Comments on: Misbehaving Pituitaries

By: Maddison

Maddison — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:37:47 +0000

Wow. Damn Interesting

By: Cyrana

Cyrana — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:48:49 +0000

I have personal experience with the shorter side of this story. I was born with Growth Hormone Deficiency and stopped growing when I was 10, at about 4′ tall. That’s not a terribly unusual height, so I wasn’t diagnosed until age 12, when my mother became worried that I hadn’t grown in 2 years.The doctor prescribed a synthetic growth hormone, and I grew to be 5′ 6″ by the time I was 15. Unfortunately, I hated the injections used to administer the hormones every night, so I stopped then. Now I’m still the shortest in my family, but I’m average compared to the rest of the world.
(Most of my family is tall, so I should have been at least 5′ 9″, if not taller, by the time I stopped growing.)

By: MacAvity

MacAvity — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:31:39 +0000

Baader-Meinhof indeed! While I haven’t been noticing pituitaries or giants recently, I did just read the article about Baader-Meinhof earlier this afternoon – I had never (to my knowledge) heard (or read) the term before – although of course I had often experienced the effects – and now an hour or two later here I read it three or four times!

By: Rachelita

Rachelita — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:37:13 +0000

[quote]God said: “Does anyone else find Carel Struycken’s head to be really creepy with that big line of bone clearly visible?”[/quote]

I actually always found it to be oddly fascinating and an attractive quality on him. Why? No clue. But not creepy to me at all.

By: sd9sd

sd9sd — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:50:13 +0000

Shouldn’t miss mentioning the giant in Bruce Lee’s “Game of Death”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UfsIGFPxb_w
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1L-nFVlao

By: Emmy

Emmy — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:10:15 +0000

Uhmmm suuure bomblady >_>

By: Bomblady

Bomblady — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:10:58 +0000

i WILL BOMB THE USA

By: Bomblady

Bomblady — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:10:15 +0000

i WANT TO BON=MB THE UAA AND I HAVE FLOWN PLANS IN TO IT

By: ChinnoDog

ChinnoDog — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:53:20 +0000

JoJo said: "My oldest son weighed 8and 1/2 pounds and was 20 inches long at birth, A week later he weighed 12 pounds, and by eight weeks he weighed almost 20 pounds. He went through 3-4 casaes of formula in a week and 8-10 large jars of baby food in a day. The doctors said I fed him too much, but when a child is hungry …. By age 1 he weighed nearly 60 pounds and was just under 4 feet tall. He was tested for everything, but results were always negative. Today he is a healthy 6'5" 37 year old who still weighs what he did at age 18. He still has a huge appetite, and I'm glad I don't have to feed him anymore. He took alot of ribbing all his life about his height and his appetite, but he never took it seriously. He and his father are the only 2 people in the family who are tall. The rest of us are all under 5'6". ..DI article. Thanks."

A 4ft 1 year old?! And I thought regular sized kids could be difficult. How did you take him places? At 4ft he wouldn't have fit in a stroller any more. On the plus side, I guess you didn't need a car seat?

By: jade

jade — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:24:20 +0000

Truly a candidate for the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon… I read this article yesterday, and when I turned on TLC, there was a special about the tallest man alive, a Ukrainian named Leonid Stadnik, who was affected by a malfunctioning pituitary gland. On the plus side for him, it seems to have fixed itself…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Stadnik

BTW – love this site – keep it up!