What Causes Severe Throbbing Pain In The Calf Muscles?

Posted on Mon, 26 Dec 2016

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Question : I get a severe throbbing pain deep in my left calf that runs from my knee to my ankle, usually following a sharp pain in my left knee, but not always. Sometimes I don't have the pain in my knee first. The pain in my calf usually starts out as a tingling feeling and then progress to the really bad pain, like a 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. Ibuprofen usually helps but I can't take it for too long. I've had pain in my knee for some while, squatting or bending, but the calf pain only started about 5 weeks ago. It doesn't hurt every day but maybe 3 out of 7 days. What could it be?
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Answered by Dr. Dr. Praveen Tayal (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Hello you have arthritis..

Detailed Answer:
hello, thanks for for your health concern.I have gone through your question, you have spondylitis of spine or Osteoarthritis of knee, so do the x ray of knee and spine tiil then you can take muscle relaxant like thiochochicoside methyl cobalamin and diacerin and do hot fomentations.

thanks again.

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