Warm feeling in one calf

[Anonymous]

I have been trying to walk a lot more lately and my legs have felt sore on and off since I started a couple months ago.

After a particularly long walk one day, I felt some pain in the back of my right calf that lasted for 2 days and then went away. It was intermittent pain when I put pressure on it sometimes, but it really wasn’t bad - I wasn’t limping, it was just noticeable.

Since the pain went away (completely, have zero pain at all) I started feeling warm sensations in the back middle of that same calf that lasted for 5-10 seconds and come and go throughout the day. It’s hard to describe, I just feel a warm sensation for a few seconds and then it’s gone. However - that calf does not actually feel hot or any warmer than my other calf (which doesn’t have this sensation at all). It’s not swollen, red/discolored, zero pain, it just a weird feeling.

Has anyone had this happen before? Wondering if it’s something muscular. Of course my mind goes to a blood clot, but it feels a bit crazy to go to the doctor when I have zero other symptoms and this has been happening for like 4 days (and I have still been walking despite it).

[Anonymous]

Get it checked out for a blood clot.
You might want to take a baby aspirin as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get it checked out for a blood clot.
You might want to take a baby aspirin as well.

How do they check?

[Anonymous]

Blood clot possibly. Honestly, don’t mess with this. Go to an er. Check wait times online at a bunch first though.

[Anonymous]

Sounds muscular

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blood clot possibly. Honestly, don’t mess with this. Go to an er. Check wait times online at a bunch first though.

Thanks, I will email my doctor but can’t go to the ER tonight because my husband is traveling for work this week and I have no one to watch my kids.

[Anonymous]

email your doctor and take two aspirin. Instacart the aspirin if you have to

[Anonymous]

Lyme disease - get it checked asap

Also blood clot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lyme disease - get it checked asap

Also blood clot

Really, never heard of a warming sensation related to Lyme before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get it checked out for a blood clot.
You might want to take a baby aspirin as well.

How do they check?

there is a very quick and simple blood test called a d-dimer. If it's positive you might have a clot (not definite) and they do other testing to find out; if it's negative you almost definitely do not have a clot.

[Anonymous]

Blood clot was my first thought. The location, symptoms, warmth- they can do d-dimer and if it’s a clot then they can ultrasound to see where/ how many. You really need to go to to ER first thing this morning - not primary care, they can’t run the d dimer test or do the ultrasound if needed.

[Anonymous]

Blood clot. Your GP can’t do much for it. Go to the ER in the morning and get an ultrasound of the leg. When I had my blood clot I had calf pain and no other symptoms like swelling or redness. You don’t want to mess with this or wait too long to get on blood thinners if it is a clot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blood clot. Your GP can’t do much for it. Go to the ER in the morning and get an ultrasound of the leg. When I had my blood clot I had calf pain and no other symptoms like swelling or redness. You don’t want to mess with this or wait too long to get on blood thinners if it is a clot.

I had a Charley horse sensation but no swelling or redness. I had a d-dimer then an ultrasound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lyme disease - get it checked asap

Also blood clot

Really, never heard of a warming sensation related to Lyme before.

Yes, Lyme disease rashes, specifically erythema migrans (EM), can feel warm to the touch. While the rash is not usually itchy or painful, the warm sensation is a common characteristic.
Sometimes the “bull’s eye” or target rash is missing, or EM rashes begin to appear elsewhere on the body. These are always warm to the touch, although not itchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get it checked out for a blood clot.
You might want to take a baby aspirin as well.

How do they check?

there is a very quick and simple blood test called a d-dimer. If it's positive you might have a clot (not definite) and they do other testing to find out; if it's negative you almost definitely do not have a clot.

I went to the ER was what turned out to be a cramp the other day (I had a really awful cramp right after being on a long flight so I figured better safe than sorry). They actually went straight to an ultrasound.