Sarita94
14-04-20, 17:26
Hi everyone, although I've had health anxiety in the past it has been pretty dormant for a while so looking for some reassurance or possibly advice here.
Basically, I can back from holiday about a month ago and a few days later my legs swelled. In particular, my left leg felt swollen, hard and tight. I had been exercising in relatively warm weather so put it down to that or a pulled muscle. However, although the swelling went down, a tight, crampy feeling persisted in my left leg. I googled it, bad idea, and that type of crampy pain came up as symptomatic of a DVT. Because I had recently flown and my Dad suffered a DVT a few years ago, I went to a walk in centre and the doctor barely looked at it because I'm still considered 'low risk' (only 25) and said I'd know if I had a blood clot (not entirely convinced by this as 50% of DVTs are asymptomatic).
Anyway, I couldn't get it off my mind, so I payed privately for a D-dimer test. The result came back at 490, my doctor said 'normal but at the high end (500 is the cut off point) go to A&E if it gets worse or you begin to have breathing difficulties'. Needless to say, this didn't reassure me and now I am constantly checking my leg and looking out for any signs of it progressing to a pulmonary embolism!
I wouldn't say the pain is worse, but it does feel like it is now radiating to my knee. I'm currently trying to get a GPs appointment to followup on this- wanted to know if people thought this sounded a sensible approach?
Thanks 😊
Basically, I can back from holiday about a month ago and a few days later my legs swelled. In particular, my left leg felt swollen, hard and tight. I had been exercising in relatively warm weather so put it down to that or a pulled muscle. However, although the swelling went down, a tight, crampy feeling persisted in my left leg. I googled it, bad idea, and that type of crampy pain came up as symptomatic of a DVT. Because I had recently flown and my Dad suffered a DVT a few years ago, I went to a walk in centre and the doctor barely looked at it because I'm still considered 'low risk' (only 25) and said I'd know if I had a blood clot (not entirely convinced by this as 50% of DVTs are asymptomatic).
Anyway, I couldn't get it off my mind, so I payed privately for a D-dimer test. The result came back at 490, my doctor said 'normal but at the high end (500 is the cut off point) go to A&E if it gets worse or you begin to have breathing difficulties'. Needless to say, this didn't reassure me and now I am constantly checking my leg and looking out for any signs of it progressing to a pulmonary embolism!
I wouldn't say the pain is worse, but it does feel like it is now radiating to my knee. I'm currently trying to get a GPs appointment to followup on this- wanted to know if people thought this sounded a sensible approach?
Thanks 😊