About 6 weeks ago I had really painful shin cramp (like actually at the front of the leg rather than the calf). I tried to massage it and pushed really hard on one part of it. The pain didn't really go away since then but wasn't too bad. The shin felt a bit sore, particularly when I prodded it (which I did a lot of pretty much every day to see if I could feel a lump or something) but I've been worrying about it ever since. The shin doesn't hurt anymore but my knee began to hurt along with my lower back but only on the side of the achey leg. Last night my entire leg felt achey and crampy, more so in the lower back and knee but it was so uncomfortable.
I'd like to think it's down to the following:
- walking tons more during lockdown and wearing flat shoes whereas I used to wear heeled boots for work
- sitting awkwardly whilst working from home (literally cross legged on the floor or on an uncomfortable chair at the kitchen table)
I'm so hyperfocused on it that I've found it hard to walk normally, like I purposefully try to walk a certain way to see if it hurts etc which is probably why the knee has started aching. And I don't help myself as I constantly body check by poking and pushing the knee and calf to see if it hurts still.
I've got a doctors appointment next week, but I'm feeling a bit all over the place after it hurt so much yesterday and the old health anxiety has reared it's insidious head again :( just so fed up as I know I make it worse with the body checking but at the same time the sodding pain won't go away and it's really horrible that it's only in one leg.
Not sure what I'm trying to get from posting this, maybe I just needed a rant :( :(