Somethings seems off...should I trust the doctor?.

[Hesham Al-Rousan]

Hi,
I am glad to have found this website it is my first time posting something. My problem began sometime last year during September I believe. Anyway, I developed lower leg pain in the back just below the calf muscle. It went away on its own after a while. But a bit over a week ago it came back and it hurts a lot more. These are my symptoms: pain from the back of knee cap down to about my ankle, it hurts most when walking or extending my leg, doesn't hurt to walk on my toes, not tender to touch or warm, no swelling or discoloration, the pain feels like it stretches but hurts a lot. If I raise my leg to put it on the arm rest of the chair it hurts a whole lot, but then after a couple minutes it goes away and if I get up to walk it feels better but as soon as I sit down and raise it again the pain is back. I went to the doctor and he thinks it is my achilles, although i don't have no visible inflammation or tears. I am getting scared thinking that they may have dismissed something really serious like DVT (clot). I am scared and don't know what else to do, no insurance therefore I can't go to the ER without paying hundreds nearly a thousand dollars around this area for a simple visit. Please if anyone can tell me what I should believe this is.

 

[himlover]

since you are not displaying the more common symptoms of DVT,which would be tenderness upon palpation,redness/soreness,and swelling along with some level of heat generation, i think it would be safe to say at this point that the possibilitiy of actual DVT being the problem here is pretty darn slim. so i would have to agree with your doc on that,at least at this point. you are just not showing true symptoms of it.

when you mentioned "behind your knee cap" as the pain area,are you actually talking about behind the whole knee area(directly 'behind" that knee?) or actually beneath the inner knee cap? makes a big difference. i am just a bit confused on that. if you actually feel behind your knee do you feel anything at all like a lump or any real type of swelling there at all?

chances are that your doc could be right about it being that particular tendon. muscles and tendons can give us alot of pain when they somehow become inflammed or overly stretched. what did he tell you to actually "do' about this? i would try using an anti inflammatory like aleeve(my personal favorite since you only have to dose twice a day) and either heat or ice on the pain area directly,whatever actually feels better. just see how things go over like the next week.

but honestly,your symptoms just do not fit with DVT right now so i do think you can at least get that one off your shoulders. if you should start experiencing what i mentioned above in that first paragraph,then and only then would i worry about that occuring,but right now,i think that area is okay,K? it will probably just take some time for things to get better if this is a strained tendon or muscle. but that usually does get better over time. just an FYI for you with regards to damage to muscles or tendon? you would not,in most cases,be able to really 'see' anything out of the norm from the outside,but only with something like an MRI. so not seeing visable tears is not unusual with tendon/muscle/ligament type damage or injury,K?

if things do not get bettter over like the next couple of weeks,you may need some further more in depth type of testing to see if you actually did something to the knee itself,which can produce similar symptoms too. i do wish you luck with this and hope things get better for you. just take it easy for the next couple weeks. please keep me posted as to how things are going. FB

 

[Wario]

I agree with Feelbad regarding not fitting the DVT symptoms as I recently went through the same thing.
I, however, had just had a bad experience with Avelox. It's an antibiotic and is "blackboxed" for causing achilles tendon rupture. So, of course, I stopped taking it. (also caused total blurred vision)

My calf ached something terrible but my doc said, no heat, no swelling, no redness, no DVT

 

[Moiraes Fate]

Thank for your responses. My leg is still in pain and the idea of a DVT is going away. I don't have heat (only a little warmth just after a cold feeling I get from stretching, then it feels warm from the inside), no redness, tenderness or swelling. I've noticed that upon stretching it hurts very bad but within minutes of keeping it stretched, it gets better, but once i stop moving my leg and I move after it hurts again, it does feel like it is tight in there somewhere and as far as the pain behind my knee it feels like its just a bit below the skin not the knee cap itself. Although it doesn't hurt to walk on my toes with my knee bent a bit but once I try to straighten my leg it hurts all over again. I am doing stretches hopefully this all gets better soon. The doctor didn't really say much, but to do stretches. Are there any ointments or something like a bandage because compression seems to help the ache when walking. I mentioned this to him and he said "not necessary." Oh and it is itchy sometimes.

 

[nbfields]

Could be a bakers cyst,you may want to check with a orthopedic doctor.I think if it was a DVT it would be warm to the touch and some swelling so have it checked out.

Good luck

 

[righlee18]

I recently was diagnosed with DVT. The original clot was behind my left knee, but at the *back* of the leg, behind the knee joint bones, not under or on top of the knee cap.

My only symptoms were swelling of the lower leg, and after a week and a half, light pink discoloration of the leg. (50% of people with DVT have zero symptoms.)

When I was sent to the ER (I had just had abdominal surgery 3 weeks earlier), they palpated my foot and there was no pain even with firm pressing, and no warmth.

The clot has now grown to 3/4 of my leg, it is tender to touch, there is a little pitting edema (where the location pressed doesn't spring back right away, and leaves little "pits,") it is much pinker, and the foot swells. It looks like a reddish pink sleeve on my leg from below the knee down to the top of the ankle. There is no warmth. My other leg and foot now swell, and both legs and feet occasionally tingle.

I hope this list of symptoms is useful re: how DVT symptoms may vary.