What The Heck Is Going On With My Leg?!

Post date: 2021-03-05 12:47:54
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I've been having trouble with my leg for the past eight months. Its really starting to negatively effect my quality of life. I've tried a lot of things to clear whatever it is up but nothing works. More after the jump.

I've had trouble with the right side of my body for about 5 years now. First it was plantar fasciitis that finally went away completely after I got treatment from a sports therapy chiropractor. Then I had trouble with my right shoulder and lower back. Eventually that went away too. But my right knee started bothering me. I went to a good physical therapist and although we never figured out exactly what the problem was, the exercises cleared up the problem and I was pain free for a year. Until eight months ago when I started having pain in my right leg. I've been back to the P.T. but its been months of trying to figure out what is going on and nothing is helping. I'm at wits end.

The pain and other symptoms occur all over my leg. For awhile it was pain in the back of my leg right above the knee, then it was pain on the outside of my leg just below my knee that felt like a tendon attachment was hurting. I've had spasms in the muscles of my upper and lower leg. I have nerve pain where it feels like someone is scraping their fingernails down my leg nerves. I have weakness in the leg that comes and goes. I've had, what feels like, shin splint pain in my shins. Today its pain on the outside part of my knee. I've had trouble lifting my leg sometimes and other times that's fine but I cant fully bend my knee. Sitting makes it hurt more, standing in one place makes it hurt more, walking makes it hurt more.

I was running when all this occurred but I stopped that and tried to just keep walking. I walk about 2 miles a day now unless the pain flares up too much which it does regularly. I'm an active person with two big dogs to walk and lots of stairs to climb every day. This is getting really hard to live with.

What I've tried.

I've seen a physical therapist. They don't know what's going on, but I do the exercises they give me religiously. I've had a back x-ray (everything fine) when my back was hurting 3 years ago. I had a hip x-ray this summer (everything fine). I have a knee brace that sometimes helps a bit and sometimes seems to make things worse. I tried orthopedic shoe inserts that didn't seem to help and were very uncomfortable. I ice the various parts of my leg when they hurt and that helps temporarily like for an hour or so, but it only lessens the pain doesn't make it go away. I also use one of those massage guns that everyone bought during Covid and it usually helps for a day or so after use, unless I go on a walk and then the pain comes right back.

So my question is sort of multiple.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

If yes, what helped?

YANMD but what could be causing this?

Who should I go see about this problem?

In case its relevant...

I am a 53 year old female with flat feet, and my spine has a fairly obvious "C" shaped curve to it, though not so much as to be anything doctors have ever thought was a problem. One of my hip bones (the right one) sticks out more than the other one (always has).

I have a chiropractor appointment for tomorrow (this will be the first time I see this chiropractor, the one I saw before is in the city we used to live in and its not possible to see him again). I don't currently have a regular doctor right now but I have insurance where I don't need a referral. I just don't really know what kind of doctor I need to go to for this. I'm also not big on the regular medical establishment after they told me I'd just have to live with my plantar fasciitis or else cut a tendon, and then the chiropractor cleared it up with deep tissue massage and the Graston thing.

Thanks for anything you think might be helpful. I'm really starting to feel desperate.
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