My Story

I have known from birth that I have had Turners Syndrome as when I was born I had puffy hands and feet and a webbed neck. This aroused the doctors suspicions that I had TS as the doctor was a specialist in its diagnoses. I had a blood test to see what was wrong and this then took a week but it soon confirmed that I had Turner Syndrome. Once my mum and dad found out I was referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital. When I was 3, I was prescribed growth hormone injections, which my dad gave me each night in my leg. I was regularly, attending the clinic for people with Turners Syndrome at Great Ormond Street Hospital with Dr Richard Stanhope. Here I was weighed and measured to check spine growth, height growth and later on skin thickness. I also had a blood test every year to check a range of things.

Now I'm 4"10/11. I have stopped growing with the injections so I have stopped taking them. I have to have tablets with oestrogen to replace a hormone that is missing.

Having Turner Syndrome hasn't affected me a lot apart from having to take tablets and injections and the odd comments about my height. I get on at school and am like any normal person at the end of the day.

I will regularly keep going to the hospital appointments so if anyone would like to ask me about what they do or how I got on then you can just send me an email here