Growing Pains?

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My ds 2.3 woke up crying last night, managed to get out of him that his knee hurt. (Said "My poor knee's a bit sore" through his sobs bless him)
It might have been cramp in his leg I suppose, (although don't ever recall having had cramp in my knee) and he did fall and scrape his other knee the day before but he was holding the unscraped leg.
I suffered with "growing pains" in both legs when I was little (between 6 and sixteen though so not this young) and remember how horrible they were, anybody else's dc have these pains?
I remember that paracetamol and a hot water bottle helped me but with him being so young don't really want to do either if there is another effective remedy, or do you think it might have been something else? He was really upset and it took ages of cuddles and stroking his poor little knee before he was happy to go back to bed again.

My dd used to get these a lot. I have never been certain if they were just growing pains or not. Thats all the dr ever seemed to come up with. My dd is allergic to lots and so I have read it can be caused by allergy. Also my dd used to be on antihistamines everyday esp cetirizine and I read something to do with this and side affects that could cause aching? How about your ds, would this be relivent to him. Poor thing, maybe my dd's pains were growing pains but I have never had them myself. I know they would upset dd loads too. Very uncomfortable.

Both My DC's have had this. DS 8 - largely grown out of it now, but DD3 still suffers badly.

I took DS to Docs when he was 2 and was told it was growing pains. I personally think it was cramp because it only ever occured if he had been running around a lot during that day.

DD is excatly the same.

I find rubbing the back of the leg (although DD says it is her knee inside) with baby lotion, which I keep on the bathroom windowsill so it is cold helps enourmously - just keep massaging it with cream and then more cream. Also giving milk before bed helps - injection of calcium according to doctor will help keep pain at bay. There was a post about this before and one mnetter actually got some calcium from chemist and gave to her DC as it was more concentrqted than milk.

They do grow out of it eventually - but it does hurt like hell!

I also give my DD calpol - which always helps her back to sleep.

My ds1 started with "growing pains" really young too, around about his 2nd birthday and at almost 6, still has them now. The difference is that now he often complains of pain even before he goes to bed (his pain has always been more in his feet than his legs). I also took ds to the GP and got told it was growing pains and nothing to worry about. Doesn't make it any less heartwrenching to see your child in pain though

Thanks for the thought, ds has not got any allergies I know of fortunately. So not on antihistamines, but thinking about it he does have a lot of eczema , some of which is a bit nasty, and hadn't considered dietary allergies as a cause- hmmmm, will have a think about what might be causing it.

From the little reading I've done it seems as though there isn't any really strong opinion as to what these "growing" pains are, and although my pains when young were put down to growing that was in a time when we didn't know as much about allergies. Plus my mum's a very "There's nothing wrong with you unless your head has completely fallen off" sort!

Will just have to wait and see if it happens again I suppose.

I had growing pains which started when i was about 6 ish i think and i still get the odd one now. (I am 30 years of age now). I got them in both knees and in my elbows.

I had to go to the docs so many times when i was a child cause the pain was so bad. I remember i was sent to hospital for blood tests and so many different tests.

They tested me for rheumitism and arthiritas (sorry i cant spell) but all came back negative.

This went on for years.

What i found helped was my mum or dad used to have to rub my knee really quite hard until it got warm for about 10 mins, this most times got rid of it.

A warm / hot water bottle helped, a warm / hot bath and then i would have my leg up high and keep it still for about 10 mins.

I now this sounds mad but its what i had to do. it was horrible.

I feel so sorry for your children, please try my remedies.

Good luck

My ds1, 6 next month, is a clumsy thing - he's had inserts in his shoes from the podiatrist and is going back to see the child physio to get some more exercises to help strengthen the muscles in one of his legs that cause his in-toe. However, often he struggles to perform strings of movements, for example, getting out of the car, picking up his bike and getting on it - DH likens it to watching a shot soldier climb out of a trench. (But then he's a big drama queen) Ds1 often moans that his legs hurt, are these growing pains on top of his weak leg?

I put it down to ds1 realising the sharp contrast between Chinese Acrobat ds2, 3.5, who is as agile as an agile thing on an agile day, and also us finding the right kind of activity - I'm thinking yoga or a martial art - that ds1 enjoys and can gain some strength from. But DH is getting worried it's a motor neuro crisis and insists I haul ds1 off to the paed.

So my question for the panel is - could the Growing Pains of which you speak be responsible for these kind of difficulties?

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