Growing pains

[Rye]

Did you get those really bad as a child? You know - the pain you feel in your legs when you're a child and growing up. Tall kids got them the worst.

I got really cranky thinking back to this because of the irony. I had never met a child who got them as badly as I did as a kid. I was tall for my age too, so everyone expected me to be so tall. But it was all for nothing - I'm three inches taller than the required height for putting your child in one of those baby seat harnesses in the car and I'm turning 20 soon.

Also discuss: irony.

[Bunny]

I have been the same height since the summer between 8th and 9th grade. I do not recall having any pains whatsoever.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I don't remember ever getting them except for the past couple years, which is weird because I don't think I've been growing still.

[Timekeeper]

I know the pain you're talking about Rye. I've always had them since I can remember, yet I've had no such irony, I'm tallish.

[rubah]

are you talking about shin splints?

I never had anything like that. Just something my mom told me was growing pains in my chest, but what I believe was just indigestion or heartburn. Oops.

[Rye]

It's like a burning pain in your calves, even if you didn't do any kind of work out or heavy exercise. Even on days where I just sat around all day and play video games, it hurt! It hurt your shins like shin splints, too. I'd get them a lot later in the day and I'd lay around and beg for leg massages. Sometimes a parent would put muscle relaxant cream on them and it'd help a lot.

Come to think of it, it wasn't all that bad, because it trained me for begging for back massages in the future

[Breine]

I had it sometimes. Maybe only a couple of times, and it didn't really hurt that much.

Plus, I'm like 6'2" these days. Harharhaaaarrrr :P

[Raistlin]

I have heard about these, but I never experienced them. I've been roughly the same height since 9th or 10th grade.

[Breine]

Seriously, everytime I scroll down the forums I mistake this title for "Growing Penis" xD

[~*~Celes~*~]

I used to get them a lot and I'm in the same boat as you, only I'm like 1 1/2" shorter than you, Rye

[Rantz]

I'm 6'5" and can't remember ever getting them. I think we need to rename them "Staying short pains".

[Mogi]

I once had horrible "growing pains" in my right hip in the sixth grade. I went to the doctor's office and she confirmed it, telling me to put heat on it. A few days later I woke up and my right leg was absolutely numb and paralyzed. I used crutches and grabbed my pants leg with my hand to step with my right leg that day, because I was afraid that I'd be in trouble if I said that there was something wrong (that's a different story).

The next day I passed out in the middle of the living room and was taken to the emergency room. I had a staph infection that was accelerated through my bloodstream by the heat and almost killed me. I was comatose because of my fever and they had me packed in ice for a whole day. I had two surgeries and I was never supposed to walk again, and at least not without a cane.

I walk fine, but my right hip tends to stiffen up every once in a while if I sit still for a long time.

Irony mostly, but "growing pains" too.

Also, the doctor who told me to put heat on it was fired.

[Rye]

I'm 6'5" and can't remember ever getting them. I think we need to rename them "Staying short pains".

Whoa, 6'5"?! You're two inches taller than Huxley is. The only person I know taller than that is our friend Barry Manilow - he's 6'8". Damn you Scandinavia!

And gosh, Mogi, glad you can walk again. That sounds pretty awful. ;;

[Madame Adequate]

I used to get terrible growing pains as a child. I was unable to walk sometimes.

[qwertysaur]

yes. I still get them on rare occasions and they are really annoying