What the heck could this be (paging dr hive)

[madteaparty]

DD sometimes complains of leg/knee pain (just one) and tonight, randomly, for the first time she said her back "feels weird" and was writhing over a chair, arching it. Happily playing Legos now, a few min later. She's five. She does have very slight dark circles under her eyes but she didn't get normal amount of sleep last night. I'm fishing now. She eats, etc fine

[Cinder]

My first thought with unspecified weird back pain is dehydration. That's generally the case with my family. Could be anything, though.

[Barb_]

Does she tend to be sensitive, high strung and/or anxious?  Some kids are just more attuned to the normal twinges and discomforts the rest of us learn to relegate to background noise.

[Tanaqui]

Could be any number of things, I imagine, but if this is the only sign or symptom maybe... growing pains? And today if she was sitting funny then she could have a stiff neck.

[madteaparty]

Thanks. I'm hoping it's just growing pains. I emailed our family Dr asking if she maybe needs a blood test and she sent me the number of a pediatric ortho insead. I don't think she needs an ortho as this is not impeding anything in her daily life...

She is not high strung, and normally neither am I but we have the child of a family friend who was diagnosed with cancer at same age as DD owing to a "hurt leg" so all my "I don't even keep baby tylenol in the house" coolness flies out the window...Plus DS never complained of things like these. He just spiked fevers and ear infections, easy ;)