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Posted on: 11/15/2004
Question
I am 17 and have hardly developed at all through puberty. In one of your other correspondence Nancy Brown mentions that there are medical ways to speed puberty up. I know they are advised against but could you please go into them.
Answer
If you are really worried about your rate of development, and your parents were not slow to develop, a clinician will need to evaluate you and run some tests before discussing possible reasons and medications to speed things up. Good luck.