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Posted 2/8/2015 12:16 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all,
My physio said my pain was due to a very tight iliopsoas muscle but there is no nerve entrapment. Yesterday I started with slight numbness in my foot, it went off but then this morning it was in my calf and foot, a wierd feeling-like there was something squeezing my calf.
My question is, do I wait and tell my physio on 16th, or see the doctor? My physio knows nothing about the numbness, as it only started yesterday.
Any replies/comments/advice very much appreciated, thank you :-)
Posted 2/8/2015 5:34 PM (GMT 0)
I think I would be getting in to see my dr about this since its something new.
Posted 2/8/2015 7:57 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Susie,
Not sure what the doc would do?!
Posted 2/8/2015 9:00 PM (GMT 0)
Welcome to the forum.

What sort of doctor do you have? That would make the difference in what he would think and do.

A few years ago I had pain in my heel that after a while went up the back of my leg a little. I went to 3 different doctors, two orthopedists, who dismissed me. They said there was nothing wrong with my foot or leg. Then I went to a podiatrist (foot doctor) who told me my pain wasn't in my foot, it was in my spine.

I went to my pain doc for lumbar spine pain and he gave me an injection. "Miraculously" my foot pain was gone.

You might try a podiatrist for an opinion.
Posted 2/8/2015 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Alcie, and thanks.
Did the doc refer you to the podiatrist?
I have pain in my heel but think it's my tendon. Did you actually have pain in your spine?
Thanks for the reply x
Posted 2/8/2015 9:23 PM (GMT 0)
And was your heel sore to touch?
Posted 2/9/2015 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
Ortho did send me to podiatrist, but it was for arch supports, not related to the pain. The orthopod said I needed a little wedge to throw my feet outward. Both orthos said there was nothing wrong with my feet - which turned out to be true, but it was not true that there was nothing wrong. They just didn't diagnose it!

I did have spine pain, but it was nothing new. I'd had spine pain for years. There was no radiating pain to my hips or legs.

I really don't remember feeling heels sore to touch. Maybe. It was years ago. I didn't do much touching. It was really funny that there was no pain above the calf for a year or more. Then a little pain started in my thigh.

I had long heel spurs on X-ray, but the podiatrist said they had nothing to do with the pain. They don't really cause pain.

I had different incident of a couple of years of pain in just the calves too, which was caused by spine nerve pinching. I thought, and so did a vein doctor, that that was caused by some varicose veins. Another spine injection for spine pain fixed that too - after I'd spent money getting the varicose veins fixed. Waste of money getting the veins looking better, because it had nothing to do with the pain.

Point is - pain isn't always caused by what's hurting. Doctors don't always figure it out right away either.
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