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Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about the Ehlers-Danlos thing. So the diagnosis is based on a black-and-white genetic test rather than an assessment of how severe the symptoms are, right?
My symptoms are the same as they've always been (actually better, since my knees aren't killing me anymore now that I haven't been pregnant/breastfeeding in a long time,) so I'm inclined to continue living with the "eh, there's no treatment anyway so there's no point in confirming it" philosophy. EXCEPT... For at least 2 years now, Minifob has been periodically waking up at night with bad leg pain. Sometimes he says it's his ankle, sometimes it's more like his shin area. It's never a muscle cramp, and we've tried to have him checked for fractures but they always just tell me it's "growing pains," even after I tell them that, with the exception of the last couple of months, he practically didn't grow at all in the last two years.
I dunno. Maybe we'll take him to a geneticist at some point. It would be awfully hard to pull him out of Tae Kwon Do, though, if they said he had it. He loves it so much. Have you ever thought about having your kids tested, glatt?
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