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What Causes Pain And Swelling In The Leg After A Long Time?
I had an accident in the gym lifting up weight, in october 2010 and I broke the mussles of both my legs from my knee to my encle of both feed and some blood vessels and my feed were swollon and full of blood. My right leg was the worst. I could not walk on doctors order and was moving around after a month in a wheelchair. I am 39 years old. After a lot of treatment medicines and therapy I could start walking again at the end of yanuari 2011. But I still have some pain and little swelling from time to time on my right leg. Since march 2011 I started noticing that every month I get some big red-blue bruises on my right thigh. I lately noticed that the come these last months 1 week prior to me getting my period and remain for 2 weeks at least. Why do I get these bruises? I had a scan of my bloodvessels at the hospital twice, I did a echoduppler, I went to a skin doctor, I did 5 test at the lab and no doctor can figure out what is the cause. They now start asking me if someone has beat me. Unbelievable. Can you help me please with some suggiostions or solution?
Tue, 10 Mar 2020
Hello,
Based on your description of your complaints, you seem to be having venous insufficiency of your lower limbs. This commonly in layman term is called as venous insufficiency of lower limbs. That is the veins of lower limbs usually pump the blood from lower limb to heart, after injury to lower limbs or due to any other cause they become weak or loos there ability to pump blood back to heart completely. This results in them becoming thick or engorged and sometimes these small veins look bluish and enlarged. These changes are usually seen when you do a color venous Doppler and arterial Doppler of lower limb. Sometimes these discoloured veins also are seen after taking some medications. In most cases, the treatment will be exercises and compression stocking application of lower limb. I would request you to consult your doctor again and ask him to clear your doubts.
Wish you a speedy recovery. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Santosh S Jeevannavar, Orthopedic Surgeon
Based on your description of your complaints, you seem to be having venous insufficiency of your lower limbs. This commonly in layman term is called as venous insufficiency of lower limbs. That is the veins of lower limbs usually pump the blood from lower limb to heart, after injury to lower limbs or due to any other cause they become weak or loos there ability to pump blood back to heart completely. This results in them becoming thick or engorged and sometimes these small veins look bluish and enlarged. These changes are usually seen when you do a color venous Doppler and arterial Doppler of lower limb. Sometimes these discoloured veins also are seen after taking some medications. In most cases, the treatment will be exercises and compression stocking application of lower limb. I would request you to consult your doctor again and ask him to clear your doubts.
Wish you a speedy recovery. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Santosh S Jeevannavar, Orthopedic Surgeon
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