Now that I have been diagnosed my mom admits that I started complaining about sore knees from the time I started walking and talking. I remember finding it very hard to focus at school because of the pain in my hands, especially in winter. Even now when I went to a rheumatologist my family treated me like I was wasting money, until they could actually see the swelling and then I got the proper diagnosis. I can't really blame my mom since she was busy dealing with my sister who is type one bipolar- she did the best she could. But I do wish I had gotten help sooner instead of suffering all those years.
I had painful knees quite a lot,I was told it was growing pains. I still get these growing pains in my knees now & I’m 45,exactly the same pain where the only thing that makes it feel better is heat,
It was in 1974 when my dad was finally diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis, and almost no one had ever heard of it at that time. Don't be too rough on the doctors for not figuring out what it was early on, how would they know? It was mostly unheard of at the time. In fact, I didn't really even believe my dad at the time.....now I have it and my diagnoses was easy.
Yes I had such horable leg pain. It would start in my ankels. It would go up my legs until I couldn’t stand the pain anymore. But yes it was called growing pains back then.
Yes, my Rheumy thinks my PSA started when I was young. So many symptoms that were swept into the "growing pains" pile. Heel spurs, tendonitis, "weak" wrists, ridged nails, TMJ, neck pain and muscle spasms....just to name the ones that I had before puberty. I was finally diagnosed at age 58 (less than a year ago). I still don't like the diagnosis but it is better than the elusive comments like - "It's all in your mind" or "I'm not sure what this could be."
Yes I too had "growing pains" I remember going to our quack doctor with very painful knees. He had me do several deep knee bends for him and proclaimed me healthy and strong. Then I went home and couldn't walk for the next week.
I also remember wondering as a young teen if I had arthritis. My grandpa had had major spine surgery and my mother had three ruptured disks and both had bad arthritis as a result. My back hurt quite bad as well a lot of the time. When I mentioned my wonderings my mother shot me down fast.
Several years back I was having low back issues again and went to the chiropractor. He did a series of X-rays and discovered that I have no disc between two of my vertebrata and that they are almost completely naturally fused together! He asked then if I had back pain in the past and if I had had a bad fall at sometime. I told him about the problems I had as a kid and about the fact that I had trained several horses as a kid (regularly hitting the ground). It was nice in a way to finally have confirmation that the pain I felt so long ago WAS indeed arthritis even back then.
I have often said this is why they call them "practicing" physicians. Lots of the time, they just don't know and make educated (and sometimes uneducated) guesses.
Well I was 12 the first times I was diagnosis with plantar fasciatsis. 16 with carpal tunnel. My hands would swell up like balloons. I was never taken seriously as a kid. Even as an adult it took my gp 6 months to refer me to a rhumey . I’m sure I have had psa since childhood. I watch out for my oldest daughter she has some scalp p and had mentioned aches and pains… But she also has cp. so he is likely to get growing pains