Growing pains | Arthritis Information

 

How many of you had growing pains as a child?  I had really bad ones in my calves when I was little, that would keep me up at night.  Not sure of a link...just curious!

Something else super random...my RA is much worse on my right side...it's almost non-existent on my left, except in my foot.  When I got my epidural, I'm almost positive they did it right, but my right side was totally numb and left was how it should have been.  Has that happened to anyone else?

Just trying to start some RA related topics.  Oh, and I needed a break from work. :)

I do not remember if I had growing pains as a child and have no family left to ask.  I can tell you that our 13 year old would complain of growing pains.  A good thing to keep in mind with growing pains is that growing pains occur usually at night.  So if you have kids that you are watching for that pre-disposition to RA, that is a good thing to keep in mind.  If your child is coming to you during the day complaining of joint pain then that is something to start keeping track of...like when it occurs...where it occurs...how severe is it...what helps it....is there a fever...is there a rash. 

So there is actually a big difference between growing pains and the RA pains of a child with JRA.
Not me but my son had terrible growing pains for years! He would have to get up in the middle of the night and take a hot bath. Yeah, because I first started having problems with RA when I was 20, and I had problems with my jaw when I was 14, I've wondered about JRA.  But I only had pain at like 3 am.  I played a lot of soccer and what not and didn't really have any joint problems, except my jaw.  KatieG2008-09-18 11:06:30No growing pains that I can remember.  My youngest son gets them from time to time; they seem to coincide with growth spurts. I remember having horrible growing pains when I was a kid. I can't remember how old I was but my Mother use to get up in the middle of the night and put large towels in the dryer and then wrap my legs in them. I remember growing pains.  I'd awaken and sit with my parents in the living room and my Dad would rub my shins as I sobbed.  Even went to the Dr. for it.  I also have one leg longer than the other and I did grow to 5'7 1/2" .  My daughter has also had growing pains in the past few years.  She's 16 now and 5'6".  I'll have to watch her..............You have one leg longer than the other Goldie? Did they correct it or do you wear a raised shoe? I remember going to school with a girl who wore a raised shoe. The doctors said they caught mine just at the perfect time to fix it. Had my mother not discovered it while hemming my pants one day it would have been too late to have the surgery.I had one leg longer than the other as a kid and it was discovered when they discovered my scoliosis. My legs must have evened out, because my ortho doc said they are even. My back still gives me some trouble, but whose back doesn't hurt after working in the yard or a day of cleaning. (that is why I avoid doing either, LOL) A dr. wanted me to wear a slight lift in my shoe.  I don't notice it but you can see the long leg bowing out in pictures of me wearing a dress. I have lower back pain that I'm sure is related to that.  I have a really bad lower back myself. Bit the difference in my leg length was corrected so there isn't much of a difference at all now. There would have been (They say) had I not had the surgery. Mostly I remember my feet hurt alot when I was a kid. The sole of my shoes were all wore down on one side. I remember my feet made crunching sounds when i walked. That did hurt. I had horrid growing pains until I was 15, I remember waking in pain so bad I couldn't move or make a sound, nasty for a kid. I grew to be 5'11" -pretty tall for a girl.  I've also been dx with Marfan's Syndrome, which long bones are a symptom.  !  I'm a senior!! I'm only 33! Does this mean I can get 'seniors discount' at KOHL's?? 

Marfan's??  This is so weird.  I never heard of it until this past monday.  since then it keeps coming up in the most random places.  this is time number 4.

My granddaughter has the worst growing  pains. She is extra small. Her arms hurt her very much. She wakes up crying at night and asks for magic water. It is a crushed asprin in water. I don't think it really helps. She does think it helps. Just something her mother does for her for lack of knowing what to do. I had what my mom thought were "growing pains" from age 12 to 14, when she finally took me to the doctor, who did blood tests that showed I had Rheumatoid Arthritis.  My legs ached so bad, and some days you could have fried eggs on my very hot knees!  I was prescribed huge doses of aspirin, which helped a lot (and may have led to my inability to take aspirin as an adult). Cat E. Clysm2008-09-19 21:49:01my eldest son had the worst growing pains ever. It started behind his knees and he would cry and cry. I just rubbed them until he fell asleep. Then it was his lower back and for some reason, it only bothered him at school. There he'd go to the office and cry up a storm. I kept taking him to the dr. and his dr didn't know what to do. He kept asking if he was being bullied at school or afraid of his parents, etc. His school called me to pick him up every day for a few weeks and then it stopped. He grew 7" that year and 7" the next. They said he'd be about 6'4" and he is 6' so far. The boys (men) in our family tend to grow until they hit age 20, or 21. I have heard there is no such thing as growing pains, that it is really JRA which scares me for him!This is all so interesting! I was a really small child too. It wasn't until late in high school that I became the same size as all of my peers.