Growing Pains? ..........Do they exist?

[Mrsjaffabiffa]

My 4.5yr old ds has woken a few nights crying that his legs hurt. He says they hurt inside right at the top between his groin and his hip. For the last couple of days he's been complaing ocassionaly that they hurt when he walks and says that the left one hurts the most. This evening he really winced getting in and out of the bath.

At first I thought it was growing pains as it was at night but thinking about it I'm not even sure if it's just an old wives tale and that maybe there is something wrong.

Any ideas?

try a search of old threads, sure i've seen stuff about this before.

Watching with interest, as ds sometimes complains of leg pains, and it has made him cry before. I am a nurse. And I don't know!!!

Oh sorry if it's been done and done.

I used to get terrible leg aches as a child which my mum put down to growing pains and used to rub ralgex (sp?) into them. I used to get them mainly in the night.

Not much help but that was my experience.

didn't mean that mrsjaff......i just seem to recall it was pretty interesting.

DS1 went through a phase of waking in the night crying that his legs hurt...probably similar age as your DS is now - I put it down to growing pains (whether they exist or not I don't know).

My experience of kids with growing pains is that they are very real and excruciating - DS1 used to be in a lot of pain BUT this was when he was a lot older - 10 to 12. If it were my DS at 4.5 I would talk to the GP, even if to be told they're just growing pains and not to be so silly .

Try here

i had a lot of pain at 16 when I had my last growth spurt (didnt last long, I'm only 5'2" ) had great big pink pills from the docs, my back was agony!!

Hi TQOQ hope all ok with you x

Thanks CaptainC, great link.

Glad to see that they are not an old wives tale.

I think I'll see how he is tonight and tommorow, he has been out of sorts today, tiredness and not wanting to do anything. May take him to the dr if he's still not right tommorow.

dd gets them.

Had them as a child, in the legs mostly. Up to age four or five, I think. Always at night in bed. They used to wake me up. My mother, who was a nurse, said they were growing pains, so maybe they were.

mrsjaffa-my bf ds 4.10 is having the exact same problems, possibly their age or the weather?

and yes, i had growing pains and they're very painful.