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With my therapist working on it, the pain in my shoulder went away. It took more visits than last time, though. And unfortunately, I still have numbness in my index finger.
In the meantime, I developed leg pain. The pain started out like stiffness or soreness, and it came and went. It kept getting worse, so I finally went to the doctor, about three weeks into it. It's blood clots.
I'm on blood thinner. I should start to feel a difference in about a week. Less, I hope, because the pain is constant now. I'll be on this stuff for six months, and it might take that long for the clots to fully dissolve. So this week I'm lying around the house with my leg elevated.
In hindsight, I should have gone to the doctor sooner. After a week of it, a simple Google of "calf pain" would have indicated such. It felt like cramping, but the Google tells me that actual cramping always comes on quickly. I went down one list of causes of calf pain just now, and of more than a dozen causes, blood clots was the only one that made sense for my symptoms. So while I hate to be the one to self-diagnose using the internet, in this case it would have made sense to get an idea of what I might have been dealing with.
In the meantime, I developed leg pain. The pain started out like stiffness or soreness, and it came and went. It kept getting worse, so I finally went to the doctor, about three weeks into it. It's blood clots.
I'm on blood thinner. I should start to feel a difference in about a week. Less, I hope, because the pain is constant now. I'll be on this stuff for six months, and it might take that long for the clots to fully dissolve. So this week I'm lying around the house with my leg elevated.
In hindsight, I should have gone to the doctor sooner. After a week of it, a simple Google of "calf pain" would have indicated such. It felt like cramping, but the Google tells me that actual cramping always comes on quickly. I went down one list of causes of calf pain just now, and of more than a dozen causes, blood clots was the only one that made sense for my symptoms. So while I hate to be the one to self-diagnose using the internet, in this case it would have made sense to get an idea of what I might have been dealing with.
