my 12yo son has had severe ongoing knee pain and was originally diagnosed with osgood shlatters and sent home.
Ended up in a&e with severe pain, throwing up and couldn’t weight bare. They said it was growing pains and once again, sent him home.
He wakes at night in pain, cannot weight bare, night sweats with no fever, weight loss, sickness/nausea and diarreah.
Eventually had X-rays and they showed fragmentation of his tibial bone and he has a huge lump, typical of osgood shlatters, until a orthopaedic surgeon seen him and said the blood results and other symptoms do NOT match osgood shlatters and the “lump” felt different.
She was great and thorough and sent him for urgent blood tests -
ALP raised at 915!
LDH raised for his age at 250.
Everything else came back normal but she was not happy and wanted to rule out a tumour or anything more sinister.
I am terrified.
can anyone shine a light on what any of these blood results mean and what the link is to his symptoms!
thank you, love to all xoxox
Hi Ozzy141091d4e64a and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I’m Anne, one of the Community Champions here on the Online Community and, although I'm not a member of this group, I noticed that your post hadn't had any replies yet. Responding to you will 'bump' it back to the top of the discussion list again.
If you don't get any replies here, it might be an idea to post your question in the Ask a Nurse section of the online community and one of the nurses will aim to reply within 3 working days. Although they don't have access to your son's medical records they can answer general questions. If this is something that you'd like to do, just click on the link I've created.
Sending virtual ((hugs))
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