Help please! Leg pain for nearly 2 years for Ds1, how to follow up w/Drs?
I'm hoping the network of BBBers will have some suggestions.
Ds1 has frequent spells of leg pain which have been diagnosed as growing pains or otherwise non-serious. He is quite clear that these are not muscle cramps and not in his joints. Most often his left shin, sometimes up to his thigh and sometimes both legs. Its bad enough he cries, he will crawl rather than walk, and it happens 4-7 days/week for several weeks at a time, then disappears for a few weeks. Yesterday he said he sometimes doesn't tell us when it hurts if it isn't too bad. He has asked to see the Dr. in the past and we've addressed this issue at several appointments. He has had physical exams that turn up nothing obvious. Still, I've reached the point I want to do something more, but I don't know what to do.
Primary care Dr. is still "wait and see" and most of the time I appreciate the conservative approach but its been so long and this is a bad spell and I'm getting antsy. I want to rule out other things, but I can't imagine what it could be since it lacks the characteristics of the most common things.
I'll take any ideas you have!
Ds1 (2006). Ds2 (2010). Ds3 (2012).