DDs leg

[tomhazard]

My DD age 5 has recently been complaining of intermittent pain in the top of her left thigh. Gone of for a couple of weeks now. Not agony type pain but obviously enough for her to mention it. She is quite active and does swimming and trampolining.
My googling has come up with this is a symptom of leukaemia - as a natural worrier I am now majorly freaking out and am thinking of getting to the GP. My DH thinks I'm overreacting to think it could be this and it's probably muscular due to her sport.
Aibu to worry? It's likely that I am because I worry about everything but can't this out of my head now.

The pain has been gone for a couple of weeks now, there’s no need to be worried. Take her to the GP if it comes back (make sure you tell her to let you know if it does).

I had ‘growing pains’ really badly throughout my whole childhood, well into my teens, then swapped that for cramp. It’s hard to see what all the ‘growing pains’ were about though, as I didn’t even make 5ft 🧐😂

I’d take her to the GP just to get checked out OP.

"My DH thinks I'm overreacting to think it could be this and it's probably muscular due to her sport." I would imagine your DH is right but not being a doctor I would not dream of diagnosing!

"Aibu to worry?" No you are not, but your fears are probably unfounded.

"It's likely that I am because I worry about everything but can't this out of my head now." That's hard.... but....

I would always get stuff checked out, always.

My dd had leg pain which was referred from her feet (slightly unusual gait). She has little insoles in her shoes to wear if it gets bad, they just elevate the foot slightly. and help her walk better.

I found this www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/feb/11/healthandwellbeing.health

I agree with @KarmaStar "Firstly,go with your instinct."

Good luck.

'Growing pains' are a thing, but generally happen at night and should be in both legs. DS has suffered a lot with these.

NHS growing pains

I read that unexplained hip pain on one side should ALWAYS be checked out. I also took DS to the GP for this once, and although it turned out to be nothing the GP took it very seriously.

Hip pain

The trouble with telling somebody with health anxiety to "trust your instincts" is that their instincts can be pretty warped. In the 3.5 years my daughter has been alive, my "instincts" have told me she has cerebral palsy, spina bifida, breast cancer, meningitis...and that's just to name a few. None of these have been diagnosed on subsequent trips to the doctor.

I don't have any real advice about your daughter, OP, but I just wanted to sympathise with your thought processes. Health anxiety is awful. In our area, we're able to self-refer to the mental health - I did this on the advice of a doctor and got some useful self-help material.

Unfortunately in my own experience at least, if you do enough symptom research eventually it will either say it's something fatal or your period.

I remember having growing pains as a child but it could also be a pulled muscle as others suggested.

Could be an 'irritable hip' - hip/knee pain is quite common after a viral illness in children. My son used to get it every time he had a cold. If the pain is gone now, wait and see what happens. Anything serious will come back and declare itself rather than staying away. There are a few other rare causes of hip pain e.g. Perthe's disease, but it doesn't really sound likely if she is OK now. Agree that Dr Google isn't helpful!