On Thursday we were walking round a museum and DS (aged 7) suddenly cried out, clutched his leg and sank to the ground. He recovered after a sit down in the cafe but has been walking funny and complaining on and off over the last four days. He says the pain is mainly at the back of his knee, i.e. his tendons, but also in the thigh. He says it hurts when he straightens his leg.
It comes and goes though, and he has also been running about playing. I know it's mean but part of me is a bit suspicious, partly because he will sometimes play sick for sympathy, partly because it seems to reappear when we are engaged in something he doesn't want to do. His brother recently suffered a severe injury and since then DS has had a flurry of non specific injuries and pains that need tending - I do understand why he's doing it.
So I just don't know whether I should take him to the doctors or not. It has been a few days and he is still walking funny (but not all the time) and complaining and I do think he might have done something but I just don't know. Should I just get him to rest his leg? We were on holiday last week and did a lot of walking, but it did seem a sudden thing not a cumulative thing. He didn't fall over, he was just walking along and suddenly went ow.
Has anyone else's DC had similar?