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What Is Recommended Apart From Amino Acid Supplements And Increased Protein Intake For Pain In The Legs While Sitting?

I exercise quite a bit. Run 4 days a week, 4-9 miles each time. Teach bootcamp classes, body sculpt classes, HIIT classes. Lotsa pylometrics. I drink 80 oz of water a day. no sodas. Take Advocare products such as rehydrate, spark, catalyst. My legs ache when I am sitting in the car or at a desk. I ve recently added more amino acid supplements to my drinks. I drink protein shakes, consume protein with meals and protein bars for snacks. Anything else you would recommend?
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

This may be caused by three things. Neuropathy or ischemic changes in legs or celulitis. Cellulitis which is inflammation of subcutaneous tissues and may develop into diabetic foot with redness or pain in legs. Neuropathy may also be caused by diabetes but also other metabolic causes may be present or injury of spine. It is presented with burning pain without skin changes. Last, ischemic changes happens due to poor circulation in legs. If this is not your case then these symptoms are indicating circulatory problems in legs which are common in this age and there may be present atherosclerosis that obstructs blood vessels and causes pain and blisters to form. You should do Doppler ultrasound of the leg or CT angiography to rule out such obstructive changes and then it can be treated properly by medications or by surgical and radiological procedures.

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What Is Recommended Apart From Amino Acid Supplements And Increased Protein Intake For Pain In The Legs While Sitting?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. This may be caused by three things. Neuropathy or ischemic changes in legs or celulitis. Cellulitis which is inflammation of subcutaneous tissues and may develop into diabetic foot with redness or pain in legs. Neuropathy may also be caused by diabetes but also other metabolic causes may be present or injury of spine. It is presented with burning pain without skin changes. Last, ischemic changes happens due to poor circulation in legs. If this is not your case then these symptoms are indicating circulatory problems in legs which are common in this age and there may be present atherosclerosis that obstructs blood vessels and causes pain and blisters to form. You should do Doppler ultrasound of the leg or CT angiography to rule out such obstructive changes and then it can be treated properly by medications or by surgical and radiological procedures. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.