Um, ftg, I read your posts. You said, if I may paraphrase:
(1) You had leg pain as a child. It was misdiagnosed as growing pains, but turned out to be tight tendons.
Fair enough, but many, many other people have come in to say that they had growing pains as children, and the symptoms were very similar to those reported by Lagomorph.
(2) Despite the above reports, you don’t think it likely that four year olds get growing pains.
So all the other Dopers are making it up?
(3) Your reasoning for this is that your pain did not coincide with your growth spurt, and still continues as an adult.
Well, as I and other Dopers pointed out, bone growth happens at odd times and continues during adulthood. Besides, if your pain was not growing pains - but instead tight tendons - then there is no reason for it to happen only during growth periods.
I’m glad you posted an alternative diagnosis - knowing the possiblities helps others to ask the right questions when seeing a doctor. However, the bulk of the evidence suggests that children do get growing pains and sometimes parents just have to deal with them. Your reasoning that Lagomorph’s child does not have growing pains seems limited to the fact that you did not - and the inference that such things do not exist. I don’t think that Chotii was out of line for getting a bit frustrated, although she might have phrased it more tactfully.
Like I said, it’s good to know that there are other possible causes, but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and the doctor says it’s a duck, then I’m voting for growing pains.
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