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Suggest Treatment For Leg Pain And Cold Feet
I experience extreme leg pain after playing racquetball - tendons, nerves and muscles. I am otherwise in good health and have been playing competitively since a child. Sometimes I feel like throwing up afterwards and have trouble sleeping. I recently have been losing most of the hair on my thighs and have extremely cold feet. I am 59. Are these symptoms of PAD? The pain subsides when I stop, but would like to continue playing if possible. Tom
Tue, 26 May 2015
User's Response
There are different causes of leg pain:
-varicosis
-thrombophlebitis
-PAD
-lack of Calcium
-sprain
If you the "crampy" pain (called "intermittent claudication"), when you walk,then stop,because of pain,if you are smoking and leg pain that does not go away when you stop exercising then it can be PAD.
I suggest-
1. Massage with Diclofenac gel 2 times for 5 days.
2.Tight bandaging
3.Consult surgeon, do ultrasound of veins or might be angyography.
Take care
Dr.Sagar Gaurav Shrivastva
-varicosis
-thrombophlebitis
-PAD
-lack of Calcium
-sprain
If you the "crampy" pain (called "intermittent claudication"), when you walk,then stop,because of pain,if you are smoking and leg pain that does not go away when you stop exercising then it can be PAD.
I suggest-
1. Massage with Diclofenac gel 2 times for 5 days.
2.Tight bandaging
3.Consult surgeon, do ultrasound of veins or might be angyography.
Take care
Dr.Sagar Gaurav Shrivastva
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