A similar thing happened to my SIL about 4 yrs ago...her son was 3 or 4 at the time. it began with achy pains in his leg..then one morning he couldnt even walk.
she took him to the ER & the dr said this was VERY COMMON in young kids. I wish i had more details...but he was put on some medication & was fine in a few days...good as new.

I remember being very upset when i heard my nephew coulnt walk..& then to hear the dr say it was COMMON..just blew my mind.

I hope you wee guy is ok..try not to worry

Make sure that doc answers all your questions. You are the consumer!!!

And prayers for Max, You and Leo, and the other boys.

:grouphug:Just said a little prayer for you and Max

My baby Max, who is 4, has been complaining of a sore leg for some weeks now. Normally I've just ignored him, since when we walk to school, he uses any number of excuses to get me to carry him ("mummy I'm tired" "can I have a piggyback?" etc)
He's also complained his leg aches in the night. I've not taken much notice either about WHICH leg is hurting - I HAVE asked where, inside or outside of his leg and it seems to be from inside his knee).

Leo (the master) was running to the playground with him a week ago, and his leg just gave way underneath him, sending him tumbling to the ground. Yesterday his other leg just gave way while walking across the room. Leo asked him if this hurt or that hurt, turning his legs this way and that, bending them various degrees. Max felt relief if his legs were pulled a little. He sat at the computer, playing a game and stopped to say his legs hurt, and was rubbing his knees with his hands - normally when engrossed in a video game he would be oblivious
Leo was very upset last night, imagining the worst, arthritis, muscular dystrophy (not consistent with the symptoms) he was just crying and crying.

We take Max to a GP this afternoon.

Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? As a kid? Sore knees, legs giving way?

i hope you get to the bottom of it soon charlotte.

my daughter has been complaining of a sore tummy on and off for the past six months. we have been to homeopath, doc, consultant,bio-energy practitioner, another type of homeopath, to try to get to the bottom of it. it is so hard with kids to know what is serious and what isn't.

i'll say a little prayer for you and your family, waiting for results is so hard.

Thanks TC and MissMad (from your link)

What Causes Growing Pains?
Growing pains don't hurt around the bones or joints (the flexible parts that connect bones and let them move) - only in the muscles. For this reason, some doctors believe that kids might get growing pains because they've tired out their muscles. When you run, climb, or jump a lot during the day, you might have aches and pains in your legs at night.

oh charl don't beat yourself up about it - kids are little buggers when it comes to this type of thing - Faye, who's also 4 makes stuff up all the time - 2 weeks ago she woke me up at 3am to tell me she had earache, I just got annoyed that she had pretty much woken the whole house up and was just casting round for an excuse.. I felt AWFUL when the dr diagnosed a perforated eardrum we mums live in a perpetual state of 'guilt', not helped by the fact that they call wolf that many times that its hard to tell when they're actually telling the truth!

My friends little boy had the same thing as Max, but he was younger, I think he was about 2 or 3. I can't remember what it was, so I've just texted her to find out - I'll let you know what she said, though I'm pretty sure that he's absolutely fine now

I hope you're all ok let us know how you get on at the doctors

ZombieKitten said:

This is absolutely not true. The pain is in the joints - because the growth plates are located at the ends of the long bones (like the femur and tibia in the leg).

I had terrible growing pains as a child, as did my sister. We only hurt at night.

Genesia said:

Our oldest daughter goes through this from time to time.

So to update:

The master took him to the doc last night, (same doc that delivered him who sees all my kids about everything, so he knows them pretty well)

He told us for the time being keep and eye out and if he develops constant or acute pain or experiences any difficulty walking to get right back to him - to use our gut feeling.

As for what he thinks, Max is a little bit knock-kneed and he believes that he perhaps does suffer from some strain in his knees due to that.

He manipulated Max's legs and from that could determine that is WASN'T any of the scary things we had imagined. He could bend his knees without any pain or discomfort, and his pain ISN'T worse during some parts of the day to others.

I'm still going to be vigilant and watch him very closely. My little guy is the happiest kid I know, I'm going to be listening very closely to things he tells me and ask him lots of questions!

So to update:

The master took him to the doc last night, (same doc that delivered him who sees all my kids about everything, so he knows them pretty well)

He told us for the time being keep and eye out and if he develops constant or acute pain or experiences any difficulty walking to get right back to him - to use our gut feeling.

As for what he thinks, Max is a little bit knock-kneed and he believes that he perhaps does suffer from some strain in his knees due to that.

He manipulated Max's legs and from that could determine that is WASN'T any of the scary things we had imagined. He could bend his knees without any pain or discomfort, and his pain ISN'T worse during some parts of the day to others.

I'm still going to be vigilant and watch him very closely. My little guy is the happiest kid I know, I'm going to be listening very closely to things he tells me and ask him lots of questions!

So glad to hear good news.

I've come on the tail end of this but I'm just glad you have peace of mind.

It's always something with kids, my 11 year old had constant headaches. Turns out her mouth was not wide enough for all her teeth!! She now has braces, and is having her upper palate widened with a bracket that is glued to the roof of her mouth.

I hope your little guy feels better Charlotte!

when i was growing,
i had extreme leg pain.
it was like a random pulsing ache.
my legs also would give way for some
reason when i was younger.
the doctor said it had something to do
with the way i was sleeping.
try not to work yourself up too
quickly.