How do I reduce my leg sore??

Question

Recently whenever I am bending my left leg during my sleep I am having some sort of pain and then for a few moments I can't stretch my leg. It feels like as if I stretched one of my veins behind my knee. When I walk getting up from bed it hurts little.
Is it anything serious? Is there any way I can reduce it?

Answer 1

i agree with starrwood that it may be a blood clot, it sounds like it.

or, do you run? maybe you pulled a tendon. go to a sports medicine doctor for analysis. but ask your family physician first because she may think you should get it analyzed first to see if it IS a blood clot, which may become quite dangerous. it could come loose and go to your heart or brain and kill you if you have one.

otherwise, what i am really thinking is that perhaps you mean a leg cramp (???) a lot of people get leg cramps at night. sometimes they are in the foot, curling the toes so painfully. then it jumps to the other foot (or leg), so that both of them hurt. it happens so fast! it's very interesting, and i do not know why the cramping, very painful, would first come to one leg (foot), then be shared in equal measure so fast with the other one!

for my leg cramps i take an old-fashioned prescriptive drug called quinine glutamate. quinine is also found in most brands of tonic water. tonic water is sold where soda pops are found at the grocery store. sometimes tonic water with quinine helps this cramping problem. with me, it does not. but i do not ALWAYS get leg cramps, so i only use the pills when needed.

this drug is thought of these days as "not formulary," which only means that the pharmaceutical companies are in charge of what things the doctors see viable for curing your ills. in addition, the insurance companies are in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies, so watch out.

quinine is the best cure for malaria, but i do not know exactly why it also works for leg cramps.

i hope you feel better soon. make sure it is not a blood clot first.

Answer 2

it might be a blood clot, go to the doctor and have it checked.