Valton20
08-10-18, 19:44
Hello,
I've posted here about a month ago concerning some other symptoms and people were very helpful and made me relax a bit until I did some proper checks.
I am once again extremely worried about something though, this time about the possibility of osteosarcoma on my shin.
As some background, I'm 26 yo male and I was having bowel problems since July which have fortunately been getting slightly better.
However, ever since the start of August I've also felt this near constant annoying sensation around the middle of my shin, kind of like a feeling of numbness. This can be both at the front of the shin but also at the back, like it's affecting the muscles. This happens a lot when I'm just sitting normally as well as just standing doing nothing, and it's only around that shin area. It's not constant however, sometimes it stops and sometimes I forget about it, but it's definitely every day. There's also very slight pain when I touch some places at the area.
I've also had some very rare occasions of pain in that area when I'm walking. Definitely not extreme pain, but annoying enough to that area in my leg to make me stop my walk and return home. Again, this is not all the time, most of the time when I walk I don't really feel it unless I go a long distance, and even then its a very slight annoyance. The very annoying pains only happened like 2-3 times in the past 2 months. Like today I went for a 15 min walk and didn't feel anything at all, just some numbness after I went home. That being said, the feeling of numbness is still there and very worrying.
My GP did a physical exam on it and saw some very small yellow spots near the area and told me I must have hit it/injured somehow, and that combined with my stress it's causing me to constantly feel it. I've also had 2 complete blood tests done in the past 3 months and they all came out of fine (besides cholesterol but that's a different issue).
Part of me is thinking that if it were osteosarcosma it wouldn't be on and off (it's every day but never all day) and I would be feeling it a lot more intensely, and my blood tests wouldn't be perfect. At the same time I am still extremely worried about the possibility, this has been going on for slightly more than 2 months at this point and it's very worrying. Planning to go to an orthopedic this week but I would very much appreciate your input on this. It doesn't help that I read a story about a misdiagnosed person with this on google.
---------- Post added at 18:44 ---------- Previous post was at 15:33 ----------
Would really appreciate any input on this, if anyone has any.
I've posted here about a month ago concerning some other symptoms and people were very helpful and made me relax a bit until I did some proper checks.
I am once again extremely worried about something though, this time about the possibility of osteosarcoma on my shin.
As some background, I'm 26 yo male and I was having bowel problems since July which have fortunately been getting slightly better.
However, ever since the start of August I've also felt this near constant annoying sensation around the middle of my shin, kind of like a feeling of numbness. This can be both at the front of the shin but also at the back, like it's affecting the muscles. This happens a lot when I'm just sitting normally as well as just standing doing nothing, and it's only around that shin area. It's not constant however, sometimes it stops and sometimes I forget about it, but it's definitely every day. There's also very slight pain when I touch some places at the area.
I've also had some very rare occasions of pain in that area when I'm walking. Definitely not extreme pain, but annoying enough to that area in my leg to make me stop my walk and return home. Again, this is not all the time, most of the time when I walk I don't really feel it unless I go a long distance, and even then its a very slight annoyance. The very annoying pains only happened like 2-3 times in the past 2 months. Like today I went for a 15 min walk and didn't feel anything at all, just some numbness after I went home. That being said, the feeling of numbness is still there and very worrying.
My GP did a physical exam on it and saw some very small yellow spots near the area and told me I must have hit it/injured somehow, and that combined with my stress it's causing me to constantly feel it. I've also had 2 complete blood tests done in the past 3 months and they all came out of fine (besides cholesterol but that's a different issue).
Part of me is thinking that if it were osteosarcosma it wouldn't be on and off (it's every day but never all day) and I would be feeling it a lot more intensely, and my blood tests wouldn't be perfect. At the same time I am still extremely worried about the possibility, this has been going on for slightly more than 2 months at this point and it's very worrying. Planning to go to an orthopedic this week but I would very much appreciate your input on this. It doesn't help that I read a story about a misdiagnosed person with this on google.
---------- Post added at 18:44 ---------- Previous post was at 15:33 ----------
Would really appreciate any input on this, if anyone has any.