To side with the school over DS' stick?

[ReanimatedSGB]

(Also, any suggestions about dealing with growing pains are welcome).

DS gets growing pains in his legs. (Yes, they are a real thing. I took him to the GP last year and that was what they diagnosed.) When he's having a bout of pain, he likes to use a walking stick. The school does not think it's suitable and have suggested we get a proper 'walking aid' on prescription. They have also agreed I can send in a pack of paracetamol (which also helps him) with a note saying it can be kept in the school welfare office and he can have a paracetamol if he's in pain.
I don't actually know if a doctor or clinic will agree to giving him a crutch or whatever, and I think the stick is probably more of a psychological comfort, but I don't want to be the bitch mum who makes light of a kid's genuine pain, either.

Well, he's certainly accepted that he mustn't use the stick again because it might do more harm than good and I am going to get him an appointment next week. Thanks all.

Has he been checked for juvenile arthritis?

www.nhs.uk/conditions/growing-pains/

Seems unlikely to be growing pains.

My children had growing pains for years, as did I. It turns out they have Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and I have hypermobility syndrome. It could be any number of things, but please go back to the GP.