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expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Same. I can’t recall any of my doctors ever measuring my height. The police and RCMP tho both kept pretty good records of my teenage growth years.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My doctor’s office measured my height along with my weight last year. First time I remember since I’ve been an adult. I’m an old white woman and apparently I’ve lost an inch.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Maybe it was just cold in the office. Happens to the best of us.

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      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Cute joke, but more likely osteoporosis, preceded by childbearing. Pregnancy hormones make tendons in general soften/stretch, in order for the pelvis to let the head through. I had C-sections, but my feet got bigger and apparently the rest of my bones sagged a bit too. And now I’m getting thinner vertebrae.

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• NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They measured my height the last few times I was in for a physical.

  I think it’s because I’ve reached the age where they want to see if I’ve started to shrink.

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• HonorableScythe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My primary care takes my height and weight every time I go in and I’m well below the age where people start to shrink.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Mine uses the most recent height measurement that they took and check every few years. They check weight regularly though.

  Driver’s licence office takes whatever I tell them. Last tien I told them I was losing weight and they used my target weight. Might be accurate at some point before it expires in a few years!

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