Aching in left leg

[daysinthesun]

I mentioned this in another post. About how there was pain in my foot and sometimes in my thigh. Well, it’s back and I’m having a rough night. Honestly, I don’t know how much of this I can take. I can’t see a doctor but maybe I can get some kind of advice from someone if they see this. Please help me. I can’t sleep and I honestly spend most of the day in and out of a sobbing fit.

There is aching in my calf and thigh. Sometimes it’s in my foot. I am scared it’s a blood clot and that it’s next stop is going to be my lungs. The pain isn’t debilitating. I can walk on it and even move my leg normally but the aching is there. Sometimes it gets better if I massage it. It relieves it for a bit. It actually hasn’t been hurting much until tonight. I just can’t calm myself.

 

[Cuchculan]

I have often had pains in that part of the leg. It is one of the easiest parts of the leg to really pull a muscle in. Maybe it is has never happened to you before. You lay there in bed and that one part of the leg seems to lock up. You have to stretch the leg as straight as possible to try and get it to stop. It can hurt when it happens. Plus the pain may stay with you for a day or more. Easing as the hours pass. I would class it as the easiest part of the whole body to have the muscle go on you. That can mean pain. I have no idea how you hurt yours. Just a sore one when it happens. Maybe because it is delicate enough. The worst thing to do is to is let that part of your leg stiffen up. Make sure that doesn't happen. You could try some normal creams for body aches that you can buy in a chemist. Might help you out. Are various types. Just describe the pain to your chemist. They will suggest which one is best for you. One last thing. It is your leg. Not your lung. People get aches and pains in the leg from time to time. Nothing unusual about that at all. You are simply thinking the worst when you say it might spread to your lungs. I might win the lottery tomorrow. What are the chances?

 

[Anxiouslizzy2000]

This is one of my worst fears! One time I got it so bad that I went to the doctor and it turns out I just have sciatica which is not deadly just uncomfortable but I trained my brain to only worry about a blood clot when there is discoloration and swelling. That way you only assume the worst when the worst is happening.