Both legs random pain
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Hi there! 
About 4 weeks ago I started gym. I work full time on my desk and used to go straight to the gym without warming up and starching.. after a week I started to feel pain in my lower left leg. I started to worry as my mind told me its a blood clot. Ive been on the pill for about 6 years & I dont smoke. I went to the doctor and he told me that its not the case and its a muscle pain / nerve injury. So I went to a physiotherapist.. I told her what was happening she checked again and told me I have nothing to worry about the pain is coming from my lower back and going straight to my lower leg. The funny thing is I never experienced any pain in my back just legs only. After a week of exercises I felt much better so I decided to wear heels. This is when the pain started again. I went again because I was so terrified and she told me that I gave my legs a hard time when wearing the heels. Now Im much better but im feeling random pains in my both legs. Very random like the left leg starts to be painful than its stops and goes to the other leg.
Is this a Sciatica case? Can someone please help me please? As im too worried now and its been almost 3 week since I had my first leg pain and Im worried sick. Thanks!
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Anonymous111 leeanne76951
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So are the pains in your calves?
What do they feel like? Achy? Do you ever get electric shock shooting pains?
Why did the PT think sciatica as opposed to just muscular pain?
leeanne76951 Anonymous111
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I am 26 years old,
The pain is all 360 degrees in my calf and even goes up into my tights.
Right now my left leg is irritating, its like weak muscle and pinched feeling and achy.
She basically told me that the case that I work 8 hours at a desk (sometimes I go walking not always on the chair) and I used to go to the gym without warming up and stretching, its coming from my back and going straight down to my legs. Im really worried on this, thanks!
Greebo64 leeanne76951
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Hi
It sounds to me very much like muscle strain & not sciatica...with sciatica you get pain in your buttocks near your hip joint & electric shock like pains in your thighs & sometimes if its severe sciatica it will travel right down the leg or legs to your feet..its very very pain full !!..... certain movements like bending will trigger a kick of sciatica, also when you first get out of bed in the morning the buttock pain is usually quite uncomfortable, the goes for if you sit for a long time [say 2 hours] when you get up you will get the same pain usually in the buttocks & thigh.
I have quite severe sciatica, when I am sat down I get no pain at all same as when I go to bed & lay down...the sciatic pain always kicks in when you are on your feet.
good luck
My advice is to stop going to the Gym & rest until the aching pain has subsided
leeanne76951 Greebo64
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CHICO_MARX leeanne76951
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The typical symptom of sciatica is pain that shoots down your leg...sometime to the thigh and knee, sometimes all the way down. You don't have to feel anything in your back. It can be horrible and stay that way until fixed or come and go. It can happen from a single traumatic event or build up over time until noticeable.
Common causes: misalignment of hips and/or pelvis, locked SI joints in your hips. Less common causes: misalignment of your lumbar spine. Rare causes: spinal issue causing an impingement of the sciatic nerve root at L4 or its pathway through L5 and S1.
I've had ALL of these things happen to me over the years. Except for a bone spur crushing my sciatic nerve root at L4 (fixed in one day by a neurosurgeon by removing the spur and doing a decompressive laminectomy), all...repeat ALL...of my other sciatic issues have been resolved with chiropractic care. No drugs...only mask the pain. Sometimes a simple "pretzel twist" maneuver fixed it in 10 seconds; other times it took a few weeks of treatments to resolve.
IMHO, the least invasive, no side-effects way to treating this is an x-ray and a trip to a good chiropractor who will diagnose the issue and either fix it for send you to someone who can. You need a definitive diagnosis of sciatica...not a guess.
maggie301017 leeanne76951
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Hi Leanne
Based on my own experience as a gym junkie I think you could YES have sciatica. My "pains" started as just pins and needles in my feet. Slowly over the years developed into some pain very high up in the buttocks but no shooting pains like others described here. It all depends on the cause. You might have a mild stenosis. I suggest that you ask your gp for a referral for an x ray and an MRI to rule out any problems with discs, spinal canal stenosis etc.