Dad, did you have growing pains when you were little?

Our poor little man has been struggling with growing pains the last few weeks. Last week he babied the right one quite a bit. At school the other boys were running around and he'd yell at them, "wait up guys, I can't run that fast". His teacher told him to give it a try since he had rested it at nap. The pains seemed to go away for awhile. At night, he'd want someone to rub his legs. Last night he came in our room in the middle of the night, kind of whimpering and complaining about his leg again - this time the left one. It was still bothering him this morning so I told him after breakfast dad would give him some medicine. Mike put him in the car and Drew said, "dad, did you have growing pains when you were little?" Mike said yep. Then Drew asked "did mom have growing pains when she was little?" Mike reassured him that he was pretty sure I did too. Actually, I still vividly remember how bad they were. Just about as bad as labor. Actually probably worse than that at the time. LOL. Off to search the web to see if there are any other remedies besides Motrin.