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What Causes Severe Pain In Knee And Lower Leg In A COPD Patient?

I have been out of the hospital for 12 days, with copd was in the hospital for two weeks, I am now on oxygen at night all the time, and during the day when needed, last night started getting severe knee and lower leg pain, has continuesd thru today, the pain is in both legs and is excruciating
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Copd patients most commonly associated with some joint , muscle and bone pains due obstructive air flow and decresed oxygen saturation.so donot get that much afraid . The pain may be due lack of physical activity and prolonged hospitalisation,can u please adress ur age because some joint pains may be age related such as arthritis.So please take the advice of orthopaedician, in mean while for sympomatic relief take painkiller u will feel better.physiotherapy and regular exercise will give better resultsto recover from soon.
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What Causes Severe Pain In Knee And Lower Leg In A COPD Patient?

Copd patients most commonly associated with some joint , muscle and bone pains due obstructive air flow and decresed oxygen saturation.so donot get that much afraid . The pain may be due lack of physical activity and prolonged hospitalisation,can u please adress ur age because some joint pains may be age related such as arthritis.So please take the advice of orthopaedician, in mean while for sympomatic relief take painkiller u will feel better.physiotherapy and regular exercise will give better resultsto recover from soon.