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Please reassure me leg pain is just part of pregnancy

46 replies

ChocolateEmergency · 04/02/2020 02:59

I’m currently 22 weeks pregnant and everything has been going fine. Although have been feeling really uncomfortable the last couple of days.

Today I was at work and everything was normal. Left the office at the end of the day and walked about 10mins to my car. Got in the car and noticed that my left foot was really cold. Didn’t think too much, just put the heating on.

All evening I haven’t been able to warm the foot up, it felt cold to touch. Went to bed and now woken up as my whole leg is aching, the foot does feel warm now. It’s mild pain in the grand scheme of things but enough to keep me awake.

Google tells me this is all normal but I never had anything like this with my first. So please reassure me that this is likely to be nothing other than awkward positioning of the baby.

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BitOfFun · 04/02/2020 03:01

It probably is, but call your midwife tomorrow and see what she says.

Try to get some sleep Flowers.

Bluerussian · 04/02/2020 03:07

It is normal, please don't worry. Mention it at your next appointment.

99problemsandthecatis1 · 04/02/2020 03:12

Yep, normal. All part of SPD/ sciatic pain. The cold leg thing will happen when baby lies on the nerve.

Original poster
ChocolateEmergency · 04/02/2020 03:18

Thanks ladies. I’ve got a hot water bottle which I’m hoping will help ease the pain enough for me to fall back to sleep

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lateSeptember1964 · 04/02/2020 04:04

No it is not normal and needs checking out. In Pregnancy you are at risk of DVT. Please get this checked ASAP

LangittleClegabbage · 04/02/2020 04:06

I thought DVT too when I read your post. Please call 111 or go to A&E.

endofthelinefinally · 04/02/2020 04:07

Not normal. You need to see midwife, GP or walk in clinic.

Ponoka7 · 04/02/2020 04:23

I agree that symptoms like yours should always be checked out ASAP and not at a routine appointment.

Taddda · 04/02/2020 04:28

Do get checked, definitely- but I did have severe SPD (my hips went completely out of alignment at around 22 weeks) and caused the pain and numbness you've described, put a huge pressure on my sciatic nerve-
Hope alls well OP, better to get checked than not always Flowers

PurpleMonkeyDishwasher86 · 04/02/2020 06:16

It can happen with SPD, but equally can happen with DVT. I had it due to my hips becoming out of alignment, but I'm now told to keep an eye out for that type of symptom as I'm high risk for DVT. Best to get it checked out, but I hope you managed to get back to sleep in the meantime.

nakedavengeragain · 04/02/2020 07:05

Please see the doc. I've had DVT before and this sounds very similar. Particularly the aching and the cold feet.

PooWillyBumBum · 04/02/2020 07:07

If not DVT then I heartily recommend an osteopath. Week 37 of pregnancy I suddenly lost the ability to walk on one leg and she’s done wonders...I’m fully mobile and sleeping is much easier.

aurynne · 04/02/2020 07:10

Midwife here, first I thought when I read your symptoms is DVT, please do get checked ASAP

SpaceDinosaur · 04/02/2020 07:12

I thought DVT too.

GEEpEe · 04/02/2020 07:12

GP here. Also worried about DVT. Please go to A+E

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ChocolateEmergency · 04/02/2020 07:14

The hot water bottle helped me get back to sleep but I’ve woken up and my leg is still hurting. I’ll give my midwife a call when they open just to be on the safe side I think.

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Fivetillmidnight · 04/02/2020 07:18

Ummm I think that would be very unwise. Do you understand what a DVT is and what it can do ?

I am far from being someone who runs off to A&E at the slightest twinge but somethings like a possible DVT are EXACTLY what you get serious about.

Go to A&E now.

Sparklybanana · 04/02/2020 07:19

I have leg pain where I have had to crawl around to get anywhere and it makes me sob with the pain. I'm normally well 'ard too. However, cold foot and pain along the whole leg is not something I've experienced. Is the leg still normal colour? Is there still blood flow? I'd be tempted to call out of hours as that doesn't seem normal.

nakedavengeragain · 04/02/2020 07:20

It was being woken up with an aching leg that made me realise something was wrong. GP tried to fob me off but I insisted something was wrong and requested a scan. It was found next day.

Do not accept the response 'usual pains'.

GEEpEe · 04/02/2020 07:22

The fact that Heat alleviates the pain is positive but I'd still want to rule out DVT. At this stage of pregnancy, your clotting factors increase so it is prime time for something to go awry. Go to A+E which is the only thing your midwife would be able to advise anyway. If the midwife does not, then they are incompetent as there is no way to rule out DVt without examining you and/or completing bloods.

nakedavengeragain · 04/02/2020 07:23

Fivetillmidnight is right. Go to A&E. Tell them you think it's DVT. Mine had travelled to my hip before it was finally found.

HoomanMoomin · 04/02/2020 07:32

OP, midwife will send you to A&E to rule DVT. Why wait?

GEEpEe · 04/02/2020 07:33

@hoomanmomin

We hope the midwife will send her to A+E

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ChocolateEmergency · 04/02/2020 08:01

I guess my reasons for not rushing off to a&e are that I have a toddler who I need to find childcare for and I always feel like I don’t need to be there. It’s the same with the docs, always feel like I’m wasting an appointment. I guess I know that neither of them are actual reasons to not go though.

But actually considering dvt:

My foot isn’t cold to touch any more, although google isn’t saying this is a symptom of dvt anyway.

The colour of my leg is normal

There are no hot patches

It is my left leg though and whilst it doesn’t look swollen, it definitely looks bigger than my right but I’m not sure if it’s always like that.

The pain is still there but definitely not as bad as it was in the night

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lateSeptember1964 · 04/02/2020 08:02

Please go to A&E.. The majority will have a dedicated DVT clinic where you will be fast tracked through. You always need to eliminate the possibility of DVT.