Can anyone tell me a possible cause for occasional sharp burning pain in the front of the right thing---?

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Can anyone tell me a possible cause for occasional sharp burning pain in the front of the right thing about 4 inches above the knee; that starts suddenly with out warning or reason?

Can anyone tell me a possible cause for occasional sharp burning pain in the front of the right thing about 4 inches above the knee; that starts suddenly with out warning or reason? the pain comes on suddenly when standing still but never when walking; and stops after a few minutes leaving no trace that it was ever there.

the pain comes on suddenly when standing still but never when walking; and stops after a few minutes leaving no trace that it was ever there.

Answer 1

See a physician for an accurate diagnosis and treatment. This may be helpful to understand the types of pain:
Types of pain
Pain can be classified as acute or chronic.

Acute pain is defined as short-term pain or pain with an easily identifiable cause. Acute pain is the body's warning of present damage to tissue or disease. It is often fast and sharp followed by aching pain. Acute pain is centralized in one area before becoming somewhat spread out. This type of pain responds well to medications.
Chronic pain was originally defined as pain that has lasted 6 months or longer. It is now defined as pain that persists longer than the normal course of time associated with a particular type of injury. This constant or intermittent pain has often outlived its purpose, as it does not help the body to prevent injury. It is often more difficult to treat than acute pain. Expert care is generally necessary to treat any pain that has become chronic, and coordinated treatment from an interdisciplinary health care team, including medical physicians, physical therapists, and psyhologists or psychiatrists, often beneficial. An anterior cingulectomy, neurosurgery that disconnects the anterior cingulate gyrus, can be used in extreme cases to treat chronic pain. Post-surgery the patient will still feel the sensation of pain, but not the accompanying emotion. There has been some theories that not treating acute pain properly can lead to chronic pain.[2]
The experience of physiological pain can be grouped according to the source and related nociceptors (pain detecting neurons).

Cutaneous pain is caused by injury to the skin or superficial tissues. Cutaneous nociceptors terminate just below the skin, and due to the high concentration of nerve endings, produce a well-defined, localized pain of short duration. Examples of injuries that produce cutaneous pain include paper cuts, minor cuts,minor (first degree) burns and lacerations.
Somatic pain originates from ligaments, tendons, bones, blood vessels, and even nerves themselves. It is detected with somatic nociceptors. The scarcity of pain receptors in these areas produces a dull, poorly-localised pain of longer duration than cutaneous pain; examples include sprains and broken bones.
Visceral pain originates from body's viscera, or organs. Visceral nociceptors are located within body organs and internal cavities. The even greater scarcity of nociceptors in these areas produces pain that is usually more aching and of a longer duration than somatic pain. Visceral pain is extremely difficult to localize, and several injuries to visceral tissue exhibit "referred" pain, where the sensation is localized to an area completely unrelated to the site of injury. Myocardial ischaemia (the loss of blood flow to a part of the heart muscle tissue) is possibly the best known example of referred pain; the sensation can occur in the upper chest as a restricted feeling, or as an ache in the left shoulder, arm or even hand. Referred pain can be explained by the findings that pain receptors in the viscera also excite spinal cord neurons that are excited by cutaneous tissue. Since the brain normally associates firing of these spinal cord neurons with stimulation of somatic tissues in skin or muscle, pain signals arising from the viscera are interpreted by the brain as originating from the skin. The theory that visceral and somatic pain receptors converge and form synapses on the same spinal cord pain-transmitting neurons is called "Ruch's Hypothesis".
Phantom limb pain is the sensation of pain from a limb that has been lost or from which a person no longer receives physical signals. It is an experience almost universally reported by amputees and quadriplegics.
Neuropathic pain, or "neuralgia", can occur as a result of injury or disease to the nerve tissue itself. This can disrupt the ability of the sensory nerves to transmit correct information to the thalamus, and hence the brain interprets painful stimuli even though there is no obvious or known physiologic cause for the pain.
Feeling at a distance
Emotional pain Pain that is caused by extreme sadness resulting in physical manifiestation usually in the torso. Sometimes described as a feeling of ripping.

Answer 2

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Can anyone tell me a possible cause for occasional sharp burning pain in the front of the right thing---?
Can anyone tell me a possible cause for occasional sharp burning pain in the front of the right thing about 4 inches above the knee; that starts suddenly with out warning or reason?

Answer 3

I had something similar happening to me about a year ago. I thought that something was terribly wrong. The Doctor said the same to me that it was heartburn, they even diagnosed me with acid reflux. All medications that I was taken did not stop these pains that I was continuing to have. I sought out a second opinion and my second diagnosis was anxiety which can make you feel like you are having a heart attack. I took zanax for six weeks until I got to the root of my anxiety. Once I found out what was causing my anxiety the chest pains stopped.

Answer 4

Unfortunately I had a terrible burning in the bottom of my feet behind my toes. Eventually the pain got so bad I could barely walk.
It turned out that the pain was neurological, turning into a brutal disease called R.S.D.S. or reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome.

my advice to you would be to go to a neurologist as quickly as possible to rule this out

Answer 5

The "right thing about 4 inches above the knee?" Your hip bone?

Answer 6

this may be connected with diabetes.
please see a doctor soon!