Have I stunted my development?

[W0KESTMOTHF]

From like 14.8 to 15.8 I was drinking alcohol, smoking weed even did ecstasy few times, so have I stunted my development/height doing these things for like a year or am I just overthinking?

 

[Mr.cope]

No just bad genes kicking in

 

[W0KESTMOTHF]

No just bad genes kicking in

Bad genes didn't kick in I'm just worried I could've been even taller or smthng if I didn't do those things

 

[RapGod]

Did you grow taller at all between those ages? How about before 14.8 and how about after 15.8?

 

[W0KESTMOTHF]

Did you grow taller at all between those ages?

Yeah

 

[RapGod]

I'd assume it can impact growth just because of how intense ecstacy is. If you were still early in puberty perhaps some catch up growth will/has occured and will make the potential impact almost negligible. How do you compare to your parents & siblings in height?

 

[W0KESTMOTHF]

I'd assume it can impact growth just because of how intense of a drug it is. If you were still early in puberty perhaps some catch up growth will/has occured and will make the potential impact almost negligible. How do you compare to your parents & siblings in height?

I'm my father's height, my brother is 5 inches taller tho but keep in mind that he was the tall guy ever since he was born while I was known as the short one until puberty started and I skyrocketed in height

 

[RapGod]

I'm my father's height, my brother is 5 inches taller tho but keep in mind that he was the tall guy ever since he was born while I was known as the short one until puberty started and I skyrocketed in height

I also know that alcohol 100% reduces testosterone, increases estrogen and reduces growth hormone, as well as inhibits the formation of new bone matrix. It's an easy way to stunt growth because it destroys your hormones, prevents bone from growing, and closes the growth plates faster. How often did you drink? and how often did you do molly? How about weed? I would worry much less about the weed even though it has a hormonal effect.

 

[Deleted member 7173]

I'm my father's height, my brother is 5 inches taller tho but keep in mind that he was the tall guy ever since he was born while I was known as the short one until puberty started and I skyrocketed in height

How old are you? I grew 5 or so inches from 17-18

 

[W0KESTMOTHF]

I also know that alcohol 100% reduces testosterone, increases estrogen and reduces growth hormone, as well as inhibits the formation of new bone matrix. It's an easy way to stunt growth because it destroys your hormones, prevents bone from growing, and closes the growth plates faster. How often did you drink? and how often did you do molly? How about weed? I would worry much less about the weed even though it has a hormonal effect.

Molly I had done only 3 times, alcohol wasn't that often as well tbh in 1 year timespan I probably drank it like 20 times, weed was the most often one.

 

[W0KESTMOTHF]

How old are you? I grew 5 or so inches from 17-18

16, soon to be 17

 

[RapGod]

Molly I had done only 3 times, alcohol wasn't that often as well tbh in 1 year timespan I probably drank it like 20 times, weed was the most often one.

I think you're fine then, whatever it did was pretty much nothing.

I know one guy that did a fuckton of drugs when he was 15 including a lot of molly. He became an alcoholic and smoked so much weed and never slept. He is about 2 inches shorter than his tallest brothers but the funny thing is his younger brother never did drugs and is 1 inch shorter than him. I don't think he grew at all when he was doing drugs though, and his brothers did grow around 15-17.

 

[Good_Little_Goy]

Molly I had done only 3 times, alcohol wasn't that often as well tbh in 1 year timespan I probably drank it like 20 times, weed was the most often one.

chronic cannabis use likely will have lowered your hormones and can MAYBE stunt growth
I have researched this quite a bit and that is the best answer I can give
they don't understand how cannabis affects hormones particularly well but in regards to chronic use it's well replicated that it's accompanied by a significant drop in sex hormones in males.
with the way catch up growth works I wouldn't worry about stunted growth, and the studies on cannabis stunting growth are not well designed tbh, I'd be careful about drawing any conclusions from them.

Overall the truth is we don't know if and how it affected your puberty but there is some case study where a 16 year old boy has delayed puberty and impacted development due to cannabis and alcohol and when he quits development resumes as normal and he grows up healthy. So I wouldn't stress abt the theoretical ways in which you maybe got a bit less development, especially given we can't know the nature of it.