Pays to keep your kids checked. Young woman with Acromegaly (teens, parents)
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When this young woman went home to see family, it was them who took her to the doctor and had her condition diagnosed.
Check out the video and see the changes. Startling. Her parents certainly should have seen something was happening that wasn't right.
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While most girls settle into their adult-size bodies in high school, Tanya Angus just got bigger.
At 17, she was 5 feet 11 inches -- tall but not off the charts. However, as her teens came to a close, the growing didn't stop. Her hands swelled. Her feet swelled. She had kidney stones. But Angus didn't seek medical attention for the changes in her body.
I saw part of a TV show on this last night. The woman who was the subject was 5'8" when she was 22. Now she is 32 and is 6'8" and still growing. That's the tipoff--they continue growing after puberty.
By comparison, I am 6'1/2" tall and reached this height at 14. I thought THAT was awful enough, but my heart went out to that poor woman. Mine is just genetics.
What I found so confusing was that her parents didn't take her to a doctor to find out what the problem was when she was young. She didn't even see them for years while in her twenties.
5'11" at 17 is tall, but not excessively so. Maybe her family members are tall and it didn't occur to them that her height was anything peculiar. DD has a best friend who is 6'2", big girl, but nothing freakish going on.
That's possible, and the fact that she didn't tell anybody what was going on all those years tells us she isn't particularly close to her parents.
Still...
I would have been alarmed when the swelling started. I know that a lot of people run to the doctor for a bump or small problem, but this is excessive and warranted a doctor visit.
What I found so confusing was that her parents didn't take her to a doctor to find out what the problem was when she was young. She didn't even see them for years while in her twenties.
But the problems (swelling, the stopping of periods, etc.) didn't start until she was an adult. There was no sign that anything was wrong when she was still a kid.
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