Hello ,
Thanks for posting your query.
Yes,Your child is probably experiencing growing pains, a normal occurrence in about 25% to 30% of children. They generally occur during two periods: in early childhood among 3- to 5-year-olds and, later, in 8- to 12-year-olds.
Although growing pains often strike in late afternoon or evening before bed, pain can sometimes wake a sleeping child. The intensity of the pain varies from child to child.
The cause for growing pains is unclear. The pain may be due to:
Muscular tiredness – more physical activity than usual can be linked to more aching muscles for some children and causing undue stress on the growing bone.
Poor posture – standing, sitting or walking awkwardly puts greater than usual strain on the supporting muscles of the body. Sometimes children whose feet roll in (with very flat feet) may have more trouble with pains than other children.

Even though the child can be in a lot of pain, no damage is happening to the child's bones or muscles and growing pains can respond to simple treatments.
Some things that may help alleviate the pain include:
massaging the area
stretching
placing a heating pad on the area
Medications like acetaminophen or ibuprofen as per prescription if pain is severe.
Thus a children with growing pains respond differently from children with serious illness or joint pains— they feel better when they're held, massaged, and cuddled.In other pathologies the pain
gets worse on handling.
So though there is no evidence or confirmatory test to diagnose it this pain is diagnosed by doctors after excluding the other serious causes like in your daughter.
As a concerned parent , I understand your anxiety and fears , however the situation doesn't seem worrisome at present and your doctor seems to have appropriately ruled out infection, inflammation, injury, malignancy etc to come to the diagnosis of growing pains.
Hope I have answered your query.
Regards

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Hello ,
Thanks for the follow up .
The armpit or axilla has numerous lymph nodes grouped as
1.The anterior group in the anterior (front) fold of skin of armpit.(axillary fold)
2.The posterior in the posterior axillary fold.
3.The lateral group felt on inside (medial) part of upper arm.
4.The central and apical (deepest) in the axilla or centre of armpit.
Normally these lymph nodes are not palpable or minimally palpable.
But in infection or malignancy they may be swollen and painful on touch (tender) and can be felt like pebbles or buttons to the tips of the examiners fingers.
Generally to do this, ask the patient to lift both arms away from the sides of their body. Then extend the fingers of both your hands and gently direct them towards the apices of the arm pits. Now press your hands towards the patient's body and move them slowly down the lateral chest wall. This allows your fingers to feel them on XXXXXXX pressure and preferably using circular motion.
To look for individual group the same way palpation should be carried out in the exact location
mentioned.
Note that these lymph nodes are not usually visible to naked eyes unless there is gross swelling, redness and inflammation.
Hope I have answered your query.
Regards

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