Growth Spurts in Your School Aged Children...

We use a good CalMag and the pain is gone within 2-12 hours. The bones need more calcium to allow the bones to grow to their potential. We now do the CalMag with all of our kids every other night and they sleep awesome and never have any pain.

Our friend took her son to 14 doctors and finally, at her wit's end, he took him to a chiropractor by a referral from a friend and she told her to go get calcium/magnesium (NOT calcium carbonate) and his pain was GONE. He'd been in pain for almost 5 years straight.

This will not show up on labs because the calcium gets leeched from the bone and has enough in the blood, so they are checking BLOOD levels, NOT body levels.

My daughter has growing pains from time to time. She's only 5 though, so I know getting her to take a cal/mag supplement probably wouldn't work (not because it wouldn't be effective, but because I couldn't get her to swallow it). She hasn't had any growing pains for quite a while, but when she gets them I just massage her legs for her and that usually helps. Last year was kind of bad because she would wake up in the middle of the night crying about her legs hurting from time to time.

I just went through the same things with my 12 year old boy. We had tne fill blood panel plus some other tests. Everything thing came back normal. I know it sucks! Hes now 5 ft 7 and weighs about 170. I know hes a big boy so I guess im going with growing pains???

it's a heartbreaker! Went thru it myself, & with both of my sons. We used ibuprofen & heating pads. We also did leg stretches daily.

We know when my daughter is experiencing a growth spurt because her feet (and sometimes her legs) really hurt and we have to rub them a lot. It never fails; after the pain goes away, she's usually taller. In fact, she's almost as tall as me at 11 years old (I'm 5'3"). We predict she will be almost as tall as her dad (he's 6'1"-6'2").

Both my boys have this issue and for some reason the cooler weather brings on the pain. We have upped the banana intake (on the off chance it would help) and not a huge difference. We use cold, not heat, & advil. I love the suggestion of cal/mag!

My daughter doesn’t seem to have any pain during her growth spurts. Last year she grew two inches in less than two months.
How is his diet? Maybe he needs more calcium and vitamin D. I am pretty sure a blood test can see if he has any deficiencies.