How is growth hormone therapy?

Dr. Darwin Smith - How is growth hormone therapy? Growth hormone is a protein, and therefore cannot be used in tablets. It is administered once daily as a subcutaneous injection. The application is done at night before going to sleep. The doctor or nurse will tell you more about the application of special pens that are available. At the beginning of treatment you apply a very low dose. The doctor or nurse will remove you every 4 weeks to determine blood levels of another hormone, which is called IGF-I.

The dose will be slowly increased so that the IGF-I remained in the normal range. The doctor will ask about any side effects. Once it reached a stable dose of growth hormone, you are going to control blood examination only once every 6-12 months. How is growth hormone produced?
does it really work?
Until 1985, the growth hormone produced by extraction from human pituitary glands. Since that year, however, is produced synthetically using a method known as recombinant DNA. This method consists in the fact that in bacteria (Escherichia coli) will be inserted a gene for human growth hormone. Making the bacteria are able to produce this hormone. The thus produced growth hormone is fully identical to the human growth hormone.