Hi everyone. I hope you're all well. I've got a painful problem at the moment. It's related to my left leg. I'm seeing a physio every week, and I've been booked in for an Xray and scan on my pelvis and spine to see what might be going on. But I wondered whether anyone else might have suffered or be struggling with what I have.
It began following a workout at home using heavy weights. I overdid it, and the next day I felt a strain down the middle of each buttock (as if you'd have drawn two vertical lines down the middle of each cheek), and then to the side of each hip, and down the outer side of each thigh. It felt tight and sore. Both sorted themselves out and I went on a big walking holiday in Switzerland, doing some epic mountain hikes and I was fine.
But when we got to France for a rest, my right hip started hurting and I did some exercises to settle it, and it soon recovered. But then on our return to the UK, the same strain feeling (from the weights before) kicked off again, this time only on the left side.
It began in my butt again with shooting pains firing off into my hip, down the outer left thigh and then behind the knee and to the top of my calf. The physio has helped shift things somewhat. My pelvis is level, my legs are the same length too. She's done some work to release the muscles down that leg and worked on my back a little. I no longer feel anything in my left glute, it shifted to my outer left thigh, and now it's mostly at the top of my left calf below the back of my knee. I still get shooting pains going up my thigh again. And the pain in my calf is now a dull ache, more than ever.
Throughout this I've had no pain in my lower back. I thought, could it be a runner's knee issue, possibly strained by squatting with weights? Or perhaps an inflamed LT band?
My physio is getting me checked out to rule out any disc herniation in my spine or even any twist in my spine. But I just can't see that being the case. She's worried I might have a twist as when I bend down, I lean more to the right. But she also believes that could just be over-compensation.
Anyway. I thought it was quite unusual and interesting. Wondered if anyone else is familiar with this? I'm taking strong Ibuprofen and that is really helping. As is sleeping with a pillow between my knees. It feels like it might be settling and then I get shooting pains again. But all the time, the pain has shifted.
For the record, I've got issues with my neck further up, but I'm not sure this is related. I've had that recently checked out and nothing is pressing or causing issues up that way. Thanks