[moderating]Well, Xavier hasn’t posted here since 2004, so you’re not likely to find out.
Since the thread is getting some interesting responses, I’m going to go ahead and leave it open–just remember that the original participants probably won’t be responding.
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Nothing worse than pygmy zombies.
So, what you guys are saying is, the old hanging from the jungle gym routine doesn’t work?
Funny how the spam in my email inbox never seems to mention height increases, only enlargements. Which don’t apply to women. Discriminatory! :eek: 
True, but when do the growth plates fuse? The OP was almost 20 when he posted, which is possible he hadn’t completely fused then, right?
Of course by the time I posted, you are correct, there likely wasn’t much hormones could do.
I can vouch for this; I had to be put into a “skeletal stretch” when I broke my leg back in May. It was the most bizarre experience in my life.
Essentially, the doctor took a hand-drill (like this. No, seriously.) and drilled straight through my heel with a long-ass bit. When it poked through on the other end, he took a set of bolt cutters and cut off the bit at the base of the drill. Then he took a weight - I think he said it was 4-5 kilos - and attached it to a steel wire, which he looped over both ends of the bit and over a pulley, so the weight hung vertically down.
The word “painful” doesn’t even begin to describe it and I was A) on a significant dose of ketorax and b) only had to do it for two days. The though of having to endure that for six months is my personal definition of hell. Geez.
Whoa!! This thread was started a couple weeks before I graduated high school. I’m about to turn 27 next week. :eek: Makes me feel old and young at the same time.
Anyway, I know my younger sister had some hormonal issues that affected her development when she was younger. The doctor gave her some hormone pills but said they wouldn’t affect her growth because the growth plates had already fused (she was a little shorter than average). I think she was 17 at the time.
But I’ve personally seen guys/gals tack on a few inches between about 18-20, so I guess the plates fuse sometime in the late teens or very early twenties.
