Idk.

Well apparently is you are losing weight as a growing teen you are stunting your growth. So saying you went trough a starving period, and are losing weight would mean your growth has already stunted if you were scheduled a growth while losing weight. At least that's why I've been told. It's be extremely helpful for both of us, if you went to the doctor and asked if your growth is stunted and go through the tests to prove it. If yes, then the article is right and losing weight as a teen and child does lead to stunted growth. If no, you either weren't scheduled for growth, or the article is wrong and a teen can lose weight and not stunt their growth. That's a bit much to ask from me, but you might feel generous and it's also good for you to know if your growth is stunted.

[Jeonard]

Do people who grow in spurts grow in these extremes from 1 inch a year to 8, does that ever happen?

Right, I can only answer this. Yes, it does happen because it happened to me. At about 14 I grew majorly from about 5 foot 7 to 6 foot, so that'll be 5 inches I grew. Since 15, I have grown about an inch a year to my current height of 6 foot 2 but I'm starting to near 6 foot 3 and will be 17 in about half a year.

Therefore, I have gone from a 5 inch growth in one year to an inch growth a year.

[CrazyPerson101]

While the maximum height you can grow is based on genetics, the minimal amount of height is not. So, if a growing child does not intake enough calories in their childhood to reach their maximum height, they will be shorter then that height. It is based on genetics, but more on calorie intake. I mean if you don't eat food what happens?

Oh really, you don't think any of those reasons are valid? Could you tell me a reason that is valid, and it cannot just be that it's just normal growth, because it is not normal growth. Someone my age should have gained more then 2.5 inches in the past 2.5 years, and it's not common to gain 7.5 inches in a growth spurt at age 11. So clearly my growth is abnormal, meaning is can't be normal growth! It may not be something to worry about, but it's still not normal. Okay thanks for answering my questions, I don't think you answered them all, but you did pretty good, and I like how you formatted that you object to my primary question of is this 'a valid reason why I'm not growing?'.



Well apparently is you are losing weight as a growing teen you are stunting your growth. So saying you went trough a starving period, and are losing weight would mean your growth has already stunted if you were scheduled a growth while losing weight. At least that's why I've been told. It's be extremely helpful for both of us, if you went to the doctor and asked if your growth is stunted and go through the tests to prove it. If yes, then the article is right and losing weight as a teen and child does lead to stunted growth. If no, you either weren't scheduled for growth, or the article is wrong and a teen can lose weight and not stunt their growth. That's a bit much to ask from me, but you might feel generous and it's also good for you to know if your growth is stunted.

Well I can't help that my metabolism is as high as it is but in my family, you don't start growing till you're 16 and my family members men average at 5"10 to over 6 feet tall so I can't honestly take a article on me stunting my growth untill after im 16 and if I am the same height. So Idk if the article is right or wrong but hey, It maybe right, It could be wrong, but you never know with puberty ya know :)

[Cats123]

Right, I can only answer this. Yes, it does happen because it happened to me. At about 14 I grew majorly from about 5 foot 7 to 6 foot, so that'll be 5 inches I grew. Since 15, I have grown about an inch a year to my current height of 6 foot 2 but I'm starting to near 6 foot 3 and will be 17 in about half a year.

Therefore, I have gone from a 5 inch growth in one year to an inch growth a year.

Well that answers that question.

[ksdnfkfr]

No, I'm just want you to try to answer every question, and I did say if you didn't know it you could say you don't know it. I'm just tired of not getting the answers. 5'7" pretty average for 14, 5'0" is short your right about that.

Sorry I was being kinda bitchy. :whoops:

[Straya]

No, I'm just want you to try to answer every question, and I did say if you didn't know it you could say you don't know it. I'm just tired of not getting the answers. 5'7" pretty average for 14, 5'0" is short your right about that.

[QUOTE=CrazyPerson101;2884912]

Okay I do tend to add a lot of extra details, but it's your job to sort through the details and find the questions I ask. It's pretty easy because every question ends in a question mark. If you were reading carefully and actually understood what I was talking about it'd be even easier to find the questions.

Uh... I didn't ask 'if you skip a meal will you stunt your growth' I obviously know that one meal won't make a difference. I'm not going to tell you what I asked because I forgot what I asked, and it's not my problem to be guiding you through my post.
I know that you won't grow just from eating and it relies on hormones. However I also know that if you don't consume enough calories, whatever enough is, your growth will be stunted. My question would be what 'enough' or the minimum number of calories a teen boy can intake without the boy's growth becoming stunted? So that's my question in this message, no wait I have another. I read this minimum was 2,000 to 3,200 calories a day. Which basically means that if a teen goes below their growth is stunted. Well when you exercise you lose calories and that's how you lose weight. So you may eat 2,000 calories, but lose 600 to a run, resulting in an intake of 1,400, which is below the minimum meaning stunted growth. So any form of weight loss as a teen stunts your growth, according to this online article. What do you think about that?
its not our job to answer any of your questions, we can choose to answer what we can but really go to a doctor and ask these questions if you want a straight up answer from someone who has been trained to answer them and has studied for years and is constantly studying the new developments made and its your job if you want questions answered to set them out to be easily understood and see not ours to dig through and try and find out what your asking, none of us are employed by vt so its no ones job, so before you start getting angry sit back sort your questions out and make them clear and dont get angry if you dont get the response you want or the answers you want to hear and dont take everything you read on internet articles as gospel cause you dont need a qualification to write a study on the internet, i could go and write a study on how sunlight dosent cause skin cancer and pass myself of as a medical doctor but that dosent mean what i wrote is right.

[nklarke]

What I think is that we are a result of what our parents and grandparents are. You can do all the numbers you want but if your parents are 4 feet tall don't expect to be 8 feet tall. On the contrary, if they're 8 feet tall and you're 5'7" expect to keep growing.

So, as we say "follow the money", for you it's "follow your genetics".

[Cats123]

Okay, I just found out I am only 5'7" at most 5'7.25" and not 5'8" or 5'.75". Even though it's not too big of a difference it really means a lot. So knowing that I can now conclude this. I started puberty at age 11 and at this age I had a growth spurt of 7+ inches in under a year. Well this massive growth spurt was so large because it was actually my PHV. After the spurt I only grew 1/2 an inch at age 12 and 1 at 13/14.2. This growth was the slowing down of the PHV increase. So now I'm 14 and done growing, I'll probably gain 1 inch when my spine straightens out which it might have already done. At age 11 I shouldn't have had my PHV, and I should be near 6 foot, so I'll consider the spurt at 11 unnatural from a hormone or brain problem. Because of this hormonal or brain problem my body thought it was done growing so by now, at age 14, my growth plates have surely stopped creating new cartilage which means I am done growing. Which explains why I am still maturing, but not growing taller.
It might not have been caused by a hormonal or brain problem, but could have just been natural as shorter people tend to stop growing early in puberty, but I doubt it's natural.

I can conclude that the reason I am not growing is because I am done growing for whatever reason.
So I'm happy could conclude this. :)

I can tell you'll object and tell me some other crazy reason why I'm not growing, but it makes so much sense that I am not growing because I am done growing, so I'll just discard your thoughts unless they make equal or greater sense than my thoughts.

[Cats123]

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Okay, I think I have come up with a reason to why I'm not growing! I'm 14 and I'm well into puberty and I should be having a growth spurt right now and reaching my peak height velocity, but I grew an inch last year and then half an inch before that, which leaves me at 5'7". (In other posts I might have said I was 5'6", but I'm actually 5'7"). But before I suddenly slowed down drastically at growing I grew about 7 inches maybe 8 at age 11 in one growth spurt! It lasted .5 years to 1 year, so it probably ended a bit before I was 12. Different people have different growth rates, and I seem to have a massive spurting growth pattern rather than a gradual one. So this means that the reason I'm growing so slowly now is because I am not in a massive spurt, and when I will be in a massive spurt I will grow VERY rapidly. Considering I grew 7.5 inches in one year in my last spurt, I might grow even more in my next spurt. Will I grow 8 inches or over in this spurt? That'll be painful...
It's Either that or I'm nearly ending puberty and I will only grow an inch more. Which seems unlikely because I started puberty at age 11, so my peak height velocity couldn't have started that SAME year just a few months later. However I am well progressed into puberty, so I could be done. I have noticed that shorter people stop growing earlier. It might just be done for a reason I don't know. Do people who grow in spurts grow in these extremes from 1 inch a year to 8, does that ever happen?
So anyway, do you think this is a valid reason (the first reason)?
Also do you think the second reason is also a valid reason?
Which reason do you think is more likely?

If I am done growing I would be shorter than I should be.
If I am not done growing and I haven't reached my peak height velocity or pubertal growth spurt I'll be taller than I should be.
Or maybe I'll have a small pubertal growth spurt of only 4 inches total, does that ever happen?
Oh god this is horrible not knowing with such a big difference between the numbers! :L
Please Answer My Questions as I'm very lost. :(

Update: Um... I guess I was self-measuring myself (yeah I have to self measure because the "doctor" didn't measure my height at my physical) wrong and I'm actually 5'8". So now I know why everyone looked shorter then they actually were, I was comparing with a 67 inch measurement rather than a 68 inch measurement. Okay well this changes things! This means I grew 2 inches from last year, which means that I have started my growth spurt! That's odd though, I'm never hungry. Which means I haven't been eating enough, so how many inches have I lost already from not enough calorie intake? I have been trying to lose weight recently, which you apparently shouldn't be doing in puberty. Let's see, in school I didn't eat much for the last quarter, which is like when this spurt probably started, and I have been eating even less since summer started, and in the last two weeks I have been eating a lot less. So is my growth spurt almost over and did I already lose 2 inches from my height? I guess I wasn't hungry because I always ignore my hunger. I still think I would have noticed if I got hungrier though. So because I didn't notice maybe I didn't deprive myself of calories, because my body didn't tell me it was deprived. Well for the past 3.5 days I have been eating only 500 calories a day, I stopped that now, but how many inches might I have lost from that? Yeah teens can't lose weight or else they will stunt their growth, allegedly.
1. velocity is the rate of change of the position of an object.. meaning speed
2. my friend just started growing in hight, he is 17 people can be late!!!!