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What Causes Extreme Swelling And Pain In The Lower Leg?
A colleague has the following symptoms since one week: extreme swelling of lower right leg, from below the knee including foot. Extremely painful. has experienced extreme sweating and chills at same time. Swelling goes down over night when he puts his feet up, but then swells up again when he gets up. He is on medication (blood thinners I believe) but this is not helping.
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1. going by the history and medication following could be the possibility which require urgent emergency consultation with a vascular surgeon for further medical or surgical management:
i. Deep vein Thrombosis [DVT] i.e. post thrombotic or post phlebitic syndrome ii. till then one can go for compression stockings, pain management with acetaminophen
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What Causes Extreme Swelling And Pain In The Lower Leg?
** Thanks for contacting HCM with your health concern 1. going by the history and medication following could be the possibility which require urgent emergency consultation with a vascular surgeon for further medical or surgical management: i. Deep vein Thrombosis [DVT] i.e. post thrombotic or post phlebitic syndrome ii. till then one can go for compression stockings, pain management with acetaminophen