megs18
02-10-15, 15:32
I am a 20 year old woman who has been struggling with health anxiety for about 6 months now. I don't smoke, try to do yoga or jog every day (probably more like every 3 days though), and am not overweight.
I took a long flight on Sept 1 and was on an all day bus tour yesterday. About two hours before the tour was over, I started feeling a burning pain on the side of my thigh. It was worse when I walked. I am on birth control pills, was pretty immobile all day, and have a family history of blood clots so I went to A&E as soon as the tour was over.
The pain I was feeling (and still feel) is like nothing I've ever felt before. It isn't terribly bad, just very odd. It sometimes feels achey, other times burning or hot. It's radiated down to my calf sometimes, but mostly is in my thigh. This is all only in my right leg. I don't see swelling or discoloration.
The nurses at the hospital checked my vitals (blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, temp.). Everything was fine except I had a slightly high temp. They felt all the way up and down my leg and I guess didn't see anything of concern. Because of my risk factors (traveling a lot, BC pills, family history) they did a d dimer blood test. The test came back negative for a blood clot. Since they consider me low risk (although I still don't really understand how I'm low risk), that test was enough to rule out a blood clot so they didn't do an ultrasound.
The nurse said it's probably muscular from being on a cramped bus all day, but it doesn't feel muscular at all to me. It's so weird feeling. Like a sharp burning pain that moves around and sometimes feels achey.
I know the chances of me having deep vein thrombosis is small, especially after getting that normal test result, but I am very concerned because apparently people have experienced false negatives with this test before (although I was reading studies on the d dimer and apparently false negatives for low risk patients are very, very rare, like in 2% of cases). My boyfriend thinks it might be a pinched nerve, but I don't know.
Someone please help me!
I took a long flight on Sept 1 and was on an all day bus tour yesterday. About two hours before the tour was over, I started feeling a burning pain on the side of my thigh. It was worse when I walked. I am on birth control pills, was pretty immobile all day, and have a family history of blood clots so I went to A&E as soon as the tour was over.
The pain I was feeling (and still feel) is like nothing I've ever felt before. It isn't terribly bad, just very odd. It sometimes feels achey, other times burning or hot. It's radiated down to my calf sometimes, but mostly is in my thigh. This is all only in my right leg. I don't see swelling or discoloration.
The nurses at the hospital checked my vitals (blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, temp.). Everything was fine except I had a slightly high temp. They felt all the way up and down my leg and I guess didn't see anything of concern. Because of my risk factors (traveling a lot, BC pills, family history) they did a d dimer blood test. The test came back negative for a blood clot. Since they consider me low risk (although I still don't really understand how I'm low risk), that test was enough to rule out a blood clot so they didn't do an ultrasound.
The nurse said it's probably muscular from being on a cramped bus all day, but it doesn't feel muscular at all to me. It's so weird feeling. Like a sharp burning pain that moves around and sometimes feels achey.
I know the chances of me having deep vein thrombosis is small, especially after getting that normal test result, but I am very concerned because apparently people have experienced false negatives with this test before (although I was reading studies on the d dimer and apparently false negatives for low risk patients are very, very rare, like in 2% of cases). My boyfriend thinks it might be a pinched nerve, but I don't know.
Someone please help me!