Growing Pains

I'm soon to go to a doctor about this, but I was wondering if anyone would have any knowledge or personal experiences with this.


I'm a young adult, fairly thin and I'm still dealing with growing pains and aches in my limbs since I was a kid.
It comes and goes without warning - no matter if I do a lot of physical activity or sitting at home doing nothing or the temperature. It just hits whenever it wants.

The pain is somewhat still the same when I was a child, but it's getting worse as I age. It usually affects my arms and legs, but it now occasionally happens with my ribs and the sternum. The pain is enough to physically limit my movements.

Even when the pain does go away, it feels like it has weaken my joints. I honestly feel like an old person suffering from arthritis on a daily basis or that my skeleton is three times my actual age.





I can't still be growing and not a day goes by now where I don't feel joint/limb or chest pain. I have absolutely no idea what it is.

I'm really tall and i can't remember ever having growing pains at all, perhaps if they persist you should visit a doctor cause I didn't just not get them everyday, but not at all and I'm huge!

The fact that you are also a young adult and still having what you diagnose to be growing pains is odd...unless you are about to 'shoot up' and wake up 8 foot 2 the next day!

As I can't be of assistance, I highly suggest you visit a doctor before the symptoms worsen.

Are you sure it's growing pains? Seems a bit too frequent to be the case.

I'm not knowledgeable of the medical reasons behind it, but I've read or heard somewhere that lack of sleep can cause an excess of growing pains. When you're sleeping is when your body is able to properly grow. If you don't sleep enough, your body compensates for it when you're awake - which translates into growing pains. Although to be honest, I'm not 100% sure of the validity of this claim.

EDIT: Oops. Pretty nasty grammar errors. Fixed.

Growing pains aren't actually associated with growth spurts - it's still unknown precisely what causes them. But it is unusual to get them as an adult.

If you're still getting these kinds of aches, I'd simply recommend seeing a doctor, as you're doing, since I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience with this. I did a quick search and found information about a related condition ("restless leg syndrome," which I actually have had), but this doesn't really match your description.

I've heard of them before but not until I was in Highschool, and I don't know that I've ever had them. Though I did get pain in my legs as a kid.

I know some pains can be a lot worse in the cold, I happen to live where God remembers. But either way, they never sounded like that. And they shouldn't be getting worse as you get older.


Growing pains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia gives some information but is tell_tale scant.

Originally Posted by Xeno

Are you sure it's growing pains? Seems a bit too frequent to be the case.

I'm not knowledgeable of the medical reasons behind it, but I've read or heard somewhere that lack of sleep can cause an excess of growing pains. When you're sleeping is you're body is able to properly grow. If you don't sleep enough, you body compensates for it when you're awake - which translates into growing pains. Although to be honest, I'm not 100% sure of the validity of this claim.

I'm not too sure if it really is "growing pains", but it's just something I usually got when I was a kid that seem to never disappear as I age. So I am "assuming" that it could be it, although I'm not entirely sure myself.

Sleeping is not really an issue for me since I do sleep well - sometimes late - but with appropriate hours for my age.

Originally Posted by Astarael

Growing pains aren't actually associated with growth spurts - it's still unknown precisely what causes them. But it is unusual to get them as an adult.

That's true. I'm just not so sure with all of this.

If you're still getting these kinds of aches, I'd simply recommend seeing a doctor, as you're doing, since I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience with this. I did a quick search and found information about a related condition ("restless leg syndrome," which I actually have had), but this doesn't really match your description.

I just looked at restless leg syndrome... It seems interesting, but I don't think that's what I suffering with. Although I could be wrong.

I guess a visit to the doctor is the only thing I can do to confront the problem.