growing pains... bad feet and legs.

[Boristhecats]

After a year of trying to figure out what is wrong with my sons legs and feet. Even the medical people are stumped.
Xrays physio scans insoles.... u name it. Nothing. Everything seems fine. Except the pain is still there.
Painkillers and icing and heat doesn’t even touch the pain. Had blood tests so nothing to do with arthritis etc.

On the scan they have seen that his growth platelets are still wide open and it has been discussed that maybe he could be having really really bad growth pain.

Has anyone children’s had this so badly they can’t walk? I have read about vitamin D helping with this?

I just don’t know where else to ask or do for him.
He is failing his Gcse PE as he can barely run anymore.

Is the pain in a particular location OP or is it generalised?

You could try seeing a chiropractor if you haven’t already. I’d supplement Vit d and magnesium as a start. (Magnesium can be absorbed via skin-Epsom salts in bath)

He has pain on the soles, heels and at the front. It started there and now is up the muscles up the back. But the scan today said everything is okay inside.

We have seen so many people and so many appointments it not even funny anymore. The podiatrist specialist looked and couldn’t figure out what was wrong.

Seriously we have seen so many people. And nothing. They refuse to give him stronger painkillers because of his age. So they just leave him in agony

Can u just give those types of vitamins without a doctors say so?

When they were scanning him today. The presses his foot and it hurt and they scanned that area and there is nothing there

We had similar - turns out he has an accessory navicular that was causing the foot pain and the rest was referred pain from him walking funnily to avoid stretching his foot too much.

Our x-rays were "suggestive" of an accessory navicular, but they showed up well on the MRI - as did all the inflammation.

Oh and I actually worked out what the issue may have been - we'd also seen countless medical professionals.

Hi ‘underneath. How did u figure it out. The scans were completely clear. There was no suggestion of anything. Was there something visible from the outside. ?

We have done painkillers for inflammation and icing. For weeks and weeks and it doesn’t even take the pain away at all. He rested his foot for six weeks last summer as we were told to rest him. It did nothing.

Has an MRI been done OP or just an X-ray? Has he seen an orthopaedic specialist? Also, is he flat-footed or does he have an arch to his foot?
(You and he have my greatest sympathy BTW. My DD got to the point where she couldn't walk 100m. It was soul destroying.)

@MacavityTheDentistsCat we have just put him in for an MRI today. Just to tick all the boxes.
Took him to another person today who was wonderful. But again he said there is nothing wrong with his feet.

OP I worked it out on symptoms mainly. There was nothing abnormal-looking with his foot at all. Apart from the fact it's enormous and flat!

I'm an Optometrist so do have some medical knowledge and access to medical journals etc.
Hi symptoms were:
Flat feet
Pain in certain part of foot constant, worse when walking long distances or running at all.
Knee pain
Pain at back of the foot.
Odd gait when walking (which was his attempt to prevent the foot pain and this caused all the referred pain).

We also did foot resting, exercise modification and insoles (cheap and expensive).

Look into complex regional pain syndrome.

Have they imaged the low back? Ruled out tethered cord?