Leg Pain, Temperature Change, Swelling Posted: 09-08-07 10:46am
My daughter had a leg injury from a dirt
bike accident and no one can figure out
what is wrong with her.
Her lower leg is sometimes very painful
with swelling, it gets stone cold, changes
color, looses pulse in foot and she gets
some numbness in her toes. It is not a
continuous thing, it comes and goes. When
it first happened, the doctor said it was
an arterial spasm and he gave her blood
pressure medicine by IV and that took care
of the symptoms for about 6 months. They
came back with a vengence after 6 months
and she spent a week in the hospital
trying to find out what was going on with
her leg.
We have had a CT scan, Dopplar, MRI, MRV,
MRA, blood flow studies, xrays, blood
workup and observation.
No one can tell me why my daughter's leg
is trying to die on her (that's the only
way to describe the symptoms she is having
in one fell swoop).
Does anyone out there have any idea what
could be causing this problem?
I'm getting desperate!!!!!
Thanks,
MB
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yogahoneybunny
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Posted: 09-13-07 05:42am
OK. So everyone's thinking vascular ...
what about neurological?
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mbooth16
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Posted: 09-13-07 11:34am
She's seen a couple of Neurologists. They
are all scratching their heads. They have
no idea what the problem is. One even
told her she was faking. How can you fake
a drastic temperature/color change and no
pulse in the foot?
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yogahoneybunny
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Posted: 09-14-07 05:58am
Touche.
How often is this happening?
Are you recording the occurences?
Do you have a video camera?
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mbooth16
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Posted: 09-23-07 02:10am
yogahoneybunny
wrote:
Touche.
How often is this happening?
Are you recording the occurences?
Do you have a video
camera?
It's happening about every 6 to 8 minths
right now.
Yes, we are recording them. We go to the
doctor and or hospital each time it
happens and they run a dopplar and tell us
she doesn't have a blood clot and send us
home. I basically went postal on the ER
doctor this last time because his attitude
and bed side manner left a whole world to
be desired. He still didn't do anything
to help her.
We have an appointment with an
Orthopedic/Sports Medicine doctor next
week. Hopefully they will be able to help
us.
What would the video camera do for us?
Record the color changes?
