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Reviewer: Jane, 7-12 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Caregiver)
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Finally, my husband and I decided to give this medicine for our 8.10 years old. She was diagnosed the early puberty when she was 7. Because of her boobs and underarms odors. We took her to specialist Dr. She were recommend to monitor her up till last 2 months ago, her bone age was 11 years old and got some pubic hair on the thing so we decided to give her a medicine. It's crazy that bone grown
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Reviewer: MomofSkylar, 7-12 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Caregiver)
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My daughter has had the Supprelin implant replaced every year for the past 4 years. It has worked well and we are satisfied with the results. She is a bit moody but I have no evidence that it is because of the implant.
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Reviewer: Gleeia2522, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Caregiver)
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My husband & I had to decide whether we wanted to put our daughter through the Lupron shots every other month or getting the Supprelin implant surgically placed. After a few weeks past insertion her hormone levels were still not quite where the doc wanted but decreasing. After a few more weeks they were perfect. Breast tissue down, mood was a little better.. she has been on it for coming up on
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Reviewer: dealing with precocious puberty, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Caregiver)
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My daughter was diagnosed with precocious puberty. We did Lupron shots every 28 days for about a year. It was so exhausting to drive to the endocrinologist's office (not close to our small town) and get the awful shot in the butt. My daughter was a trooper, but she would miss an entire day of school for this, once a month. Plus I had to take the day off work. Very quickly we noticed a cyc
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Reviewer: Squishy, 7-12 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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It halted my child's puberty (at stage 4) for 3 years effectively. She had an adverse reaction to the bandage in the Supprelin implantation kit, however, and became very ill - swollen arm, hives, rash, blisters and unbearable itching for 3 weeks.
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