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Q: growth hormone deficiency ?
asked by: louie1970 on July 4th, 2008
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Hi I have an anoxic brain injury and recently had 2 compression fractures in my back repaired, the Dr said my bones are soft, He says I have osteoporosis? I am a 38 year old male the Dr said he never seen this before in someone my age. When I had the surgery on my back they did a MRI of my brain they said my pituitary gland was not working right it got damaged with my injury, they put me on some hormone replacement Testosterone and Thyroid. I walk with a walker my legs are getting weaker every day 1 year ago I could walk hard 2hrs a day and I did not need a walker for short trips, now I walk about 100ft and my legs feel like they are going to buckle no one can find out what’s wrong. I have been doing some research and found that allot of my symptoms could be caused by a growth hormone deficiency. I fond this on a web site
Growth hormone deficiency may cause:

decreased lean body and muscle mass, particularly in the shoulders
increased fat mass, especially around the waist and trunk

high “bad” cholesterol levels (higher ldl and lower hdl) which may increase risk of stroke and heart disease
decreased bone density, which may cause osteoporosis

fatigue, regardless of the amount of sleep.
decreased interest in socialization

a sense of isolation
depression

I have ALL of these symptoms, does anyone have any experience with this how do they test for it? This may be what has been causing me all this trouble for the past year
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CarolDiane
replied on July 4th, 2008
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Alot of these can be test through blood test. For sleep, they can do a sleep study. for muscle they can do a lumbar puncture to rule out a couple of things. Depression is visibly an physically noticable. Normal pretty easy to diagnose. Osteoporosis can be ruled out by an dexascan also called MRI of the spin and hip area.
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