Is there a kind of prescription/supplement that can help me grow?

How old are you? Men can still grow after 17. Otherwise, bone inserts? Why don’t you just be the best you can be as you are?

There are medications like growth hormone that can increase your height. How old are you? Probably if you have gone through puberty there is not too much that can be done. Although, I shoud mention I think my husband kept growing a little into his early 20’s. But I think the drugs to enhance height are given in the early teens? Not sure. Hopefully a doctor will comment.

Exercises like yoga and dance can help keep your posture straight and you back as long as it can possibly be naturally. I “grew” a quarter of an inch when I went back to ballet.

I’m 20.

You need to see an endocrinologist.

Sorry, I didn’t see your age in the question. We don’t know how tall you are. I am 5’1”. It’s a very awkward height, hard to kiss many men standing, hard to have sex missionary, of course hard to reach everything.

Looks like I had missed your age in the original question, sorry for overlooking that. Yes, by 20 I think it might be too late, but definitely worth seeing a specialist to get a second opinion and doing some reading up on the subject. For sure time is of the essence, so don’t waste any time.

How tall are you and what gender? If you are within “normal” range, but just want to be a little taller, I don’t think doctors will give you medication. So if you are 5’1” like @faye and a female, that is not really that short, even though most females that height want to be taller. Same if you are male and just on the shorter side, maybe 5’6” for instance, not sure they consider that a height that needs medical intervention, it’s not that short, I know more than one man that is that height.

5 8
male
145lbs

The doctor would laugh at you. That’s a respectable height but I get it. Being 5’11” is just better in your head.

@Shield_of_Achilles You are not very short. I doubt the doctor will be willing to prescribe any medicine even if it exists. Do you live in a “tall” part of the country, like the upper midwest?

I live in West Virginia

Oh. I’m not as familiar with West VA. Certain states are taller than others. Like FL has a lot of shorter people with the older Jews, Cubans, and some of the other HIspanics. Minnesota is full of vikings, some of the women are like amazons lol. I grew up in the DC area and we had everything, because it is so ethnically diverse. I am a 5’6” female and I feel like I am towering over many of the women in my family, especially on my husbands side, and many of my friends too. I hate it. When I hit 5’5” I hoped and hoped I would stop growing.

I empathasize, 5’8” is on the shorter side of average, and I know for men it is a big deal in their minds. I think my dad is 5’8” maybe 5“9 at the most? I don’t think of him as short, I just would never describe him as tall. My brother-in-law, his boyfriend and my father-in-law are all somewhere around that height also.

I tend to think in terms of couples, like I do like when my SO is taller than me (not that this would be a deal breaker, but I prefer it, feel more natural to me) so you ARE taller than most women.

Or, is it that you compare yourself to other men?

DC sucks.
I hated living around there…

And I’m not really comparing myself to anyone, I just do like how I am. I want to be a bigger person.

I really liked growing up in te suburbs of DC. I am grateful to have grown up in such a diverse place and I lived in a planned community in MD where we had tunnels under major roads so we could walk to school and to the community pools safely and DC had great museums and events.

I lived a little south of that.
I know a kid that got stabbed for being to cocky.

The only thing I learned from my area, keep your damn head down.

The area is having more and more crime, even Montgomery Village has gone down hill, and it used to be so nice there. But it still seems to be nothing compared to where I live now, Memphis. 4 guns have already been confiscated from public schools this year, and there were two school shootings last year. Not sure how many homocides in general. Nice ha?

You know it.