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What Does Pain In The Right Leg Indicate?

Hello, I ve been having some pain in my right leg.. for a week now, bothers me more when I m walking around. Today it got really bad. It is a pain going up and down my leg for my toes to my hip bone all under my knee as well and the pain feels like when you hit your funny bone but with a dull ache and pins and needles. It s really bad right now my foot and thigh are tingling a bit. I was looking at my leg and at the knee but on the back on my leg in that crease there is this weird bump under the skin and it does hurt when I tough it and make the pain worse. I m freaked out and don t want to go sit in a hospital for 5 hours for it to be nothing, but I also don t want to die if it s serious like a blood clot or something.
Thu, 24 May 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

This may be caused by three things. Neuropathy or ischemic changes in legs or cellulitis. Cellulitis which is inflammation of subcutaneous tissues and may develop into diabetic foot with redness or pain in legs. Neuropathy may also be caused by diabetes but also other metabolic causes may be present or injury of spine. It is presented with burning pain without skin changes. Last, ischemic changes happens due to poor circulation in legs. If this is not your case then these symptoms are indicating circulatory problems in legs which are common in this age and there may be present atherosclerosis that obstructs blood vessels and causes pain and blisters to form. You should do Doppler ultrasound of the leg or CT angiography to rule out such obstructive changes and then it can be treated properly by medications or by surgical and radiological procedures.

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What Does Pain In The Right Leg Indicate?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. This may be caused by three things. Neuropathy or ischemic changes in legs or cellulitis. Cellulitis which is inflammation of subcutaneous tissues and may develop into diabetic foot with redness or pain in legs. Neuropathy may also be caused by diabetes but also other metabolic causes may be present or injury of spine. It is presented with burning pain without skin changes. Last, ischemic changes happens due to poor circulation in legs. If this is not your case then these symptoms are indicating circulatory problems in legs which are common in this age and there may be present atherosclerosis that obstructs blood vessels and causes pain and blisters to form. You should do Doppler ultrasound of the leg or CT angiography to rule out such obstructive changes and then it can be treated properly by medications or by surgical and radiological procedures. I hope I have answered you query. If you have any further questions you can contact us in every time.