In my 40+ years I'd never experience something like this even with several siblings growing up nor even heard of it. Until yesterday....
My 7 year old son started to have cough & fever this weekend which seemed to break Sunday afternoon.... he even was going crazy staying inside so he and I did some roller blading, shot some pucks at net and even ran around in the green space near our house.
He is involved with hockey & speedskating so not having these activities since Friday has been strange to him.
Yesterday morning I wake him up and as his legs touch the floor he starts screaming in pain.
Forward a couple hours and we are in Children's Hospital ER.
Other than the pain (& higher protein levels which they expected due to symptoms) they do not see anything else but suggest this type of condition can be result from a flu or other virus & could take 3-5 days maybe up to 7 to recover.
We are scheduled return to ACH tomorrow for follow-up.
Now at 29-30 hours since yesterday discovery of this... and his legs (calf muscles) are still in pain when trying to walk.
I am just wondering if anyone else here in the CP community has experienced this with their children & if so what actual recovery had been.
TIA
http://emj.bmj.com/content/22/10/686.full.pdf
Benign acute myositis. In benign acute myositis, a young child suddenly develops severe leg pain and cannot walk normally.
These symptoms are dramatic and frightening, but they disappear within a few days. Benign acute myositis usually occurs in children who are recovering from the flu or some other respiratory infection caused by a virus. Doctors are not sure whether the child's muscle symptoms are caused by the virus itself or by the body's immune reaction to the virus.