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Does anyone have idea's on how to relieve her pain at night? She has been waking up about once a week screaming that her legs and feet hurt. When she wakes up like that she is impossible to get to take any kind of Motrin or Tylenol, you can't reason with a two year old. Last night I spent about four hours rubbing her little limbs before she would go back to sleep. This is getting exhausting every week and the doctor is telling me it's just growing pains and rubbing and Motrin or Tylenol is all I can do for her.
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | poor thing, try the motrin before bed. Maybe a long shot but do you have a BOT blanket? put that under her bedding.... |
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Location: In my own world | If this is a regular thing I would give her meds before she went to bed. Kind of like they tell you to do before shots and dental appointments. The only "home" remedy I have heard is to put a bar of Irish spring soap in their bed. Never tried it though and I don't know what the thinking was behind it |
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Location: Missouri | My boys have experienced this and it is so hard to watch!
I started giving them a banana and milk before bed, and a multi-vitamin in the morning. I don't know if it helped, but I like to think it did.
When they were having pain, the quickest relief was moist heat. I would soak a towel in hot water and wrap up their leg. It really helped faster than anything else (massaging, heating pad, etc).
I also used the ceramic heating pads that you throw in the microwave and let them go to sleep with it. It felt safer than leaving one plugged in, although they obviously don't last as long.
My boys are 8 & 10 and they haven't had an episode in a while. So sorry for your little girl.
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Location: Texas | my little boy cries with his legs hurting all the time. the only thing we can get that helps is Tylenol. maybe if you can get her to take it once or twice she will realize it helps. my son always hurts after he has had a day of hard playing. I want to cry before the medicine works. |
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| My son wakes up crying about his legs and complains about them often. He's 4. I try to hold off on the Tylenol or motrin as long as possible and have found that wrapping his legs in a warm towel really helps. My daughter never had issues or at least never complained about it.
Edited by FlyingJT 2014-02-19 2:38 PM
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | My 8 year old still gets them, especially when its football season-he's waaayyyy worse on the nights that he's had practice. I try to do a heating pad, rubbing, tylenol. I actually got desperate one night and used some of my thermaflex that i have for the horses. It worked so much that now when he gets them he asks for it lol |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | my 4 yr old daughter gets the pain too. When it happens I give Tylenol but I remember them when I was young and nothing helped me. |
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I'll Be Your Huckleberry
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Location: Arizona | As others have suggested a little pain relief before bed and also a sock filled with rice makes an excellent heating pad which my boys use all the time. |
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| Thanks everyone! I will have a hot pack waiting to be warmed up tonight!
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Location: So. California | Go get his blood tested to see what he is lacking. My daughter had major leg cramps in the middle of the night growing up. I had her blood tested and she was borderline anemic and low in potassium. Banana's and iron supplements helped tremendously. |
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| We did warm baths. Some lavender soap to help relax, or maybe some empsom salt. |
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