this study is in no way a scientific study. The people who conducted this study are trying to extrapolate results in just s few years about a condition that, in most cases, does not show up for many, many years. they need to use more subjects and prepare for a longitudinal study of great length!
I had the most horrible growing pains you can imagine. I was around 10 to 11 years old I think. My mother or father would have to come to me bed and rub my knees and legs with lotion and I would cry because my knees and legs hurt so terribly. This phase lasted less than a year, thank goodness, but I remember the awful pain to this day. I have a reminder, too. About 5 years ago I started having Fibromyalgia and my knees and my legs are the parts that hurt the worst. It is also the most painful when I lie down or sit down, just like the growing pains, but of course unlike the growing pains I have pain all over and none of this pain goes away. My doctor used to prescribe narcotic pain medication to help me at night but I developed allergies to all of the narcotic pain meds, even when we tried them with big doses of Benadryl, I gradually had bad allergic reactions with that too. All I have now is Ibuprofen and Aspirin. I have found a topical pain cream, Nupercainal, that is helpful too. It is also a hemorrhoid cream, but I don't have those LOL! You can get it at Drugstore.com. My local pharmacy stopped carrying anything but their brand and Preparation H, but Numpercainal is different because it has Dibucaine in it and it doesn't smell bad.
Sometimes I have to sleep with a heating pad on my knees and legs, but it will keep going off during the night and I have to wake up and turn it back on. IN tne winter I can use an electric blanket, but in the summer that is a big NO.
My personal opinion is that there is a positive correlation between growing pains and Fibromyalgia, but a lot more research needs to be done. One way would also be to ask Fibro sufferers if they had growing pains when they were young.
I believe that there was a study in the past that concluded that children who had "growing pains" in their legs had a higher risk of developing restless legs as an adult.
Anyone else remember this?
I remember having horrible leg pains and was always told, "Its just growing pains".
In my young adult years I would describe the pain as, "like growing pains". Many people had no idea what I was talking about. Eventually to find out I have restless leg, ME/CFS and FMS plus many other issues. So I would say this is an indicator of what is to come. All the women (at that time my family was mostly women) in my family who told me that also ended up with the same health issues. The very best thing for RLS is Chelated Calcium/Magnesium/ with Vitamin D. Works wonders with the only side affects being positive!
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Very interesting. I have to wonder about a study that only follows 35 kids, but claims to have wide spread results. Those numbers just don't seem right to me.
I remeber having knee trouble as a kid & that has turned into severe issues with OA. But I wonder, As a family we had trembles in our hands. It was not disruptive and actually quite funny, but I don wonder if that "overactive nerves" was a early symptom of Fibro.
Interesting.