Re: New here with ?????

[Guest guest]

I don't have experience with your son's condition at a personal

level. I do have experience with an outstanding professional

research service. It is called The Health Resource. Their web

address is wwww.thehealthresource.com A thorough report with up-to-

date reliable research and information is from $200 to $400. On

this particular journey you would do well to be armed with reliable

information rather than rely upon the physicians alone.

Hopefully others here can help you with more detail and perhaps even

personal experience.

Take care and God Bless.

Darrell

>

> My son, now 15.5yo, was diagnosed in April with constitutional

growth

> delay and delayed puberty. It was felt by the endocrinologist that

> puberty was surely beginning and if we didn't see adequate

progression

> by October we should call back. I am very open with my son, I

asked

> him how things were progressing and he felt the whole puberty issue

> was " definately " moving along. Last week we went to the

pediatrician

> for a routine check up and she felt a follow up with endocrinology

was

> needed. Keep in mind that everything has always looked

> anatomically " normal. "

> She said that while my son definately did have the appropriate

> enlargement of the testis and penis, he does not have any pubic

hair.

> Not in the genital region, under his arms, on his legs, not

anywhere.

> She explained the two parts of male puberty: gonadarche and

> adrenarche. The part that usually comes first, adrenarche, is

missing

> with my son.

> We also have an underlying genetic metabolic disorder that we know

my

> son inherited but only shows soft signs of, it is called a

> mitochondrial disorder.

> We are going to see endocrinology next week but I hate to be

> unprepared. Excluding the mitochondrial disorder, Has anyone here

ever

> dealt with this issue, and what was it caused from. And does

anyone

> know some of the appropriate questions for me to present to the

> endocrinologist?

> I will greatly appreciate ANY suggestions or comments.

>

>