Poorly leg

[numbnuts]

If you were a bike I would spray WD40 on it as that cures everything
or the other hand Doctors ASAP good luck

 

[ASC1951]

I'd still take the advise of posters above and go to see your DR, just in case. That should always be your first port of call DM.

Once you have been satisfied that it isn't something odd like a blood clot, I would hobble along to a decent sports physio. I don't know how old you are, but keen cyclists are notorious for stiff backs and resulting posture and nerve problems - made worse, in my case, by a lifetime of sitting at a desk for a living.

 

[ColinJ]

I don't want to worry you but a friend of mine had a blood clot in his leg. The symptons were similar.

I don't think its that............well hope not

That's what I said when I got mine!

 

[spen666]

What kind of nonsense is this? Everyone knows you get the best medical diagnosis and legal advice from random people on the web.

How stupid of me. I should have remembered. Its a bit like the best legal advice is from your mate in the pub, not the lawyer you instruct

Makes me wonder why people waste their time studying and getting qualifications as they are unnecessary.

 

[ColinJ]

How stupid of me. I should have remembered. Its a bit like the best legal advice is from your mate in the pub, not the lawyer you instruct

Makes me wonder why people waste their time studying and getting qualifications as they are unnecessary.

Internet advice to get something checked out by a doctor is good advice. What wouldn't be sensible would be to listen to internet advice that there isn't a big problem when there might be!

Highly qualified professionals don't necessarily spot everything. One GP missed my problem, and it was 3 weeks before I finally collapsed and was sent to A&E by another. Over 30% of people in that situation die.

Even if a doctor says that there isn't a problem, there still might be. DVT/PE is missed by many doctors. Sometimes, the only way the problem can be accurately diagnosed is by scans, so if you don't have the scans then the doctors are only making educated guesses and they can and do make the wrong guesses!

 

[cosmicbike]

Internet advice to get something checked out by a doctor is good advice. What wouldn't be sensible would be to listen to internet advice that there isn't a big problem when there might be!

Highly qualified professionals don't necessarily spot everything. One GP missed my problem, and it was 3 weeks before I finally collapsed and was sent to A&E by another. Over 30% of people in that situation die.

Even if a doctor says that there isn't a problem, there still might be. DVT/PE is missed by many doctors. Sometimes, the only way the problem can be accurately diagnosed is by scans, so if you don't have the scans then the doctors are only making educated guesses and they can and do make the wrong guesses!

Similar here. Last time I had a 'slight' pain it turned into intermittent loss of consciousness 4 days later after a GP didn't diagnose. Lucky to have my legs below the knee and my kidneys...That was 6 months ago, just started back at work...

So, @Dangermouse the quack is the best place to be...

 

[CopperBrompton]

One GP missed my problem, and it was 3 weeks before I finally collapsed and was sent to A&E by another. Over 30% of people in that situation die.

Even if a doctor says that there isn't a problem, there still might be. DVT/PE is missed by many doctors.

DVT is indeed easily missed. My GP missed it, as did the fracture clinic consultant, both putting the calf pain down to the length of time my leg had been in plaster. One pulmonary embolism later ...

My second DVT was a 'silent' one (in the thigh rather than calf, where there was no pain). A second pulmonary embolism later, follow-up tests revealed a genetic predisposition. As you say, there's a 30% chance of dying each time. Still haven't won the lottery, though.

 

[ColinJ]

Good luck cosmicbike and Trikeman!

It's bloody outrageous (forgive the pun!) that a GP and a fracture clinic consultant did not consider DVT after a broken leg!

My niece shattered her tibia and fibula at the end of last year and had to have them reconstructed. I texted her just before she went into surgery and told her to make sure that she was put on anticoagulation afterwards. From her reply, it sounds as though it wasn't done routinely because the doctor merely said "Yes, we could arrange that for you"!

Oh, and they have not checked her for osteoporosis either, despite the fact that the injury happened as a result of her just making a sudden turn. Young women's leg bones should not just shatter for no apparent reason! I have suggested that she gets that checked out ASAP.

 

[ASC1951]

..My second DVT was a 'silent' one (in the thigh rather than calf, where there was no pain). A second pulmonary embolism later, follow-up tests revealed a genetic predisposition. As you say, there's a 30% chance of dying each time. Still haven't won the lottery, though.

I'm afraid you have to get through another 52 embolisms first - or if you are holding out for the Jackpot, another 14 million.

 

[CopperBrompton]

It's bloody outrageous (forgive the pun!) that a GP and a fracture clinic consultant did not consider DVT after a broken leg!

It was also at a time when medical researchers, but not front-line doctors, knew that flying with a leg in plaster was a high risk. The day after I came out of hospital, I got on a 13-hour flight to Singapore ...

My niece shattered her tibia and fibula at the end of last year and had to have them reconstructed. I texted her just before she went into surgery and told her to make sure that she was put on anticoagulation afterwards. From her reply, it sounds as though it wasn't done routinely because the doctor merely said "Yes, we could arrange that for you"!

I'm not sure what the comparative risks are there, though: anti-coagulants are not without the risks too.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I'm afraid you have to get through another 52 embolisms first - or if you are holding out for the Jackpot, another 14 million.

Don't take up stats for a living. :-D

 

[ColinJ]

It was also at a time when medical researchers, but not front-line doctors, knew that flying with a leg in plaster was a high risk. The day after I came out of hospital, I got on a 13-hour flight to Singapore ...

Yikes!

I'm not sure what the comparative risks are there, though: anti-coagulants are not without the risks too.

I think the NICE guidlines suggest that they should be used after knee and hip replacement, and considered after lesser orthopaedic surgery. My niece had a fairly serious operation to fit 2 plates and 10 screws. When the doctors heard that her grandmother and uncle had both had clotting problems, they decided the balance was in favour of a/c. The point is that they hadn't even discussed it with her before she brought the subject up.

 

[asterix]

Once you have been satisfied that it isn't something odd like a blood clot, I would hobble along to a decent sports physio. I don't know how old you are, but keen cyclists are notorious for stiff backs and resulting posture and nerve problems - made worse, in my case, by a lifetime of sitting at a desk for a living.

I think it is sitting rather than cycling. Since leaving IT I do loads of heavy physical stuff which can give me aches and pains. I also do a 750 mile drive a few times a year. The drive is always worse for my back than lifting (I know how to lift and am careful). The best thing for me physically is cycling, I never felt better than after my tour in the Alps last year.

Have never found doctors a lot of help with aches and pains. They usually shake their heads and send me away no wiser. Then eventually it clears up.

 

[CopperBrompton]

When the doctors heard that her grandmother and uncle had both had clotting problems, they decided the balance was in favour of a/c. The point is that they hadn't even discussed it with her before she brought the subject up.

Yes, that is poor indeed.

 

[ASC1951]

Don't take up stats for a living. :-D

I decided in 1972 that the excitement would have been too much for me.