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What Causes Soreness In Left Leg?
Question: my left leg feels sore 6 days now?
Brief Answer:
Pinched nerve can make you feel like that.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
If there are no symptoms like swelling or redness and soreness is kind of radiating down leg then it can be pinched nerve or muscle spasm.
If there are swelling and redness, then one has to rule out blood clot.
Please let me know more about your symptoms, so that I can help you with a detailed answer.
Hope this helps.Please ask if there are doubts.Regards.
Pinched nerve can make you feel like that.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
If there are no symptoms like swelling or redness and soreness is kind of radiating down leg then it can be pinched nerve or muscle spasm.
If there are swelling and redness, then one has to rule out blood clot.
Please let me know more about your symptoms, so that I can help you with a detailed answer.
Hope this helps.Please ask if there are doubts.Regards.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Prasad
No swelling just pain up and down my leg
Brief Answer:
Pinched nerve seems likely.
Detailed Answer:
Two steps can be undertaken.
First give a trail to oral painkiller, in most cases pain will subside without anything else.
Other way is to get a clinical examination done and then start the painkillers. Clinical examination will confirm whether there is need to check out for pinched nerve with any investigations like MRI.
Hope this helps. Please ask if there are doubts.
Regards,
Pinched nerve seems likely.
Detailed Answer:
Two steps can be undertaken.
First give a trail to oral painkiller, in most cases pain will subside without anything else.
Other way is to get a clinical examination done and then start the painkillers. Clinical examination will confirm whether there is need to check out for pinched nerve with any investigations like MRI.
Hope this helps. Please ask if there are doubts.
Regards,
Note: For further follow-up it is advisable to consult an emergency medicine specialist. Click here.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju
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