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Help! need to know if there's a drug to grow taller that your doctor can perscribe?

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Adults: After the epiphyseal plates close, no further growth occurs.

Answered 3/24/2014

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One of your doc's reply to ? was "on very rare occasion, people can grow taller later in life." What would cause those rare occasions in 30-something?

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Hi doctor ! i just want to ask u if I am 16 years old and I am 187 CM tall how many cms will i gain more ? And till whick age i will grow taller ?

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Read one doc said its highly unlikely to grow signif. taller @ 40. What then would cause that for the rare few who do? Aren't our bones fused by then?

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