3yr old with leg pain and fatigue?

[sldibb]

My daughet is 3 yrs old.  Roughly 6 months ago she started having leg pain.  She would wake up in the morning complaining of pain inside her leg and would be dragging her left leg slightly.  The pain would last several weeks and then slowly go away.  This happened several times over the course of 4 months and we were assured it was just growing pain.  Then one month ago she woke up with such severe pain she was unable to walk or put any weight on her leg.  As with the times before she indicated that the pain was coming from the back of her knee.  I let it go unti afternoon and then took her to the ER.  THey found nothing on xray and were about to send us home when they did another test and they couldn't find any reflex in that left leg.  They immediatly sent her to a childrens hospital where she had ct scan and mri done.  Neither the neurologist or the orthopedist saw anything wrong.  Once we were home I waited another 3 weeks and took her back to our pediatrion since she was still having pain.  The pain was better and she can now walk but she has a constant limp now.  Along with the limp she has now begun to get very tired.  She has always been very energetic and now if she plays for more than 45 minutes she is exhausted and has to lay down, she becomes very pale as well.  She has also had 2 nose bleeds in the last week.  The nose bleeds were the final straw for me so I took her back in.  They ran some test which all came back fine, except her Sed rate was elevated.  They redid that test yesterday and today they called to tell me it was fine.  I am just at a loss.  I have a little girl that apparently has nothing wrong with her yet is in pain and just not well.  I am just hoping that you might have some insight into what is going on.  Oh and they have tested and retested her for arthritis and they have always come up negative.  Thank you for any insight you can give me.

[acuman2]

  Ask your daughter where exactly the pain is .... then try and trace it.  There are about 6 main nerves in the leg.  This can help pinpoint a nerve impingement.  Straight down the middle, or back or calf and into foot is often the sciatic nerve.  Through the groin, outside of leg, wrapping around the thigh ... all are different and specific nerves.  You'll have to ask her specifically, so maybe look on-line for a nerve chart of the legs and then begin to press those areas to see if there is a correlation.  -Scott

[acuman2]

  Well, there is definitely something amiss.  Whether it is severe or not severe remains to be seen.  Although, with those symptoms you have to keep working.  If she begins to have any numbness or inability to walk - that is, if it gets any worse, there is a condition, whose name I forget, that starts with paralysis in the legs and works upwards.  Usually it begins with flu-like and stomach symptoms, like food poisoning, but may not have to.  
  I would try one session with a good chiropractor - he or she may be able to give some insight if it were a serious nerve conduction problem to the leg.  Since she is limping, with pain in one leg, there does appear to nerve involvement - usually stems from the low back.  Having pain and nerve conduction problems like that will naturally lead to fatigue.  In my 15 years working with low back troubles, regardless of your daughters diagnosis, it does not hurt to follow some dietary healing techniques.  Fatigue, tightness, and pain conditions always get worse with dairy and sugar products; and also meat (any animal).  Those foods tighten the whole system.  If it were my daughter (and I do have one), I would cut out those foods and feed her rice (white or brown), fried or boiled tofu, as much vegetable as she can handle (carrot, corn, broccoli are sometimes kid friendly).  Avoid at all cost fast food, processed foods, and chemicalized foods.  If you'd like to discuss more of this, keep posting.  Sincerely,  Scott